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2014-04-25 -Land of the Free

On Cliven Bundy and holding the line against tyranny

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Posted by badanov 2014-04-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 *This was posted (in part) yesterday but late. Because you know, work and family. I would like to point out a couple things: first - his neighbors showed up pretty damn quick, that doesn't happen in ranching country without good reason. His neighbors have had 20 years to think about this - they drink coffee one sip at a time like everyone else. Second - none of the BLM movements had anything to do with a financial disagreement. I would hope, other than rogue middle staff managers, that deploying these sort of kit would require somebody signing off on helicopters, cow pens, outside contractors? Third, the people who showed up afterwards knew damn well that the purpose of cowboy on a horse is to be a high profile, its actually the main job; people who use a rifle to protect their living know what a profile is and they were sitting tall in the saddle. To Jack Burton yourself out in front of a firing squad with legal authority to shoot you down without agreement of your personal beliefs and your family is balls out; that is, not lightly. That said, cool heads. Fun exercise:

Look at the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Looking solely at crowd behavior, how would you qualify these crowds gathered in recent pop culture history and their behavior: Occupy Movement, Tea Party Movement, Bundy Ranch, BLM Mission. Not the fight scenes, the behavior.

But since this is a nation of laws instead of men, right, what is the legal justification of an action based upon unpaid debt for destroying the very value in contention? On the other side, what would be Nevada's law on squatting rights especially compared to Florida or California?

80 year old rancher speaking in Middle American has a problem with a culture based on not working. Go work a 5 to 9 in the desert, probably with some caballeros at times, get home grab an iced tea turn on the tube and get...Rachel Jeantel.

I'll play advocate, and I don't agree with statements like this any more than I agree all white people sit in run down houses and do meth, or all Mexicans pack full trailor homes and drink tequila, etc. Slaves don't have opportunity, all those groups there and there is a word for every ethnicity who chooses, on their own, to make a living by being not successful, taking money to not work. That's not just a Black problem today, it is an American problem.

But none of that is the point. The point is what is the law and what is an acceptable way to enforce it. These land grabs happen all over flyover country, glad its getting attention, sorry this fellow said something not 21st century, eat a dick Reid.

I was mad that all that tax money I had to send in, what would be my entire grocery bill for this year, would go to one plate for one guest at the White House, or 5 minutes of fuel on a trip to China. Now, did that money go to buy the kit the Feds are using to take my neighbors' property? Look at it like that, and that the government keeps proving the consiracy kooks correct, maybe that helps.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-04-25 02:10|| 2014-04-25 02:10|| Front Page Top

#2 I can almost hear Susan Rice now:

"Intelligence reporting made available to me indicates the attack on the Bundy ranch by unknown assailants, was the result of a hateful, racist video."

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-25 06:38|| 2014-04-25 06:38|| Front Page Top

#3 bllththhspphh
dang coffee everywhere
thanks Besoeker.

watching all those news outlets come up with the next thing is like watching the buildup to wrestlemania.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-04-25 09:07|| 2014-04-25 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't know when the assault on the Bundy "compound" will take place, but it will undoubtedly happen in the very late evening hours on a Friday, and may be set to coincide with a Russian move into the Ukraine. One totalitarian, property and land grabbing assault masking another.

If I were Cliven Bundy, I'd be sleeping elsewhere.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-25 09:49|| 2014-04-25 09:49|| Front Page Top

#5 These land grabs happen all over flyover country It is also happening by comrade deblassio in NYC with the stable next to central park. Same game, same reasons...

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-04-25 10:58|| 2014-04-25 10:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh Absolutely 49. And don't think the Clan of the Horse hasn't noticed either; horse people are horse people.

Mr. Bundy is too Rancher and too Old to sleep anywhere else, which is the catalyst to why this is even a story. The story is how much support he received so quickly. Those who showed up must either support his reasoning or know they are the next pens on the bowling alley. Or both.

And its a great point. Where is the Great Rally for the horsemen of New York? Its the destruction of their icon, what will it take, a 10' wall around Central Park with armed guards to keep the people out because of the Lesser Grouse?

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-04-25 11:27|| 2014-04-25 11:27|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm still trying to find out when "conservatives" expected to find angels on earth. I mean, they're so quick to abandon someone for a flaw, they MUST expect perfection.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-04-25 12:04|| 2014-04-25 12:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Wonder if he can insure his cattle against the government.

More light needs to be shed on Reid, his son, and the Chinese solar company if this is to end without bloodshed.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-04-25 14:53|| 2014-04-25 14:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Even if Bundy is/was the most racist asshole that ever walked the planet, the point was the BLM acting in a militarized matter to settle a legal dispute and who ordered it and what those in charge would profit.

Of course the left drummed up something that makes Bundy look bad. They know the "conservatives" in power have the spine of a chocolate eclair and would run at the first sign of defeat.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-04-25 16:06|| 2014-04-25 16:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Dana Loesch walks around with a bigger pair than Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and the whole writing staff at hotair.com combined.

Posted by badanov 2014-04-25 16:27|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-04-25 16:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks Badanov. "Media trained"... I love that term of reference.

While I deeply respect and admire Krauthammer, I was very disappointed in comments yesterday, ref Bundy's negro rant. I was only slightly less disappointed in Chapter 12 of this book, The Jewish Question Again, pages 241-258. I suppose such pontifications and writings are mandatory if one is fully 'media trained' and aware.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-25 16:54|| 2014-04-25 16:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks for the write-up badanov. That was disgusting, like they were looking for a reason to dump the story they had been covering with breathless anticipation. Broke and ran.

Up now at HA is the story of the squatter in Florida, want to join up with the crowd to use intimidation to help a family which has no legal leg to stand on but is really the victim of government policy. Same effn' thing, not as dramatic as federal troops almost gunning down US Citizens and being denounced by the leader of the Senate as domestic terrorists, but hey yeah vets he's got your back...until the NYT runs a hit piece on how conservatives love the idea of using ex-military units to round-up the poor and edits a video so a participant apparently does a seig heil.

Hannity, didn't catch that, but seesh just the other week he was coming down from the mountain to check out the Bundy situation boots on the ground. Easier to stay in the AC and trust the NYT then travel through north Las Vegas, which is not The Stratosphere Tower, and give a yea or nea whether people are just hanging around the government reservation all day and if generational unemployment, not having any trade skills, is a problem in the area.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-04-25 18:18|| 2014-04-25 18:18|| Front Page Top

#13 I have an image of New York Times Journalists sitting around a video editing machine chuckling to themselves thinking 'Oh this is going to make this private citizen look so bad!'...
That image should be hung around each and every journalist's neck as a banner of their profession and 'paper of record' until they clean up their own house.
Journalists are liars.
Journalists are slanderers.
Journalists are the scum of the earth.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-04-25 21:08|| 2014-04-25 21:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Life is now a popularity contest.

Its about image, not the constitution. The media and the courts have caved. Court orders these days are as unconstitutional as the media.

No nation is a rock. Only 80 years after constitution was written half the states were at war with the other half of the states. No people are immune from the war of good vs evil.

Pick your side and like marriage, your side even in sickness and in health, during controversy and non controversy, fight for it.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-25 23:08|| 2014-04-25 23:08|| Front Page Top

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