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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 10:47 AM Aug 2014

Cliven Bundy: Divine Inspiration Has Told Me To Disarm The Feds

BAIZA GARCIA Published AUGUST 7, 2014, 10:34 AM EDT

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy said during a radio interview on Wednesday that God has told him that the federal government needs to be disarmed.

Bundy appeared on Salt Lake City radio station KUER and elaborated on comments he made recently at a meeting of the Independent American Party in St. George, Utah.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Bundy said he still feels strongly about the need for sheriffs throughout the nation to take away weapons from federal law enforcement, and he said he believes God has told him as much.

"I have no idea what God wants done, but he did inspire me to have the sheriffs across the United States take away these weapons, disarm these bureaucracies, and he also gave me a little inspiration on what would happen if they didn’t do that," Bundy said, according to the Tribune. "It was indicated that 'this is our chance, America, to straighten this problem up. If we don’t solve this problem this way, we will face these same guns in a civil war.'"

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Cliven Bundy: Divine Inspiration Has Told Me To Disarm The Feds (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2014 OP
Clive's reasoning packman Aug 2014 #1
I remain curious... gcomeau Aug 2014 #2
Says America's own al-Baghdadi type... Amonester Aug 2014 #3
MR Bundy mercuryblues Aug 2014 #4
So, it's my chance to take $1 million in taxpayer's money for myself? sinkingfeeling Aug 2014 #5
Go ahead and try it old man bigdarryl Aug 2014 #6
he has no intention of risking his skin.. frylock Aug 2014 #7
Well then DAMN IT, Cliven ... you've been told, now go and disarm them! 11 Bravo Aug 2014 #8
Another 'sovereign citizen' idiot with zero understanding of this nation's laws. Ikonoklast Aug 2014 #9
This guy is back kwolf68 Aug 2014 #10
Yeah, that'll end well... Wounded Bear Aug 2014 #11
 

packman

(16,296 posts)
1. Clive's reasoning
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 11:00 AM
Aug 2014

You'll have your gun, your nutty buddies will have theirs, but have to take the authorities guns away because, hell, they might shoot back at you. "Civil War" needs explaining, who is going to fight whom?


"If we don’t solve this problem this way, we will face these same guns in a civil war.'"
 

gcomeau

(5,764 posts)
2. I remain curious...
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 11:39 AM
Aug 2014

...if there's anyone who can offer compelling justification why we should take the claim that God exists seriously and treat that belief with respect... but then not take this seriously as a result.

I mean if you're going to believe an inscrutable all powerful supernatural entity that actually gives a crap about human affairs and periodically involves itself in them exists, and that it's mind is so far beyond yours you can never possibly fully understand it's motivations or reasoning... then what justification exists for dismissing a claim that said entity actually communicated this message to Bundy?

Amonester

(11,541 posts)
3. Says America's own al-Baghdadi type...
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 11:44 AM
Aug 2014

When is he going to self-appoint as the new Christian Caliphate?

mercuryblues

(14,543 posts)
4. MR Bundy
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 11:44 AM
Aug 2014

God told me you should take your gun, shove it up your you know where and pull the trigger. God loves you so much he wants you to join him ASAP.

Why couldn't God just make the Feds weapons disappear, if that is what he really wanted?

frylock

(34,825 posts)
7. he has no intention of risking his skin..
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 02:12 PM
Aug 2014

he'll rely upon his disciples, like those tweekers at the Walmart in LV.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
8. Well then DAMN IT, Cliven ... you've been told, now go and disarm them!
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 03:11 PM
Aug 2014

And if your "cold dead hands" get cold and dead a little earlier than you might have hoped, well ... shit happens.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
9. Another 'sovereign citizen' idiot with zero understanding of this nation's laws.
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 04:30 PM
Aug 2014

Every time they speak, dumb flows out of their pieholes.

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