The Bundys Are Bumbling Villains In This Western

[struggle4progress]

Gene Lyons
February 24, 2016 5:51 am

... The ignominious end of their occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in remote eastern Oregon should serve as an object lesson to crackpot insurrectionists across the West. No, the public won’t come rushing to your support. Local ranchers wanted nothing to do with the uprising. A bird sanctuary was badly chosen place to make a stand. Put it this way: millions of Americans enjoy hiking, hunting, and bird-watching ...

... any two-bit drug dealer in Baltimore or New York could have told them that you can’t go around pointing guns at Federal agents and start traveling the countryside holding press conferences.

How foolish would you have to be to imagine you could? The Bundy sons vowed a bloody standoff at the Malheur refuge, and then announced a public meeting in the next county 100 miles away. Only one highway links the two places. FBI agents and Oregon state cops set up a roadblock at a remote spot and bagged the lot ...

http://www.nationalmemo.com/the-bundys-are-bumbling-villains-in-this-western/

[malaise]

1. That's beautifully written

Lovely article - off to the greatest page for you

How foolish would you have to be to imagine you could? The Bundy sons vowed a bloody standoff at the Malheur refuge, and then announced a public meeting in the next county 100 miles away. Only one highway links the two places. FBI agents and Oregon state cops set up a roadblock at a remote spot and bagged the lot.

Family patriarch Cliven Bundy next announced his intention to show up in Oregon to support the remaining occupiers. But you can’t take no shooting iron on a commercial airline flight. Secure in the knowledge that he and his posse would be unarmed, agents met him at the gate. They’d been waiting almost two years for the old fool to set himself a trap.

[Johnyawl]

2. I will always believe that the FBI secretly set up that meeting...

...at John Day to lure those fools out of the refuge. Nothing works like appealing to a man's ego. Not only did they bag them on a deserted road, they had them at a disadvantage since they were crowded into the vehicles with little to no room to bring any gun into play. For all that bold talk about bloody stand offs and dying for the cause, the Bundy boys crumpled like a cheap suit as soon as they realized that the feds were serious.

Cliven evidently thought having a Nevada State Assemblywoman in his entourage made him safe. Hahahaha as if the FBI gives a rat's ass about a corrupt local politician.

[malaise]

3. It was comical to watch

idiots trapped by their own egos

[Mendocino]

4. The Gang That Couldn't Think Straight

Maybe we should have an appeal on DU, for all members to give $10, then buy the Bundy ranch and gift it back to the government. Wouldn't that be sweet.

[Coventina]

5. Shakiest Cause in the West

RIP Don Knotts.....

[bemildred]

6. I remember Mr. Lyons. He is worth a read.

Edit for comments:

Bosda, The Raccoon Philosopher

If the Feds had wait a month longer, the Boys From The Bund(y) would have shot one another, or themselves, by accident.
FireBaron

Ever since the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s, there have always been groups of individuals who believe their personal beliefs triumph over the law. That was the first example of federal jurisdiction being recognized in a state. The Bundy fiasco is just the latest.

Bosda, The Raccoon Philosopher

“Groups of individuals”?
Try again.

http://batman-news.com Aaron_of_Portsmouth

The depictions in “Wild Bunch” and “Blazing Saddles” made far more sense than the maniacal mind-set of the “Bundy Gang”.
To say that they are “bumbling villains” is much too kind. The infestation of a rabid, anti-social ideology as expressed in their vapid “anti-government/conspiracists” bile makes them far more dangerous than it would appear on the surface.

http://batman-news.com Aaron_of_Portsmouth

On further reflection, the empty-headedness and “incapacious” mental state of these hapless souls shows the havoc which “conservatism” is able to wreak on a person’s brain—just look at the corrosive effect on the mental state of a certain former neurosurgeon, as another frightening reminder.

A_Real_Einstein

If you add the Bundys IQ scores together than you get to 100. Their cows are smarter.
http://burningbird.net Shelley Powers

I agree with much, but the “scrawny cattle” have cost irreparable harm to cultural sites, endangered species, and vulnerable areas in the last few years. The BLM and Forestry Service have had to abandon any caretaking of the Gold Butte area because of Bundy, and he’s caused millions of dollars in damages.

Not to mention his cattle causing at least two car wrecks.

I do hope the government has a plan to deal with said cattle, quickly. And I hope it doesn’t allow another Bundy.
jif6360

These people screwed up big time but the bigger picture is people actually
believe they have right. A better way would have been. To make an argument in the courts on if the BLM was using unconstitutional authority. This solved nothing, we still don’t know what’s constitutional and what’s not. https://support.google.com/youtube/?p=report_playback http://www.judicialimmunitynecessaryevil.com/petition.htm