Andrew Malcolm
Investors.com
4/15/2014
It was a tense standoff in rural Nevada with armed protesters closing I-15 for a while and facing off against even more heavily-armed federal agents.
For now, that volatile Bundy Ranch confrontation has been defused. But it’s not over by any means. And we may well experience others that do not pause in non-violence.
These are profound disputes illustrative of abiding suspicions among average Americans and their government headed by a man who promised to bring people together but didn’t. And it comes in an uncertain economic time when so many have given up big dreams to just keep what they have.
The specific Nevada dispute, such as it is, has been simmering for 21 years between a Mormon cattle rancher named Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management, better-known in the West as BLMM, the Bureau of Land Mis-Management.
But the far larger issue, most intense in the West, involves a mounting distrust and suspicion of all things federal — Congress, the bureaucracy and especially an aloof president. His perceived interests are inserting an over-reaching government into the lives of every American for their own good from closing coal mines and rewriting restaurant menus to seizing private property and regulating cow farts.
The leaders of Syria and Russia are not the only ones who’ve noticed Barack Obama’s empty words, faux red lines and chronic inaction. It’s registered on his own countrymen as well…
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Jason Bean / AP (Bundy Ranch protesters observe the National Anthem.)
Update: A family affair: Now Harry Reid’s son says Cliven Bundy ‘should be prosecuted’ (video)
‘He’s not a victim and he’s not a hero’
Corrected
