Daniel - Does the government's thumb reach too far? Hell yes it does! But for God's sake - choose your battles. Choose the people you want to stick up for wisely! I assure you I have quite a few issues with the feds but we don't need a bunch of rednecks and idiots playing patriot for us!
So who should play patriot for us? The Clintons? Harry Reid?
Look around, JB. Since the 1930's, ever since Roosevelt, "rednecks" as you call them, have been fighting the system. If it were not for those "rednecks" you would be paying as much for steak as you pay for those candles.
I would no more risk my dog's life for one of those idiots! If I'm not mistaken - Your boy Amon Bundy doesn't have a problem with taking money from the US Government - I know he got over $500, 000 from the Feds for his business. I guess he picks and chooses which parts of the federal government he has a problem with....
He got about $230,000 in subsidies. That's chicken shit. Bundy ran over 300,000 cattle on over 600,000 acres of his own land, plus the BLM grazing land. That's less than $1 per cow. Look on EWG.org and you'll see farmers in the Shenandoah Valley collecting over $1M on operations under 600 acres and less than 600 cows.
I'm not defending the man for taking subsidies. These government programs cost the tax payers a LOT of money each year. Plenty of Netflix documentaries on this. But the amount of money the Bundy's took is chicken shit in comparison.
The asshole grabs a gun, leaves his wife and 6 children and goes off and trashes property that you and I payed for all the while enjoying his half-million dollar federal loan!
Sound familiar?
But again, I'm not defending him or anyone else on how they did things. Never have. But why are you and I paying for this land? So we can save some fucking weed that grows there? Because of some turtle or frog? Look at all the land "we are paying for".
Why? How?
Government seizure - Madison and Greene county is FULL of families displaced by the SNP. Should they grab their guns and camo, drive up to Big Levels and Old Rag and "occupy" it?
You may want to check your history book there, JB. These families DID occupy this land. They did grab their guns and set fire to the forest.
Maybe they could trash it as well? Morris, Shifflett, Utz, Smith, Colvin, Nicholson, Corbin, Weakley. All of those families had their shit taken.
Don't forget the Gibson, Shiflet, Shifflet, Hammer, Via, Crawford, Campbell, Dean, or Mace's.
But hell - if ANYONE should be grabbing guns and occupying public land it should be Native Americans! Lakota, Cheyenne, Pueblo, Sioux - they don't have shit! I'm guessing there isn't many Cheyenne families who had 600,000 acres for their cattle. Pooooor Bundy familly - they've suffered so much!
American-Indian War? Or, wars.....
Lavoy? This "interview" just about sums up this man's mental state of being...
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Take in all in context.
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