The taunt is meant to send chills down the spines of all freedom-loving Americans fighting the federal land monopoly in America’s great but diminishing West.
The gun-toting Bundy ranch intruders had already run off land owners and ranchers from the 84 percent of the land it holds in the state of Nevada before trying to run Bundy’s cattle to collapse from heat exhaustion on the weekend of April 12-13.
According to the unlikely soothsayer of the dingy looks, “something is going to happen” to get Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to stop letting his cattle graze on federal land. (BBS Las Vegas/AP, April 22, 2014)
“It’s obvious that you can’t just walk away from this. And we can speculate all we want to speculate to what’s going to happen next,” Reid told KSNV-TV. “But I don’t think it’s going to be tomorrow that something is going to happen, but something will happen. We are a nation of laws, not of men and women.”
Dingy Harry threw in calling militias staying at Bundy’s Bunkerville ranch “domestic violent terrorist-wannabes” for good measure.
The shock waves never travelled very far from Reid’s crystal ball because most folk know that Democrats have long smeared all resisters to Big Government as “domestic terrorists”:
All, that is, other than the 200 armed federal officer snipers who showed up at the Bundy ranch to run his cattle off.
In 2011, vice president Joe Biden likened Tea Partiers to terrorists: “Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing Tea Party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having acted like terrorists in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit.” (Politico, Aug. 2, 2011)
Democrat Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Ten) spoke plainly when he called Tea Party members of Congress “domestic enemies”:
Cohen told MSNBC host Steve Kornacki “I obviously do not have an opportunity to go within the conference, the Republican, we call it a caucus, they call it a conference. But I know some of the members there, and a lot of those members, they’re rabid, they’re sophomoric, literally, they’re second term in congress, never worked in politics before, and they think they are somehow like--it’s all talked in military terms.
“Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic caucus and give or take 80 reasonable Republicans and passed some bills to avoid another CR problem and shut down and avoid the debt crisis, protect the country from these people, who really, you got to think, we take an oath to support the country against all enemies foreign and domestic, and these are the domestic enemies.” (
NewsBusters, October 19, 2013 )
But Dingy Harry’s crystal ball prophecy about something going to happen to get Cliven Bundy to stop letting his cattle graze on federal land doesn’t fool anybody.
Dingy Harry knows more than anyone else when his taunt will become reality because Dirty Harry is, tragically, The Government.
What is happening at the government-harassed Bundy ranch is proof positive that business owners
OWE their success to government investment in infrastructure
and other projects, just as President Barack Obama said in Roanoke, Va. (Wikipedia claims that his words were taken out of context notwithstanding).
“President Obama, in a speech to supporters, suggested business owners owe their success to government investment in infrastructure and other projects -- saying “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” (
Fox News, July 16, 2012)
“Obama’s comment Friday during a campaign stop in Roanoke, Va., came just days after he urged Congress to extend tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration only to families earning less than $250,000 annually -- part of his argument that top earners have an obligation to pay more to trim the deficit.
“There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me because they want to give something back,” the president said. “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,” he said. “The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”
Meanwhile, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev), who wants congressional hearings held about BLM trying to round-up Bundy’s cattle: “I want to talk about the fact that they have this kind of authority and the ability to bully and to come in with 200 armed men into a situation like this. I would like to have hearings. I want to find out who’s accountable for this”, should look no further than Obama’s “you didn’t build that” theory.
When Reid’s prediction of “something will happen” becomes reality, it will come with the government stamp: “You didn’t build that, Bundy”.
