You may have seen some things about this on Jon Stewart or FOX News, but you want to take a look at this article, from the Times.
I know, it's from that East Coast
Elitist rag, but no one is claiming they are misquoting Freedom-Loving Rancher
and purported champion of Civil Disobedience Cliven Bundy when he held
forth on “The Negro”:
“They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
You know Cliven, when y’all keep saying things like that while you’re waving guns around, people are going to start
to think you’re downright unreasonable.
Of course, according to him, Bundy is just a Patriot doing the Lord's work. A confusing kind of patriot, in that he Really Really Loves America while simultaneously denying the authority of the Federal government over Federal land. Go into the comment thread and banner ads of that article at your own risk. Personal fave from my first glance: "What would you rather eat... Beef or Solar Panels?" Yup. Just keep raising the bar of discourse, guys.
Speaking of beef, lest you think I’m only
unhappy with the right wing racist nutjobs out there, I've also got a beef with
a quote in that Times article from Rob Mrowka from the Center of Biological Diversity:
“This should not be confused with civil disobedience. This is outright anarchy going on here.”
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