"The Cowboys vs. Lyin' Harry
and the BLMdians"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
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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Copyright Sunday, April 27, 2014 - All Rights
Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, April 23, 2013
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NOTE: We wrote this
article before Cliven Bundy opened his mouth and injected race into the
dialogue. Bundy said a lot of other good things, that included the racial
comments, but the racial comments over shadowed the other things he said.
Not because he wasn't right, but because the other side, including the
media, will pounce on anything that appears racial and immediately change
the narrative, especially if the racial comments come from a white man.
The main issue of the following article was the spirit of the west personified
by the cowboy, as contrasted against the ever-growing federal police
state. We stand by that contrast.
"I won't be wronged, I won't be
insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other
people, and I require the same from them."
John Wayne, from 'The Shootist'
"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks
like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb,
mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you
neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."
Clint Eastwood, from 'The Outlaw Jose
Wales'
Probably one of the meanest, most
cantankerous and unpredictable domesticated critters that
exists, is an open range cow. They will scatter, they will bolt,
they will stampede and they will charge, without provocation. There
is only one other critter mean enough that can herd 'em, rope 'em and brand
'em and that is an experienced cowboy on an experienced horse. You might
be able to herd cattle with a helicopter or a quad, but you sure can't rope and
brand 'em. There is no way that a helicopter can cut out
a cull, or chase a stray into the tumble weed, or rope the
stray and bring it back to the herd. Helicopters can't mend fences,
or challenge the elements but they sure can stir up a lot of dust.
Becoming an experienced cowboy is a
life of a long train of hard lessons and hard knocks. Scrapes,
bruises, bloody noses, saddle sores, deep cuts, fights and broken bones are
part of those knocks. With the possibility of being
thrown from a horse, ripped up by a cactus, or gored by a bull, only
the tough ones measure up to the challenges and obstacles. Do you think
for one minute that a lyin' Harry Reid or a bunch of city-bred federal officers
are going to detour them when their mind is made up to get something
done?
Sure, the federal government has the
firepower to blow a bunch of cowboys to Hell and back, but if they did,
they risk some serious bad press and the very real possibility of an all out
revolution. As we said in our last article
on the subject, "Millions of Americans Are
Just Itching To Lock and Load", but maybe government
doesn't know it. If the lead starts flyin' and men start dyin', it won't
all be cowboys crumpled in the dust, there will be a bunch of BLMdians
layin' on the battlefield as well. That tragically, would be a
treasonous act where government pits Americans against Americans.
Lyin' Harry comes out and calls these
brave Americans, men, women and children, lawbreakers and domestic
terrorists. The fact is, lyin' Harry is a dangerous, corrupt,
pontificating old fool. The little pip squeak is drunk on his
own power. He could care less about the law. And his son is an apple
that dropped straight down from the tree. Wasn't it lyin'
Harry that illegally gave $17,000 to his daughter from his campaign
funds? Isn't his son using his dad's influence to cut deals with the
Chinese and God knows what else? So why isn't Harry locked up behind bars,
or expelled or recalled from the Senate?
Yes Cliven Bundy is in violation of
the law. That is clear. But the government's way of settling the
issue with Bundy was what a dictator does. A dictator sends in
an overwhelming force of fully armed storm troopers ..... or is it the
American government's version of the Nazi's SS? Unfortunately, the
American federal government has morphed into enforcement of law by military
intimidation, in other words, enforcement by the threat of death. It is a
potentially dangerous trend that is playing out all over America and if allowed
to continue, will send America straight into the jaws of civil war or
revolution.
The Bundy event is not an isolated
case. U. S. Fish and Wild Life, in collusion with the Bureau of Land
Management and in violation of law and long-settled, undisputed grazing and
water rights, are terrorizing ranchers and farmers in every state, in
the name of radical environmentalism and endangered species.
Wayne Hage, also a Nevada rancher and now his son, have been fighting the
U. S. Government for almost 20 years over grazing and water rights in a similar
situation of the government illegally rounding up his cattle and selling them at
auction. The Hage's have won a $14,000,000 settlement in lower courts
but haven't seen a dime of it as the government files appeal after
appeal. The legal fight rages on with the outcome in doubt for rancher
Wayne Hage.
In an article by John Fund of the
National Review entitled "The United States of SWAT",
John highlights some other examples of this emerging trend:
"Take the case of
Kenneth Wright of Stockton, Calif., who was "visited" by a SWAT team from the
U.S. Department of Education in June 2011. Agents battered down the door of his
home at 6 a.m., dragged him outside in his boxer shorts, and handcuffed him as
they put his three children (ages 3, 7, and 11) in a police car for two hours
while they searched his home. The raid was allegedly intended to uncover
information on Wright’s estranged wife, Michelle, who hadn’t been living with
him and was suspected of college financial-aid fraud."
"The year before the raid on Wright, a SWAT team from the Food
and Drug Administration raided the farm of Dan Allgyer of Lancaster, Pa. His
crime was shipping unpasteurized milk across state lines to a cooperative of
young women with children in Washington, D.C., called Grass Fed on the Hill. Raw
milk can be sold in Pennsylvania, but it is illegal to transport it across state
lines. The raid forced Allgyer to close down his business."
"Brian Walsh, a senior legal analyst with the Heritage Foundation, says it is inexplicable why so many federal agencies need to be battle-ready: "If these agencies occasionally have a legitimate need for force to execute a warrant, they should be required to call a real law-enforcement agency, one that has a better sense of perspective. The FBI, for example, can draw upon its vast experience to determine whether there is an actual need for a dozen SWAT agents."
"Brian Walsh, a senior legal analyst with the Heritage Foundation, says it is inexplicable why so many federal agencies need to be battle-ready: "If these agencies occasionally have a legitimate need for force to execute a warrant, they should be required to call a real law-enforcement agency, one that has a better sense of perspective. The FBI, for example, can draw upon its vast experience to determine whether there is an actual need for a dozen SWAT agents."
So who called the shots for the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to send in this overwhelming force to intimidate
what lyin' Harry calls a domestic terrorist and says doesn't pay his
fees and his taxes? (Hmmm! Wasn't it this same
lyin' Harry that fabricated the lie that Mitt Romney didn't pay his taxes, or
that all the horror stories coming out of Obama Care were lies as
well.) It was a close confident of lyin' Harry who
now directs the BLM that ordered over 200 SWAT agents and snipers to surround
the Bundy ranch. Harry's hands are all over this, but why?
What does lyin' Harry (or his son) gain by
driving Bundy off of his land, or throwing him in jail? Because
ladies and gentlemen, Harry can and most likely because Harry or
some of his associates want that piece of desert, which rancher Cliven
Bundy and his family have owned since the 1870's. This whole sordid
event reeks of government corruption and racketeering.
Once again, the federal government
has under estimated the American people, a heavily armed population that
will take IT for just so long, before they directly challenge a government
that has ever-so-slowly become isolated from the people they are supposed to
serve and instead have become an enemy of the people. But especially the
federal government has under estimated the spirit of the American west where
most obstacles were just a bump in the road for the hardened
cowboy.
Ladies and gentlemen, America is not
Europe, Russia, China, or some third world country. It was born out of
freedom and the epic struggle to secure that freedom. America was
created on the wings of adversity. It has slain tyrants,
kings and dictators. Americans conquered a continent and tamed the
wilderness. The true heart of America is strength. It is
honor. It is courage. It is generosity. It is
creativity. It is industriousness. It is hard work and it is
self-reliance and individual responsibility. Contrary to popular
belief, what America is not is a bunch of slovenly takers who feed off a
government-run pig trough that is kept full by the hard work and toil
of America's producers, stolen by government. Yes, the takers live
among us, but they do not represent what is the real America.
Most of the American people aren't
about to let freedom die for a lyin' Harry Reid or the BLMdians, or any
other form of intimidation by force or threat of death that government decides
to inflict upon them. Many Americans say: " ... when
things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get
mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and
you give up, then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is
...." and that is the American spirit of the West, personified by
the cowboy. Government under estimates that spirit at their own
peril. When necessary, some Americans won't lose their heads and
they can get real mean and they don't intend to lose, give up, or die in
the process. The true American spirit
is epitomized in the words of John Wayne in The Shootist:
"I won't be
wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do
these things to other people, and I require the same from
them."
Government, at all levels, we admonish you to move forward with
extreme caution and beware the spirit of the American cowboy, or take the chance
of triggering an all-powerful backlash of "we the people" that you will not be
able to control. The call of liberty is echoing across the land and it
will not be silenced no matter how many SWAT teams you
deploy.
Long live a free America and long
live the spirit of the cowboy that will keep her free if called upon when a
lyin' Harry or the BLMdians raise their ugly heads.
Let it be known that in this article,
we mean no disrespect to the American Indian.
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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