The ‘issue’ is that you are bring up and harping on the fact that Bundy commented on slavery as if it were somehow unrelated to the land use issue. Clearly it is related when the liberals are taking us down the path of slavery and their usurpation of land/land rights id one way they do it.
Now, having been involved in the land rights to the extent that Time Magazine, in an era they still had influence, thought I was enough of a problem to call me lots of bad names/inferences, I can speak with some authority on the issue.
For you to discredit the connection and focus on his use of the comparison implies directly that he did something wrong. And clearly he did not as we have repeatedly established over the past two days.
Now if you keep harping on his mention of race, what exactly are we supposed to logically conclude here?
Please explain how his use of the slavery argument has furthered his cause?
IT DIDN’T!! It PREDICTABLY didn’t! It is a nebulous connection at best. Bundy was getting more and more support every day! All he needed to do was keep pounding the, “BLM came in with weapons and violence, took and killed my cattle and bullied and tazed my children” statement and he wins going away - and creates the momentum to probably put an end to all of this nonsense for awhile. This was probably the best chance we’ve seen of making major headway in this fight in decades - pfffft! gone!
If you don’t understand the strategic folly of what he did, then it might explain why you’ve been fighting so long. If you have fought the fight this long, I applaud your fight - but I am sick and tired of people injuring good causes by making stupid, unnecessary statements.
In any fight, you should ask the question - will this help the cause? And if the answer is uncertain, you should ask - will the possible good outweigh the potential bad? The answer to both questions regarding the moment in discussion was a resounding NO! There was OBVIOUSLY absolutely ZERO potential benefit from the statement - regardless of its truth.
Let me give you some advice: If you are talking about land and property rights, TALK ABOUT LAND AND PROPERTY RIGHTS! Never ever ever talk about those rights in the context slavery or government handouts or ANYTHING except property rights. What you say might be absolutely true, but it won’t further your cause one whit, and it has great potential to derail it!