Harry Reid, Dems selling out the Southwest

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Harry Reid, Dems selling out the Southwest

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Date: Friday, 18-Apr-2014 11:15:06

Tuesday of last week, astute observers of politics were treated to an object lesson in the elitism and unbridled audacity of those ostensibly governing us in the form of Attorney General Eric Holder’s heated exchange with Rep. Louis Gohmert during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. The next day, Holder, apparently still smarting from the exchange, whined to an audience at the opening day of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) Conference in New York City about the shabby treatment he and our poor excuse for a president have received from Republicans in Congress. Holder’s intimation at the NAN conference was that this is due to Republicans’ racism, but later denied that this is what he’d been trying to say. Of course the damage had been done; the press, Democratic politicos and career civil-rights hustlers came out in force to blast Republicans for their racist tendencies. This week, we are witnessing more of the same elitism and unbridled audacity, though in a different vein, from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In the aftermath of federal agents withdrawing from the Nevada property of rancher Cliven Bundy, Reid commented to students at the University of Nevada that “… it’s not over. We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over.” Rancher Bundy has been involved in a decades-long dispute with the federal government over his cattle’s grazing rights. His family has been grazing their cattle on public lands since the late 1800s, but Bundy claims that increasingly onerous regulations and fee structures imposed by the federal government have forced some 57 ranchers in the county out of business in recent years. Now, it’s common knowledge that Bundy has been battling the federal government over this issue for a long time. It is also true that the federal government has owned the disputed land since before Nevada joined the Union, and that the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act empowered the federal government to regulate grazing on public lands. There were also subsequent federal and local provisions enacted that place Bundy in a legally compromising position, including a 2013 court ruling against him. While it is technically accurate that Bundy is subject to the laws in question, this is no different than asserting that German citizens in 1942 were under a legal obligation to turn their Jewish neighbors over to the Gestapo. When you have a government that compromises, subverts, then finally ignores the rule of law, it effectively becomes a criminal enterprise, quod erat demonstrandum. The laws that such a government makes cannot be deemed “legal” nor enforceable except through further criminal activity, usually oppressive, fascistic methods. This is true whether such a government executes these measures over decades (such as ours has done), or mere weeks (as was the case in Nazi Germany). Which brings us back to Harry Reid. Like Eric Holder, this putrescent little tin god believes that since the government has managed to get away with its onerous regulation, unconstitutional legislation and nefarious machinations for so long, statutes advanced using these methods are legally sound by default. Sort of like engaging in theft and then claiming that “possession is nine-tenths of the law.” Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/harry-reid-dems-selling-out-the-southwest/#XrWWhj83eoiqr8lP.99