Posted on 04/16/2014 11:05:04 AM PDT by ponygirl
New images of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy’s tense standoff with the Federal Bureau of Land Mangement (BLM) on Saturday afternoon reveal how the armed agency’s military operation configured to forcefully engage Bundy cowboys and their supporters who sought to liberate federally confiscated cattle over the weekend.
These exclusive images were taken by a GMN photographer positioned right above the action on the Southbound side of Interstate 15 near Bunkerville, Nevada.
Despite the BLM being instructed to leave the Bundy Ranch and Gold Butte area earlier that morning, the agency still insisted had a legal right to be there and that it would not let go of hundreds of cows it had already taken away from the Bundy Family. Critics are asking if that ‘legal right’ also includes stationing a federal military force in Bunkerville.
Prior to this standoff, the special agent in charge of BLM’s ground operations, Daniel P. Love, had issued a warning that any one who crosses the federal line in order to free the seized cattle – will be arrested. Love went on boasting his agency’s advantage over Bundy supporters when saying, “I’ve seen your numbers right now, you’d better hope that 10,000 show up.”
It turns out that protesters needed far less numbers to overcome Love’s federal army. In the end, a Bundy’s contingent of 150 cowboys on horseback and a few hundred of peaceful supporters – backed by a well-organised volunteer militia, all together, proceed to march past the BLM’s line of demarcation to the entrance of cattle holding area, prompting the platoon of armed federal tactical teams to stand down and fall back.
This is the first collection in a three part series, showing the federal government’s military build-up to Saturday’s climax under US Interstate 15…
(Excerpt) Read more at 21stcenturywire.com ...
Look at the fecal matter they have been fed from the time the Clintons were in office, through the tender ministries of outfits like the SPLC. Caucasian, Bible-believing, Second Amendment supporting, complain about taxes, the size of government, government policy, overreach, or abandonment of the Constitution by those sworn to uphold it, and you have been or could be branded a likely "domestic terrorist".
All this while blatant acts of jihad are deemed "workplace violence".
You find yourself dealing with the cult-like insular government communities who think they have the only solution and the only facts, and that solution involves violence.
If you look at how something like that would evolve, how the 'us vs them' mentality can be steered to demonize the wrong people and justify everything from oppression to outright war against the people, it isn't hard to see how any encapsulated totalitarian culture evolved to think that thuglike actions were necessary to preserve themselves.
We have a broader perspective, we aren't self-isolated into a community echo chamber like the Fed Agencies and even LEOs are, but they are exporting the 'us vs them' mentality to take root in the people when those tactics are used against us.
Considering this is happening under an administration which views the Constitution as an impediment to be gotten around, rather than a strict set of legal constraints, the lawlessness of the administration will only escalate the reaction of those who are aware of what is going on.
General media control (black out the bad, spin the rest) has emboldened those who would be totalitarians, and they have withdrawn to regroup and figure out how to maintain and tighten that stranglehold on information, because now they see where the word getting out could be a direct threat.
That is one beautiful kitteh. I can’t get over the face. That is one puddy you don’t want to mess with.
Thank you for posting him on this Zot.
Hi Sarge. I see that Ursula and her friends are in fine fettle.
Feast away!
You’re most welcome, dear. It’s one of my favorite ZOT graphics.
Wonder where Mr Love learned his tactics? He might as well have set up a defensive position at the bottom of an elevator shaft....
Mr Love might as well have set up a defensive position at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
I should come off this ping list.
Do it and see what happens.
Damn straight, you leftist weenie. I know you hate that the Bundy's backed the Federal Juggernaut down, but do you also hate the Second Amendment too?
Oh, by the way, I’m glad you’re dead.
So the information clampdown is in progress. I'm surprised they waited this long, though some people have been having problems for a couple of days.
Just so you know...I had problems with you-tube videos “sound” wouldn’t play, the bar wasn’t even there to adjust.. but video ran anyway. Am wondering if it’s something bugging you-tube?
I am a cottage gardener from scratch and can tell you that nothing reverts to what it was before, ever. Things adapt and change, ever so slightly over the years, but if you took the cattle away now, what would come back would be different. Just as good, but different. There is no status quo.
But all of that is beside the point. Bundy is what, the last of 59 cattle ranches the Feds have forced out of existence, many of the ranches going back four and five generations! They have done the same with commercial fisheries on the coasts.
And they are the same with energy producers, coal, gas, oil. Barbaric people live in their own filth, so third world countries are polluted and vile. The civilized West cleans up after itself, so we have (or had) thriving agricultural and fishing industries, with regulation that was in pursuit of common sense respect for the resource. But any regulation that seeks to reach a status quo in nature is a very bad destructive regulation because it is trying to preserve dust in the wind.
Nature will overtake everything, yes. In Florida it only takes about three weeks!!! {^) But "the same as it was" 140 years ago? For one thing, you have no way of knowing, and for another, hardly! It doesn't matter anyway, suffice it to say that take livestock out of the picture, it will look different than it does now. But to assume it will "revert" to what it was 140 years ago is bonkers.
Holy cow! This guy had a FETISH for Bundy (anti) .... wow O.o
Yes. Did you read his history? Whew! Definitely on the side of the fascists.
He appeared to be more of a plant.. he was pushing 2 opposite views (through his posts)..
On one hand, he was pushing for a Libertarian... on the other hand, he was coming across supporting the Feds... very awkward (and persistent there :p)
Pretending to be libertarians is just a cover for the trolls.
Libertarians are supposed to be “all right” and “conservative in most things,” but
the trolls are so eager to infiltrate FR that they drop their cover and buy a ZOT.
We’ve seen it many times over. They’re too impatient to bide their time, the fake
persona drops, and it’s Viking Kitty time for them. They’re just not smart enough
to accomplish their goals here. And there are far too many intelligent and savvy
true Conservatives here to let them slide for long.
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