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After Nevada ranch stand-off, emboldened militias ask: where next?
Reuters ^ | April 17, 2014 | Jonathan Allen

Posted on 04/18/2014 1:34:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Flat on his belly in a sniper position, wearing a baseball cap and a flak jacket, a protester aimed his semi-automatic rifle from the edge of an overpass and waited as a crowd below stood its ground against U.S. federal agents in the Nevada desert.

He was part of a 1,000-strong coalition of armed militia-men, cowboys on horseback, gun rights activists and others who rallied to Cliven Bundy's Bunkerville ranch, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, in a stand-off with about a dozen agents from the federal Bureau of Land Management.

The rangers had rounded up hundreds of Bundy's cattle, which had been grazing illegally on federal lands for two decades. Bundy had refused to pay grazing fees, saying he did not recognize the government's authority over the land, a view that attracted vocal support from some right-wing groups.

Citing public safety, the BLM retreated, suspending its operation and even handing back cattle it had already seized.

No shots were fired during the stand-off, which Bundy's triumphant supporters swiftly dubbed the "Battle of Bunkerville," but the government's decision to withdraw in the face of armed resistance has alarmed some who worry that it has set a dangerous precedent and emboldened militia groups....

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: blm; bundy; bunkerville; militias; nevada
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How many lies can you spot in each paragraph?
1 posted on 04/18/2014 1:34:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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More nonsense:

The most mindblowing photograph to emerge from the Nevada BLM/white militia standoff
http://boingboing.net/2014/04/15/the-most-mindblowing-photograp.html


2 posted on 04/18/2014 1:37:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
a stand-off with about a dozen agents

Well, them and a couple hundred more Fedcoats with automatic weapons.

Bundy had refused to pay grazing fees

Bunndy refused to sign a coercive contract to pay grazing fees that would have put him out of business.

In order to pay the grazing fees, he had to sign the Darth Vader-like contract (pray we don't change it any further...).

3 posted on 04/18/2014 1:38:45 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Enough to know their aim is to get liberals, progressives, NWO’ers, feminazis, college, the inoctrinated, the LGBT’ers and anyone else they can get pissed off to start up their normal crap...


4 posted on 04/18/2014 1:39:04 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Lazamataz
Did you hear that Laz got kicked out of the BLM History Museum?

Yeah, he went in, and asked the caretaker where they kept all the white flags...

5 posted on 04/18/2014 1:42:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Most powerful image is the cowboys on horseback on line in prayer. That must have sent the left into a head spin.


6 posted on 04/18/2014 1:46:46 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Militia experts interviewed by Reuters said they could not think of another example in recent decades where different militia groups had banded together to offer armed resistance to thwart a law enforcement operation.

Hmm...let's see, tomorrow is the 19th of April. That date seems familiar for some reason...

7 posted on 04/18/2014 1:48:21 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
" . . . this surreal photograph . . ."

Seems to me the man is doing exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote a Constitution that limits the Federal Government, not the citizens.

8 posted on 04/18/2014 1:48:36 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin

9 posted on 04/18/2014 1:50:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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“The question is whether we’re going to see sustained flame-up now. We could see more of that if they actually think that the federal government is going to stand down,” she said.

“It’s not the groups, it’s not their concerns, it’s not their anger, all of that is old, but the federal government backing down? I was like, wow! Seriously?”

Yep, SERIOUSLY. What has changed over “centuries”is that today there is a president who SPEAKS Law into being, on top of the feudal elitist Fedzilla.


10 posted on 04/18/2014 1:51:29 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was at the gym and glanced at MSNBC quoting this article, so I knew the Lefties had their Carney/Jarrett talking point memo article.


11 posted on 04/18/2014 1:57:25 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: TalBlack

Be afraid, all you mind-numbed Obamabots, be very afraid.

The boogie-man is coming for YOU! < /sarcasm >


12 posted on 04/18/2014 1:58:29 PM PDT by alloysteel (Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
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To: Rashputin

Notice the “White” Militia?


13 posted on 04/18/2014 1:59:10 PM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: TalBlack
My guess is that the feds might let it go.

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And LATER on, garnish his federal and state income tax refunds, should he ever get them.

The feds WILL get their pound of flesh money.
I know this from personal experience as my husband had forgotten to pay off a school loan. He had paid off TWO of them but forgot the third one. The feds garnished his income tax refund--$500.00. That was a lot of money of us back then.

OR, the feds just might drive away...and come back in the dead of night in a few months and cart Bundy off to the hoosegow...THEN garnish his earnings.

We do remember Al Capone.

14 posted on 04/18/2014 2:01:16 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sucks to be paying your enemies salary.


15 posted on 04/18/2014 2:04:11 PM PDT by The Toll (e)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You should take this as a view from a news group that supported the likes of Hitler to cause havoc in Germany and the world. These are people who see that it is good government to have governments like WWII Germany and Japan where the ordinary citizens are to be like sheep. Bundy saw many of like landowners being treated like sheep and decided that was not for him and his family according to intentions for the USA from the 1820s and even going back into the USA history from the beginnings in the 1790s. Reid and his minions can only see the USA from the 1917s when Pres. Wilson gave the USA to foreigners and financial powers like the Fed Reserve including the incubation of the likes such as Soros.


16 posted on 04/18/2014 2:06:14 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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17 posted on 04/18/2014 2:06:22 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. Cattlegate..0'Caligula / 0'Reid? ;-)
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Where next? Think May 16 - - - -


18 posted on 04/18/2014 2:15:33 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Billthedrill
Hmm...let's see, tomorrow is the 19th of April. That date seems familiar for some reason...

Yep.

5.56mm

19 posted on 04/18/2014 2:20:34 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Amazing wordcraft.

No, I take that back. Amateur propaganda.

Hey, anyone notice the RANGE that soldier was looking at via iron sights? Check the second image in the referenced article.

400yds...IRON SIGHTS.

20 posted on 04/18/2014 2:20:44 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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