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Here is the forty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Rancher, Cliven Bundy. He is so honored for his violent Republican solution to federal attempts to enforce a law he refuses to obey. He called out the TEAbagger militias and their guns.<\/font><\/p>\n Lordy belongs to a militia group called Operation Mutual Aid, which provides \u201c[d]efense of public and private property, lives, and liberty to exercise God-given rights [Republicans delinked], seen plainly in the laws of Nature, and codified in the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, at the request of such parties in need of such defense,\u201d according to a website associated with the group. Although only three militia members had arrived at the Nevada ranch by late Wednesday, when the latest reports came out, other militia groups reportedly \u201cinundated the [rancher’s] household with calls and pledges to muster at the site.\u201d <\/p>\n The Oath Keepers, a right-wing law enforcement organization that warns about the government \u201cdisarm[ing] the American people\u201d and \u201cblockad[ing] American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps, [Republicans delinked<\/em>]\u201d also announced that it will send people to support the defiant rancher [Republicans delinked<\/em>].<\/p>\n This conflict arises out of rancher Cliven Bundy\u2019s many years of illegally grazing his cattle on federal lands. In 1998, a federal court ordered Bundy to cease grazing his livestock on an area of federal land known as the Bunkerville Allotment, and required him to pay the federal government $200 per day per head of cattle remaining on federal lands. Around the time it issued this order, the court also commented that \u201c[t]he government has shown commendable restraint in allowing this trespass to continue for so long without impounding Bundy\u2019s livestock.\u201d Fifteen years later, Bundy continued to defy this court order<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n The article goes on to explain how authorities are attempting to enforce the laws by seizing the cattle on federal land. Click through.<\/font><\/p>\n Like so many Republicans, Bundy seems to think that he should get to thrive by devaluing what belongs to all of us. Like so many Republicans Bundy is responding to what he doesn\u2019t like with criminal violence, the Republican Second Amendment Solution<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n One might think that mainstream Republicans would distance themselves from this nut job, but he has the support<\/a> of Nevada\u2019s Republican Governor and US Senator Dean Heller (R-NV).<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is the forty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Rancher, Cliven Bundy. He is so honored for his violent Republican solution to federal attempts to enforce a law he refuses to obey. He called out the TEAbagger militias and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\u201cWe provide armed response<\/a>,\u201d according to a Montana militia member named Jim Lordy. Lordy traveled to Nevada in order to support a local rancher for believes that he should not have to follow federal court orders. When he arrived there, he told a local reporter that \u201c[w]e need guns to protect ourselves from the tyrannical government<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n