.....good post but it doesn’t seem to notice that what millions of people are pissed off about is not the damn cattle OR FEDERAL LANDS or Article 3 but the exact phenomenon your post Seeks to address. Namely, the power of the federal government is derived not from the government but from the CONSENT of the people! The federal government has lost that consent therefore it’s power. So, now what?! Does your Article 3 even matter, at this point?!
George Will said it pretty good last Sunday when he said he believes the American people are about to dispose of this government, one way or another.
Many valid points and valid questions. It just seems to me that starting this fight over unpaid range fees seems, I don’t know ... petty on both sides.
Protest over it ... sure go ahead. Call your congressman or even organize a campaign to vote them out. No problem. It just does not seem like the right time and place to “go hot”. It just seems to me like there are plenty of other injustices to get upset about. For example, Connecticut and New York’s gun laws are a clear violation of the 2nd Amendment. There are plenty of others but this just feels wrong because there really is no moral high ground over this incident.
Perhaps as history unfolds, there will need to be a series of these transgressions of our government before the final straw that breaks the back is added to the haystack. This just does not feel like the hill to die on.
“George Will said it pretty good last Sunday when he said he believes the American people are about to dispose of this government, one way or another.”
When George Will wakes up you know things are going hot. :-)
I just finished a 30 minute video put up on Youtube by two of the militia leaders. They said they had 500 militia surrounding those 20 BLM agents that were hiding behind the cars. They were totally in a kill box. He said they would have killed them all in about 30 seconds. They were so scared they left their SUV’s, generators still running and all equipment and just hightailed it. In fact they called the LVPD to come save them.
In addition he said that the under sheriff working for Gillespie tried to change the deal at the gate but the crowd just kept insisting on getting the cattle.
At some point the militia realized or suspected that the 20 BLM guys had been deliberately left behind as sacrificial lambs to die to cause a false flag so the govt could come in full force and kill everyone. Then let the media spin it. So they just sat back and did nothing. Finally the Feds broke and gave up. He said he thinks those poor 20 BLM guys figured it out and that is why they were so panic stricken.
I don’t think this is over. The Feds are so arrogant they will come back and do something stupid.
They also alluded and I read this somewhere else that there is some suspicion at least a few of those BLM guys were not Aericans.