The threats from the omnipotent United States government in DC continue and are legion — and we, as United States citizens, are beginning to tire of these threats.
Texas has already thrown up a road block.
First, Harry Reid said he knew “it wasn’t over,” regarding the Bundy situation:
“Well, it’s not over. We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over,” Reid said back on April 15th, tax day.
This bespeaks volumes in and of itself.
Now, Nevada Senator Harry Reid — who is also the Senate Majority Leader — has thrown his power against Nevada land owners. And against, literally, his own constituents.
Ultimately, this may not play so remarkably well.
From CBSLasVegas.com:
BUNKERVILLE, Nev. (CBS Las Vegas/AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says “something is going to happen” to get Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to stop letting his cattle graze on federal land.
“It’s obvious that you can’t just walk away from this. And we can speculate all we want to speculate to what’s going to happen next,” Reid told KSNV-TV. “But I don’t think it’s going to be tomorrow that something is going to happen, but something will happen. We are a nation of laws, not of men and women.”
Reid called militias staying at Bundy’s Bunkerville ranch “domestic violent terrorist-wannabes.”
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., disagreed with Reid, telling KSNV that these militia members are “patriots” and took issue with how the U.S. Bureau of Land Management handled the situation.
“I take more issues with the BLM coming in with a paramilitary army of individuals with snipers. I’m talking to people and groups that are there at the event. Your own government with sniper lenses on you. It made a lot of people very uncomfortable,” Heller told KSNV.
The junior Nevada senator also stated that he wants congressional hearings held about BLM trying to round-up Bundy’s cattle.
My guess is this: “something” won’t play well and it won’t be nice.
BZ
According to Harry Reid, I am a domestic terrorist because I support Mr Bundy. Apparently I am on a level with that of, say, Timothy McVeigh.
Lots and lies and falsehoods have been spread with regard to Mr Bundy and his ranch. One of them was that he was in arrears with the state of Nevada. He was not. His issue was with the federal government and how it changed in the decades his family had worked that land. Land that, somehow, the average moron and American Media Maggot seems to think is paved with vast tracts of fertile and waving green grass.
Not. It is a desert and barely supportive. There are many, many issues with the Bundy Ranch situation. But my greatest issues revolve around these few points: why here? Why now? Allegedly, according to the feds, Mr Bundy has been a so-called “Illegal Occupier” since 1993. And only now, the desert tortoise seems to hold the overarching topic extant? Really?
Save this point: had the desert tortoise been actually endangered, Mr Bundy’s Terrible and Rampant Herds would have wiped this tortoise from the face of the area. Except that the cow dung from his mammals help the tortoise. And the fact that the federal government ITSELF has been killing the desert tortoise in Nevada because it “couldn’t afford them.”
This is called a Load of Shit.
The Obama Administration and the BLM simply wanted to make a point, and the point is this: we can do what we want when we want because we have the power and you do not. Frankly, I don’t give a shit that Bundy owed cash for grazing fees. You want your cash? Place a LIEN on his property.
That would have been simple and quiet. But no, the federal government wouldn’t settle for quiet and obvious. I don’t dispute the courts or the rulings. But I DO dispute the issues of state rights and the issues of HOW to handle a situation similar to Mr Bundy.
You do NOT send BLM occupiers out to the land, and you don’t steal his cattle in front of every form of media possible. And you do not send bearded and MP-5 carrying vested federal officers and snipers to his land. They were not “average” cops.
I’ve been a cop for 41 years. I still am. I could have avoided this crap with roughly a 30 minute conversation between two adults, and a couple of glasses of iced tea.
The government wanted a confrontation and that much is obvious. It wanted to go in Large and In Charge. What it did NOT account for, however, was the technology so readily available to the Masses these days — technology that can be applied to anyone by anyone.
Finally: make no mistake. The federal government will brook no resistance. They WILL be back.
BZ
With the bandoflumberingmonkeys trying another land grab,
http://co-ironwill.blogspot.com/2014/04/texas-ag-tells-blm-come-and-take-it.html
and the Montana friearms issue,
http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/supreme-court-declines-to-review-montana-gun-law/article_4a49bbd8-eec0-559e-8389-5d028b38d093.html
and probably some other issues that haven’t shown up on the radar yet, this will be an interesting summer. 😉
Yeah, they’ll be back, their over-riding direction right now is to follow orders, that’s their ego. Will they still do this when the ruckus kicks off? we’ll find out.
Thanks, Grog, for your input.
Thanks for your input and your comments sir.
BZ
“I’ve been a cop for 41 years. I still am. I could have avoided this crap with roughly a 30 minute conversation between two adults, and a couple of glasses of iced tea.”
You, and legions of competent Peace Officers.
Thank you sir. I merely state the obvious.
BZ
What Reid said: We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it.
What he should have said: We can’t have an American President that violates the law and then just walks away from it.
And now he throws in domestic terrorism. What’s next, Homeland Security showing up? A drone attack? Will they identify and retaliate against those supporting Bundy? Perhaps with IRS?
The fact that I am even thinking such a thing is a comment on the distrust I have for our government today. It has changed to such an extent that I don’t recognize it either. Does that make me a Bundy?
BZ, here’s another unlawful land grab.
http://offgridsurvival.com/government-steals-private-backcountry-land/