Originally Posted by MS Fowler

Balance is always the key....
To my Conservative friends, don't allow your fear of the government to overlook Bundy's failures to follow the law. we claim we are a nation of laws, and he failed to abide by them. There are ways to change bad laws, and they take time, but as long as there is a law that requires payment of a fee, he needed to obey that law. At the very least , he could have paid the disputed fees into an escrow account, and avoided looking like a cheap-skate.

To my Liberal/Progressive friends, don't allow your distaste for Bundy and his gun-totting friends to cause you to overlook the real evil of a government that attacks its citizens with overt military force. What is most suspicious to many is the same government refuses to use the same force against other law-breakers---notably those who, against the laws of this country, enter illegally, or to use that military force to save the lives of US citizens and the Ambassador at the Benghazi attack. Combine that use or misuse use of force with the known ability of the government to lie, and you have a government that makes its citizens fear. That is tyranny.