Editorial: Federal employees don’t deserve to be attacked (Salt Lake Trib)

[struggle4progress]

Thuggish behavior is unjustified.
First Published 5 hours ago • Updated 4 hours ago

The two men who threatened a Bureau of Land Management employee who was just doing his job, driving a truck on I-15 the other day, may not qualify as domestic terrorists. But there is no doubt they are moronic, dangerous and deserving of criminal prosecution ...

Some of these misguided anarchists consider their lawlessness to be a form of patriotism in a confused idiocy that declares the federal government the enemy and federal employees fair game.

It’s probably prudent that BLM workers in western Utah are removing the agency’s logos from their vehicles. But it’s a sad commentary on the state of affairs in Utah, where even the Legislature encourages the convoluted idea that public lands in the West, lands owned by all Americans, somehow are the property of local residents to do with as they please.

Politicians in Utah and Nevada who sided with Bundy and his disdain for the law must take some responsibility for the actions of extremists who put the lives of ordinary citizens in danger.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/57919706-82/federal-bundy-utah-employees.html.csp

[jberryhill]

1. As if anyone else deserves to be attacked?

The headline reads like a leaflet dropped over some Pacific island jungle to tell Japanese holdouts the war is over.

Oh, wait, yeah that might be more accurate than I thought.

[struggle4progress]

2. Shh! Th'band's a-fixin t'play Rose of Alabamy. Take off yer hat!

away from mississippi's vale
with my ole hat there for a sail
I crossed upon a cotton bale
to Rose of Alabamy

[jberryhill]

3. My favorite is....

The Civil War didn't end. They just took a. 150 year beer break.

[Paladin]

4. Painfully accurate statement. (And funny, as well.) +1 (nt)