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The Armed Rebellion on a Nevada Cattle Ranch Could Be Just the Start (As biased as you might think)
Time Magazine ^ | April 15, 2014 | Alex Altman

Posted on 04/16/2014 6:01:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Feds may have set a troubling precedent by allowing a Nevada rancher and his band of armed followers to win a standoff with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The rancher refused to pay more than $1 million in fines for letting his cows graze on government land

It could have been a catastrophe. For several days last week, hundreds of angry protesters faced off with federal workers on an arid ranch near Bunkerville, Nev. Militiamen squatted among the sagebrush and crouched on a highway overpass, cradling guns and issuing barely veiled threats at the government officials massed behind makeshift barricades. The specter of a violent standoff hung over the high desert.

The hair-trigger tension seemed at odds with the arcane origins of the dispute. Twenty years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decided to clear privately owned cattle off this patch of public land to protect the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise. Dozens of ranchers left. Cliven Bundy stayed.

Bundy, 68, has refused to recognize federal authority over the land, or to pay the feds for allowing his cattle to graze there. Those accumulated fees and fines now total more than $1 million, according to the government. Armed with fresh court orders, the government moved last week to impound a few hundred of the rancher’s cows.

Bundy balked, and the far right-wing media sounded a clarion call for his cause, casting the standoff as a flashpoint in a broader struggle against federal oppression. A cavalry of patriots arrived, bearing weapons and a seemingly bottomless grudge against the government....

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; blm; bundy; bunkerville; reid
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To: tennmountainman

Make no mistake, these articles don’t get written by accident. They get their marching orders.

What is being said here is that the govt is going to mow down American citizens when and where they please, and the media supports it.

Time for everyone to pull their head out of their butt, the grab for power is coming fast.


61 posted on 04/16/2014 9:12:45 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: VR-21

Crazy horse was quite a man...bet he wasn’t a liberal...


62 posted on 04/16/2014 10:03:08 PM PDT by goat granny (.)
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To: Borax Queen

Government’s sole purpose is to employ the barely employable, and shovel money and property from the productive classes to their friends and themselves so they can remain idle.

Otherwise, how do you explain Hairy Read, Rory Read and all the other unctuous millionaires who are our vaulted public savants?

Oh sure, they look like they are working but they aren’t.


63 posted on 04/17/2014 4:09:24 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Borax Queen

Are you serious?!


64 posted on 04/17/2014 6:27:01 AM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Federal workers? Is that new speak for illegal domestic standing army?


65 posted on 04/17/2014 6:41:28 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ("If guns cause crime, there must be something wrong with mine." -Ted Nugent)
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To: ponygirl

Yes, I’m serious! At first, I thought it was patriots on the overpass. Then, two different radio stations here (AZ) were saying they were mercenaries (don’t know if U.S. or foreign). But now I’m all confused because I saw postings here that said those guys were patriots/cowboys.

I don’t know if the mercenary rumor is true...


66 posted on 04/17/2014 8:34:56 AM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

BTTT


67 posted on 04/17/2014 8:37:27 AM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Borax Queen
The guys on the overpasses were militia. They were not fedcoats. If the news is saying that, they are lying, which is not surprising.

I'm in AZ too... what station are you listening to?

68 posted on 04/17/2014 9:18:16 AM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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