BadTux brings the hammer down on the clowns lining up to support a poacher.
He's right about the selective vision of the self-styled patriots. When the cops were indiscriminately pepper-spraying the Occupy Wall Street protesters, it was real easy to find those same "patriots" snarking about how the cops should have been using live ammunition instead of pepper spray. And Lord knows, if that old fart who was illegally grazing his critters on Federal land had been drawing SNAP or welfare, those same "patriots" would be calling for his head on a pike.
So if you're a rancher with livestock and property and money, it's OK to help yourself to government resources. But if you're poor and you do something like that, you get to break rocks for ten years.
As BadTux often says: Alrighty, then!
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What especially annoys me about these legends in their own minds is that the man who established the precedent that foreign lands acquired by the US were property of the federal government and that there were no squatter rights to them was President George Washington, who signed the Land Act of 1796. It established both that the land was owned by the Federal government and rates for selling Federal land to prospective settlers, who were required to buy the land, not squat on it.
George Washing. 1796. These morons think they know the Constitution better than George Washington, who frickin' *wrote* much of the bloody thing?! For realz? The stupid, it burns, it burns!
Everybody is in the wrong. Interesting that they've backed off now that Reid's direct ties to the director of BLM and the Chinese have been uncovered and publicized... I'm sure that is 'pure' coincidence... Thankfully no one got shot over this, but I think it was damn close.
Not aware that anybody has backed off of anything. The BLM never had any intention of confronting Bundy and there was never a "siege" of Bundy's ranch. Their sole goal was protecting the cowboys who are rounding up the cattle.
BTW, the solar project that Reid is involved in that Alex Jones is talking about is in southwest Clarke County, not in northeast Clarke County, to the south of Pahrump near the California border and nowhere near Bundy's ranch. Alex Jones doesn't know geography. Either that, or he's a bald-faced liar. Or both. Can never tell with that asshole.
- Badtux the Southwestern Penguin
BTW, Bundy is now in contempt of court for resisting the removal of the cattle from Federal property. It will be interesting to see what the court does next. Courts do *not* like seeing their court orders defied, and there's a distinct likelihood that, since the attempt to avoid confronting Bundy failed, the court will simply order his arrest and imprisonment until such time as his family removes the illegal cattle from Federal land.
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