Crooked Lines In The Sand

I'm just wondering, were they a well-regulated militia? Cause if not, the terrorist thugs out in Nevada are in violation of the Second Amendment. But wait- Cliven Bundy doesn't recognize the United States government so, what could the 2A mean to him?

Sheesh, what a mess out there. Bundy spends twenty years fighting a government he evidently couldn't pick out of a line up and, tired of losing in court, he puts out a call to the brave militia men of their state. Those fellas brought their wives and children. What did your family do on their Spring break?

It was an odd line to draw in the sand. Bundy doesn't believe he should pay the nominal fee for grazing his cattle on Federal land so, for years he has refused to pay. Thousands of other cattlemen do but, he don't. His argument has evolved over 20 years but often includes that it's public land so, why should he pay?

Well, because that's the deal. The land in question belongs to all of us in the "we the people" sense that Bundy doesn't recognize. That doesn't mean that we can all graze our cattle over there. That would be crowded and silly. There's got to be a little order about these things. Permission should be sought. And if "no" is the answer, that should be accepted. I'm not sure how some people see that as repressive or unfair.

Periodically, roughly every 4 to 8 years, Americans hate and fear BIG GUBMINT. It really depends on whether there is a democrat or a republican in The White House. Gubmint never actually changes size. It does not expand or contract depending upon whether there is a D or an R in charge. People just think that it does because republicans who do get a chance to shrink gubmint every 4 years never actually try to do this until they are out of The White House. That sounds dumb but, that's politics. It's a business. Politicians and their parties make a lot of money on what they intend to do. Their supporters give them money in hopes of getting things done. This is why Roe v. Wade will never be overturned. Fighting it is a perpetual money maker for the GOP. Why kill the Golden Goose?

Bundy has been losing his fight versus the faceless gubmint for a couple of decades. Surely he was losing in, say- 2006. Why didn't he call in the militia then? Well, we had GW Bush then. Small gubmint that he was, Bundy must have recognized him and not been too upset at the process of American justice then. He was still losing but, he was a better loser during the Bush years.

Really now, lets be honest: Fussing with the government was not a republican thing to do between 2000 and 2008. Government, small and efficient as it was that brief period was too busy defending us from Saddam Hussein at the time for anybody to be angry at them. It wasn't until the other Hussein was elected president that gubmint got fat and sassy and thus, problematic again.

Yep. It's because of the black democrat in The White House. It's just political timing. The Bundy undies have been in a bunch for twenty years now but it's a big deal now because the GOP has seemingly bought into the anti-gubmint sentiment as an avenue to The White House in '16.

Huh? What are they going to do if they get there- shut it down? And shut it down for good this time? Make term limits "zero" and go back home to covet their neighbors lawns. Is this what the founding fathers had in mind? I don't think so. We're getting mixed messages from the GOP these days. We're used to that. They want to "take the country back". I think they want to take it back in time. Usually it seems they want to go back to the 1950's (but without labor unions) and other times it seems like 1900 (before labor unions) but, this week at least, it's 1870. Cattlemen v. Sodbusters. Whatever it takes to get a new sheriff in town, I reckon.