Echoing Bundy: Nevada County Riding On Horseback To Washington With Anti-Federal Govt Message
A rural Nevada county is going to Washington on horseback over what it calls federal overreach on public lands. If you ever thought Republicans wanted to take us back a century or two, you were not wrong.
According to Elko County Commissioner Grant Gerber, the protesters will begin their 2,800 mile ride on Sept. 26h and reach the U.S. Capitol about 20 days later.
The theme of the Cowboy Express ride is “regulation without representation is tyranny,” Gerber said, and commissioners hope its outcome will be an increase in local voices on public land decisions.
The Grass March Cowboy Express website states, “The Petitions being carried are calling for relief from Federal Agencies that do not listen and have no stake in local communities.”
The group continues to say, “Among the petitions are pleas regarding Endangered Species, Water, Wildfire, Wetlands, Wilderness and other mismanagement failures of the Federal Government that destroy families, the economy, the forests, grasslands and animals that they were meant to protect. So we ride to change the future of our Public Lands.”
“It’s extremely serious, but we’re trying to make it fun as we go,” Gerber said.
The group’s protest follows the federal government’s run-in with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy earlier this year, in which he refused to pay his grazing fees. That sparked support from armed militia members, right wing media and Republicans while the rancher called for a range war.
According to the BLM, Bundy owes more than $1 million in fees and penalties for trespassing without a permit over a 20 year period, however, the rancher refuses to acknowledge federal authority on public lands.
The Cowboy Express adds on its site, “Any people anywhere being inclined and having power have the right to rise up and shake off the esisting government, and form a new one that suits them better.” [sic]
That was a misspelled Abraham Lincoln quote.
Alternatively, they could just vote, which is how we get elected officials into government.
H/T: My BFF @ComgenKDT with thanks.
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39 responses to Echoing Bundy: Nevada County Riding On Horseback To Washington With Anti-Federal Govt Message
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Budda September 7th, 2014 at 23:37
In the 21st century they use an 18th century manner to protest their version of contemporary repression. How cute.
Budda September 7th, 2014 at 23:37
In the 21st century they use an 18th century manner to protest their version of contemporary repression. How cute.
bpollen September 7th, 2014 at 23:50
First there was pushing sand against the tide. Then there was carrying coals to Newcastle. Now we have riding horsies to D.C. to deliver a petition written in crayon. I personally would vote for them to piss into the wind.
bpollen September 7th, 2014 at 23:50
First there was pushing sand against the tide. Then there was carrying coals to Newcastle. Now we have riding horsies to D.C. to deliver a petition written in crayon. I personally would vote for them to piss into the wind.
granpa.usthai September 8th, 2014 at 02:22
just so long as your horsies don’t block the traffic east of the Mississippi. Things a a bit more fast paced than they wuz back in the 1800’s. – and more sanitary. Clean up after your horsies, or they could become local fodder for the glue factories. – NO GUNS ALLOWED IN DC.
granpa.usthai September 8th, 2014 at 02:22
just so long as your horsies don’t block the traffic east of the Mississippi. Things a a bit more fast paced than they wuz back in the 1800’s. – and more sanitary. Clean up after your horsies, or they could become local fodder for the glue factories. – NO GUNS ALLOWED IN DC.
fahvel September 8th, 2014 at 02:39
who will scoop the poop they leave along the way and who cares about the shit they think will be delivered?
Candide Thirtythree September 8th, 2014 at 14:28
They are saying that because they live in that state they have a right to completely destroy every inch of it for their own personal gain. They have already shown that they will graze an area into dust and not pay for the damage they do. They are now using ATVs to destroy national parks and the government is not doing anything at all about it. It would take less than a minute for law enforcement to kill every single one of them if any of them make the mistake of pulling out a gun in DC.
They are domestic terrorists and we should all demand that they be treated as such, this is just insane.
Candide Thirtythree September 8th, 2014 at 14:28
They are saying that because they live in that state they have a right to completely destroy every inch of it for their own personal gain. They have already shown that they will graze an area into dust and not pay for the damage they do. They are now using ATVs to destroy national parks and the government is not doing anything at all about it. It would take less than a minute for law enforcement to kill every single one of them if any of them make the mistake of pulling out a gun in DC.
They are domestic terrorists and we should all demand that they be treated as such, this is just insane.
William September 8th, 2014 at 14:57
Uh oh. This might just be as much as a catastrophic event as that million truck beltway shutdown that was going to force Obama to resign.
William September 8th, 2014 at 14:57
Uh oh. This might just be as much as a catastrophic event as that million truck beltway shutdown that was going to force Obama to resign.