Saturday, an estimated
1,000 armed Americans stood with rancher Cliven Bundy and his family, outgunning
a “team” of, we assume, Park Rangers sent to Nevada by the U. S. Bureau of Land
Management to threaten Bundy and his family with quasi-military action over
something to do with an endangered tortoise, vaguely cited as why the Bureau
had seized 400 head of the rancher’s free-ranging cattle and planned on
rounding up 600 more. For a couple of
decades now, Bundy has refused to pay a monthly fee postured as having a non-specific, unsubstantiated connection with saving the poor imperiled critter.
One liberal news organ
reported that the Americans were “heavily armed”. Another showed a photo of a guy carrying an
AR-15. One guy. One AR-15. A head and shoulders shot so you couldn't see what anyone else was toting, if in plain sight.
Anyway, the rangers
surrendered, citing grave concern for “public” safety, and the rancher got his
steers back. Afterwards, an
environmental spokesperson said his group will sue unless federal land managers
do something next, but we couldn’t figure out quite what.
Best guess is, next time
it’ll be 10,000 armed Americans, depending on what’s up, maybe 100,000 if something like Obamacare gets to feeling stuffed down our throats like that by the commie fascists running Washington today.
