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The Revolution is in Fact Being Televised
Just in case you are missing what's going on in the rugged southern desert lands in Clark County, republic of Nevada...I'm not saying the next American revolution is unfolding before our eyes there, but what I did see for the first time in memory was the people drawing a line in the sand standing up against armed lunatics from the Federal corporatocracy, and not only holding their ground against the corporate goons but forcing their retreat.
This is almost unprecedented in this day and age. With all the rights that the imperious servant class in D.C. deigns to strip from their masters, and their cronies they've dispersed throughout the country to enforce their petty tyrancies, and after watching for too long now a painful progression of police abuse videos that have become all too common on the youtubes (some of them even technically being "snuff" films), to see the people actually redeeming themselves using the power and authority granted to them by the creator brought a tear to Chumba's eye.
This sordid episode naturally conjures up memories of Waco and Ruby Ridge (I implore my younger brothers and sisters to stop right here, follow those two previous links, and give those two horror stories at least a cursory reading, because history does not repeat, it rhymes, and how it does depends on who and what we are here and now, and to know who you are now you must know how you got here, because you're writing the next verse). Those stories, while very different, end the same: a bunch of fanatical thugs acting under color of law kill pregnant women, children, and other innocents; the murderers, sanctioned killers of the corporate cleptocracy, go unpunished (after all, they were just doing their job); the policymakers and their faithful sycophants cover it up with televised hearings that are merely pomp & circumstance preceding the preordained conclusion, already written, sealed, and ready for release upon the conclusion of the introductory theatrics.
But this time...I don't know. Did you see what happened in that video? Ammon Bundy, son of rancher Cliven Bundy, kicked away their attack dogs and ripped the wires of a taser out of his chest not once, not twice, but thrice, and kept coming back to confront the agents at his line in the sand, the soil that is his birthright, the soil where he was born and raised, and not the soil of the foreign thugs that contemptuously defiled it and came as usurpers and aggressors. Call these simple folk what you will, but that's good country upbringing. In that moment, if you were paying attention, that man reminded the rest of us the true meaning of courage and liberty. This is how it goes down, people. Through time immemorial, it is the man or woman who did not retreat, who did not relent, who kept coming back and tauntingly asking the aggressors, "THANK YOU, SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?" These are the pivot points in history, as we turn from tyranny and head towards Liberty, with a brief stop at Revolution.
Assuming this continues, and the degenerates from D.C. and their private thugs escalate their siege on the Bundy homestead to (as they will likely put it) "send a message of law and order", militia members (Americans) from across the country will be converging on that spot of god's creation to defend Clive Bundy and his family and property and rights. They (Americans) will of course be demonized. Already, one of the commissioners of Clark County has allegedly told the arriving militiamen (Americans) they "better have funeral plans". Please do not be informed by the scorn and ridicule that will be heaped upon these American men (and women) by the corporate media. Just know this: if it was you being besieged, they would come to your aid, too. Because they know: we either hang together, or separately.
If you take the time to get deeper into this story, as with everything today, you start to find out it has little to do with cattle and grazing and tortoises and everything to do with filthy lucre. Because it's always about filthy lucre. That's all these psychopaths know. It seems it has a lot to do with fracking leases that are raking in $$$ for the BLM, and--surprise bitches!--the honorable Senator Harry Reid and other of his fellow psychopaths is elbow deep in this shitpile.
I am not saying, "this is it", because It is what has been happening for a long time now. But what we see in the video above is the kind of episode that is going to increasingly happen across the nation, first in disparate pockets, and then seemingly everywhere, until we as a people finally arrive at the crossroads, where decisions have to be made. How will you decide? Of course, you can't know until you've been presented with the proposition, but just know that you will have to make a call, or one will be made for you. You will bear that cross. I've spent 8 nights in jail across 3 separate incidents within 3 years, all for a bunch of petty bullshit. I could have just given the cop my name, or my I.D., and let them take my car and avoided the whole mess, but like my brother Ammon, I drew my line: I established my sovereign boundaries and I am going to defend them.
Yes, everyone is going to bear their cross in this lifetime, and I believe it's better to choose the cross you're going to bear. When the time comes (and it shall), and it's your turn to bear your cross, don't worry about being inconvenienced, and don't be afraid. The story always ends well if you have the right perspective.
Please keep your eyes on this story. And please pray for Cliven and his family and neighbors, and for the thugs that are besieging them.
I am Chumbawamba.
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The problem as I see it is the people abdicated their responsibility to maintain a vigilant watch over their public servants and their public institutions. We got too complacent and spent too much time playing, not enough if any time keeping ourselves educated, and we let ourselves be lulled into a false sense of security by our own arrogance. Meanwhile, our servants were getting us drunk and then stealing from our wallets and purses when we were in a stupor. Now we're waking up bound to a chair and wondering what the fuck happened.
Time to get sober, break free, kick some servant ass, and put some order back in the house.
I am Chumbawamba.
And wondering what those weeping poorly-sutured incisions on each side of our abdomen are all about.
Servants don't go silently into the night...
Self defence becomes powerful as liberties are lost.
Huzzah -- could not agree more. Reasserting proprietary interest is the cure.
The poster talks a lot of shit, under a pseudonym, natch.
Too bad the Feds only had tasers when they met these wackos.
Hey...rational.
My name is Thomas O'Brien.
My Street Address is 12223B Woodside Ave, Lakeside, CA USA.
Instead of being a fucking pussy and hiding under a psedonym LET'S GO HUNTING.
But you are just too much of a chickenshit to ACT.
(I am a really easy target. I do walk around town some...a lot.)
And you post under a pseudonym .....
How interesting, a bag of shit with holes in it for an avatar. Clever.
Yes, absolutely, comrade; our betters should put us in our place and keep us there.
Too bad you didn't run down your momma's leg.
P.S. Please post your name and address if you're going to bitch about anonymous speech.
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Only a pot can call a kettle black then.
Why does politics and trolling attract queers and psychopaths?
lol
"this story was not getting the traction it rightfully deserved (and received). "
Hear hear.
This is one of many with similar backdrops.
It took two days to do it, but it finally made it to the front page of ZH after it was all but over.
Then, the fine writers come up from within and finish off this great reporting and commentary a la royal here.
Thanks for playing through.
What's next?
Another distraction from the crashing and unmanageable economic collapse? Maybe another govt sponsored false flag event??
Fine then. Bring it on. It will just speed up the mandatory house cleaning of all the corrupted rats and their trollie minions from the houses of the leadership, and unholy. Even now the lists are being drawn up and the records of who voted for who put together. There are records of who got paid off to usurp the Republic of the united States. There are records of who is being paid to post anti-American propaganda and horsepiss here.
It is only a matter of time before the babylonian empire finally fires the shot that breaks the giants back, and the people snap! After that happens, all bets are off. It's clobberin' time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2WOxatOz60
In a public works garage in Ontario, it's the talk of the day. I'd call that traction
Forgive me, I don't partake of basically any "news" these days and assumed this story was not getting the traction it rightfully deserved (and received). But I also knew it would inevitably be spun in an opposite tenor by others, and this is expected. Scary, but expected. Take this example:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/10/1291105/-Cliven-Bundy-right-wing-extremist-domestic-terrorist-lawbreaker
My goodness: domestic terrorist? Now, I must admit: Chumba has also been labeled a "domestic terrorist", but by law enforcement rather than some clown on the internet. So I can certainly understand why this DK lunatic is similarly describing Cliven Bundy as the same. Anyone who defends their god-given unalienable rights relying on silly old documents like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are basically considered "domestic terrorists" these days. Well, actually, you first get labeled as a "Sovereign Citizen", and then because of the implications of FBI memos pushed out to local law enforcement which are fed by bullshit from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, the implication is that you are a "domestic terrorist". Meanwhile, the real domestic terrorists--the corporate thugs you see in the video--aren't recognized for who they really are. I hope more people are going to start realizing from that video that this whole fucking place is backwards.
The real issue here is contract rights. The Bundy's and their ancestors have grazed their cattle on that land since before there was a BLM. They always had rights to graze that land and they were there before the government was. They never entered into a contract with the government and they were never required to, and they still aren't. They have every right to use that land as long as they aren't ruining it for everyone else.
Which brings us to the desert tortoise issue, and I say two things about that: 1) Extinction is god's way of saying, "ya done!"; 2) actually, fuck it, that's good enough. Because we now know this isn't about turtles, but fracking. Etc.
This is not over. The imperial masters will not be left with mud on their face! This shall not stand.
I am Chumbawamba.
1) Extinction is god's way of saying, "ya done!";
No, it's man's way of finishing off any life on this planet that happens to get in his way.
You want to talk about rights? Native americans were there a lot fucking longer than the Bundys.
"Native americans were there a lot fucking longer than the Bundys."
True, but in Nevada at least, they had a common enemy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannock_War
and the underlying principle is the same.
If you support one, you support the other, as I see it.
What common enemy?
The link showed the usual pattern.
The 'american' middle class went in to seize the land of the Indians. When it started to get overboard, the military was called to settle the 'american' right to thieve lands.
Where is that common enemy?
1. Man cannot play god.
2. I think the indigenous were too smart to settle in an arid desert.
I am Chumbawamba.
Yeah, you got that right, Chumbawamba. How far is it to the nearest water source? The problem is not many have ANY critical thinking skills today, and no common sense.
It is not because you do not settle in a place that property rights are not asserted.
But yeah, it is as a matter of fact a way for 'americans' to cope out: indians did not settle the land so they did not belong to them. Even though Indians usually put that land to other uses.
But hey, to maintain the myth, Indians must be pushed out of the way.
Where would this story go in Indians were to be redressed in their wrongs because of a cattleman inability to respect the rules of his own country?
timothy leary?
what's up with that?
hugs,
gil scott-heron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised
give the land back to the antelope and buffalo
Maybe Leary copped it without attribution.
Yeah, I saw Leary introduce Tool when they were nobody on the side stage at Lollapalooza in 1993 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, and I remember him saying something about the revolution not being televised, and I guess I attributed it to him.
I'm a dolt.
-Chumblez.
Chumba -
you are the man.
keep chumblin