Occupy For REAL!!! Cops faced down by ranchers.

Posted by Arthur Gilroy | Apr 14, 2014 | 10 |

You wonder why the various Occupy movements have failed to win in the streets?

It’s because what you will see in the following video didn’t happen in the streets. People were too terrified of the urban police forces. Why? Because the terroristic random beatings, stop-and-frisks and and shootings by urban police forces have been so thoroughly reported by the equally terroristic media, that’s why.

Watch it. Don’t turn your spoiled little kneejerk leftiness noses up at the fact that it was posted by Alex Jones and InfoWars or the other fact that most of the people in this particular demonstration were white and probably more right wing than left wing. If it had been played on CBS and the rest of the mass media this country would be much better off. But it wasn’t. So stop, look and listen. A bunch of white working class adults faced down a highly armed set of representatives from the coming police state. As one of the demonstrators shouts at about 3:11 of the video, “Go home!!! Go back to Washington. Go back to China. You scumbags!!!” This will be happening in the cities eventually, I believe. Ya gotta believe. Either that or eventually surrender to a nationwide police state.

We are better than China. This could have been a rural Tianamen Square, but it wasn’t. The Paper Tiger brigade folded. Stand the fuck up. Ya gotta believe!!!

And…WTFU!!!

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Arthur Gilroy on April 14, 2014 at 11:41 am

Most of y’all have already folded your tents and walked away. Most of America has done the same thing.

So it it goes.

Down like a motherfucker.

Watch.

AG
Alice on April 14, 2014 at 3:23 pm

States rights again, eh Arthur? Sorry, I’m very fond of you, but the drama of revolution is over for me now.

I like peace, love and community nowadays.
Those ranchers want to deny that some of that grazing land belongs to (measly little capitalist) me.

Those cops are what I pay taxes for. They’re on my side – protecting my property rights.
- Arthur Gilroy on April 14, 2014 at 5:45 pm
  
  Keep watching, Alice. That land “belonged” to no one for hundreds of years. It was just barely grazeable cattle land and those hundreds of years of custom said that it “belonged” to whoever used it. Then Big Gov…this time in the person of Harry Reid, but it could just as well have been someone like Mitch McConnell if the same kind of thing happened in Kentucky…stepped in with “a plan.” All about money, not about working Americans. Only…these working Americans said “Hell no!!!”
  
  And they won!!! A single battle, anyway.
  
  Will they continue winning as the PermaGov backdoors them in one of its usual manners? Maybe not. They would have a much greater chance…as would we all…of winning if victories like this were widely publicized in the media. But of course that is not going to happen as long as big money runs the media show. Instead we will get slick cop dramas glorifying the instruments of our oppression and news that slants everything towards the (owned lock, stock and barrel) Corporate/PermaGov center.
  
  Read this.
  
  Rory Reid, the eldest son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), is the chief representative for a Chinese energy firm planning to build a $5-billion solar plant on public land in Laughlin, Nevada. ENN Energy Group, a clean-energy firm that manufactures a range of renewable-energy products, is seeking to construct its solar panel facility on a 9,000-acre stretch of land on a Clark County desert plot.
  
  (The same land that was the focal point of this little standoff.)
  
  The controversy stems from the fact that Clark County officials voted to sell ENN the public land for $4.5 million, a figure startlingly below the $38.6-million appraisal. Conveniently, Sen. Reid has been one of ENN’s most prominent supporters, having helped mobilize the firm during a 2011 trip to China. Reid’s influence in the Chinese company has been so compelling that, according to Reuters, last month he tried to “pressure Nevada’s largest power company, NV Energy, to sign up as ENN’s first customer.”
  
  Both Rory and his father have since denied having ever discussed the $5-billion deal. A spokeswoman for Sen. Reid, Kristen Orthman, insisted that he’d never deliberated over the project with his son. Rory Reid added, “I have never discussed the project with my father or his staff.”
  
  Despite his assertions, critics say Rory Reid’s political ties in the deal seems rather explicit. In addition to being the son of a prominent U.S. senator, he also formerly chaired the Clark County commission. Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen, said Rory’s father is implicating himself in “an iffy ethical landscape” and should recuse himself from the solar project. “Is this just happening because … it benefits the Reid family, or did Harry Reid actually believe in this?” Holman queried.
  
  To expedite the project, ENN recruited Nevada’s largest and most renowned law firm, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, where Rory Reid works. Moreover, Richard Bryan, who has an extensive history in the state’s political system — a former Nevada governor, attorney general, and U.S. senator — heads the Chinese energy firm.
  
  As reported, the ENN deal ignited a heated controversy, mainly because separate appraisals valued the plot of land at $29.6 million and $38.6 million, tens of millions of dollars more than the selling price. However, the county commissioners drafted a series of conditions that must be met before the project can launch, including achievements in job creation and investment, and a provision stating that ENN must have a power company committed to purchasing energy from the new plant. The latter requirement has been the primary obstacle — then, Harry Reid stepped in.
  
  The Nevada senator recently initiated an online discussion, purportedly to address his annual energy summit, as an effort to persuade NV Energy, the state’s largest utility company, to ink a deal as ENN’s first customer. In the July 30 forum, Reid asserted that construction on the project “would start tomorrow if NV Energy would purchase the power.” The power company controls “95 percent of all of the electricity that is produced in Nevada and they should go along with this,” he added.
  
  —snip—
  
  And this as well.
  
  Let me obliterate a bit of confusion here: the Obama administration attempted to go to war with a rancher in Nevada. Let me amplify a little bit of truth: They tucked tail and have returned home. And let me add a bit of clarity: they had no choice!
  
  As the nation began to become familiar with the plight of the family of Cliven Bundy, many of us harkened back to another standoff in which the Federal government attempted to bully it’s outcome: Waco, Texas and the Branch Davidian massacre.
  
  It is telling that in the Nevada case the feds pulled out so quickly, given all they had indicated they were willing to do to resolve the matter to their satisfaction. They had set up a perimeter around the Bundy’s family land, ranch, and home. They had brought in extra artillery, dogs, and snipers. They were beginning the process of stealing more than 300 head of cattle that did not belong to them.
  
  They did so–or so we were told–for the reason of protecting the desert tortoise. But then it was revealed that the Bureau of Land Management had shot far more desert tortoises than the Bundy cattle had even possibly destroyed. We were told they did it because the Bundys had broken federal laws by not paying what amounted to retroactive grazing fees to the federal government. But the Governor of the state of Nevada told us that Bundy had paid every ounce of state tax, met the state requirements, and their family had been improving the property more than 100 years previous.
  
  Finally we were allowed to know the connection between a communist Chinese wind/solar power plant and its connection to that senator named Harry Reid. Evidently a plan had been hatched to use the Bundy property for a solar farm and instead of paying the Bundys, someone, somewhere in the administration believed it was easier to just take what they wanted.
  
  That approach is at least consistent with the readily documented abuse of eminent domain where the government for any number of reasons–few of them valid–have taken to taking what doesn’t belong to them. Americans then watch as it gets handed over to some multi-national corporation for the “cause” of the “greater good.”
  
  —snip—
  
  It’s on, Alice, and the much-reviled “right” is on the good foot side of the controversy this time. It would be wonderful if the left was in the same place.
  
  Maybe next week.
  
  Maaaaaybe next week…
  
  And then again…maybe not.
  
  Whaddayou think?
  
  Sad.
  
  Later…
  
  AG
- Marie2 on April 14, 2014 at 7:27 pm
  
  I have no respect for those who align themselves with the white supremacists, misogynists, 2nd amendment assholes.
  - Arthur Gilroy on April 14, 2014 at 8:46 pm
    
    You do the “aligning,” Marie2…in obedience to the media’s dictated information. How do you know they’re “2nd amendment assholes?” Because they are rural white people? Working people? Who is the collectivist now? Ask the women of the community if it is misogynistic. In my experience, rural women don’t take shit from anyone. White supremacists? I’ll betcha half the people in that film have Native American/Mexican blood, and I’d further bet that if a rural black or Hispanic group had volunteered to stand by their side in that confrontation they would have been welcomed with open arms.
    
    I ask again…who’s the collectivist now?
    
    Ron Paul on the floor of the House of Representatives. (Emphases mine.):
    
    Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
    
    Ron Paul, Government and Racism, April 16, 2007
    
    AG
    - Marie2 on April 14, 2014 at 10:42 pm
      
      In my experience, rural women don’t take shit from anyone.
      
      And exactly when and where have you had such experience?
      
      You seem not to know anything about women in general and you are clueless about western rural cultures.
      
      All of that aside, it’s your idealization of a pissant like Rand Paul and continuing need to shill for him that creeps me out. Too many echoes of the brownshirt from the last century for me.
      - Arthur Gilroy on April 14, 2014 at 11:28 pm
        
        Yeah!!!
        
        And his father, too!!!
        
        Real brownshirt echoes here!!!
        
        Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
        Ron Paul, Government and Racism, April 16, 2007
        
        You are without a clue.
        
        AG
      - centerfielddj on April 18, 2014 at 11:13 pm
        
        Oh, good Lord, please to be fucking off now, AG.
        
        RON PAUL OPPOSED THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AND SPOKE TO IT ON THE HOUSE FLOOR IN 2004. It’s on his website. He and his movement are PROUD of his vicious racism.
        
        http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/civil-rights-act/
        
        He also was one of the very few members of Congress who voted against renewing the Voting Rights Act in 2006.
        
        Answer to these. This should be a fascinating set of rationalizations.
      - Don Durito on April 19, 2014 at 11:19 am
        
        Sometimes it is good to remind the good folks here of the Ron Paul Megapost. It won’t matter to AG, but just for those who might unwittingly get sucked in to the Ron/Rand Paul hype, it might make a difference.
- Don Durito on April 19, 2014 at 11:36 pm
  
  Yep, and citing Alex Jones as a primary source – never wise. But yeah, you’re right – this is a case of a rancher who wants a free lunch, for his cattle anyway. The right-wing media sources are playing this up as a case of “liberty” when really this joker is little more than a two-bit thief, who under different circumstances (say, grazing on another rancher’s land) would be hardly a cause célèbre.

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