As a result of this sudden fame, the eldest son, Ammon Bundy
decided to embrace the role of patriot leader and fighter against government
overreach, and took up the plight, and the fight, of the Hammond family in
Oregon, against their wishes. Now, Ammon and his rag-tag bunch of liars,
poseurs, and agent provocateurs, are holed up in a federal building, on federal
land with enough guns, ammo, and alcohol to ensure that they can remain drunk
until someone from one of the sides fires a shot, or a truck backfires,
whichever comes first. At this point in time, the militia group, sufficiently
full of alcohol, but delirious from hunger since they didn’t plan enough food
for more than 2 days of this “as long as necessary” siege, will likely go down
in a blaze of glory.
While patriots all across this once great nation are praying
for this very galvanizing event to happen to the group that they are using the
federal government’s postal service to deliver groceries to this intrepid band
of patriot warriors, solely for the hopes of a new “Shot Heard Round The World,”
one must ask, besides a desire to see civil war, or revolution as they like to
refer to it, what good is being effected by this siege?
If these patriots were truly concerned about federal
overreach and their attack on farmers and ranchers, then why have none of them
gone to stand with the farmer in Texas who has been fighting the BLM for 30
(yes, thirty) years as they try to steal fully 50% of his private property? His
crime: the banks of the Red River have changed in the past 100 years. What
about Mark Baker, of Baker’s Green Acres, who just announced that he is selling
his private farm because he can no longer fight the government alone. His crime
was simply raising heritage hogs for meat production. How about the Amish family
that just recently got slapped with a punitive fine in Fort Worth because one
of their customers distributed raw milk, purchased from their farm many miles
away, within city limits? Or how about the Amish farmers throughout traditional
Amish country who are facing 4am SWAT raids for daring to sell raw milk and
eggs to their neighbors? Where were you when an organic, local market in
California was raided and shut down for providing their customers high quality,
fresh produce and raw milk?
My “patriot” friends, the movement is not failing
because some of us are unrelenting in speaking truth, refuse to compromise on
our principles, or choose to wait for facts, instead of inflammatory,
emotion-driven rhetoric before taking action. No, the patriot movement will
fail because you are not consistent in your principles. You are more eager to
defend a family who is sucking at the government teat because the government
dares to restrict their rights to use the public lands than to defend a farmer
or rancher who is having his own personal property taken.
Let me ask you, how many of you will be on my doorstep when
the government comes to shut me down because I dare to sell grass-fed beef, pastured
pork and poultry, fresh unlicensed eggs, raw goat milk, lamb, goat, beef
without unnecessary antibiotics, or fresh fruits and vegetables? And come they
will, because none of the American patriots are willing to stand for the little
guy defending private property. I ask you, once again, how many of you will
come to my defense? I suspect that I would be optimistic to say one of you
would be standing by me on that day.
