BLM blinks in their range war

nw30 · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 10:17 pm Post subject:

Well then crank up the choppers, and position the snipers!
Lock and load!

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

That is exactly the thing the government didn't do.
The fake press is crowing about "winning"as a result.
It is also characterizing the gov. as doing just that.
So is NW.
Fairy tale much more satisfying than real life. Like with the seatbelt lady.

mac · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 12:30 am Post subject:

When challenged, Bard can come up with an even more unreliable source than Nit wit. Directly from the bubble, no facts required: http://www.infowars.com/breaking-sen-harry-reid-behind-blm-land-grab-of-bundy-ranch/

That critical thinking thing keeps escaping you.

MalibuGuru · Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9300

No wonder beef prices have been sky rocketing.

uwindsurf · Joined: 18 Aug 2012 Posts: 968 Location: Classified

mac · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:59 am Post subject:

Lest we forget what the right is doing, Dan Hicks identified it many years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZXzifzsDHg

mac · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 11:27 am Post subject:

To counteract the rampant paranoia of the Nit Wit, it is helpful to look back at Ruby Ridge and Waco, and ask who was president? It was, of course, Bush during Ruby Ridge and Clinton during Waco. The New Yorker published a very interesting article about Koresh and the siege earlier this year that stimulates thinking as well as controversy: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/31/140331fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

The thesis, for those too closed-minded to possibly read an article from such a "liberal" rag is that the government was unable to understand or communicate with the religious mind-set of those in the Koresh camp. It makes interesting reading, as do the more recent letters to the editor in this new issue.

Two things are striking in the way in which NW raised the issue and Bard piled on. First, this doesn't fit the standard attack piece on Obama--his approach is fundamentally different than the authoritarian approach of Bush and Clinton when challenged. So the right has to identify Reid as the culprit. Of course this has to ignore the fact that the planning for uses of BLM land started in 2003--during the Bush administration. So the right, again, ignores all the inconvenient facts to make up their own.

Second, the problem with likening this to the Koresh siege is that you don't have to agree with the government's response to think that there was a huge issue. Koresh was taking as "brides", and marrying off to others in his cult, girls under the age of consent. That is statutory rape in Texas, and most other states. The question that requires some thinking there is that what do we do, as a society, when there is a conflict between our values of protecting religious freedom, and protecting minors from abuse by adults?

To be sure, all of these issues escape attention by Nit Wit and the Bard because they weren't in the e-mails that ginned them up in the first place. Critical thinking, particularly on the right, has been a casualty of the culture wars started by Karl Rove.

nw30 · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 12:39 pm Post subject:

Then you liked the way those other two debacles turned out?
Critical thinking mackyboy.

MalibuGuru · Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9300