Pierce writes: "It was a giant mistake for the federal government to let racist freeloader Cliven Bundy and his gun-toting comrades off lightly for an act of genuine sedition. This was obvious from the moment it happened, but it has become increasingly obvious as time has gone by."
Cliven Bundy stand off. (photo: Reuters)
How Cliven Bundy Changed Our National Politics
17 December 15
Things are wild, unhinged, and violent.
t was a giant mistake for the federal government to let racist freeloader Cliven Bundy and his gun-toting comrades off lightly for an act of genuine sedition. This was obvious from the moment it happened, but it has become increasingly obvious as time has gone by. It has become plain that the Bundy "stand-off" has helped let loose fully upon the country and its politics a strain of wildness that was only barely contained since the power axis of movement conservatism moved south and west from the backyard of the Buckley manse in Connecticut. You can see this in everything from the barely disguised racist refusal to treat the president's election as legitimate, to the hysterical paranoid salesmanship of the NRA, to the stubborn popularity on the stump of He, Trump. And, on its home ground, it's become even worse.
The source told agents that Barbeau � who claims on his Facebook page to be an ex-U.S. Marine � spoke frequently about how "the federal government was not abiding by the principles set forth in the Constitution and that many public servants, such as judges and police officers who had sworn to uphold it, had deviated from their oath of office," according to court documents. Barbeau told the source it was his duty to educate errant public servants and "discussed 'lynching' those he deemed unworthy if necessary," according to a complaint filed under seal Dec. 2. Barbeau and others discussed that they would "physically remove" an unidentified California judge presiding over a misdemeanor-weapons charge Barbeau was facing in that state�Barbeau, on his Facebook page, claims he was a member of the security detail for the family of renegade right-wing rancher Cliven Bundy during a standoff with federal agents at Bundy's ranch in Nevada over grazing fees.
At least they caught this guy before he could kill people the way Bundy acolytes Jerad and Amanda Miller did in Las Vegas. He, Trump is demonstrating to the polite face of the Republican Party what the end result of decades spent playing footsie with an unhinged base can be. Too many conservative Republican politicians�and conservative celebrity media mavens�have worked the spicier end of the Hofstadter buffet with people like Schuyler Barbeau and the Millers. God help us all if somebody like them shows Sean Hannity, or former CNN contributor Dana Loesch, what the end result of that can be.
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Are WE willing to live more simply or to give anything back to the natural world?
You can run lights and A/C on wind or solar energy.
You can charge your car battery w/ wind or solar.
How do you figure we are going to fly a 767 from Los Angeles
to Wellington, NZ or Sydney AUS on solar or wind power.
A better plan would be to use the precious petroleum for uses that cannot be met by solar or wind.
Fracking and refining does not need to be dangerous. EPA has made efforts the past 30 years to rein in the petrochemical industry pollution and safety lapses.
But then the majority of the House of Representatives and the Senate listen to the spinning lobbyists and vote down the bills that would require common sense in before industry embarasses themselves and disgusts the public. It is important for the public to continually drop post cards to their Reps. and Sens. reminding them that public health and the commonweal come before a few guys trying to get rich quick at the expense of the public commons and the public health and welfare.
Without the extra gas and petroleum that reckless behavior gains us in the long term, we can walk a few blocks and wear a sweater to keep warm. This will also make the petroleum resources that we have last longer and be available for the high energy density needs like airliners.
I wonder if Halliburton was involved?!