“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.“
Alexander Pope, 1711

The “S” word – Slav(e)

ahh! propaganda
a mind buds an infection
new provocateurs!

Remedy? (rationalism + empiricism) = “forced labor”

Haley, Graham, Scott, and Sanford don’t presume to have the garrisoning values of Thomas Sumter or the field experience of Francis Marion, fighters who both opposed British forces in South Carolina during the war for independence. Yet, these politicians still cajole, reinforce, and shape information for what performs as a resident colony, dependent upon the decennial census, first administered in 1790. These officials did not attend the 11 April event dedicating a statue to U.S. District Judge Julius Waties Waring. Known for his forthright stance on the harm caused by legislated social segregation, his professionalism led him to write, “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

Why attend an event connected to someone who advocated changing the ethno-communalistic social structures of the old so-called confederacy? Why comply with Attorney General William Holder when any surveillance by frequenting sociopaths may jeopardize a Congressional District? The press coverage drew attention to Haley’s significant fundraising advantage over her challenger. Graham’s meeting with “young professionals” at a Greenville restaurant must have had real significance.

This symbol, originally named Gerrymander to indicate the inventive accounting of political districts, had its first occurrence in Pennsylvania.

Do these political choices present attitudes that maintain the “classic viewpoint”? Isolating the realities of labor exploitation and past disfranchisement through nefarious methods satisfied their investment. Moreover, as Benjamin Franklin said, “time is money”. With these four politicians absent, the dedication did not receive a “full distribution” of state funds. Business appeared more critical, whether from a “colonial” analysis or not.

Now, we frequently monitor the compactness of a CD as a gerrymandered entity. CDs represent partisan temper. Some who represent these “colonies” have strong intrastate and interstate connections. It requires strong, viable politicians and a knowledgeable retinue to receive monetary stipends/donations to meet the necessary demands in controlling the flow of information that fits the electorate during election cycles. The individuals and organizations that support and send monetary installments have a direct influence on politicians to meet near-term and long-term obligations.

A constructive issue that pinpoints the static division in how controllers and the public will narrate in Nevada generates an opportunity. The Republican Party has not had a controlling presence in the Nevada Assembly since 1985. Now, Democrats have a slight majority in the state’s Senate, thanks to redistricting negotiations that also take into account prison populations.

So, as the 2014 elections loom, several Republicans, within earshot of the 2014 tax return deadline, joined in admonishing the Federal Government’s handling of a Federal tax matter. The case follows that, since 1993, a rancher has refused to pay grazing fees. In addition to this theater, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, under Republican control, continued to investigate the Internal Revenue Service’s management of tax-exempt groups.

To set the background for this dispute, a snippet of information helps to mitigate this disruption.

Recently, the United States Congress passed the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. Congress enacted this act to regulate and prevent overgrazing of public lands, to mitigate conflicts between sheep and cattle operators, and to protect the fauna and flora in the designated zone. This act fulfilled the clear and present responsibilities of the Federal Government, as mandated by the laws of the United States Constitution, Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2, according to the property clause. Favorably, this same clause prevented the state of New Mexico from removing some wild burros and horses from Federal land. In addition, groups have characterized the Mustang as a symbol of freedom and security.

The rancher, Cliven Bundy, publicly demonstrated his disobedience by refusing to pay taxes on protected land that his cattle grazed in Gold Butte, Nevada. The Federal Bureau of Land Management administers this zone. On 5 April, an operation to round up “trespass cattle” began. Soon, the recalcitrant rancher received aid and comfort from a large number of individuals who held firearms and taunted Federal officers and wranglers, persons hired to collect the cattle.

At that point, when a possible deadly confrontation between BLM officers and the rancher-voluntarist group, politicians from Nevada and other states decided to render verbal and economic support to the rancher. Obviously, in their opinion, the Federal Government, under the management of President Barack Obama, had no legitimate right to force the removal of the rancher’s cattle. That approach supplemented the rancher’s viewpoint: he did not pay rents on his “inherited property,” which was caused by not consenting to a “tyrannical regime,” a national government that offered no quality of life.

Similarly, armed individuals, many of whom bore militia credentials, failed to adopt a reasonable approach to due diligence when agreeing with the rancher. Another ruse expressing false motivations took place in 1857, when Paiutes, ever wary of settlers and land grabbers, supported a Mormon attack upon immigrants who needed to pass through “Mormon lands”. The leaders of the Mountain Meadow Massacre promised cattle during their deliberations.

Gold Butte locates 124 mi S-S/W of the Mountain Meadows. In the rancher’s act of refusing his political obligation, he indicated that he prioritized his Mormon heritage and inheritance, specifically citing one person who had a direct link to the MMM. In that act, the perpetrators of mass murder refused every political obligation to enter as full members of society. Unfortunately, some of the ranchers’ supporters didn’t realize this interpolation.

Republican type politicians in Nevada and other states recognized that they had “safe” political districts, and, because of the disruption, might secure voters away from the Democrats in the November 2014 elections. Offsetting these “trusting politicians”, which included Dean Heller from Nevada, Rand Paul from Kentucky, Greg Abbott and Rick Perry from Texas, to name some, as well as media centers like Fox News, Bundy used his right of free speech.

On 19 April, the rancher threw his cow chip in such a manner that the current lineup of supporters reached for their denial statements. Bundy spoke on the issue of forced labor, done by a majority of pre-twentieth-century immigrants from Africa, and by transitive law, any other ethnic group, and how those groups valued that oppressive condition. Most current Republican-type politicians have distanced themselves from the recent comments made by their former, useful protégé.

They want their safe CDs to feel sympathy for them. Knowing Alexander Pope‘s often quoted poetic lines from his work, An Essay on Criticism: “To err is humane: to forgive, divine.” But the lobby sees more, in its opposite: “For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

Yes, “time is money”! And any savvy politician would have recognized the archetypal personality this rancher displayed earlier. So, time, money, and work will decide if their gerrymandered “colonies” remain safe.

Enjoy the haiku!

Ron Alexander Ph.D.