Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
This demonstrates that a certain percentage of Americans will see idiots as heroes, and another (smaller) percentage will actually emulate them. I think we as a society need to make it perfectly clear that the Bundys are NOT heroes and if you think they are, then you are a fool.
Indeed, and as I wrote here:

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Federal prosecutors would be wise to deal with this W. Cleon Skousen "pocket-sized Constitution" idiocy at the Bundy's upcoming trials, swiftly, before this issue totally gets out of hand - else we'll be playing paranoid SovCit insurancy-militia Whack-A-Mole™ with their uneducated and unorthodox views of the Constitution for a very long time in the future.

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