The Source Of Bundy's Crackpot Constitutionalism

[Luddly Neddite]

EXPOSED: The Source Of Cliven Bundy's Crackpot Constitutionalism

Bundy has resisted paying to graze his cattle on federal land because he doesn't recognize the authority of the government to assess those fees. His argument has lost repeatedly in court, but he continues to ignore his responsibility and to defy the law. His malfeasance amounts to the theft of over a million dollars from the American people. Ironically, if his argument prevailed he would be subject to paying the state of Nevada for grazing rights at $15.50 per head of cattle, rather than the federal rate of $1.35. But simple math, like simple logic, is too complicated for these cretins. So instead, they take up arms against their fellow Americans and pretend to defend their twisted misinterpretation of the Constitution.

Now we have evidence of where Bundy may have picked up his constitutional delusions. In a recent media appearance, Bundy was proudly displaying a copy of the Constitution in his shirt pocket.

After searching for the distinctive cover of the document in Bundy's pocket, the publisher turned out to be the innocuously named National Center for Constitutional Studies (NCCS). However, the NCCS is not the commendable educational organization it purports to be. It began life as the Freemen Institute, a vehicle for the far-right, Mormon, anti-commie, history revisionist, W. Cleon Skousen. Skousen taught that the Constitution was inspired by a God who intended America to be a Christian nation. He also professed the canon of white supremicism that Anglo-Saxons are descended from a lost tribe of Israel. The Southern Poverty Law Center chronicled the NCCS curriculum based on Skousen's philosophy saying that he...

"...demonized the federal regulatory agencies, arguing for the abolition of everything from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to the Environmental Protection Agency. He wanted to repeal the minimum wage, smash unions, nullify anti-discrimination laws, sell off public lands and national parks, end the direct election of senators, kill the income tax and the estate tax, knock down state-level walls separating church and state, and, of course, raze the Federal Reserve System."

 

[AvgGuyIA]

The Constitution of the United States is a crackpot document?

 

[OKTexas]

The only thing crackpot is this thread.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Cleon Skousen, the John Birch Society, and the Freeman Institute: wacko far right weirdness. The old Mormon "the Constitution will hand by a thread only to be saved by the priesthood" nonsense.

 

[KNB]

Was anyone surprised that Teabagger Conservatives weren't smart enough to understand what was being said?

 

[OKTexas]

Was anyone surprised that Teabagger Conservatives weren't smart enough to understand what was being said?

Exactly where did the OP point where the copy of the Constitution wasn't accurate? It's irrelevant who prints it as long as it's accurate.

 

[DiamondDave]

The only thing crackpot is this thread.

And the article in the KOS it is based on

The KOS claiming that another source is inappropriate.. fucking laughable

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Shouldn't this be in Conspiracy Theories?

 

[HenryBHough]

If it's a true and accurate copy of The U.S. Constitution then it's easy to see why the Marx-O-Crat extreme is so exercised!

Wanna get cavity searched by TSA?

Have a copy of The U.S. Constitution in your shirt pocket when you're porno-o-rayed.

 

[occupied]

The guy has some peculiar notions but in all likelihood one of the militia goons had probably just handed it to him, doesn't look like it's been opened and read.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

I'm sure [MENTION=32558]Luddly Neddite[/MENTION] and his Progressives scum would also like to tell us that the NSA is perfectly Constitutional.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

I literally have that exact same copy of the Constitution given to me for free by my college during Constitution Day festivities. This thread is nonsensical demagoguery.