I can see where the Bundy family may have helped to create the legal situation they’re in, but it just really makes me sad to think that a way of life is slipping away in the process. I’ll probably shed a tear when the last landline phone is unplugged and the last AM radio station is turned into a digital noisemaker too...
I guess even sadder is the fact that in a couple of generations the traditions that built the nation will no longer be evident, outside of museums and movies. Which is to say they will only be remembered in ways that can be dismissed as easily our forefathers dismissed the Indians (or should I say “Native Americans”). The ultimate irony may be that the Bundy clan is now in about the same position the Indians were in during the latter part of the 19th century, fighting the same enemy.
The citizens of this nation have discovered something the Natives discovered 150 years ago. The great white father in washington is the father of lies...