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We are trading one form of slavery for
another.
What I am saying is that all we Americans are trading one form
of slavery for another. All of us are in some measure slaves of the federal
government. Through their oppressive tactics of telling the ranchers how many
cows they can have on their land, and making that number too low to support a
ranch, the BLM has driven every rancher in Clark County off the land, except
me. The IRS keeps the people of America in fear, and makes us all work about a
third or a half of the year before we have earned enough to pay their taxes.
This is nothing but slavery from January through May. The NSA spies on us and
collects our private phone calls and emails. And the government dole which
many people in America are on, and have been for much of their lives, is
dehumanizing and degrading. It takes away incentive to work and self respect.
Eventually a person on the dole becomes a ward of the government, because his
only source of income is a dole from the government. Once the government has
you in that position, you are its slave.
I am trying to keep Martin
Luther King Jr.'s dream alive. He was praying for the day when he and his
people would be free, and he could say I’m free, free at last, thank God I’m
free at last! But all of us here America, no matter our race, are having our
freedom eroded and destroyed by the federal government because of its heavy
handed tactics. The BLM, the IRS, the NSA--all of the federal agencies are
destroying our freedom. I am standing up against their bad and
unconstitutional laws, just like Rosa Parks did when she refused to sit in the
back of the bus. She started a revolution in America, the civil rights
movement, which freed the black people from much of the oppression they were
suffering. I'm saying Martin Luther King's dream was not that Rosa could take
her rightful seat in the front of the bus, but his dream was that she could take
any seat on the bus and I would be honored to sit beside her. I am doing the
same thing Rosa Parks did--I am standing up against bad laws which dehumanize us
and destroy our freedom. Just like the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord, we
are saying no to an oppressive government which considers us to be slaves
rather than free men.
I invite all people in America to join in our
peaceful revolution to regain our freedom. That is how America was started, and
we need to keep that tradition alive.
Cliven D. Bundy
another.
What I am saying is that all we Americans are trading one form
of slavery for another. All of us are in some measure slaves of the federal
government. Through their oppressive tactics of telling the ranchers how many
cows they can have on their land, and making that number too low to support a
ranch, the BLM has driven every rancher in Clark County off the land, except
me. The IRS keeps the people of America in fear, and makes us all work about a
third or a half of the year before we have earned enough to pay their taxes.
This is nothing but slavery from January through May. The NSA spies on us and
collects our private phone calls and emails. And the government dole which
many people in America are on, and have been for much of their lives, is
dehumanizing and degrading. It takes away incentive to work and self respect.
Eventually a person on the dole becomes a ward of the government, because his
only source of income is a dole from the government. Once the government has
you in that position, you are its slave.
I am trying to keep Martin
Luther King Jr.'s dream alive. He was praying for the day when he and his
people would be free, and he could say I’m free, free at last, thank God I’m
free at last! But all of us here America, no matter our race, are having our
freedom eroded and destroyed by the federal government because of its heavy
handed tactics. The BLM, the IRS, the NSA--all of the federal agencies are
destroying our freedom. I am standing up against their bad and
unconstitutional laws, just like Rosa Parks did when she refused to sit in the
back of the bus. She started a revolution in America, the civil rights
movement, which freed the black people from much of the oppression they were
suffering. I'm saying Martin Luther King's dream was not that Rosa could take
her rightful seat in the front of the bus, but his dream was that she could take
any seat on the bus and I would be honored to sit beside her. I am doing the
same thing Rosa Parks did--I am standing up against bad laws which dehumanize us
and destroy our freedom. Just like the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord, we
are saying no to an oppressive government which considers us to be slaves
rather than free men.
I invite all people in America to join in our
peaceful revolution to regain our freedom. That is how America was started, and
we need to keep that tradition alive.
Cliven D. Bundy
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