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Before Bundy Ranch - What happens when constitutional vigilantes go mainstream
Slate ^
| April 23, 2014
| Jared A. Goldstein teaches constitutional law and environmental law
Posted on 04/24/2014 2:43:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Constitutional vigilantism of the type on display at Bundy Ranch last week has been a recurrent feature on the margins of American political life. What is newand dangerousis that it has suddenly moved from the margins to the mainstream. And it comes with guns.
Last week a mob of more than 1,000 armed protesters forced the Bureau of Land Management to back down from enforcing federal grazing fees. The protesters came out in support of local rancher Cliven Bundy, whos been letting his cattle graze on federal land in Nevada for more than 20 years without a permit. Were standing up for the Constitution, declared Bundy, to the delight of the television cameras. Bundy and his supporters have a simple constitutional worldview: They do not recognize the federal governments constitutional authority to manage public lands within a state, and they believe the move against Bundy results from a corrupt political system determined to deprive the people of their rights. But instead of trying to convince a court to adopt their constitutional views or work through the political system, Bundy and his supporters have shown that they can enforce their interpretation of the Constitution by waving guns at federal officials.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; bundy; bundyranch; constitution; federallands
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
They do not recognize the federal governments constitutional authority to manage public lands within a state, and they believe the move against Bundy results from a corrupt political system determined to deprive the people of their rights. The ONLY winner (so far) is Godwin!
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04/24/2014 4:44:14 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: tired&retired
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posted on
04/24/2014 4:45:57 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: major-pelham
At that point are they vigilantes or patriots?We all know THIS answer!
The 'patriots' are yesterdays 'freedom fighters' IE, the winners.
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04/24/2014 4:47:49 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Sorry, Slate, but it was the government that came with guns.
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04/24/2014 5:16:49 AM PDT
by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
“And it comes with guns.”
Yep. The guns brought by the BLM JBT’s. To which the ‘vigilante’ constitutionalists brought their own.
Because it doesn’t make sense to bring a knife to a gunfight.
Just sayin’
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04/24/2014 5:19:24 AM PDT
by
PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
And it comes with guns. Never mind the weaponizing of every feral government agency from dogcatcher on up. Armed IRS agents are good.
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04/24/2014 5:36:00 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Ask George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams... mainstream constitutional ‘vigilantes’ all.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Neither Bundy or any of the other ranchers would win, no matter how strong their case or how weak the Government’s , in an Clinton or Obama Court. thy would be in a kangaroo court.
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04/24/2014 5:42:14 AM PDT
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sport
To: Cincinatus' Wife
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04/24/2014 5:58:48 AM PDT
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EricT.
(Everything not forbidden is compulsory.)
To: Elsie
That picture, I can’t imagine that happening, yet I see it coming, it’s scary.
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04/24/2014 6:04:42 AM PDT
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Bulwyf
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Funny, I saw a lot of footage from the standoff, but not one instance of Patriots “waving guns at federal officials”.
Could somebody be lyin’ here, Jared Goldstein?
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04/24/2014 7:17:29 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Sirius Lee
CWII is going to be a real shock to the Libtards. They may have to actually live under the US Constitution again. :-)
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04/24/2014 8:23:39 AM PDT
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Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: DH
...to protect the people and the states from the government...
To: Bulwyf
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04/24/2014 4:02:11 PM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Bulwyf
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04/24/2014 4:04:24 PM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: VRW Conspirator; Scoutmaster
It seems there is nothing new under the sun...
We again warn our people in America of the constantly increasing threat against our inspired Constitution and our free institutions set up under it.
The same political tenets and philosophies that have brought war and terror in other parts of the world are at work amongst us in America.
The proponents thereof are seeking to undermine our own form of government and to set up instead one of the forms of dictatorships now flourishing in other lands.
These revolutionists are using a technique that is as old as the human racea fervid but false solicitude for the unfortunate over whom they thus gain mastery and then enslave them.
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04/25/2014 12:59:45 PM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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