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Originally Posted by cmbdiesel
They have been waiting for years to see the cattle taken off the disputed lands...
Bundy was not decreasing the size of the herd.
That's why BLM came for the cattle.
Then Bundy escalated the issue into an armed resistance of the implementation of the court order.
I don't think anyone holds the opinion that things couldn't have been handled better, but slamming BLM for their reaction to armed resistance without acknowledging that a very large part of the responsibility lies with Bundy is not a well reasoned position.
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I don't know of anybody who believes that Bundy is the good guy.
If you choose to read what most reasonable people have written that superficially appears to support Bundy, you might trouble yourself to note that very few actually do. Instead, most of the ire is directed (rightly, IMO) at the extremely dangerous federal over-reaction.
As Jorn has previously argued, this has been going on for many years concerning the War on Drugs fiasco. I completely agree with him.
You and I may not be drug runners or over-grazers of cattle. What are the chances you and I have never violated federal law? Think it would be unreasonable for the IRS to show up at your home with a squad of heavily armed agents to enforce the law?
If wet let the gov do it to the least of us eventually they will do it to us.
04-21-2014, 07:21 PM
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