"Millions of Americans Are
Just Itching To Lock And
Load"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
A Weekly Column By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
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"When a 'forest fire' is lit,
there is no telling which way it will go. It depends on the 'wind', the
'fuel load' and the 'humidity'. The 'wind' is about to blow real hard, the
"fuel load" is huge and the humidity is dropping rapidly. It just takes the right 'match', a
lightning strike, or spontaneous combustion. The question is, what (or
who) will set it off? Could it be Obama Care, illegal
aliens getting amnesty, Cap and Trade, the one-world-order, radical
environmentalism, the brainwashing of our kids, trashing the Constitution by
politicians, or a confrontation with a maverick rancher in
Nevada? Was Jefferson right?
Does a society need a revolution every hundred years? Messy,
but could it be necessary if freedom is to be defended and
maintained?" Ron Ewart
For now, the dust is
settling, the crowds are dispersing and the hot passion of open revolt is slowly
waning, as the warm winds of the coming summer begin to blow across
the Nevada desert and the cows come home to their range, released to their owner
by a government that turned tail and ran when the wild American spirit of
the west raised its head in righteous anger. Whether Nevada rancher
Cliven Bundy was right or wrong under the law, they came by thousands, loaded
for bear, to confront what they considered to be a government gone mad with
power.
Here is one such account, allegedly
by a Los Angeles attorney who tried to get there:
"I rolled into Laughlin really early,
like 5:30 am. So many people had shown up, that we decided to leave in
groups. A second group to leave at 8 AM as scheduled. Ours was a big
group too. About two dozen cars, loaded with
passengers."
"The highway was almost empty until near Mesquite. Then it was a traffic jam. Motor homes, campers, ATVs running along side the freeway, motorcycles, vehicles, everything you could possibly imagine. Everyone on their way to Bunkersville. Then it about stopped, just inching along. Word traveled down the traffic line that the feds had blocked the road just out of Mesquite and were searching vehicles for weapons and cell phones. Cell phones were confiscated and smashed. The people were given a chit for $30.00 redemption value. I left my phone at home. Some of us that had four wheel drives decided to just leave the road and head overland. As we got closer to the ridge, we were stopped by armed militia. We could not go any further. We could wait, or turn around and go back to the road. Men, that I suspect were special forces, had climbed the ridge from the back side and captured the snipers. They were at that moment coming down the ridge to take them to Mesquite where they would be let go. They weren't prisoners, they were just going to be replaced by friendlies."
"Because of the roadblock on I-15, people refused to be searched, and refused to turn back. They just pulled off the road and parked. It was like a dam backing up a river. Soon the feds were trapped between the Americans who had already gotten through, and the Americans that had been stopped on the highway. The BLM agents went into full panic mode and called for help. LVPD which had REFUSED to show up to help Americans HAD to show up to rescue BLM that was now trapped and helpless. The blockade was SEVEN MILES LONG! That's a pot load of people."
"A group of armed Americans along with local cowboys went to Mesquite to liberate the cows that had been confiscated and held by BLM. They were being driven back home in an old fashioned cattle drive. The feds say it was voluntary, don't believe it."
"I was basically standing around twiddling my thumbs when the word came down that the Director of BLM had surrendered and all forces would be withdrawn. I could not go on. The road was blocked and would be blocked probably for the rest of the day at least. A bunch of us turned around and left. It was over. There were THOUSANDS of people there, and more arriving every minute. The ranch, Gold Butte, the entire area was completely surrounded by Americans. The highway was completely blocked in both directions of people trying to get through. Everyone was very peaceful and friendly. No fights or anything. There was a rumor in the line, that some of the mercenaries hired by the feds had defected and were now on the side of the Americans."
"I came back and immediately saw this pack of lies and half truths in the news media."
"At one point, I-15 was closed in both directions, about seven miles south of Mesquite, because protesters had blocked the freeway. Nearly two-dozen police officers and a SWAT unit were at the scene to keep the peace and assist the BLM enforcement officers to safely leave the area. We could tell that they were visibly scared!"
"The highway was almost empty until near Mesquite. Then it was a traffic jam. Motor homes, campers, ATVs running along side the freeway, motorcycles, vehicles, everything you could possibly imagine. Everyone on their way to Bunkersville. Then it about stopped, just inching along. Word traveled down the traffic line that the feds had blocked the road just out of Mesquite and were searching vehicles for weapons and cell phones. Cell phones were confiscated and smashed. The people were given a chit for $30.00 redemption value. I left my phone at home. Some of us that had four wheel drives decided to just leave the road and head overland. As we got closer to the ridge, we were stopped by armed militia. We could not go any further. We could wait, or turn around and go back to the road. Men, that I suspect were special forces, had climbed the ridge from the back side and captured the snipers. They were at that moment coming down the ridge to take them to Mesquite where they would be let go. They weren't prisoners, they were just going to be replaced by friendlies."
"Because of the roadblock on I-15, people refused to be searched, and refused to turn back. They just pulled off the road and parked. It was like a dam backing up a river. Soon the feds were trapped between the Americans who had already gotten through, and the Americans that had been stopped on the highway. The BLM agents went into full panic mode and called for help. LVPD which had REFUSED to show up to help Americans HAD to show up to rescue BLM that was now trapped and helpless. The blockade was SEVEN MILES LONG! That's a pot load of people."
"A group of armed Americans along with local cowboys went to Mesquite to liberate the cows that had been confiscated and held by BLM. They were being driven back home in an old fashioned cattle drive. The feds say it was voluntary, don't believe it."
"I was basically standing around twiddling my thumbs when the word came down that the Director of BLM had surrendered and all forces would be withdrawn. I could not go on. The road was blocked and would be blocked probably for the rest of the day at least. A bunch of us turned around and left. It was over. There were THOUSANDS of people there, and more arriving every minute. The ranch, Gold Butte, the entire area was completely surrounded by Americans. The highway was completely blocked in both directions of people trying to get through. Everyone was very peaceful and friendly. No fights or anything. There was a rumor in the line, that some of the mercenaries hired by the feds had defected and were now on the side of the Americans."
"I came back and immediately saw this pack of lies and half truths in the news media."
"At one point, I-15 was closed in both directions, about seven miles south of Mesquite, because protesters had blocked the freeway. Nearly two-dozen police officers and a SWAT unit were at the scene to keep the peace and assist the BLM enforcement officers to safely leave the area. We could tell that they were visibly scared!"
We have no reason to doubt this
account but we cannot independently verify it. Nevertheless,
you won't see this part of the story on the news.
The question remains, why would
thousands of Americans come to the aid of a grizzled, range-weary old
rancher who had come to grief with a federal bureaucracy known as the Bureau of
Land Management? Why would they purposely put themselves in harms way with
a federal government that had no compunction of shooting down the wife of Randy
Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho and besiege a compound full of men, women
and children with an army tank at Waco, Texas and set them ablaze.
When these Americans came to the desert on behalf of rancher Cliven Bundy,
did they know that other Americans would out number the heavily armed
government agents by 4 to 1, thus making a shooting war much less likely?
Did they know that the event would be covered by Fox News and ratcheted up
to an international story? Did they naively think that these government
agents wouldn't shoot back if provoked by the crowd? Did they realize that
they could have died right there on the desert, leaving loved ones and siblings
grieving all over the Western United States? What brought these people to
the Nevada desert to fight a fight that wasn't theirs, a fight that could have
ended in a blood bath? Or maybe they thought that the fight was
theirs.
What brought these Americans to
the desert was a match struck for freedom. What brought them to the desert
was a man who, right or wrong, stood up against tyranny with a straight back and
an iron will. What brought them to the desert was a principle
"that men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable
rights, that among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness." What brought them to the desert was
"that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to
these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to
institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its power in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness." Ladies and gentlemen,
these Americans were willing to sacrifice their lives on these fundamental
principles. How absolutely refreshing, but what is even more
refreshing is that in the face of true Americans, the government showed their
backsides and ran. It isn't the first time these bureaucratic
cowards shrank into the shadows when real Americans stood their
ground.
Cliven Bundy started a forest fire
with one match. He ignited the flame of freedom in the hearts and minds of
millions of Americans, some of whom decided to put their money and their lives
where their mouths were. They voted with their feet in positive action and
some of them were willing to vote with their guns if it became
necessary. They rose up and the government backed down. It is not an
unfamiliar scene. It happened with the Klamath Bucket Brigade and the
Jarbidge Shovel Brigade, both in the wild and woolly west of
America. This time the Nevada Mounted Rifle Brigade sent the
FEDS packing. We have even witnessed government backing
down locally as well, when the people rose up in large numbers.
The people have power if they will only choose to exercise it with
courage.
Yes, there are millions of Americans
itching to lock and load. We hear from them almost daily. But
why? Because government and especially the federal government, has pushed,
abused, harassed, cajoled and intimidated too many people for far too long
and the hair on the backs of the necks of some Americans itching for a fight, is
rising. The outcome in Clark County, Nevada was fully predictable to
anyone with any knowledge of the true American spirit ..... let freedom ring, or
we will punctuate our strongly held beliefs of liberty with guns.
Why did the government back down? Because they were surrounded by a
superior force where a fight could have ignited a much wider, but politically
devastating war with the potential of the dead bodies of American men and
women pasted all over the news.
And it's not just the BLM, it is the
entire federal bureaucracy. It is the Department of the Treasury and the
EPA and the NSA and the IRS and the FDA and the FCC and the FTC and the FBI and
the INS and the USDA and the DOE and Social Security and the HHS and the DHS and
the Department of Education, all literally drunk on the addiction
of federal power. It is the Executive branch and the Legislative
branch and the Judicial branch that have lost all allegiance to the Supreme Law
of the Land, that blueprint for freedom, the U. S. Constitution. Is it any
wonder that Americans came to the Nevada desert to challenge an
out-of-control government head-on and call their bluff?
Is the standoff at the Bundy ranch
over? Not likely. This is just the beginning in a battle
of power between East vs. West, North vs. South, rich vs. poor,
rural vs. city, black vs. white and liberal vs. conservative, in a fight
that will pit Americans against Americans in what appears to be a
hopelessly divided nation.
Good God ladies and gentlemen, we
pray that cooler heads will prevail. We truly and sincerely don't
want it come to violence and hopefully, this race to the precipice by some
brave Americans in Nevada will force government to halt the direction they are
heading before America, once again, sets on the unknown and unpredictable
path to civil war, or revolution. It is coming whether we like it
or not because "... the 'wind' is about to blow real hard, the
"fuel load" is huge and the humidity is dropping rapidly. It just takes the right 'match', a
lightning strike, or spontaneous combustion" to start a fire that
will be nigh near impossible to put out ..... when freedom cries out for
retribution. Did Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy strike that match, or did the
socialist president Barack Hussein Obama beat him to it? We will
see!
Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property issues and author of his weekly column,
"In Defense of
Rural America",
is the President of the National Association of Rural Landowners, (NARLO)
(http://www.narlo.org) a non-profit corporation headquartered in
Washington State, an advocate and consultant for urban and rural
landowners. He can be reached for
comment at info@narlo.org.
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