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The Bundys and the Irony of American Vigilantism
The armed men in Harney County, belong to a long-simmering Western populist movement that has never accepted limits on the private exploitation of public lands.
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Just peaceful patriots, right? Guys like the anti-fed Bundy's who suck at the fed's teet with subsidized grazing and stealing the electricity and road access the feds have provided and buildings they have built. All the while forgetting to bring much food and so tweeting out requests for people to send them food through the fed subsidized USPS. What a bunch of idiots.
Peaceful patriots like Jon Ritzheimer who was discharged from the US Army because of his distasteful tattoos, sells shirts and stickers that say "Fuck Islam", posts videos of him shooting the Koran, was expelled from the Oath Keepers militia due to his views, organizes open carry marches outside of mosques and is on the FBI terrorist watch list.
He also really hates Anderson Cooper for some unknown reason. Is it because he is gay or part of the Illuminati? Maybe both.
The Hammonds, (the impetus for the "protest") who own 12,000 acres of land but want to use other lands for free and who set a 140 acre forest fire to cover up their crimes of poaching, do not even want to be associated with these nuts.
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