Posted on 04/16/2014 5:30:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
I love that picture from the Bundy Ranch.
You know the one that I’m talking about: I’m talking about all of them.
I love the horn-handed Cowboys, with real, honest trail dirt on them; I love the American flags; I love the sagebrush; and I love the rebellion-- as in civil, non-violent disobedience.
And the question now is, where does this go?
Rebellion typically starts after a period of lassitude and hopelessness in the face of overwhelming power. Populations spend years, even decades muttering under their breath about abuses of power, but feel ineffectual to enact real reform.
Then one bright day, a fruit stand merchant, or a cattle rancher—to name two recent examples—makes a stand.
And the reaction is immediate and powerful, with outraged citizen rallying around the cause.
The central power then either lacks sufficient will or sufficient strength to accomplish their goal. Usually, the idea of resistance is so foreign to their conception of reality that it’s difficult for them to even contemplate the grievances on the other side.
But they know bad publicity when they see it; and the rather weak shoulders of the typical bureaucrat then take over.
They start to worry about CYA; covering their own assets.
They worry about their pension, they worry about whether the politicos in charge of policy will hang them out to dry; they worry about what the neighbors will think. And they worry about seeing their name in the newspapers.
While Obama and Reid and Pelosi are immune from consequences and criticism, the rank-and-file $300 a day bureaucrat is the first to have to fall on his sword if things go wrong.
An oppressive bureaucracy needs a ton of paper pushers like these, even some armed with guns, to keep the oppressive scheme going.
As we are seeing at the IRS, where illegal campaign activity as well as political targeting of conservatives has been well documented, these wee people, with small jobs and mini-fiefdoms typically operate in the anonymity of a sea of federal gray-area.
And they like it that way.
At the IRS, the SEC, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department, the Park Service and an ad nauseam list of federal agencies, anonymous people, make anonymous decisions in the domestic war of terror that the federal government uses to keep us all in line.
So the key in these situations is not to shout “Down with Obama” in front of the White House, but rather to go after the paper pushers who crave the anonymous power that comes with being a federal bureaucrat these days.
These are the enablers, these are the ones with sufficient knowledge but often with insufficient moral fiber, to stand up and say what really happened under Lois Lerner at the IRS.
These are the ones at Health and Human Services who know exactly what happened with the $300 million dollars spent on the Obamacare website that still doesn’t work.
These are the ones who know what the green energy loan program was all about.
And we should be talking to these people.
Citizens should be targeting these people, asking them to stand up and do their real job, which is to serve and protect the citizens who pay their salaries.
There are snivelers and tyrants amongst the bureaucrats who enjoy the fresh air and bright sunshine that anonymity gives them. We should make it rain on them, hard.
There are patriots amongst the bureaucrats too, and they must know from us that we will protect them, encourage them and reward them.
We have to make it make it clear to the bureaucrats that there are only two sides in the war the federal government is waging upon the rest of us.
There is the right and there is the wrong.
And it’s no longer sufficient to say you’re just following orders.
Orders from whom? I want to know; from whom?
Yes...
I think there will be enough.
no charge.
Then the busloads we are shipping back south could very easily make a detour to this location to
And of course the corrupt lame stream media will not report this.
Thanks Elsie. Now I can post the funny pics and make people spew on their keyboards too...: )
Here is this one man with one grazing lease who has a few local supporters plus out of state oathkeepers and other militias who have showed up armed to the teeth and itching for a firefight with the agency biologists.
Where is the Nevada Cattlemens Association? Where are the other grazing lease holders. Where are his lawyers?
Laws are like truths and facts. There are a billion and one facts in this world, and a million and one truths. You get judged on which facts you choose to look at, which truths you choose to dwell on, and which laws you choose to enforce.
P. your post needs a thread of it own with all the additional pictures of lack of “management” we can find!
What are they doing behind those desks?
They must stand before their neighbors and answer for their crimes.
The most egregious criminals must be hung.
For a limited time we offer Amnesty for all who have not carried arms or directly stolen the proceeds of the people.
You must confess your crimes and you must rat out your peers and superiors.
Or we will release you to the mobs. Like Kadaffi, they may rape you to death. They're pretty angry.
Yes until we actually close down some of these rogue agencies and get rid of the roaches that work there we will never solve the problem.
Here’s the first headline I would like to read:
ANOMOUS DONOR PAYS BUNDY RANCH FINES AND ALL LAWSUITS AGAINST BUNDY ET AL HAVE BEEN REDACTED.
Here’s the second headline I would like to read:
SENATOR REID HAS CORONARY ON SENATE FLOOR WHEN HE LEARNED THAT THE ANOMOUS DONOR FOR THE BUNDY FAMILY WAS THE KOCH BROTHERS.
Wouldn’t that be sweet justice?
I can feel the heat from that.
Not exactly what I had in mind.
That is why elections alone cannot correct/fix what ails these United States.
This is also the guy who was on the audio recording that Santilli released, saying, "Your Constitutions aren't decided on the dirt... you can fight that argument from jail." Santilli warned him that if people got hurt, they were going to hold him (BLM Special Agent Daniel P. Love) personally accountable. Santilli told him he needed to uphold his oath to the Constitution, and that if he didn't there were going to be some law enforcement in jail. Love replied, "Yeah, don't do that. That's not gonna end well for ya. That doesn't happen. And again, I've seen your numbers right now. You'd better hope 10,000 show up."
BLM has pulled information about Dan Love off their website.
But it would work.
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