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originally posted by: ausername
Rather than trying to clarify and defend what was said, people involved should distance themselves from Bundy and try to shift focus back onto government overreach, land grabs, corruption, and excessive use of force, abuse of power, state rights vs federal etc.
Fighting for this man now means losing the battle.
IMO
Secretarial Order 3321 establishing the “National Blueways System.” This system, according to the Secretarial Order would – “provide a new national emphasis on the unique value and significance of a ‘headwaters to mouth’ approach to river management and create a mechanism to encourage stakeholders to integrate their land and water stewardship efforts by adopting a watershed approach.” Bureaus within Interior, to the extent permitted by law and consistent with their missions, policies, and resources, shall endeavor to align the execution of agency plans and implementation of agency programs to protect, restore, and enhance the natural, cultural, and/or recreational resources associated with designated National Blueways. According to the Order, it appears that any watershed in the United States could be designated without any vote in Congress and without proper public notice. The Order states that: “Following consideration of recommendations made by the Committee, the Secretary may designate the river and its associated watershed as a National Blueway that will become part of the National Blueways System.”
Now at 81, Yowell can adapt no more. His Livestock Association questioned why he and the Shoshone had to pay a grazing fee for their own land and request a copy of the permit. They had been paying a fee every year since 1940 but none of them had ever signed any document. The mater was turned over to the Bureau of Land Management and no one there could provide any document to support the fee, so Yowell and his Livestock Association quite paying the bill in 1984. The grass was still growing and the cattle were still grazing 19 years later when on May 24, 2002 the BLM sent armed rangers and three semi’s to confiscate all of the cattle. To add insult to injury, the BLM sent Yowell a bill for copy80,000 for his part of the total $2.5 million in unpaid grazing fees and fines that the BLM said they were owed. When Yowell told them he was retired and his cattle were his only income, the BLM garnished 15 percent of his small social security check. He never received any money from the sale of his cattle.
California Fish and Game Commission ruled in favor of the Long fin and Delta smelt (a two inch minnow) over the livelihoods of 60,000 workers and land owners in California’s San Joaquin Valley, considered by many to be the richest and most productive farmland in the nation. The environmentalists shut off the water pumps to farmers, prohibiting them from irrigating their fields. Aside from the vast loss in food production to the world, the workers all went on unemployment overnight.
originally posted by: Flatfish
originally posted by: ausername
Rather than trying to clarify and defend what was said, people involved should distance themselves from Bundy and try to shift focus back onto government overreach, land grabs, corruption, and excessive use of force, abuse of power, state rights vs federal etc.
Fighting for this man now means losing the battle.
IMO
Fighting for this man does indeed mean losing the battle, but so does "shifting the focus back onto government overreach, land grabs, corruption, and excessive use of force, abuse of power, state rights vs federal etc.
The govt. didn't "overreach, grab anyone's land, use excessive force, abuse their power or violate any state's rights."
They used the court system to win judgements against Bundy for failure to pay his grazing fees...
Compared to how our "founding fathers" handled similar situations back in the good old days, the recent federal response at the Bundy ranch seems pretty modest.
originally posted by: buster2010
Seeing how Bundy went back on tv and repeated the same comments he won't be suing anyone soon.
Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy Doesn't Apologize, Repeats Racist Remarks
How can someone say this man is an advocate of blacks by saying their lives would be better had they learned to pick cotton.
his views that the current system of social programs is just another form of slavery
originally posted by: phinubian
Yet another example of extreme brainwashing, nothing to see here there are willing tokens cut from this irregular cloth, I guarantee you that uncle tommy boy here is the %1 or less so lets not take a video like this and use it as a poster child to get stars, how long did it take to find it? his views are not in the majority, I wonder how much money he actually got paid, I get it, he knows how to pick cotton.
For Foucault, biopower is a technology of power, which is a way of managing people as a group. The distinctive quality of this political technology is that it allows for the control of entire populations. It is thus an integral feature and essential to the workings of—and makes possible—the emergence of the modern nation state and capitalism, etc.[5] Biopower is literally having power over bodies; "an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations".
I understand people claiming you would have to be out of touch to think that todays system could be worse than slavery.
originally posted by: phinubian
a reply to: diggindirt
Thank you, basically many of the constructs or labels, "colored" , "negro" or any other words found in the dictionary, made in England or the USA, I will put money on it, these were not inventions, labels or categories created by the people that they apply to, of course they had no real say or vote in those inventions back in the olden days when the so called scientists were creating them, Negro College Fund, etc at the time that they were created, these were really the only labels that were in use and as you know the later constructed "african american" PC label was created to replace those controversial labels (negro or colored) I really like American much better as a choice , many birth certificates from say the 60's and into the 70's have negro or colored, show of hands who can produce one that has colored ? well I can raise my hand to that one and again I am a mutt of the highest proportions but I really take offense every time I look at my own birth certificate, just because the term or word was created and put into wide use does not give it any more credibility or validity if it really offends someone.
In the workplace in the U.S. if what you say either in a sexual manner or otherwise, to another co-worker, if they take offense and tell you that and you continue, more than likely the good ol HR department will be involved and you will probably be in big trouble, what we have for the most part are people who none of the comments that Bundy were directed at you except you could learn a lesson in family closeness, but to go beyond in deciding whether his comments were offensive to blacks or Mexicans and you are not in either of those categories probably is not such a good idea to go to great lengths to defend, everyone will take those comments in a different way depending on their own experience or background.
originally posted by: luciddream
a reply to: JiggyPotamus
What he was saying was that the US government has created a system that is no different from slavery in a way.
No different. Are you seriously comparing Salvery to US government dependance(which has many people of different race subscribing)?
When is the next lynching? i lost the schedule.
I beg your pardon ? A Token is someone that especially in the context of my example, is what the definition says in Merriam Websters dictionary, unlike the other word "negro" which if you parse one of my earlier replies can be offensive, token is neither and in the context of how I used it 100% the point I was making and yes I meant it, just like Bundy later re-iterated that the comments he made were what he said and meant and then foolishly later dug himself deeper in the dung pile, by blaming Martin Luther King as the reason for how he has possibly formed his opinions. TSK, TSK.