> from the article:
“ 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.”
What the author is forgetting is Bundy ran his cattle on public lands for many generations then the feds decided they wanted to charge him grazing fees and he paid them for sometime until they jacked them up to be cost prohibitive so he would remove his cattle from their lands because other parties were expressing an interest in the property. That didn’t work so they used an endangered species act ruse even though they had already killed plenty of the turtles themselves to “save them” and told him he needed to get the cattle off the land. Next we find that Harry Reid and son may be associated with the property on a solar panel energy project though they seemed to have changed their tune so who really knows without further research.
The author oesn’t mention thatl Obummer sure doesn’t mind spying on, stealing from, and setting his private armies on us. And he picks and chooses whatever laws he wants to enforce or makes new one or sidesteps and ignores his duties to ptotect the Constitution or the security of our nation by protecting our borders.
The Tea Party is just an observer in the process IMO. I haven’t heard any Tea Party members siding with Bundy in particular though its obvious they don’t like intrusive government
I know that the grazing fees were originally authorized and set by a Ronald Reagan executive order...
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/21486b.htm
So when were the rates raised, and by how much? When did Bundy start and stop paying them? All I have ever heard was that he never paid them, and doesn’t acknowledge the government’s right to charge them.
Unlike the article above, I don’t support the jackbooted tactics of the Feds, but I’ve been hesitant to embrace Bundy as a conservative hero either. But this isn’t happening in a vacuum. The Feds in coordination with the eco-Nazis have been trying to close off public land for public use for decades now. Eastern elitists like Weakly Standard don’t know or care about what happens in the western states anymore than RAT elites. Still, IMHO there are much more egregious examples of government abuse out there that don’t get 100th the attention.