Posted on 04/26/2014 2:32:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Like everyone else, Gavin McInnes has weighed in on Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's observations on "the Negro". Mr McInnes concludes:
This isn't about some old guy's views on slavery. It's about government control. We're not saying Bundy is the messiah and we accept him as our personal savior. We're saying the government is wrong.
Let's stipulate that Cliven Bundy is a racist. Let's also assume, if only to save time, that he's Islamophobic, homophobic and transphobic. So what? Does that make criticizing the Bureau of Land Management "racist" or "homophobic"?
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Does that make criticizing the Bureau of Land Management “racist” or “homophobic”?
Indeed but the GOP will still chase their tail.
Mark Steyn dittos. Like him almost as much as Rush. The man hits the nail on the head every time. How people can sit back and watch their individual freedoms being taken away and not say a word is beyond me. But then again, our choices at the ballot box these days are pretty slimy.
The overreach of the Federal Government is far from limited to some rangeland in the boonies, and the armies enabling, enforcing, and collecting the money to pay for these most universal and destructive of Federal programs vastly outnumber the 200 BLM JBTs sent to put the Bundys out of business.
Steyn ping.
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As has been pointed out in the first news of this devastating situation, the desert tortoise is endangered by the presence of cattle. Yet, for a very large sum of money to the government, a cattle raiser can use the land and to hell with the tortoise. So, it’s obviously NOT ABOUT THE TORTOISE.
These lines from Steyn are extremely important:
“No one -Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Franco -had devised a form of totalitarianism appealing enough to seduce (Anglo-nations). Now they have. As the Bundy example illustrates, a free people will cheerfully abandon bedrock principles like equality before the law if state power is being used to torment a racist or a homophobe or someone whose very presence offends against the citizenry’s sense of its own virtue.”
Till you neuter the “racist” word you will have no conservative movement of any heft, no matter how much you grovel or weep.
The grazing fees, measured in a monthly fee per cow/calf unit, are very, very cheap. Much cheaper than what it costs to graze on private land.
There are a huge number of these grazing leases thru-out the western states and in total, the cow/calf economy is huge and a substantial benefit to the western states.
And if you add up the congressional delegations from all these states, they have enough power in Congress to prevent Congress from raising the grazing fees.
Let’s also assume, if only to save time, that he’s Islamophobic, homophobic and transphobic.
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Is that the same as Trashphobic ?
Drudge posted the unedited version of Bundy’s rant. It appears that the Times cherrypicked it to make it appear far worse than it was. Why isn’t this being reported as much as the original story?
"the purpose of the federal bureaucracy's "grazing fee" was never to provide a fair-market value for the cost to taxpayers of permitting grazing on public land but simply to drive those cattle off the land, and their owners out of the ranching business. As a form of coercion, it worked. But it is not a "law" that should command any respect."
An unaccountable, radical left agency controls more land than "France, Germany, and Italy" combined.
Congress didn't raise the fees. Congress must pass positive laws to counter Obama's ministers. That isn't going to happen in Obama's senate.
Events such as these are not supposed to happen in our constitutional republic.
"As the Bundy example illustrates, a free people will cheerfully abandon bedrock principles like equality before the law if state power is being used to torment a racist or a homophobe or someone whose very presence offends against the citizenry's sense of its own virtue." P>And so pre-Nazi era as well.
Nobody is reading what was written about what Bundy said. They are watching/listening to the videotaped interviews and to the actual words that came out of his mouth.
If a white man calls someone a Negro, he is a racist, even though we still have the NAACP.
If a white man calls someone a ni##er, he is a racist, even though it is OK for them to use that word when talking to another.
If a white man calls someone a black man, he is a racist and is told he should use the term African American.
Next, if a white man calls someone an African American, he will be told he should use the term American of African decent.
Bottom line, the white man will always be called a racist, because it always puts him on the defensive in any argument and he can’t win in a politically correct world.
Do you think senators, Orrin Hatch, Mike Lee, Harry Reid, Diane Feinstein, or any other member of congress from these western states are going to vote to raise the grazing fee?
As always Steyn has it exactly right....particularly the last paragraph
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