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.