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struggle4progress

(118,285 posts) Wed Apr 16, 2014, 02:07 PM Apr 2014

Renegade Rancher Cliven Bundy Is Nothing Like Mahatma Gandhi

APRIL 16, 2014
BY DANNY VINIK

Mahatma Gandhi was a lawyer in India who led a fight for independence so that millions of people could be free of sometimes brutal British repression.

Cliven Bundy is a rancher in Nevada who is fighting federal authorities because he thinks his cows should be able to graze at will on the government’s land.

Don’t see the similarity? Kevin Williamson of National Review does. And therein lies a broader tale about conservatives and the perception they’ve created—about the legitimacy of the Obama presidency and even the federal government itself ...

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117392/conservative-claims-obamas-lawlessness-fuels-radical-right

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Renegade Rancher Cliven Bundy Is Nothing Like Mahatma Gandhi (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2014 OP

K&R...Thanks for posting red dog 1 Apr 2014 #1

somehow, the commons exist when it's convenient for the wealthy, but for the rest of us yurbud Apr 2014 #2

The RW is so fking delusional, it boggles the mind that anyone can be hoodwinked into Dark n Stormy Knight Apr 2014 #3

red dog 1

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1. K&R...Thanks for posting

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Apr 17, 2014, 03:04 AM

Apr 2014

Cliven Bundy is more like Ted Bundy than Gandhi.

yurbud

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2. somehow, the commons exist when it's convenient for the wealthy, but for the rest of us

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Apr 17, 2014, 12:06 PM

Apr 2014

it should be there for those with money to plunder at will, but they shouldn't be forced to pay more than a pittance for what they take from our common land.

Dark n Stormy Knight

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3. The RW is so fking delusional, it boggles the mind that anyone can be hoodwinked into

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 01:51 PM

Apr 2014

accepting their nonsensical attempts at justification of their rabid hatred of our president.

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