So what you're saying is that Cliven Bundy made these statements in order to provide leftist and the media (that's somewhat redundant, isn't it?) with a distraction to take attention away from the government abuses that he's protesting against?
Do I have that right?
What a silly question! Of course that is not what I said! Why would Bundy make those statements knowingly to distract the public away from his cause? Clearly, Bundy has not won his case - but he's standing firm in his fight - and God love him, you've got to admire his resolve if nothing else. He thinks he is in the right and he's not backing down - he's a stubborn old coot!
Luis, I know that you have posted much information that pertains to this Bundy case, and I thank you for it - you have gone over and above in providing legal and historical data that shows - clearly, I think - that Bundy is on the losing side of the legality of this. But, what I have taken from this whole story is an enlightenment of how the Federal Government is seemingly going out of the way to thwart ranchers, farmers and other individuals in trying to maintain family businesses that have been operated for generations. People that are not doing any harm, that are producing products that are beneficial to the American people and to our economy. The problem just seems to be getting worse and worse - as your avatar so vividly portrays with the frog in the pot - things are starting to boil over!
If nothing else, I appreciate that Bundy brought this to our attention. It is eye-opening and especially to those of us living in the east - I was shocked to see the map of just how much land the BLM controls. I think it was this Bundy incident that brought it into the spotlight and the reports of armed snipers, attack dogs - the killing of cattle rather than auctioning them off to recoup some of those delinquent fees.....a lot of us are scratching our heads and thinking "What the hell, can't they just put a lien on his property?"
What the hell indeed. And NOW, of course it has been revealed to us that Bundy is, besides being a domestic terrorist - he is a RACIST!
Personally, I don't think he is an evil man. I think he got caught up in being a media celebrity and got caught thinking out loud. I don't agree with what he said, but I do think that too many people (and especially urban blacks) are virtually enslaved by a progressive government that has dangled freebies at the cost of dignity - and doubling down on it more every day!
There's a lot of people getting damn sick and tired of it too. It nauseates me to see us fight among ourselves because the media is demonizing an old man that is standing up to the gov't the only way he knows how. When the media says, "jump" - we say, "how high"? How high must we jump to prove to you that we are not racist - how high do we jump to make you love US? When the media sets the trap, the Bundy's of the world spring it and get caught in the trap - while the rest of us run out to try to get the cheese before we scurry back into our mouseholes. It's pitiful how we let THEM define us!