"The FEDS Are Determined to Bury the
Bundy Movement"
from "In Defense of
Rural America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural Landowners (www.narlo.org)
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues for over 10
years
©
Copyright Sunday, February 28,
The following article
was published on Newswithviews, February 24, 2016
This article is also
available on our website at:
"In
Paris, I found myself surrounded by Germans; they were all over the place. They
played music, and people would go and listen to them! All along rue de Rivoli,
as far as you could see from place de la Concorde, there were enormous swastika
banners five or six floors high. I just thought, this is impossible. Imagine
that someone comes into your home—someone you don’t like—he settles down, gives
orders: ‘Here we are, we’re at home now; you must obey.’ To me that was
unbearable."
― Pearl Witherington Cornioley, Code Name
Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent
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The French found themselves occupied by German forces that
spawned the French Resistance. Many of those in the Resistance paid with their
lives in fighting a guerilla war against the Nazis. They would have lost that
war, to a man, had the U. S. not stepped in to defeat Germany and Italy in World
War II.
Now, many farmers and ranchers in America are discovering
that there is someone they don’t like settling down in their "home" and giving
orders they must obey. That this event would spawn a resistance, especially in
the West, was not too hard to predict. This semi-silent resistance, starting
with the Sage Rebellion in the 1970’s, culminated in an armed standoff at the
Bundy Ranch in Southeastern Nevada on April 12, 2014 where at least 400
civilians, some of them armed, confronted around 200 heavily armed Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) agents over rancher, Cliven Bundy, continuing to graze his
cattle on federal land without paying the fees and in violation of two court
orders.
The Nevada standoff, which resulted in an unexpected BLM
stand down, was the kindling and the spark that lighted a fire for further open
resistance against rising government intransigence in the management of federal
lands that spilled over onto adjoining private ranch lands and the century-old
tradition of raising cattle in America.
When Steven and Dwight Hammond, Oregon ranchers, were accused
of arson and sent to jail for five years on trumped up terrorist charges by the
BLM, another spark hit the tinder dry desert that resulted in the armed takeover
of the Malheur National Wildlife Reserve in Oregon by none other than Cliven
Bundy’s two sons, Ammon and Ryan Bundy. The two sons were accompanied by a
couple of dozen other armed militia and ranchers that had had enough of BLM
bullies and decided to punctuate their displeasure with the display of guns in
an open challenge to the FEDS.
One of those ranchers was Lavoy Finicum who was gunned down
by law enforcement at a roadblock on a rural Oregon highway. Some say Finicum
was murdered to silence him because of his open defiance of government on his
own ranch. The rest of the Bundy crew that occupied the Malheur Wildlife
Preserve have been arrested and charged with multiple federal violations. They
are now in jail facing trial.
When Cliven Bundy flew to Portland to be with his two sons
who were in jail from the Malheur Wildlife Preserve standoff, the FBI arrested
Cliven at the Portland Airport and charged him with multiple federal violations
connected with the armed standoff in Nevada in April 2014. Why they waited so
long to arrest Bundy has yet to be disclosed by the FBI.
All of the Bundy men are now in jail. A Federal judge has
ordered the Bundy’s to be extradited to Nevada to face 16 federal charges in
connection with the 2014 event. This will be on top of the charges brought
against the younger Bundy’s and others from the Oregon event. Cliven Bundy was
denied bail by an Oregon federal judge, stating that the elder Bundy was a
flight risk.
U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden expectedly
said, "Persons who use force and violence against federal law enforcement
officers who are enforcing court orders, and nearly causing catastrophic loss of
life or injury to others, will be brought to justice."
The Bundy’s and the other participants in the Oregon standoff,
will no doubt go to jail for a very long time.
We will set aside for the moment that
what the Bundy’s did in either event was a direct violation of law and court
orders. Nevertheless, what most can’t seem to grasp, except maybe rural
landowners, is that the Bundy-led events in Nevada and then in Oregon, are
bigger than the sum of those events. They were and are a totally predictable
equal and opposite reaction to the rise of government tyranny, driven and
motivated by national and international radical environmentalism, ala Agenda 21.
The name "Bundy" has become synonymous with an almost totally Western mindset
that epitomizes a national resistance movement against environmentally motivated
tyrants.
But the FEDS are determined to silence the Bundy
movement and nip any spot fires from it, in the bud. They will, through the
courts, make an example out of the Bundy’s for all those who might consider
taking on the big bad vicious wolf, known as the federal government. The trials
for these men will be closed to the public. News of the trials and the verdicts
could be buried on page 23, if they appear at all. Or, maybe the opposite will
be true in the FEDS attempts to scare off any would-be Bundy wannabes, you know,
like Waco and Ruby Ridge. The Bundy’s, for all intent and purposes, will be
silent martyrs of an American resistance movement that the FEDS hope will fade
into obscurity.
No, America has not morphed into the German
Third Reich. There are not Socialist Banners hanging on the side of buildings
anywhere in America, or giant images of Obama. The Nazi SS, or storm troopers,
do not occupy the streets of America ….. yet! We fully acknowledge that. But
tyranny comes in many forms and rises at different rates. In Germany, the straw
man was the infallibility of the superior Arian race as perceived by Hitler. All
other races were inferior and it was the mission of the Germans to conquer and
rule over all inferior races, by any means, or kill them outright. And kill them
they did, by the millions. How is this any different than the current batch of
insane Islamic Jihadists?
But today the straw man has become the
infallibility of the environment. It supersedes and takes priority over
unalienable individual rights, by almost any means, including enforcement by the
law and guns. That this environmental infallibility would come in conflict with
individual unalienable rights, especially here in America, was not only not hard
to predict, it was pre-ordained. We now live in worldwide environmental fascism.
The international climate initiatives to limit CO2 to allegedly protect the
planet from MAN-CAUSED GLOBAL
WARMING, that came out
of the Paris Climate Summit last December, is just another tentacle of that
fascism. It is not about the environment ladies and gentlemen. It is about
control of the masses and the transfer of America’s wealth and so is this land
battle raging in the West. How dare we challenge government’s orders and their
vast" wisdom!" Of course, they are never wrong
and they never make mistakes. In a pig’s eye!
Environmentalists, foreign interests, (yes foreign interests) the Indians and government have
conspired together to drive man out of the rural areas of America, in preference
to plants and animals. The following quote is an example of the
environmentalist’s mentality:
"I put animals over peoples feelings ANYDAY. I
would gladly step over a dying human to get to an injured animal. That’s how I
am." - Posted by
AminalTales
The environmentalists, the Indians and the
government, are using the law and Kangaroo courts to accomplish their means.
Constitutional property rights are overridden by judicial decrees. The EPA, by
fiat, is taking over all waters of America and thumbing its nose at Congress and
the U. S. Supreme Court. The EPA has become a fascist power unto itself,
virtually without accountability. Who got fired, or went to jail, in the Gold
Mine spill in Utah? No one! Meanwhile, the Congress appears impotent, or
reluctant, to stop them.
Indians are expanding their ancient treaty
rights well beyond their reservations and are gobbling up more land, water and
resources, with the help of foreign interests, environmentalists and the courts.
Powerful environmental groups lobby congress and sue the government to
accomplish their goals and at the same time reap large profits from court
settlements, paid by taxpayer dollars. Much of what is taking place is described
by an article in the Land and Water USA website at this link:
The article includes a video by attorney Larry
Kogan, describing how the "dirty" work has been and is being done by your
government.
As more of this information sinks into the rural
population, the Bundy Movement will only grow in size and force. No matter what
the government does to the Bundy’s, conflicts between rural landowners and the
government will increase. If the government’s hope was to silence the Bundy
Movement by punitive actions and incarceration, they will be disappointed. The
actions by the Bundy’s, however ill advised, have exposed a government that no
longer preserves, protects and defends the unalienable rights of its citizens
and instead is taking those rights away by force, under the guise of radical
environmentalism, just a different type of fascism.
So the question remains, at the present rate of
the loss of liberty, how long will it be before an American version of the SS
and storm troopers are patrolling our cities, towns, villages and the country
side, as they did in Germany? It won’t be very long, (as we keep
repeating) if "a critical mass of dedicated and courageous Americans
don’t decide to resist government tyranny by acts of civil disobedience on a
grand scale, punctuated by the threat of force if necessary, or by some other effective legal means."
We could turn America around in one or
two presidential election cycles with our three-part "legal plan, provided there
were enough dedicated souls and the funds necessary to implement the plan. It’s
taken the last 5 years to perfect that plan and we could accomplish it with an
organization of much less than a "Critical Mass" ….. and enough money. Like many
patriots who want to see something positive occur in their lifetime, we grow
weary of waiting. It’s long past time to act. If you would like to preview a
brief summary of our plan, click HERE.
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) an advocate and consultant for urban
and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in
Washington State. He can be reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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