Gun lobbyist hopeful that Bundy militia will block feds if they try to do anything, anywhere

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Apparently, "sheriffs" and "militias" are the center of all legitimate political power in the new Wingnut political cosmology. Any geographical/political region larger than a county doesn't really exist, because freedom!

We can all go back to feudalism, with local warlords!

Gun Owners of America director Larry Pratt made the comments over the weekend while interviewing former Sheriff Richard Mack, the founder of the posse group called the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.

Pratt said the federal government had “really embarrassed themselves” during the armed standoff between BLM agents and militia members in Nevada.

“Hopefully, they are not going to be able to recover from this, because if there is anything at all similar, be it cows or a mine or cutting trees or anything of that sort where, typically in the West, those are the kind of situations where the feds think they got it all,” he said. “It is time that, hopefully Bundy is going to be the encouragement — or maybe from the feds view the match in the gasoline — that redirects the way the federal government has been handling its unauthorized, unconstitutional, very poor stewardship of so much of the West.”

Pratt and Mack also proposed a solution to the drought in California. Sheriffs should force utilities to divert water to farmers in arid regions in the state, they said.

“You mentioned mining and logging,” Mack remarked. “The other one was actual farming, where the federal government has turned off the water to the San Joaquin Valley in California, where we get 50 percent of our fruits, vegetables, and nuts for this entire country.”

“You know, we need a sheriff there that is just going to walk into the water facility and turn it back on,” Pratt replied.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/13/gun-lobbyist-hopeful-that-bundy-militia-will-block-feds-if-they-try-to-do-anything-anywhere/

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1. The barbarians killed Rome by destroying the aqueduct

This fellow hopes to do the same by cutting off water to 20 million Southern California residents.

As in the 5th century, the result would be a new Dark Ages.

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3. Has there been *any* response from the federal government about this?

Or have they all just decided to let these thugs take over?

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2. Pratt oozes hate and intolerance........

Date of Birth: Nov. 13, 1942
Location: Springfield, Va.
Most Recent Group: Gun Owners of America
Ideology: Patriot Movement
Larry Pratt stands at the intersection of guns and Jesus, lobbying for absolutely unrestricted distribution of firearms while advocating a theocratic society based upon Old Testament civil and religious laws. A pivotal figure in the rise of right-wing militia, or “Patriot,” groups, he spoke at the notorious 1992 “Gathering of Christian Men” in Estes Park, Colo., where 160 neo-Nazis, Klan members, anti-Semitic Christian Identity adherents and others arguably laid the groundwork for the militia movement that would explode in 1994. He believes that white Christians must arm themselves for self-protection in the inevitable social implosions and riots that are soon to come.

In His Own Words
“We are looking at a major assault on the right to keep and bear arms, and it is kind of reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, where they used doctors as part of their torture routines and got people sent to the camps for improvement of their mental health."
—"Talk to Solomon Show," 2013

‘While the United States has forgotten its success in this area, other countries have rediscovered them. It is time that the United States return to reliance on an armed people. There is no acceptable alternative."
—Armed People Victorious (comparing militias during the American revolution to death squads in Guatemala), 1990

"The right to keep and bear arms is just as important today as when the Bill of Rights was drafted. The right to keep and bear arms will be important until Christ comes again, because until then, people will be sinful. Crooks will steal, and murderers will kill, and government officials will tyrannize. The common thread is man presuming to make himself into a God."
—"Tools of Biblical Resistance," 1983



Background:
During his nearly 40-year tenure as executive director of Gun Owners of America (GOA), Larry Pratt has positioned the organization as a more radical alternative to the National Rifle Association (NRA). This radicalism is reflected not only by an absolute "no-compromise" stance on gun control, but also by Pratt's ties to the militia movement, white supremacist organizations, and Christian theocrats. Nonetheless, with the support of GOA's 300,000 members and a Beltway lobbying effort, Pratt continues to be heeded by some in Congress and the national media.

More at - http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/Larry-Pratt