More on the Cattle Thief

One thing you can say about George Washington: He wouldn't tolerate antics by a bunch of anti-goverment wackjobs. Maybe, just maybe, the government should have used a similar tactic against that group causing the trouble in Nevada recently:

Throughout counties in Western Pennsylvania, protesters used violence and intimidation to prevent federal officials from collecting the tax. Resistance came to a climax in July 1794, when a U.S. marshal arrived in western Pennsylvania to serve writs to distillers who had not paid the excise. The alarm was raised, and more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of tax inspector General John Neville. Washington responded by sending peace commissioners to western Pennsylvania to negotiate with the rebels, while at the same time calling on governors to send a militia force to enforce the tax. With 13,000 militia provided by the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Washington rode at the head of an army to suppress the insurgency. The rebels all went home before the arrival of the army, and there was no confrontation. About 20 men were arrested, but all were later acquitted or pardoned.

The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the willingness and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws.

How long would those anti-government heroes supporting Bundy have hung around if there were a few thousand members of the U.S. military headed their way with some fighter jets providing aerial support? In my opinion EVERY SINGLE ONE of those people are little more than traitors.

The Cattle Thief

I've been trying to understand this whole issue with rancher Bundy and his cattle but, this being Tax Day, here's my take after researching the matter:

The guy owes the federal government, which is, ultimately, you and me, over a million dollars in grazing fees. His privilege to graze cattle (only 50 head in the Spring from what I've been able to glean, not the 900 head he has been grazing year round) was revoked in the 1990s (please note the word "privilege" at the beginning of this sentence - they are NOT rights by law).

Now, we don't seem to blink an eye when someone serves time, or has property confiscated and sold, because they owe back taxes (state or federal).

Yet there are people who think it's okay for this guy (and his family) to steal from us?

The answer to that question can only be a resounding "NO!"

Pay up or go to jail, Bundy.

And don't go waving a flag around either, because you are not an American. I don't give a f*ck where you were born - you are not one of us.