California was a test case back in the day. Sometimes commies are right.
Posted on 04/16/2014 6:15:51 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
For 20 years the federal government has fined Cliven Bundy for grazing his cattle on protected land. And for 20 years Bundy has refused to pay. Last month this dance came to an end when the Bureau of Land Management sent Bundy a letter informing him that it intended to “impound his trespass cattle” that have been roaming on federal property. It closed off hundreds of thousands of acres, and moved to round up Bundy’s cows.
Protesters challenged the BLM, and Bundy’s son was arrested for “refusing to disperse” from the area in question. Bundy’s cause caught fire on right-wing blogs, egged on by Fox News and conservative outlets like the National Review, which have held the confiscation as a dangerous intrusion on private property rights, despite Bundy’s lawbreaking. Defending his decision, the rancher told one right-wing radio host that he’s ready to take steps beyond refusing to pay:
I told you that I did the legal thing and the political thing and the media thing and it seems like it's down to “we the people” if we're going to get it done. You know the things like militias. You know, I haven't called no militia or anything like that, but hey, it looks like that's where we're at.
To that end, hundreds of people from outside Nevada—including “militia” armed with rifles and ammunition—have joined his protests, going as far as to set up camp and confront federal officials with brandished weapons. The federal government blinked, and the BLM announced an abrupt end to its cattle roundup, hoping to avoid violence and further confrontations.
Finally, I can’t help but wonder how conservatives would react if these were black farmers—or black anyone—defending “their” land against federal officials. Would Fox News applaud black militiamen aiming their guns at white bureaucrats?
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
“Are we talking about BLACK Blacks or Oreo Cookie Uncle Tom Blacks?”
Democrat Plantation Blacks? Or black escaped Democrat Plantation slaves?
Turn it back around on them. Would the federal government have used men armed with machine guns and attack dogs against a black family or black protesters? Not in a million years.
What's your point knumnuts? I didn't see a whole lot black people out there helping the Bundy's
Well, that ends the conversation right there.....no further comments needed!
We would be paying them reparations also
Interestingly, I have only been following this story through online reports and didn't even know -- or care -- about the race of the ranchers and their supporters until this article raised the point.
And yet I was quite certain that a group of independent, principled people in rural Nevada defending themselves against an oppressive Federal government was comprised almost entirely of white people. That's pretty pathetic, isn't it? And it says a hell of a lot more about racial politics in this country than what the author of this article has written.
I can never remember.
Is it Slate or Salon that publishes from an insane asylum?
I thought that was Philadelphia.
When the city blew up some kooks who called themselves “MOVE” — and took out a couple city blocks in the ensuing fire.
Any black man that ever picked up a ho...
/johnny
Maybe you’re thinking of the group MOVE. They were burned out of their Philadelphia home by the police.
It is germane because a hundred armed feds go after a white rancher who they say owes $1 million while the president parties with one Al Sharpton who owes $1.9 million in back taxes.
I can't buy the government story at face value on that one, after all the lies told on Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Nevada.
/johnny
Cliven builds a mosque.
lives happily ever after
California was a test case back in the day. Sometimes commies are right.
What if they were black, lesbian, Latino, environmentalist, vegan, union teachers?
Oh sorry... I thought we were talking about John Boehner.
Ya talking about the Move deal?
When just a few years before, they shot a cop in back of the head killing him and then shot up a bunch of innocent by standers?
did Getty Images really publish a photo with a caption, “good thing we’re white”? or was that added by Slate?
Philadelphia. The black MOVE group..
When just a few years before they were burned out, they shot a cop in back of the head killing him and then shot up a bunch of innocent by standers?
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