This protest was the brainchild of a public official, San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman, who contends that this town of 3,500 residents has tried hard to compromise with the bureau to reopen scenic Recapture Canyon to all-terrain vehicles. BLM officials banned the vehicles to protect archaeological sites, a move residents say has cheated them out of a prime recreational area.
Unlike in the Bundy incident, no guns were brandished here, but the words were volatile. "If you make a rule that I have to lick your boots," Lyman said of federal officials, "I'm just not going to do that."
"This is not about Recapture. It is not about ATVs. It is not politics, it is not economics," he said. "It is part of who I am. It is part of Blanding, and it is our culture, too. We don't not want to see groups come in and say these trails did not exist ... it was a thoroughfare since the mid-1800s."
Which is about when a big-government program called the U.S. Cavalry came along and cleared out all the natives so that, one day, Phil Lyman could help people dodge taxes and act like a jackass on weekends.
If you vote for Phil Lyman, you are voting for sedition.
If you are Fox News, and you celebrate him, you are celebrating sedition.
It is long past time for the Republican party to fish or cut bait on this end of movement conservatism.
Either support the seditious philosophy of local control, or oppose it.
But they shouldn't be allowed any more to use its energy during election years and then walk away after the votes are cast.
There far too much loose talk in respectable Republican circles about nullification, secession, and the crackpot theories of county government that used to be the exclusive ideological province of the Posse Comitatus movement.
(There is also too much loose talk about impeachment, too, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of scrod.) Increasingly, there is no apparent fringe to conservative rhetoric, let alone any real limits.
Somebody within that party has to step up and rein this lunacy in, or else embrace it publicly as the party's basic philosophy, or else euphemisms may not be the only things that die in those deserts.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politic...protest-051214
Have to wonder how much of this bubba bawling, roused rabble, conspiracies, witch hunting, govt defieance would have happened under a Repug WH?
Obviously under Clinton and now The Negro, it's going full blast