Posted on 04/19/2014 6:14:35 PM PDT by Paladin2
Last week’s standoff at Bundy Ranch is still reverberating in Washington today. According to Kate Sheppard at Huffington Post, Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) has sent a letter to Mary Kendall, acting Inspector General for the Department of the Interior, asking her to investigate whether legislation pushed by the Koch brothers-linked American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been aimed at undermining the agency’s work.
Two member affiliates of the Koch-supported Americans For Prosperity (AFP) organization gave their blessing as armed ‘Patriot’ militias showed up to confront agents of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) doing the dangerous, difficult job of removing Bundy’s trespass cattle from federal lands last week. The Kochs have been trying to privatize federal lands in the West for a long time, and Bundy’s cause crystallized that issue in a very public fashion.
Although the federal agency was largely able to avoid violent incidents, three people were arrested, including rancher Cliven Bundy’s son, and the BLM chose to cancel the operation rather than risk further escalations by armed right wing fanatics. Grijalva’s request seems eminently reasonable in that light.
ALEC was around long before the Koch brothers had anything to do with it.
"More than 40 years ago, a small group of state legislators and conservative policy advocates met in Chicago to implement a vision:
A nonpartisan membership association for conservative state lawmakers who shared a common belief in limited government, free markets, federalism, and individual liberty. Their vision and initiative resulted in the creation of a voluntary membership association for people who believed that government closest to the people was fundamentally more effective, more just, and a better guarantor of freedom than the distant, bloated federal government in Washington, D.C.
At that meeting, in September 1973, state legislators, including then Illinois State Rep. Henry Hyde, conservative activist Paul Weyrich, and Lou Barnett, a veteran of then Gov. Ronald Reagan’s 1968 presidential campaign, together with a handful of others, launched the American Legislative Exchange Council. Among those who were involved with ALEC in its formative years were: Robert Kasten and Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin; John Engler of Michigan; Terry Branstad of Iowa, and John Kasich of Ohio, all of whom moved on to become governors or members of Congress. Congressional members who were active during this same period included Senators John Buckley of New York and Jesse Helms of North Carolina, and Congressmen Phil Crane of Illinois and Jack Kemp of New York."
You are far too kind to Mexico's MECHA boy Representative in the U.S House of Representatives
Rule 12
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
The only time Grijalva was challenged, they kept finding new votes for him and Giffords in the recount.
Liberal dementia.
I became aware of them in the early to mid 80s when I was covering the state legislature for a local radio station.
Waiting for the letter sent by ANY Rep demanding an investigation into Dingy’s Dirty Dealings/connections on this.
That's about the best we are going to get.
I still think the the BLM should be made to list all of their land transactions over the last 30 years in Clark County, Nev., including the extinguishments of water and grazing rights.
> Although the federal agency was largely able to avoid violent incidents, three people were arrested, including rancher Cliven Bundy’s son, and the BLM chose to cancel the operation rather than risk further escalations by armed right wing fanatics. Grijalva’s request seems eminently reasonable in that light.
What a creepy mo-fo, even by the standards of the Partisan Media Shills (PMS). Thanks Paladin2.
“Grijalva is a Marxist pig. Unfortunately, maggots like him are the future of what was once the American southwest.”
Grijalva=Monton de mierda! Even looks like one.
I know, he lost big in Yuma County. The Redistricting Commission carved the Republican areas of the County out of his District, which did me a favor, Gosar is now my Rep.
Too bad, little Lefty gurls.
Although the federal agency was largely able to avoid violent incidents - well, except for beating up the sister, and siccing the attack dog on the hated Bundys, and Tasing a Bundy, and having a Bundy son "fall down" a bunch of times while being arrested for resisting arrest, I guess they "avoided violent incidents".
If you want to read a work of complete fiction, go to the Wikipedia "Bundy standoff" page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_Ranch_standoff
The Lefty trolls controlling the page make it seem as if the BLM was barely there, and CERTAINLY not with guns, or automatic weapons. The lies-by-omission are breath-taking.
Similar to the situation where reprocessing mine and mine processing tailings with improved technologies can turn up use material.
Similar to the situation where reprocessing mine and mine processing tailings with improved technologies can turn up valuable material.
asking her to investigate whether legislation pushed by the Koch brothers-linked American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been aimed at undermining the agency’s work.
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Hope springs eternal. Since the agency is appartently overstepping what is constitutional, it would probably be best to undermine that work, especially since it appear to be serving interests other than the American Citizens.
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armed ‘Patriot’ militias showed up to confront agents of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) doing the dangerous, difficult job of removing Bundy’s trespass cattle from federal lands last week.
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Seems to me that armed BLM agents showed up first, and that’s no way to collect a disputed debt.
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Although the federal agency was largely able to avoid violent incidents, three people were arrested, including rancher Cliven Bundy’s son, and the BLM chose to cancel the operation rather than risk further escalations by armed right wing fanatics. Grijalva’s request seems eminently reasonable in that light.
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BLM was the only ones I saw and heard trying to escalate things. Threatening to shoot the people there even unarmed, women, and children. BLM was standing around with guns in hand. and the cowboy’s guns were holstered and they were praying.
All this over trespassing cattle, meanwhile the drug cartels trespass all over the public lands, and all they do is post a warning sign. Unfreakin’ believable.
LOL. Deranged Projection. They need to start with unmasking themselves and their ilk. Biggest bunch of scurrying roaches you’ll ever see on this earth.
We are long past the point of civil disobedience having any chance of working.
Leftwing American Statists -cannot- grasp the reality of spontaneous action on the part of liberty oriented Americans. This is a tremendous asset, as they swing at shadows to strike the ‘leaders’.
I have no worry about saying it openly. They truly cannot grasp the concept.
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