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good for Cruz...
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Just lost my vote.
I’m not sure I’m following you on this one Ted...
Uh....Ted...time to go back and read up on the Founding Fathers' reasons for the 2nd Amendment.
Cruz get’s it right.
Some background from a very credible good guy who lives in that neck of the woods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARpBS6O14FE
Smar move...
According to a Militia friend, what they did in Oregon wasn’t “Sanctioned”, and won’t be supported by the other militia groups like the Nevada Ranch standoff was.
I support Cruz. I hope there guys get prison for what they’re doing. Same cut of cloth as black lives matter.
Cruz is right.
He might add that much of the Left so wants a violent outcome as evidenced by their responses.
Other GOP candidates need to do this too. That way they can take some of the high ground away from 0bama.
I don’t know where to start.
The article is slanted BS. It is not a federal building, it’s more like federal shack.
There are no hostages and there is no threat of violence.
The reason they are armed (legally armed) is that the BLM has already earned the criticism whereby it is they who threaten violence if you don’t tow the line. (via tactical snipers, etc)
It’s just a civil disobedience protest to shine some light on this bovine feces...
As to why ted has injected himself in this, I must assume he was presented with a BS laden question and he answered it.
Not the first time it’s been done.. but I personally see no reason for them to stand down at this time, or perhaps any time until this mess gets the proper attention from the so called fair and balanced....
The main issue is if The Hammonds wanted the seige to occur and for the Bundy Brothers to be come to Oregon. Many people claim they didn’t support them.
I support Ted Cruz for president, but we have seen a discussion spring up about the Hammond’s situation and the situation of Western land owners in general in the face of federal government rules, regulation, encroachment etc.
This would not have happened without the Bundy’s and other folks out there taking the action they did in the first place.
Ted is right to not want any violence or confrontation.
In my heart I don’t want that to happen either.
But I don’t necessarily agree with his quickness in calling for a ‘stand down’.
Ted’s entitled to his opinion and I think his heart is in a good place on wanting to avoid any violence.
Had Donald Trump had anything to say?????
[I]t is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of (the) noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much, soon to forget it.
James Madison
Most have ‘forgotten’. This ‘stand’ IMO is too little, too late. Besides, there’s natural gas and uranium under that ranch for the taking.......by the force of law and economic ‘violence’ if necessary.
Sorry Ted, 400 Oregon ranchers will lose their lands by August 16 if the Feds are not stopped. The GOP has run out of time to act. Once their land is taken it is gone.
April 2, 2015:
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/237632-ted-cruz-aims-to-win-the-west
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is making a play for the West in the 2016 race by touting his opposition to the federal government’s expansive land holdings.
Cruz’s disdain for federal land control is resonating with Westerners whose lives are impacted by land managers, and could help him win over conservatives in Nevada, one of the early nominating states in the presidential contest.
“This is an issue he’s been focused on for quite some time, and it’s one that plays extremely well with the conservative base in the western part of the United States,” said Ford O’Connell, a GOP strategist who advised the 2008 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Nationwide, the government owns nearly 630 million acres, a landmass bigger than Alaska and California combined. Most of that land, managed by agencies like the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service, is located in states west of the Mississippi River.
Federal control is particularly heavy in Nevada, where the government owns 81 percent of all land, the most of any state.
“This is something that has been a perennial issue in the West since it became part of the United States,” said James McCarthy, a geography professor at Clark University who studies the history of western land. “It’s a staple of western politics to complain about that.”.......
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