2016 Postmortem
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This weeks showIs 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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darkangel218
(13,985 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)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)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)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.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)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.