Welcome to 2016: don’t forget potable water, it’s very important

(fourth in a short series: here are part one, part two, and part three)

This tweet is so good, I’m stealing it:

Now, I am no expert in the details of grazing rights or the Bureau of Land Management and its long history of conflict with western ranchers (or the apparent connection with Mormonism). But I do know that when you have a constitutional grievance with the federal government, the proper redress is to take the government to court, not to form an armed mob and start seizing public buildings while threatening violence if anybody tries to stop your obvious law-breaking. Of course, it’s possible that the mob’s leaders are worried that their grievance might not pass muster in court. And given that their grievance seems to be that the federal government won’t let them plunder the public commons scot-free (even getting to plunder them at a substantial discount seems not to be good enough for these intrepid models of self-sufficiency), they may very well be right.

I also know that when the local politicians and presidential candidates of your favorite political party, the people in the surrounding community, your church, your fellow fringe right-wing anarchists, and even the family for whom you claim to be protesting are telling you to cut the shit, it’s probably time to cut the shit. Unless your real purpose is just scoring some cheap publicity.

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