Posted on 04/18/2014 10:53:31 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Wednesday night’s broadcast of The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow discussed the recent events surrounding Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in detail. Not only did she address the standoff between Bundy’s supporters and federal agents, she placed this incident in the context of recent history. On top of that, she reviewed all of the coverage Bundy has received from the conservative media and contended that these ‘journalists’ are ‘playing with fire.’
Below is video from the show:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Maddow began her show by contrasting the recent events surrounding Bundy and his supporters, who state that they do not recognize the federal government, with separatist movements in the mid-’90s. She highlighted a Nevada County Commissioner who bulldozed over federal land to create a road in 1994. That commissioner said that he considered Nye County, Nevada to be independent from the United States and therefore he had authority to reclaim federal land.
After showing clips of the commissioner in his bulldozer, Maddow then pointed out how he was just one of many anti-government zealots in the West at that time, and how it all came to a head with the Oklahoma City bombing the following year. However, roughly twenty years ago, these militias and anti-government groups were seen as being extreme and on the far-right fringe. Very few politicians or media personalities supported their cause or advocated for them.
This led to Maddow showing how today these same types of separatist groups and militias have now found champions for their cause in conservative media. On the show, news clips were played of the actual standoff between armed supporters of Bundy and agents from the Bureau of Land Management. The local news highlighted at the time the fact that private citizens were somehow able to get away with pointing sniper rifles and automatic weapons at law enforcement officers. One news reporter stated how strange it was that the Bundy supporters had achieved a victory for their political cause not by voting, but by aiming guns at police officers.
Maddow then wrapped up the segment by highlighting all of the reports from conservative media groups and how they’ve tried to instigate the situation further. As Maddow helpfully indicated, for the most part, this story is over. It appears that the BLM will deal with Bundy more through judicial and administrative channels. Overall, the main drama is over. While the BLM will still try to collect the fees and fines due from Bundy, and advise to him that he is breaking the law by having his cattle graze on federal land for free, another armed standoff does not appear to be on the horizon.
However, right-wing media outlets do not want to hear that. They see an ongoing story here that they can get behind and also appeals to the extreme element of their audience. While it was obvious that places like The Blaze, Alex Jones and World Net Daily would be all over this saga, it was somewhat surprising that Fox News would go full bore with this. Maddow even emphasized how Sean Hannity took a report from WND and used it in an interview with Bundy, telling Bundy that feds might conduct a ‘midnight raid’ of his ranch and possibly even kill him.
This is where Maddow stated that right-wing media, and Fox News in particular, are playing with fire regarding this story. It isn’t so much that they are trying to gin up the story, which is now essentially dead, in order to drive ratings. The worst part is that there is a recent violent history of radical separatist groups and militias getting into violent conflicts with the government, leading to deaths. Fox News has even referred back to these violent events, like Waco and Ruby Ridge, many times while discussing this story.
However, it doesn’t stop them from banging this drum loudly and often. By doing this, they are only enraging and encouraging people who are already extremely resentful of the federal government. They are motivating these people to act out against the United States. If we see violence occur from an anti-government group in the near future, or Bundy’s supporters take things even further, will Fox News take responsibility for the role they played? I think we all know the answer.
Agree.
Thats what I would tell her/him/it. F*** off.
There are real men down there doing a job that you are too chickens**t to do. Just go back to your cushy desk job and your cushy city loft with your homosexual lover while praising your Lord and Savior Obama™ and let the real men do what real Americans do.
Yes, there is a very real danger (for Democrats) that Senator Harry Reid (D-Beijing) may at last be unmasked for the traitorous criminal that he is.
The Honorable Dan Rostenkowski, Democrat-Illinois, spent nearly 36 years in the House of Representatives (1959-1994), and was chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee.
Rostenkoski got a little greedy. He admitted that he converted office funds for his own use for gifts; put people on the his payroll who did little or no work; and mailed payroll checks to his district office for workers who did political or personal service for him.
The Jailbird Count: 15 months in a minimum security prison, Oxford, Wisconsin; 2 months in a halfway house. $100,000 fine. He spent a couple of days in solitary confinement because he was insubordinate to a social worker.
Indicted for 17 counts of embezzling public and campaign funds, mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.
Compared to the transgressions of Harry Reid, this was truly small potatoes. And Rostenkowski was personally a much more likeable person.
The Honorable James Traficant, blue collar defender of the little guy, who was, let us be charitable, sartorially challenged (old gabardine or corduroy suits, orange and yellow stretch pants), often having a bad hair day, got into big time trouble in 2002.
Traficant was the 18th sitting member of Congress who stood for trial in the past 25 years. He’s also the only one who refused to hire a lawyer. He defended himself against 10 felony counts of bribery and corruption. Traficant’s only experience as a lawyer (which he isn’t) was when he defended himself in 1980s on charges of tax evasion and taking $163,000 in bribes while he was county sheriff.
As sheriff of Mahong County, Ohio, in the early 1980s, Traficant was caught on tape accepting bribes from mobsters who wanted him to look the other way while they controlled prostitution, gambling, and drug trafficking. Traficant’s defense: he was running his own sting operation against the mob. The good citizens on the jury bought the story, and Traficant was found not guilty.
Then in 1987, a U.S. Tax Court ruled that Traficant owed more than $100,000 in back taxes for the bribes he took as sheriff. He represented himself in that case, too. The federal government garnisheed his Congressional wages for not paying taxes on the bribe money.
A federal jury convicted Traficant in April 2002 of ten counts of bribery, racketeering, and corruption. Then the House Ethics Committee conducted its own investigation, voting unanimously in July to expel Traficant and found him guilty of nine counts of violating government ethics rules. They found that Traficant had taken a $2,500-a-month kickback from one of his congressional employees and then asked the staffer to destroy evidence sought by prosecutors. Traficant also accepted money and gratuities from an aerospace company executive who sought his help getting government certification. Traficant was also charged with using his official influence to steer government business to two contractors who had done work on his horse farm in lieu of payments for their work. Check out the Committee report on Traficant’s misdeeds.
Perhaps more corrupt than Rostenkowski, but nowhere NEAR the international scope of “the Honorable” Harry Reid.
The Honorable John Edwards, former U. S. Senator (Democrat-N.C.), 2008 presidential contender, and 2004 vice-presidential candidate, admitted in early August 2008 that he had an extra-marital affair. Edwards had repeatedly denied having an affair with Rielle Hunter and still denies that he was the father of her child. Back in October 2007, he said a National Enquirer (that great, truth-telling newspaper) story about an affair was “completely untrue, ridiculous.”
Edwards said this on August 8, 2008: “In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. . . . I was ashamed of my conduct and choices, and I had hoped that it would never become public. . . today I take full responsibility publicly.”
January 22, 2010: Edwards finally confessed on national TV: Yeah, he’s the father of Rielle Hunter’s baby. In all, Edwards was probably fooling five, six people in the entire world.
So let’s count the lies (thus far):
1. He lied about having a daughter;
2. He lied about having an affair;
3. And, if his former staffer, Andrew Young, is right, Young fell on the sword and said it was his daughter all along, and that Edwards ordered him to “Get a doctor to fake the DNA results.”
Not only did he lie a couple of times, he was also inducing others to lie on his behalf.
And yet, Harry Reid is NEVER called to account for his “misstatements” when it comes to factual recounting of just what it was that he said, and the reality as it exists.
How about taking responsibility the next time a fedninja assaults or kills an innocent American because of the “hyping” of pro-government “authority” people like Maddow?
Anyone who doesn’t march lockstep with the leftist agenda, no matter how destructive, dysfunctional and absurd that agenda might be, is an extremist. Since left wing fanaticism is the status quo of the media, entertainment, and big government, anyone who thinks differently, like preferring the Constitution, free enterprise, state rights, liberty and individualism, must be right wing. What else are limited minds that could buy into the leftist agenda in the first place going to think?
So, when a half-wit like Rachael Maddow goes to bed with Occupy, but calls liberty minded patriots right-wing extremists, consider the source. Traditional Americans are Constitutionalists, free traders and individuals, not right wing or left wing. Our extremism is the same extremism that guided our Founders.
Please remember that the Supreme Court has reversed more than 150 of earlier Supreme Court decisions on natural law. Is that what you would consider as someone being consistent and reliable in interpreting the Constitution?
The Resolution of 1780, "the federal trust respecting public lands obligated the united States to extinguish both their governmental jurisdiction and their title to land that achieved statehood."
In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, The Charter of Liberty contained these words, "The new Federal Government is an agent serving the states.", "The delegated powers are few and defined", "All powers not listed are retained by the states or the people", "The Resolution of 1780 formed the basis upon which Congress was required to dispose of territorial and public lands", "All laws shall be made by the Congress of the United States". (not agency bureaucrats!)
That should be sufficient for you to determine who all public lands belong to, hint - NOT the Federal Government!
"The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, it's meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted. it means now". So said the Supreme Court in South Carolina v United States in 1905
Articles of Confederation, Article VI, clause 1 All engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. In Article IX "... no State shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United States."
Formation of a "more perfect union" does not absolve that union of prior engagements, including those obligations establish by the resolution of 1780 and the Articles of Confederation.
Our government system is established by compact, not between the Government and the State Governments but between the States as Sovereign Communities. By James Madison 1821 (This is what make the County Sheriffs the highest law enforcement officer in that County and gives him/her the authority to tell the BLM, the FBI or any other Federal Agency to get out of the County or they will be arrested and jailed.)
What I have written here is but a short piece of the process that the Founder went through to establish our Constitution and system of government.
Please view these videos and see if they don't change your mind about whether or not Cliven Bundy is in the wrong by defying the BLM.
1of3 Stephen Pratt speaking to Sheriffs at WSSA conference
2of3 Stephen Pratt speaking to Sheriffs at WSSA conference
3of3 Stephen Pratt speaking to Sheriffs at WSSA conference
Here's one that shows why the Sheriff of Clark County is duty bound to keep the BLM and all Federal agents from arresting Cliven Bundy.
The left is well aware that Hell is coming. No one knows exactly when it will start. However, it will begin with an event like Bundy’s resistance. Why do you think this group of clowns in the White House is buying all the ammunition they can put their hands on. Even the Post Office is buying “ammo.” When it starts-(or just before)- you will see media creatures leaving the country with suitcases of money, atheist groups going underground, Sodomites hiding, blacks saying “We was just kidden.” Mexicans fleeing to the border. It will be a mess but it will happen. Nevada gave me hope that there may be enough spirit left to do what has to be done. It does not take everyone, just 10%.
Rachel, dear, we aren’t playing.
“But, you know from their frantic-ness, that they’re concerned.”
They’re VERY concerned. They thought Dook Wayne was dead and buried but he showed up in NV and said “The HELL you will...”
Take a look at the wording of the Patriot Act. A simple declaration from the president that a person or group is a domestic terrorist opens a whole array of options from the federal authority, to include warrantless arrests and relocation to internment camps.
Reid and Maddow are firing the first shots from the current administration that it intends to deal harshly with domestic dissent.
If you want to read a vision of this kind of future get a copy of ‘Fitzpatrick’s War’ from Amazon.
You’d be surprised at what it foretold when published about 10 years ago.
Since it jeopardizes your messiah ... crickets. You're a fraud. You would make Leni Riefenstahl blush.
Thanks for the reference.
My pleasure.
Judson’s no fly-by-night start-up author. He’s written several good reads such as ‘The Martian General’s Daughter’ and ‘Hell Can Wait’.
Very entertaining.
Ruby Ridge occurred during AUG 1992, the last few months of POTUS #41 GHWB's (R-TX) watch.
FOX! You’ve been LesboWarned! LOL! Funny the Mad Cow never cautions the clowns in the state controlled “media” for kissing Barry’s butt all the time and continuously praising his “Pen and Phone” (PP) form of government.
Whatcha gonna do about it, man-lady?
Shove it up your Obamahole.
You’ve not seen fire yet.
I’d hit it ... with a baseball bat. Might improve it.
Good luck with sweeping it under the rug when it’s burning out of control.
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