The federal government owning this much land is socialism/communism and tyranny. The Constitution didn't intend for the federal government to own 86% of the land of Nevada etc. .it must give the land to private owners NOW:
Posted on 04/22/2014 6:56:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senior writer John McCormack joined Greta van Susteren's political panel Monday on Fox News to discuss the protest at the Bundy ranch in Nevada. Watch the video below:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Meanwhile, in this week's issue, the Scrapbook writes about the problems with Cliven Bundy's cause:
Twenty years ago, the federal government, which owns the land on which Bundy grazes his 900 cattle, decided to impose a grazing fee. Bundy opposes that fee, has consistently refused to pay it, and the federal Bureau of Land Management now claims that he owes $1 million in unpaid fees. Bundy has challenged the grazing fee in federal court—indeed, has challenged the federal government’s title to land in Nevada—and has consistently lost. Sixteen years ago, a federal judge issued a permanent injunction against Bundy, ordering the removal of his cattle. Bundy appealed that ruling to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and lost again. Last August, a federal court gave Bundy 45 days to remove his cattle, and in October, a federal district judge ordered Bundy not to “physically interfere with any seizure or impoundment operation.”
This does not sound to The Scrapbook like the dread hand of tyranny, in Nevada or Washington, oppressing an innocent farmer, or pushing some law-abiding citizen around. It sounds, instead, like a rancher gaming the system to his own financial advantage, and disguising his scheme in populist rhetoric: refusing to pay a tax which others must pay, and “tying up the courts”—for two decades!—as he continues to ignore the law. Far from acting in an arbitrary or capricious manner, the federal government has shown patience and forbearance in the face of lawlessness that customarily lands people in jail. It is worth noting that Bundy’s rancher-neighbors and the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association, who contend with the same federal policies, offer him little support.
Bundy has exercised his First Amendment right to plead his case publicly and inflame his admirers. And inflamed they have been: A few hundred people from around the country converged on Nye County, Nevada—many armed and brandishing weapons—to disrupt the government’s attempt to enforce the law, taunting and attacking agents dutifully carrying out the orders of a federal court. Last week, fearful of violence, the BLM suspended its roundup and withdrew from the area.
This is no victory for anyone other than Bundy and, The Scrapbook hopes, a temporary one at that. There is a term to describe the people who surround him, and it isn’t “militia.” The word is “mob.” And what this mob has practiced is not civil disobedience but armed provocation of a democratic government which has afforded Cliven Bundy every right and privilege as a citizen. One of Bundy’s supporters boasted to the press that “we were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front.” This is the same spirit that animates people who attack firemen during riots, or opposed school integration with violence in Little Rock, Arkansas. In that case, 57 years ago, President Eisenhower was obliged to send the 101st Airborne because, as he said, “mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.”
What was true then remains true today. Cliven Bundy is no hero of any kind. No conservative would pick and choose the laws he intends to obey, defy the rest, and challenge the rule of democracy with guns. No hero would adopt the terrorist’s tactic of placing innocents in harm’s way. Any fool can pick up a weapon and aim at an officer of the law; the moral power of civil disobedience lies in the willingness to defer to the law and accept punishment on principle.
if it weren’t for the media, the majority of Americans would be much more sympathetic to the TP
The federal government owning this much land is socialism/communism and tyranny. The Constitution didn't intend for the federal government to own 86% of the land of Nevada etc. .it must give the land to private owners NOW:
and as much as they try, the Tea Party ain’t going away.
“fearful of violence”
What bull. BLM showed up and pushed people to the ground, sicced dogs on people, and electrocuted others with tazers.
They were violent, attempted to incite violence, and threatened violence.
An abbreviated look at rancher Cliven Bundy's family history
“Michael Warren is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard. He is 2012 Robert Novak journalism fellow, and he has written for the Washington Times, National Review Online, City Journal, and the Washington Examiner. He has also appeared on CNN and C-SPAN.”
Thinnest bio ever....well except maybe Obama’s.
IF this guy ever actually met a tea party individual he would no doubt wet his pants
Is the Cattle Massacre at Nevada Cattle Rancher Bundy’s Pioneer Corral damaging the Democrat Party?
To put this latest Medieval “Kill for Sport” event in historical context, all one has to do is remember that the Democrat Party was the Founding Party of the KKK.
Is the modern day equivalent of the KKK the Bureau of Feudal Land Management, (BFLM) ?
If so, then Feudal Lord Reid would then be “The Grand Dragon of the BFLM.”
Feudal Lord Reid’s Rustlers are hired guns, who are furious but not fast, which also applies to their bitter, vengeful, senile, multimillionaire Leader: Feudal Lord Reid.
With the past Democrat-based KKK, and now the present Democrat-controlled BFLM, ethics be damned, as abject fear is the main goal of both of these Medieval Outlaw Gangs, past and present.
“Ethics” will be justified later by Liberals who will write the ‘revised” PC History of these times, past and present; of powerful men with outlaw hatred toward free people in America, Black or White, poor or rich.
The Jackboot Heel of Democat Tyranny is now upon us, AGAIN !
FORWARD!
I knew Robert Novak, Bob was a friend of mine and Michael, you’re no Bob Novak!
You are exactly right.
In point of fact, this is the duty of every juror, one of the reasons for a jury, and every citizen when not on a jury.
It is also a duty to be informed of these facts.
Glenn Beck, is that you? The American Revolution started for less. The people have been way too ‘long suffering’. Do I wish for that, again? Absolutely not. But I can feel, hear, and taste the anger in this country and it’s palpable. Can cut it with a knife. Look at what happened in China a day ago. Eventually, people have had enough.
51 other ranchers in Clark county are gone. Bundy is the last man standing.
It isn’t just Mr. Warren. It seem there are a lot of uninformed Freepers right here on this thread.
At least I hope they are simply uninformed. The alternative would be hard to swallow.
Too bad the author didn’t study up on his facts before writing this trash.
Hmmm, we live in the best place in the world and it's still not good enough for some. We are healthy, safe, educated, over-fed, under-exercised (speaking there for myself), have multiple cars, T.V.s and space enough to roll around heaven all day. STILL not enough.
Bundy just doesn't know how or care to play by anyone's rules but his. I hope he is thinking about the effect this has on his family, near and extended, relatives and friends.
Nothing for them to be proud of here.
Lol. DON'T get me started on the Chinese. :o(
I agree with your assessments.
More like polishing it shine on that city on the hill.
Not exactly. During the Clinton impeachment, their front page issue read: Their finest hour.” I like Fred Barnes, a christian and he writes well. The others, take them with a full measure of salt.
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