Posted on 04/21/2014 12:36:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A “heated debate” over the Bundy Ranch standoff turned violent early Friday when a bar patron slugged another man in the face, resulting in his arrest for battery.
According to cops, David Craig, 54, and Brian Holt, 31, were seated next to each other at the bar at Papa Joe’s in Bradenton when they “got into a heated debate over the Bundy Ranch, and the ‘range wars.’”
Holt told a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputy that Craig “became offended by his opinion and got up to yell at him.” The men, Holt said, got into each other’s face before Craig (seen at right) punched him in the mouth. Left with a split lip, Holt was able to provide an investigator with the license plate for Craig’s Toyota Tacoma.
When a deputy later confronted Craig, he acknowledged arguing with Holt, “but would leave out the fact that a battery occurred,” reported Deputy Sarah Kane, who noted that Craig’s vehicle had been “purposely hidden behind his residence and then behind a shed in a dark area.”
Charged with misdemeanor battery, Craig was booked into the county jail, from which he was released after posting $500 bond.
The sheriff’s report does not detail Craig’s and Holt’s respective positions on the dispute between Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the federal Bureau of Land Management. Bundy, who does not recognize BLM authority over his property, owes the government more than $1 million in fees due to his cattle herd grazing on public land for more than two decades.
When BLM officials recently sought to confiscate the 67-year-old rancher’s cattle, a standoff ensued, with Bundy (seen at left) and some of his armed supporters making ominous comparisons to the deadly confrontations at Ruby Ridge and the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has called Bundy and his supporters “domestic terrorists.” Seeking to avoid a violent confrontation, BLM workers released Bundy’s cattle and left the area.
Your views on the matter are now fairly obvious.
Another mark of a leftist - like a Castro or a Lenin or a Brooks - is the belief that if anyone verbally disagrees with you, physical violence is a justified and moral response.
Yet another mark of a leftist is contempt for Christianity - being the kind of degenerate who would take a decent phrase like "bless your heart" and turn it into a sarcastic vessel of abuse and pettiness, for example.
I am a proudly purebred Yankee, that's certain.
But I am no Democrat liberal like the whnging Preston Brooks.
I'm an old-fashioned conservative who believes in paying a man for a day's work, instead of freeloading off him and then having an overseer whip him if he dares to complain.
I’m happy for you.
You might even disagree with both, but certainly not agree with both.
I can’t believe that little wuss called the cops over a split lip. And that the other guy left and hid behind a shed over giving a guy a split lip! Remeber when men were men?
You're right. Remember Shay's Rebellion. The people with power squeezed the little people too much. It will happen again.
The animosity between US Forestry Service vs. BLM is the stuff of legends.
That stinks. It's a rather salient point in a somewhat amusing story.
Shay's Rebellion was the precursor and predictor of no wider movement.
Shay's Rebellion was put down quickly by the state government, and is considered by some to be a contributing factor to the US Constitution being much more strongly federal than the Articles of Confederation - but the Rebellion was a complete failure that produced nothing..
You seem to have some strong feelings about Shay’s Rebellion. That’s interesting.
It was not put down quickly. Perhaps attacking the Springfield Armory but the Rebellion arose from the power people squeezing the little people.
It lasted from September 1786 to February 1787.
That's not exactly The Hundred Years' War.
The attack on the armory was its first major action, which was a failure, and it effectively ended a week later.
the power people
Did you pick this phrase up in Zuccotti Park?
Creditors have a right for their debts to be repaid on time, and the government has the power to collect the taxes the assembly has voted to levy.
There is a difference between George Washington and Peter Pan.
No. Benton Park. But I doubt you know about it.
And still we fight over a incident that happened over 100 years ago.
This is why the left has it all over the right. They have their act together.
As long as we are mired in the past, we will always be behind the curve.
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