TheHeretic
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I saw this blowing up the news feeds today, DC, and I'm curious about something. The guy holds ignorant and offensive views on a subject totally unrelated to land use regulations. So what? Does finding a way to apply some personal destruction to him effectively negate the entire question of land use regulation? To me, it speaks to the fact that Bundy is not just some unfortunate John Q. Citizen--or American hero--who's being tormented by evil regulators, but someone who seems to have some axes of his own to grind. I don't think anyone was likely to see him as a John Q. Everyman, DC. He seemed pretty blatant about being an anti-government dickhead. I haven't followed the thing very closely, but what I have seen makes him remind me of some of our local types who are engaged in never ending battles with the code enforcement and building permit agencies of local government. Some of those legal fights will go on for 20 years or more, before they go off to jail for 3-6 months, and the bulldozers finally roll. A few things strike me with this case. Bundy wasn't very sympathetic a figure to begin with, but he tapped right in to an engorged vein of hostility towards government. People are ready to stand up with even the flimsiest of reasons. I think we'll see more such actions. The feds stood down from the confrontation. I'd like to know where in the chain of command that decision was made, and I'd really like to know what the calculation was. As I mentioned, the racist comments blew up the news feeds I follow, but all I really had time to do was scan who was reporting it, and maybe how the headline and lead were written. Bundy went from being a kook with some lunatic fringe supporters, to being a pet cause of conservatives at large awfully quickly, once the racist charge came into play.
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