Sunday morning Bundy ranch roundup.

Cliven Bundy and his GI Joe wannabes.

Okay, so for a few days now I have been trying to sit down and write about the goings on at the Bundy Ranch.

However, and this is no exaggeration, the moment I thought I had an interesting take on the situation, more crap would suddenly appear that was just as explosive and worthy of mention.

So I decided to just do a roundup of all of the most recent events and hopefully it will not prove to overwhelming or confusing.

First there is a response from the Metro police officers who were there on the day of the standoff: 

Metro police officers who were on the front lines when Cliven Bundy’s army of militiamen drew weapons and faced them down are speaking out. Officers say that they “feared for their lives.” 

Assistant Sheriff Joe Lombardo explained that “There was a possibility of somebody just having an accidental discharge causing a blood bath, because the individuals that were showing up, the militia quote unquote, were armed to the teeth.” 

According to 8 News NOW I-Team, “At least some of the militia members who pointed weapons at police officers during the confrontation may have wanted a violent outcome and tried to incite one.” 

Sgt. Tom Jenkins laid out the general feeling among the thirty police officers that stood between federal agents and Bundy’s domestic terrorists. “We didn’t show any fear that day, but I can tell you, we all thought in the back of our minds, we all thought it was going to be our last day on earth, if it went bad,”he explained.

Now remember these are not the federal agents that the Teabaggers are always vilifying, and claiming do not have rights in Nevada. These are local law enforcement who were simply doing their jobs.

Of course to the sane it is equally indefensible to threaten federal agents doing their jobs as well.

However threatening is apparently what these lunatics are all about.

This from the Daily Kos: 

Within the past few days, local 8 News NOW received Police Reports and other information that show Bundy's Anti-American, Anti-Government thugs: 

- "poured lighter fluid around" news trucks, 
- Issued "bomb threats" against Hotels where Federal employees were lodging, 
- told hotel staff they would be "dragged out in the parking lot and shot" 
- Bundy thugs asked Metro Police Sgt Jenkins if "he was ready to die"

And when these gun toting dipshits are not threatening others, they are fighting amongst themselves:  

Vicious infighting among those remaining at the camp – estimated at less than a hundred – broke out a little more than two weeks after heavily armed militiamen forced federal agents to back down from a planned roundup of Bundy’s illegally grazing cattle from public lands. After vowing to stay on and protect Bundy – who then stumbled on the national stage with an outpouring of racist commentary – the remaining “Patriots,” who have been raising fear levels among local residents, have begun feuding. And it has been revealing. 

Apparently, someone within one of the major factions at the camp, the Oath Keepers, relayed word of the imminent drone attack to his leaders. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes responded by pulling his people out of what they called “the kill zone” (the area the supposed drone would be striking). When the other militiamen learned that the Oath Keepers had pulled out, they were outraged.

Of course there was no drone attack, and only a moron would think there might be one, which caused the militia men to call the Oath Keepers "traitors" and cowards for leaving the "battlefield."

(And yes they do refer to the ranch as the "kill zone" so you can imagine the level of paranoia floating around that place.)

The Oath Keepers responded to these charges by making a few of their own:

RHODES (One of the Oath Keepers) : … and this is the tip of the iceberg of the cluster out there. One of our guys from Montana, Rick Delap, who was there from the beginning he’s been out there for 2 weeks in the dirt. The day of this confrontation [with Steve & John Bidler] I come to find out he [Rick Delap] had to draw on somebody. Two of the Mountain men guys came up to him — were aggressing on him. Then one of them ran back to his vehicle and grabbed an AR and came back with an AR in his hand and Rick had to draw on him. And those two ran off. That was this close [hand signals an inch] from Rick having to shoot that ding-a-ling. If that guy had raised his barrel, Rick would have had no choice but to shoot him.

How nobody has yet been shot at this ranch yet is beyond my comprehension.

But don't think that police, federal agents, hotel staff. and each other, are the only ones being threatened by this group.

Just take a look at how they harass a reporter who had the temerity to ask Cliven Bundy about his racist remarks:

I have seen numerous things in my life labeled a "powder keg" but I don;t think that there has been a time in recent memory where that was more apropos