The Bundy Ranch standoff was evidence of something deeply unmoored

[phantom power]

I don't care how loudly ISIS claims credit, they can't have this guy.

The arrest affidavit states that detectives were able to match fingerprints on the envelopes to Klinkel, who has an extensive, multi-state criminal history. Inside the envelope, there was a piece of loose-leaf notebook paper, and when the JCC staff started to unfold the letter, "she noticed more powder and the word 'ENEMIES.'" The affidavit states that the letter included the sentence, "This Goyim is enjoying the blood of her enemies for Passover."

Brother Klinkel had an interesting answer for the cops when they booked his felonious ass.

When advised of his Miranda Rights, the affidavit states, "Klinkel also advised me that he was a Sovereign Citizen and that these rights did not pertain to him."

I don't think he has the hang of this whole "inalienable rights" thing, yet.

There's a wildness in the land that is being drowned out by the boogedy-boogedy of the people who want the country scared of outside threats. The Bundy Ranch standoff was evidence of something deeply unmoored that is drifting further out of control. In a decade or so, it's going to seem amazing that we let those events occur the way they did.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34984/something-that-isnt-about-isis/

[KittyWampus]

1. Well there are several areas where far-right squatters are doing exactly what Bundy does...

State by state, the Far Right is stripping women of their reproductive rights, people of color are losing their right to vote and now they are literally taking over Federal lands.


http://www.npr.org/2015/04/14/399397139/year-after-denying-federal-control-bundy-still-runs-his-bit-of-nevada

Indeed, the BLM has pretty much stopped managing or patrolling a vast, southeastern corner of the state — centered in the Gold Butte region — because of safety concerns.

The standoff, and now a year of silence from the BLM and the region's U.S. Attorney, has reinvigorated what's often called the "sovereign citizen movement" on Western lands. One of its goals is for states and local sheriffs to take over management of federal public lands; this year, nearly a dozen legislatures in Western states have considered bills that seek to transfer ownership of federal lands to the states.

Nevada's bill, sponsored by Republican state Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore, has some momentum behind it. Speaking on a show she hosts on a Las Vegas conservative news talk station, Fiore said the effort was about getting "our land back in the hands of the people, where it belongs."

The bulk of the state of Nevada is federal land open to various public uses — but the government's management of it, in this state where distrust of Washington, D.C., runs deep, long has been controversial.

Near the Bundy ranch in southern Nevada, homemade signs like this are a testament to the fact that the BLM has completely pulled out of the area in the year since the armed standoff over cattle grazing.
Kirk Siegler/NPR

[phantom power]

2. Nothing energizes a gang of bullies like giving in to them.

I keep hearing that one of these days the Feds are going to Do Something About Bundy. It's been a year. I wonder how long they plan to let him and his gang of conservative thugs play Local Warlord.

[CanonRay]

6. The Justice Department has an allergy against enforcing laws against right wing terrorists

ever since Waco. They are afraid of a repeat, so they just let it pass.

[dawg]

3. There is an arrogance with these right-wingers that can only be cured by ...

putting them in their place. The more you attempt to accommodate them, the more they hate you.

[phantom power]

4. I don't think I'll ever understand how you can do this to federal officials:

And not have the law come down on you immediately, like a fucking ton of bricks, much less go free indefinitely while you continue to give all federal authority a giant middle finger and throw "freedom parties."

[Ned Flanders]

5. But the good guys get arrested for taking photos of cops.... (n/m)

[calimary]

11. Welcome to DU, Ned Flanders!

Glad you're here! Ironic, isn't it! That cliven bundy sniper photo just bothers the hell outta me. Bunch of hoodlums. AND thugs. Now THAT'S a thug. For real.

[RT Atlanta]

7. they were white

There'd have been freakin' Blackhawks and Tanks if those 'protesters' were of any descent other than caucasian.

The justice dept set a bad precedent by not jumping on that mofo with the gun, along with the rest of his 'illegals' (there, we can use that term on those bastards as well), and enforcing the law (That cloven was trespassing had to be forcibly removed if necessary).

[heaven05]

10. that's it in a nutshell

The federales should have stomped a mud hole in their asses.

[tennstar]

8. Easy

Have white skin

[tblue37]

9. And don't forget, two of the Bundy gang then went on to execute two cops in a Vegas pizza

restaurant, as well as another man in a nearby Walmart when he drew a gun on the man, not realizing the woman was also one of the bad guys with a gun.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. It's the old Cold War paradigm of thinking "Left=Bad Guys/Right=Good Guys".