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Bundy: Aiming Weapons At Cops Vs. Ferguson–There ARE Two Americas (Picture)
On Wednesday night, I had snarked on Twitter about the lack of so-called “Tea Party” “patriots” — like those brave boys and girls who, earlier this year, pointed their big assault-rifles at federal officials to protect the “right” of a scofflaw rancher in Nevada to illegally graze his cattle for free on land that he did not own — failing to show up to protect the actual rights and freedoms of so many being denied them byactual Big Government Tyranny in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.
Some Rightwingers, like libertarian Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com shot back at me (figuratively) on Twitter, arguing that “The Bundy patriots didn’t take BS from the cops. They stood and fought,” adding that the Ferguson protesters were facing the “same fight” and, had those protesters only brought guns with them, the police would have backed down. Or something.
“Would the cops be murdering blacks in #Ferguson if the people were armed? No,” Raimondo told me, as if he just arrived in the U.S. from some other planet. “Armed resistance tends to discourage aggression,” he insisted, between some silly ad hominem bluster in which he charged me with “worship[ing]“ the government, and“lov[ing] the state that murders blacks” (also of being a “loser” with a “fat ass” or some such, but that’s even easier to laugh at).
And then something changed on the streets of Ferguson Thursday night, which made Raimondo’s comments seem even more transparently silly. MOREHERE
