Some Despicable Republicans Knew That Cliven Bundy Is a Racist

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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/25/despicable-republicans-knew-cliven-bundy-racist.html

Some Despicable Republicans Knew That Cliven Bundy Is a Racist
By: Rmuse
Friday, April, 25th, 2014, 10:04 am


It is difficult to conceal a belief borne of a lifetime of conditioning, and it is not unusual for people to be shocked to learn a person that they believed, say, loved the nation of Israel was really an anti-Semite when the person used an bigoted epithet toward Jews. In that situation, the people who were not stunned were the person’s German immigrant family who worked for the Nazis prior and during World War II. The news that Cliven Bundy revealed, in an interview, he had racist opinions about “the Negro” appeared to be a stunning revelation to Republicans defending the deadbeat criminal as a patriot hero. However outraged they tried to appear, their shock and disgust appeared to be feigned to conceal that they knew all along about Bundy’s racial animus toward African Americans.

The list of Bundy’s supporters who knew he was a racist is likely lengthier than one imagines, if for no other reason than his oft-repeated lie and absurd justification for illegally grazing his cattle on federal land. He asserted he had supremacy over the federal government because his Mormon ancestors settled the land in the 1870s and that he inherited grazing, pre-emptive, and special land use rights. There are no records to back up his ancestral claims to land the United States purchased from Mexico, but his ancestors were Mormons. What is in the historical record and fairly common knowledge is that prior to 1978, Mormons regarded African Americans as cursed by god. They abruptly reversed their beliefs according to a heavenly revelation when President Jimmy Carter threatened to revoke the LDS church’s tax-exempt status; the church never repudiated or apologized for actively discriminating against African Americans.

One Republican who supported Bundy wholeheartedly, Republican Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, certainly knew the Mormon rancher was a racist in spite of saying he “completely disagrees with Mr. Bundy’s appalling and racist statements, and condemns them in the most strenuous way.” Heller, like Bundy, is a Mormon who grew up learning that African Americans were cursed by god and was one of Bundy’s earliest supporters labelling him and armed militias confronting government agents “patriots.” Heller was such an avid Bundy supporter he called for Senate investigations into the Interior Department “to find out who is accountable for this. This being the Interior Department for executing a federal court order; not the racist Bundy.

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The Kochs certainly knew of Bundy and Mack’s racist views because Mack, and possibly even Bundy, learned them from Charles and David Koch’s father’s fascist and racist startup, the John Birch Society. The Kochs’ fascist-libertarian belief tank, Americans for Prosperity, were active supporters of racists Bundy and Mack and it is impossible to even consider that AFP did not know their ideological origins, or religious foundation, that identified both men as racists; particularly because AFP is purported to be a research oriented and driven “think tank.” Now it can add “advocate for racists re-cast as patriots battling the federal government” to its résumé. The Kochs had an intense profit-driven motive for supporting Bundy to incite the public against federally-owned land the brothers want.

It is bad enough Republicans and conservative media actively supported Bundy for trespassing on federal land and bilking taxpayers out of $1.1 million and counting, but that they heaped enduring praise on him with clear knowledge of his background is despicable. Republicans in Congress that supported, and even praised, Bundy knowing he was violating court orders and guilty of armed confrontation of federal agents have no right criticizing the racist now; particularly because they knew his religious background; they also work for the Kochs.

However, Dean Heller distinguished himself as a racist supporter and rank hypocrite because he grew up in the same Mormon culture that indoctrinated Bundy into believing that Black people are cursed by god. After suffering through months and months of Willard Romney two years ago, few Americans are ignorant of the sad history of Latter Day Saint racial animus toward “the Negro.” The one Cliven Bundy said “Abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. They got less freedom;” because there are so many Cliven Bundy’s in Congress and America.

[jwirr]

1. Are we certain they are Mormon? And someone said they may have sister wives which suggests

polygamy. This would go a long way in explaining where the anti-government ideas come from.

[DiverDave]

2. I am shocked

and appalled

[Wounded Bear]

3. Some? Yeah, right...

Add to it the probable percentage of all those RW militia gun nuts out there supporting him being white supremacists.

I'd say it was only a matter of time before the racial contingent came out.

[Gothmog]

4. The history and views of the sovereign citizen movement is well documented

Only an idiot could claim to not know the history and the well documented views of the sovereign citizen movement. Hannity is lying when he claims that he had no idea as to these views.

[2naSalit]

5. RMS yesterday...

Interesting...

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Hannity and the brass at FoxNews also knew about the racism

There is no way they didn't. The backtracking is just because they got outed when Bundy mouthed off. Hannity knew and he agrees.