Why The Feds Chickened Out On A Nevada Ranch

Kevin McCullough | Apr 13, 2014

Let me obliterate a bit of confusion here: the Obama administration attempted to go to war with a rancher in Nevada. Let me amplify a little bit of truth: They tucked tail and have returned home. And let me add a bit of clarity: they had no choice!

As the nation began to become familiar with the plight of the family of Cliven Bundy, many of us harkened back to another standoff in which the Federal government attempted to bully it's outcome: Waco, Texas and the Branch Davidian massacre.

It is telling that in the Nevada case the feds pulled out so quickly, given all they had indicated they were willing to do to resolve the matter to their satisfaction. They had set up a perimeter around the Bundy's family land, ranch, and home. They had brought in extra artillery, dogs, and snipers. They were beginning the process of stealing more than 300 head of cattle that did not belong to them.

They did so--or so we were told--for the reason of protecting the desert tortoise. But then it was revealed that the Bureau of Land Management had shot far more desert tortoises than the Bundy cattle had even possibly destroyed. We were told they did it because the Bundys had broken federal laws by not paying what amounted to retroactive grazing fees to the federal government. But the Governor of the state of Nevada told us that Bundy had paid every ounce of state tax, met the state requirements, and their family had been improving the property more than 100 years previous.

Finally we were allowed to know the connection between a communist Chinese wind/solar power plant and its connection to that senator named Harry Reid. Evidently a plan had been hatched to use the Bundy property for a solar farm and instead of paying the Bundys, someone, somewhere in the administration believed it was easier to just take what they wanted.

That approach is at least consistent with the readily documented abuse of eminent domain where the government for any number of reasons--few of them valid--have taken to taking what doesn't belong to them. Americans then watch as it gets handed over to some multi-national corporation for the "cause" of the "greater good."

There were a few specific reasons why the feds chickened out in the Nevada desert though.

1. Technology - As the Bundy family members were abused, cameras captured it. Not television network cameras, but dozens of cell phone video devices that gave witness to a Bundy aunt being shoved to the ground, and a Bundy son being tazed. All of this while threatening protestors with dogs, brandished weapons and vehicles was captured, uploaded and made viral to the watching world.

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Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #2

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The sheriff says they're planning a raid on the Bundy's home now: http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/sheriff-feds-...-raid-on-ranch/

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The executive director of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association says his sources inside the federal government warn that Washington’s weekend retreat in a dispute over grazing land in Nevada was only a move to distract attention and diffuse tensions, because a raid on the family’s ranch still is planned.

And there probably would be violence involved, said Richard Mack, the former sheriff of Grisham County, Ariz.

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I suspected their exit was a rope-a-dope move.

Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #2

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The sheriff says they're planning a raid on the Bundy's home now: http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/sheriff-feds-...-raid-on-ranch/

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@Rev

Thanks for posting this video. I realize this is just one battle and that the feds will not let this intransigence go unpunished.

None the less it is great that infowars had a reporter on ground to record this beautiful moment.

Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #9

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Anyone on here a fan of Solzenitsyn like me? We all know how he reported of the truth about the Gulag, truth Liberals denied for years. Did you know that he reported there were rebellions in the camps? They, of course, received no press attention but they really did happen.

At one of the camps the rebellion was extremely successful, so successful the zeks (prisoners) took over the place and the Soviet authorities were forced to negotiate with them. The Soviets (curse them) requested time in which assess zek demands and see if an amicable solution could be reached. What the lying bastards really wanted was time to move tanks, infantry units, and other heavy equipment into the area, which they did. The rebellion was crushed mercilessly.

I expect much the same subterfuge and dishonesty from the government of Barack Obama

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The Gulag Archipelago reminded me of raw footage I saw of US troops liberating the camps after WWII. The dark side of human nature on full display.