Posted on 04/20/2014 12:55:54 AM PDT by blueplum
BUNKERVILLE, Nevada—Cliven Bundy’s ranch, recently the site of a tense stand-off that started over two weeks ago between the federal government and the Bundy family, had morphed into a good old-fashioned family picnic complete with live country music, hamburgers, and hotdogs Friday. A week after the Bureau of Land Management’s armed force left Bunkerville, Bundy and his supporters continue to make the family’s case relating to Bundy’s right to graze his cattle on public land his family has been on for many years.
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D’Souza, who is coming under fire from the Holder Justice Department himself, added, “I think what really rankles is the fact that justice is normally a virtue of liberalism. Liberals will say, ‘Oh we’re for social justice.’ Justice means treating people fairly and treating people who are in the same situation in a similar way. You get the sense with Obama that’s not the case. Lady justice has one eye open and she’s winking at her friends and sending the cops after her enemies.” Thirteen Elected officials were present at the standoff in Bunkerville last week; Nevada Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore was one of those elected members present and told Breitbart News on Friday that, like Senator Dean Heller (R-NV), she was shocked by the actions taken by the federal government.
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I designed a few tee shirts for them that they now sell on their family site to raise money for their fight against government tyranny. I get nothing from them, all proceeds go to the Bundys. :)
Click on the image to go to their Zazzle store.
Here is their Facebook Page.
https://www.facebook.com/bundyranch
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She is awesome!! I love her.
I watched the video last night of her owning some reporter. He said something along the lines of, the cows were going to be slaughtered anyway and she nailed him - so that made it ok to kill them cruely? He didn’t know what to say next ! She’s a little spitfire :)
I agree. [BTW - I hate Breitbart’s site...all kinds of videos that run while you try to read. Can’t shut them off. Annoying!]
and I agree with you and share your frustration about the instant play videos on websites. back in the good old days 5 years ago, we had a choice whether to click a video, or not, and we’d be able to go about our business in blissful silence. Some pages nowadays even have competing videos on instant play. What’s wrong with these webmasters? It’s enough to drive ya nuts!
Fight the Free Sh☭t Nation 
Indicted Businessman Names Harry Reid as Alleged Recipient of Massive Bribe Thursday, April 17, 2014 11:42
A Utah businessman is rocking both state and national politics after claiming Utah Attorney General John Swallow helped him broker a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make a federal investigation into his company quietly disappear, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Jeremy Johnson was allegedly told that the price would be $600,000, and claims to have made an initial payment of $250,000 when he was slapped with a federal lawsuit. Now he says he wants his money back.
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/04/indicted-businessman-names-harry-reid-as-alleged-recipient-of-massive-bribe-2940036.html
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - “The Law”; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
CONFISCATE the assets of Harry POS Reid, HIS family, HIS children, HIS grandchildren, HIS great grandchildren…and same of HIS CRONY SOCIALISTS and BLM accomplices.
Domestic economic TERRORISTS.
See something, say something ALERT!
The Results of Legal Plunder
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
What are the consequences of such a perversion? It would require volumes to describe them all. Thus we must content ourselves with pointing out the most striking.
In the first place, it erases from everyone’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice.
No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them.
The nature of law is to maintain justice. This is so much the case that, in the minds of the people, law and justice are one and the same thing. There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because law makes them so. Thus, in order to make plunder appear just and sacred to many consciences, it is only necessary for the law to decree and sanction it.
This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.
Is there any need to offer proof that this odious perversion of the law is a perpetual source of hatred and discord; that it tends to destroy society itself?
I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.
The Law Defends Plunder
But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal.
The Law - Frederic Bastiat
——an instrument of plunder——
That is an interesting concept of the law.
I will accept that in addition to my recent concept of the law as a cudgel, a club. The treacherous Lois Lerner used the government resources as a club, a cudgel, to beat her Tea Party adversaries into senselessness. The result is the lesson that one must not follow the law of tyrannical despots.
The ultimate result is that the tyrants and their agents must be removed, ripped perhaps, from the power they so carelessly wield.
But, are we likely to rush to the support of a TEA Party activist accused of tax evasion? If you ignore the IRS corporate rules for non-profits then you run that risk.
I’d like to see a movement pushing for the elimination of corporate taxation completely. Then we don’t need an IRS monitoring “non-profits”, a majority of which are really disguised for profit corporations that serve their “owners” well.
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The ultimate result is that the tyrants and their agents must be removed, ripped perhaps, from the power they so carelessly wield.
It's clearly the loss of legitimacy of law. Overwhelmingly people obey the law even when they don't agree with it. In this case, the abuses are seen and transparent, which may lead to changes in unjust laws if certain authorities pursue an unjust or immoral course of action.
"The power to compel obedience to the law is derived from the power to sway public opinion to the belief that the law and its agents are legitimate and deserving of this obedience."
but..... if there is no law, then there is no law. bert’s corollary
Only Ghostery appears to be available for Opera at this time (just checked).
AddBlockPlus is available but no flash blockers. Opera 12.6 on Linux.
Running Opera 12.16 on a Linux boxen here. Thanks for the tips!
Yes, I was going from memory. I maintain a couple of web sites so I use all the major browsers infrequently and Chrome in the normal course of events. Yes I know that Google spies on every move I make. So does everybody damn else.
The ultimate result is that the tyrants and their agents must be removed, ripped perhaps, from the power they so carelessly wield.
Well-stated, bert. BTTT!
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