let's do an update on the bundy ranch Louis it is insane what is going on with
the Clive in bundy
Nevada ranch situation to kinda update you
on the situation the background a bit is that Clive in bundy is this nevada
rancher
cattle rancher who's been shirking his grazing fee responsibilities since 1993
he has not paid
the the grazing fees that he is responsible for for more than 20 years
now finally the BL and the Bureau of Land Management has attempted to try to
%uh enforce the back that he needs to pay these fees
and it did not go well they showed up all of a sudden militia type started
defending Clive in bundy they showed up with sniper rifles
they threatened violence and it has become an insane situation where the BL
and
has actually backed off at this point and it's not clear
how if and how I believe they will if and how they will enforce
his responsibility so Harry Reid
senator from Nevada came out and he said that the protesters the militias
are domestic terrorists of course this created an insane backlash where
I Nevada Republican defended Clive in bundy
and said it is immigrants to this country who are the terrorists
this is unbelievable state assembly member Michelle
fee or republican from nevada said I'm not saying I agree with Clive in bundy
I'm saying the way this was handled was really suspicious when the heck do we
send our federal government with arms to collect the bill
when do we do that when have we ever done that I mean literally
if we send our love our federal government to the borders to secure them
against terrorists crossing
hey I got that but they want to come here with arms because cows are grazing
on the one hand Harry Reid saying the protesters are terrorists on the other
hand
a Nevada Republican taking the opportunity to call immigrants to this
country
terrorist Fox News & other conservative media
are championing the supporters there even a
encouraging them in some cases to use violence if they need to to defend
themselves
here's the bottom line: Clive in bundy is a gun-toting tax evader
and the American right is rallying around him
that's the broader trend and this fixation if we step back
with opting out of parts of the law that you don't agree with is becoming really
popular on the right look at hobby lobby for example
other religious businesses they think they should for religious reasons
be able to opt out of the park to the Affordable Care Act that they
don't agree with but lots of people with regard to taxes including Clive in bunny
in this case with these grazing fees hey
he hasn't paid the grazing fees for more than 20 years but Lewis he wants to opt
out of that part of the law
right a it's funny that on
corporate media we're not really hearing from gun-toting Republican ranchers
who do pay their grazing bees I who might even have more cattle in the sky
I really like to hear their point of view on this stuff on this entire matter
it is a fair criticism to disagree with the structure
%uh the BL and I've gotten a lot of emails and David you're ignoring the
fact that the BLM was not created under the best of circumstances
that's all fine but to support
this unilateral malicious style
opposition with guns right at the end of the barrel of a gun to not pay grazing
fees
how can anyone in there in there right mind support that
and I agree the BLM shouldn't have allowed this to go twenty one years
right that the that there were eight significant mistakes in the
implementation above the law and fees by BLM
but how can we ignore that and say etc live in bundy taking up arms and his
militia type group hanging out there
it is pathetic it is embarrassing and the American right
is cheerleading a gun-toting tax evader that's the bottom line
right and corporate media is not helping and there's just a lot of misinformation
here
I wonder how many of those militiamen that are out there
sittin around sniper rifles actually know all the details the
up this situation I'm sure that they would know talking points often
disconnected from the reality is in the context of the situation they could
probably state
some those are no doubt
everyone's got the talking points down David that easy all right let's take a
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