{"id":1153,"date":"2014-08-16T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2014-08-16T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T18:10:38","slug":"an-interesting-comparison-bundy-ranch-vs-ferguson-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/16\/an-interesting-comparison-bundy-ranch-vs-ferguson-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting comparison:  Bundy Ranch Vs. Ferguson, Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailybanter.com\/2014\/08\/two-americas-ferguson-missouri-versus-bundy-ranch-nevada\/#.U-yS5f6X1tw.facebook\" title=\"Daily Banter\">Daily Banter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1) The Bundy Ranch:<\/strong> On one hand, a large group of armed white men marched in a line of battle while at least one civilian rifleman in a sniper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perch trained his weapon at Bureau of Land Management officials. In reaction, the government didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fire a single round or canister of tear gas, and eventually retreated, conceding the disputed ground to the Bundy militias. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to note that the protesters turned out in support of a man who refused to pay his taxes and grazed his cattle without paying the accompanying fees. This man, Cliven Bundy, and his supporters threatened secession and armed revolt against the United States goverment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Ferguson, Missouri:<\/strong> On the other hand, unarmed African American protesters in Ferguson, enraged and grieving from the death of an (again) unarmed black man named Michael Brown who was shot in the back by a police officer, have been confronted for several days now by police in full military regalia. This time, the rifleman in the sniper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perch is a police officer \u00e2\u20ac\u201d his scope trained on the protesters.<br \/>\nIn Ferguson, law enforcement is vastly overreacting in the face of peaceful protesters, while at the Bundy Ranch, law enforcement vastly underreacted in the face of armed secessionists and scofflaws.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Certainly looting and violence needs to be curtailed, but peaceful protesters have protected rights.  And anyway, Bundy was &#8220;looting&#8221;, and continues to loot, a lot more value than anyone stole in Ferguson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Daily Banter: 1) The Bundy Ranch: On one hand, a large group of armed white men marched in a line of battle while at least one civilian rifleman in a sniper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perch trained his weapon at Bureau of Land Management officials. In reaction, the government didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fire a single round or canister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}