What a slimy bigot. This self-satisfied "patriot" grazing his cattle on OUR land without paying fees, drives past crowded open-doored homes and judges folks whose circumstances he knows NOTHING about. Clive is no patriot. He is a free-loading criminal.
From David Marlin Rains:
"Iconic RW Patriot. Do love the part on "they're living off government subsidies." LOL Dude hasn't paid his Land Management fees in 16 years while selling his grazed cattle for profit. Called 'make your own government subsidies,' I guess. "
From Steve Marmel's Facebook:
You may find this surprising, but Cliven Bundy has some particularly horrible things to say about race.
Via Steve Marmel <-- click to like page.
- Cliven Bundy, Patriot, on "The Negro"
New York Times, 4/24
I knew it. I just knew it.
To every one of you who defended him - now is the time for you to go "oops!" Start deleting those "Cliven Bundy, hero" posts because...
...AS WE'VE BEEN SAYING...
...He's everything we knew him to be.
Moocher? Yep. Deadbeat? You bet. Domestic Terrorist? Uh huh. And now you can add bigot to the pile.
So today is going to be a day of people back-pedaling - hell, Rand Paul's office is already "unavailable for comment."
Today they're going to try to make #BundyRanch about the issue, about how it's bigger than one man.
NOPE.
Today is going to be a day of pointing out - the man and the issue are inexorably linked. That little thing inside your head that said it felt a little bit like the Klan marshaling an army? You weren't wrong.
Your hero is terrible, "patriots." He always was. So today, as you have a sad face over him revealing who we knew he was all long...
...As you desperately go digging through your timelines and your twitter feed to delete those words of praise about what a great American this guy is...
...I have no sympathy for you.
You chose this monster. You picked him. You wrapped him in the flag and in doing so, soiled it.
Apologize. Turn your back on this creep.
And next time, do better.
- Steve
From the NY Times:
A Defiant Rancher Savors the Audience That Rallied to His Side
BUNKERVILLE, Nev. — Cliven Bundy stood by the Virgin River up the road from the armed checkpoint at the driveway of his ranch, signing autographs and posing for pictures. For 55 minutes, Mr. Bundy held forth to a clutch of supporters about his views on the troubled state of America — the overreaching federal government, the harassment of Western ranchers, the societal upheaval caused by abortion, even musing about whether slavery was so bad.
Most of all, Mr. Bundy, 67, who was wearing a broad-brimmed white cowboy hat against the hot afternoon sun, recounted the success of “we the people” — gesturing to the 50 supporters, some armed with handguns and rifles, standing in a semicircle before him — at chasing away Bureau of Land Management rangers who, acting on a court order, tried to confiscate 500 cattle owned by Mr. Bundy, who has been illegally grazing his herd on public land since 1993.
“They don’t have the guts enough to try to start that again for a few years,” Mr. Bundy said in an interview.
Mr. Bundy’s standoff with federal rangers — propelled into the national spotlight in part by steady coverage by Fox News — has highlighted sharp divisions over the power of the federal government and the rights of landowners in places like this desert stretch of Nevada, where resentment of Washington and its sprawling ownership of Western land has long run deep.
His cause has won support from Senator Rand Paul, the libertarian Republican from Kentucky who is likely to run for president. Senator Dean Heller, a Nevada Republican, referred to Mr. Bundy’s supporters as “patriots.” Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is the Senate majority leader and has a long history of pushing for protection of public lands, denounced the rancher’s supporters as “domestic terrorists.”
The dispute spilled over this week into Texas, where Greg Abbott, the attorney general and a Republican running for governor, challenged the Bureau of Land Management on reports that it was looking to claim thousands of acres along the Red River.
For now, Mr. Bundy appears to have won, forcing the government to back down after its rangers were met with armed Bundy supporters this month.
“The gather is now over,” said Craig Leff, a deputy assistant director with the Bureau of Land Management. “Our focus is pursuing this matter administratively and judicially.”
His sympathizers include dozens of militia members, many carrying weapons. Credit Jim Urquhart/Reuters
But if the federal government has moved on, Mr. Bundy — a father of 14 and a registered Republican — has not.
He said he would continue holding a daily news conference; on Saturday, it drew one reporter and one photographer, so Mr. Bundy used the time to officiate at what was in effect a town meeting with supporters, discussing, in a long, loping discourse, the prevalence of abortion, the abuses of welfare and his views on race.
“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.
“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “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.”
A spokesman for Mr. Paul, informed of Mr. Bundy’s remarks, said the senator was not available for immediate comment. Chandler Smith, a spokesman for Mr. Heller, said that the senator “completely disagrees with Mr. Bundy’s appalling and racist statements, and condemns them in the most strenuous way.” A spokeswoman for Mr. Abbott, Laura Bean, said that the letter he wrote “was regarding a dispute in Texas and is in no way related to the dispute in Nevada`.”
Paula Graves I saw this post this morning. How can people keep reading articles like this about him and still support him? It just makes me so sad that people still think this way.
Betty Smith Franklin Jesus.
Raymond Atkins Every time the RWNJs find a new hero, he or she talks and spoils the whole thing. Which leads me to my million-dollar idea. Gags.
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