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klyon

(1,697 posts)
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 11:47 AM Jan 2016

Somebody should be hammering the right on the crap the bundy boys are putting out

Someone needs to speak to what happens when these so call people of the land do their thing.
The forests have been clear cut, mining has scarred the land and ranchers have over grazed. Agra business has polluted our farm land, fracking is poisoning our groundwater, the lakes, rivers and oceans have been over fished. These are all reasons the government is needed to make sensible polices and make extractionists answerable to the we the people. Federal land is our land and someone needs to take care of it. Anyone using public land should pay us a fair price and follow the guild lines.
The BLM was set up to set these guild lines not to have gun battles with renters and farmers. We need more wildlife refuges not less, more national parks not less. Time to speak-up.
Please will anyone in the media speak some truth and shut these people up, the people need to know. Government can not work if armed thugs threaten people and law enforcement.
This could turn a lot of people away from the republics and back to the Democrats. SHOUT IT OUT LOUD for all to here.

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Somebody should be hammering the right on the crap the bundy boys are putting out (Original Post) klyon Jan 2016 OP
The Bundy assholes are part of the sovereign citizen movement. NutmegYankee Jan 2016 #1
We basically have going on here what we see in other countries. More and more I'm RKP5637 Jan 2016 #2
I think the Feds are afraid of them. NutmegYankee Jan 2016 #3

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)
1. The Bundy assholes are part of the sovereign citizen movement.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 11:56 AM
Jan 2016

It's an extreme right-wing libertarian movement that completely rejects the authority of government. They aren't even in the Republican camp - they don't recognize our government.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/sovereign-citizens-movement

RKP5637

(67,101 posts)
2. We basically have going on here what we see in other countries. More and more I'm
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 12:04 PM
Jan 2016

beginning to think the fed is afraid of them, where confrontation could lead. I'm surprised at all of the silence by MSM and TPTB.

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)
3. I think the Feds are afraid of them.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 12:34 PM
Jan 2016

There are about 300,000 of them and a massive effort to smash them into the dirt like they deserve might turn into a "Basque conflict" style action that lasts years. But it needs to happen.

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