Posted on 04/14/2014 8:02:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
During the final standoff at the Bundy Ranch on Saturday, we had a hundred or more militarized government agents and snipers aiming military grade weapons at hundreds of innocent American citizens. And they were being ordered through a public address system to move away or they would be "SHOT!" Their crime? Standing in defense of a Nevada citizen who was being ruthlessly tormented by rogue federal agencies over a twenty year period.
The fact that the BLM seemed to be perfectly willing to slaughter innocent Americans using military grade weapons and tactics over “grazing fees” on public lands is a national disgrace. This is the work of a criminal government.
You might expect a communist or fascist regime to do this, not the American government. This agency is totally out of control and heads need to roll.
I’d suggest starting with Senator Reid’s Nevada henchman, his former aide Neil Kornze, who is now the chief of the BLM. Then a serious congressional investigation into Reid and his son’s involvement in this matter would be in order.
And if there's any truth whatsoever in the reports that Reid and his son are involved with the Chicom government in trying to bring Chinese investments or Chinese solar operations to the Nevada desert, and Senator Reid is using his government power and or connections to the BLM to help move this along, they need to be charged and prosecuted.
Or if Senator Reid is using his power and connections in any way shape or form whatsoever to aid the BLM in its threatening actions against American citizens, he needs to be ejected from the U.S. Senate.
Sheriff Gillespie is DHS Chair of the NV Finance Committee. Photos of him w/Reid AND DOJ Holder and also at a big DHS event. He’s wild about Harry.
Sheriff Gillespie, member of Southern Poverty Law Center.
Yeah.. like that will ever happen. What should happen is if BLM goes back, then Americans need to rise up and head to Nevada fully armed with one intent, winning at all cost.
This is the young man in charge of BLM?? He looks like he is about 30....and this guy is a Reid lackey?
Sigh.
Are there any adults at the federal government anymore?
Our bureaucracy is waaaaay too big if this agency's behavior is any indication of the rest (and it is)!
Someone wants not only BLM but also Bundy’s land.
An order to reduce a herd from 500 to 150.
Loss of water rights, too.
Grazing rights that were closed by Nevada permanently.
This would put Bundy out of business, which has to be the plan.
Hence the exorbitant fines.
You’ve said it all Jim. Great article.
I would too. It will not happen. There may be some words, perhaps even a nice speech given in front of some cameras at the direction and behest of someone's campaign manager... but that's it. No real 'outrage' and certainly no action.
The faction of Freepers that have lost faith in the Republican party to the point of not supporting them with money or votes takes a lot of flak. We're called names, we're said to be the reason that elections are lost and we're said to be helping the other 'team'. All of that is fine, as political discussion should be passionate and FR should always be a place for conservatives of all stripes to meet and debate.
In this Nevada debacle, which is not yet over, I'd suggest that the 'teams' are clearly defined and the disillusionment of Libertarians, Constitutionalists, and other non-Republican conservatives may be better understood. There is the Statist team and the liberty-minded people, period. Far too many Republicans and 99% of Democrat politicians are in the Statist camp. Far too many voters, of both parties, are in that camp too.
The Republican senator and governor of Nevada meekly offered 'complaints' about the BLM, Harry Reid and the federal bureaucracy's armed intimidation and willingness to assault/kill Nevada citizens... and took no actions. None. It was citizens putting their freedom and possibly their lives on the line to take action. I didn't see a politician so much as put their dinner plans on hold. Did anyone do to jail over the government-corporate-banker induced economic meltdown in 2008? Did anything substantive happen in response to Waco, Fast and Furious, Benghazi? Has the GOP offered any useful resistance to the utter insanity of the Obama administration?
The Leftist/Statist machine has taken over federal bureaucracy, many state bureaucracies, academia, media, upper echelon military leadership, and our very culture itself. The Republican party, far from actively fighting this, plays the role of loyal opposition. What the party one day argued against, today it will chastise its own voters arguing for. Do you really think Obamacare will be defunded or dismantled? Not even with full control of Congress. Do you enjoy watching the GOP actively fight against its own conservative wing and denigrate its own voter base?
You are not on their 'team'. When the federal government's overreach and lust for more money, power and control someday arrives at your doorstep and proclaims you to be the problem standing in its way, there will not be a Republican politician that does anything for you. Maybe you'll get a speech. If real actions of protest, defiance or even rebellion are needed to protect your property, family and life - it will be citizens, if anyone, who'll come to your aid. I believe we have reached the point in this country where voting is not going to fix what's broken. I do not wish for or advocate violence, but being a cheerleader for one faction of an ever-expanding and ever-indebted federal government doesn't seem to be working.
Has the second revolt begun?
I've seen little commentary beyond passing reference to observed contract troops and foreigners backing up the BLM Rangers. There have been photographs of men in sort of mixed camo with no insignia whatsoever. They stand out because the are obviously more fit than the BLM and lack all the battle rattle. The observed 'foreigner' fit the contractor/mercenary profile.
This has got me steaming like a teapot and spiking my BP. the mere fact that civilian government agencies are able hire mecenaries is mind boggling. Hell, that BLM Director Kornze even has their phone number is scary. Where the hell are the GOP congressional members? Where are McCain, the simpering senator from Utah that swore he was conservative, lindsey Graham, and the Bushes,and hell where are any of them.
Seems we've got the equivalent of Hessians right here and right now. How the hell are mercs allowed to operate against American citizens on American soil?
Who the hell authorized them and approved payment?
The key to the next election may well hinge upon the answers.
McGee and Squantos, you guys hearing any scuttlebutt about this?
From the article....”This is the work of a criminal government....You might expect a communist or fascist regime to do this, not the American government”....
But Harry Reid would do so.....The more I’ve searched about Reid...the more it just seems to me he has more clout in our Government...and outside it then Obama does...when they’re together it’s always Reid doing the talking and Obama bending in to hear...same with so many others....(when you view as many photos as I have of Reid you see patterns that become obvious it seems)
I bet Reid has been asking for some foreign aid, such as South African ex military.
Be interesting to be an employee at McCarran airport and to see how many military looking guys are flying in all of a sudden.
The LVPD SWAT guys I do not think want to be a part of this anymore, especially knowing the repercussions that will follow them and their family for many years.
Reid will get foreign troops, heck I would not be surprised if the Mexican Army starts showing up.
Where is Obama’s voice. He comes to the podium at any and every reference to Illegal Aliens...but he turns the other way when it comes to “heartland” patriotic Americans.
Makes you wonder who really "runs' Washington...They haven't called Reid "Clean-face"' by the Mob' for nothing. The crud's got connections everywhere....too many and too willing to "save his hide" from this.
CUFF HIM! 
A “better idea” for sure.
It’s too late to do anything about it.
Obama wanted his “civilian army” and he now has it...along with a huge amount of weapons and ammo.
Furthermore, he has armed local police with surplus military vehicles and assault weapons too.
While the people slept, the rats ate away our freedoms.
The only means of restoring our country back to what it was is through (sadly) an armed revolution due to the fact that all levels of government within the boundaries of the United States are TOTALLY CORRUPT.
Voting will not help since the majority of our population are on some type of financial support from the government and are held as “protected species” by the political elite.
When the criminal illegals are given amnesty all will be lost and that will be the day our country will have been invaded by the barbarians without a shot being fired.
Ping for later viewing.
Revolts aren’t won by votes!
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