Family's Government Paranoia Will Cost Taxpayers Millions of Dollars

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 11, 2016

Sedition never sleeps. It grunts and groans and speaks in tongues and it makes a big fool out itself, time and time again. It even files lawsuits. But, dammit, it never sleeps ...

In merciful brief, Cliven Bundy, a half-mad freeloader, is trying to drag the federal court system into the bat-haunted fantasyland in which he and his supporters live. You might as well ask the judge to recuse herself because once, over coffee and a Danish, she expressed the opinion that the sun rose in the East. Demanding a judge as nutty as you are is a bold—if completely moronic—legal maneuver, which is also true of demanding to be represented by a lawyer who has proven to be as big a public nuisance as you have been. That Judge Navarro didn't throw these clowns down the courthouse steps fills me with no little dread.

The complaint itself is a bubbling stew of pure crazy. It revives the nutty notion that Senator Harry Reid was behind the whole standoff on Bundy's land last year because Reid and his son want to sell Bundyland to the Chinese in order to build a solar farm. Meanwhile, the rest of the complaint sounds like it was dialed in from someone's car to the worst talk-radio show on Planet Stupid. By the way, the president's sense of humor also is in on the plot ...

There is a cost to treating people like Bundy and his crackpot followers as if they have, you know, a case. There is a cost to indulging seditious paranoia. There is a cost to the constitutional order and a cost to the national sanity, and I'm damned if I know what's worse.

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