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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Sat Apr 19, 2014, 12:48 PM Apr 2014

LIVE RADIO NOW: Is rancher Cliven Bundy a domestic terrorist?

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Is rancher Cliven Bundy a domestic terrorist?

Cliven Bundy is a rancher in Nevada. He believes the Federal Government is foreign. He does not pay taxes. He does not pay the required grazing fees required to have his cattle graze on federal public lands.

Cliven Bundy have continuously lost his case in court. Still, when the government went to seize his cattle for his million dollar bill, many from Right Wing militias from across the country came to his rescue. They came with rifles, sniper guns, and other weapons. They pointed these at our law and order personnel.

On Thursday, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) said Cliven Bundy and his band of thugs are domestic terrorists. Picture a group of Muslim men similarly equipped when the Federal Government attempted to serve a warrant in a mosque. Would the government have behaved as they did with Cliven Bundy? Or would they have gone in with blazing fire. How would it be covered by the traditional news media? Would they have a cheerleader like Fox News who continues to promote these freeloading law breakers?

This is a serious affront to our democracy. Yet, the coverage my some outlets do not understand that they are playing with fire.

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COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
2. I understand he has a severe case of
Sat Apr 19, 2014, 02:44 PM
Apr 2014

analopia, a condition which primarily affects RW'ers and is where the optic nerve gets crossed with the rectal nerve, resulting in the patient developing a shitty outlook on government.

Mz Pip

(27,440 posts)
3. Stirring the pot
Sun Apr 20, 2014, 12:24 AM
Apr 2014

That's what Bundy did. And look what floated to the surface - a well armed "militia" that felt completely justified in what they did. And why not? Their attitudes and beliefs are validated on an hourly basis by right wing talk radio and Fox News.

These people are dangerous because they are zealots. Zealots with guns and a sense of self righteous entitlement can be lethal.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
4. Mr. Bundy is not a terrorist, he's a rancher. Some of the people glomming on his situtation,
Sun Apr 20, 2014, 09:27 AM
Apr 2014

with long guns trained on BLM contract workers could be trouble though. Political media hoping for a range war story- doesn't help at all.

Probably the good of the situation is exposing how the BLM acts towards the very people who own the (public)land, all us Americans. The BLM are paid to manage our public land for us. Americans have the right to observe our BLM 'employees' at work.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
6. surprised the BLM let him get away for 20 years. I know the IRS would never, ever slack off.
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 12:45 AM
Apr 2014
Perhaps Mr. Bundy had some friends in Nevada BLM, who let him not pay the dirt cheap lease fees for decades.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
8. no, I know the rancher didn't pay his fees. And I am also very familar with the BLM rights violation
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 09:12 AM
Apr 2014

violations of any 'observers', over decades.- imo.

Was also very, very, wrong for the armed people with long guns trained on the round-up corrals. That wasn't a protest, those were threats.

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