The genius at the BLM who decided to treat a cattle round-up like a military exercise should himself or herself be put in front of a firing squad.
The over reaction and over kill of Clive Bundy’s quixotic stand has created a legend and hopefully not a martyr.
There is simply no excuse in treating an American this way. We do not care what he has or has not done.
The picture of uniformed federal agents complete with automatic weapons and body armor is ridiculous bordering on the retarded.
Why not call up a couple of tanks too?
Revolutions get started by the state overreacting.
A demonstration brutally put down when it would have just petered out has been a mistake regimes have later regretted.
The original argument of right or wrong is erased by blood.
If violence ensues in Clark County, the issue of unpaid grazing fees and desert tortoises will be rendered irrelevant.
Instead it will be an issue of trust.
We trust our government if not to do the right thing always, but that it won’t kill us out of hand without benefit of trial.
If that trust is broken all hell will break loose.
Those crazy, right wing, nut jobs will not seem so crazy and much more middle of the road to a whole host of folks out there. And it will be perceived as the federal government making war against its own people.
So a firing squad might just be a good idea.
An over reaction?
Perhaps.
Then again we are talking about someone who ordered Kevlar combatants with automatic weapons to round up cows.
We have more than a passing interest the state of Israel and thus we have more than a passing interest in the recently failed peace talks pushed by Secretary Kerry.
We made $20 that nothing would come of them.
A good bet we were never worried for the simple reason that for there to be peace with the Palestinians they must agree that there will be a time when hostilities will be over.
Ain’t gonna happen.
Settlements, borders, even the return of refugees are all sideshow issues that deflect attention from the one thing the Palestinians will never agree too.
The war is over.
We know that to continue to insist that it isn’t denies reality. But after 65 years of being fed a diet of lies and free food paid for by the UN reality really does not matter.
And so the imaginary battles will continue punctuated by acts of supreme barbarity.
Perhaps one day when the years of the conflict are counted with three digits there will be a Palestinian who will realize that half a loaf is better than none.
The demise of Windows XP is a lesson for us all.
Here there was a perfectly good product.
Worked great for what it was designed for and it is put out to corporate pasture because?
Yes we know there is something called planned obsolescence.
But by the very numbers alone XP was not obsolete.
It still worked and worked well.
It just didn’t fit with the coporate model anymore.
A pretty sorry excuse to make people buy something else that does about the same thing XP did.
We hope they don’t at least not right away.
It could be a very good lesson that we aren’t buying what they are selling.