I'm not even going to entertain this whole issue with Bundy being a racists. It is a distraction from the real issues and will only bring up the same old discussion and emphasize division. It has nothing to do with what really matters is this case.
I agree. This new issue was raked up just to weaken the anti-BLM militia. And the smear campaign aimed at them may be used to justify any heavy handed action by the feds later.
Similar to Waco: Much of what the media said about their leader was later shown to (probably) not be true.
I'm to chicken-shit to even look into the Waco thing because I'm afraid of what I might find. Hard to admit, but it's basically close to the truth.
I will mention that back in the Tim McVeigh time, I was getting most of my news from the mainstream media and was much more trusting of it than I am now. Even so, when they said that cops stopped McVeigh and found a knife under his seat and kept him in jail for three days, and it was only at the last minute when he was about to be released that someone happened to notice he looked like a poster, it raised my eyebrows. It simply did not make sense, and there is no way that they would now or would then arrest some random guy and hold someone in jail for three days for such an infraction.
This does not prove that McVeigh is innocent or that the basics of the story are not more or less accurate. It is pretty solid evidence that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Any number of yarns can be spun about what 'the rest of the story' might be. Today, however long after the event, I am much more inclined to consider the various different yarns to be worthy of exploration. That's the cost of producing obvious bullshit for public consumption, but fortunately (for the Feds) not a high fraction of the population shares my sentiment.
I am quite convinced that there was a high level political decision to pursue 'homegrown terror' in the Clinton times, just as there was a high level political decision to find 'Muslims' during the Bush Jr. times. In both cases it went out of control and people who didn't deserve it got mistreated (up to the point of being killed in fact.) THIS is the nucleus of my concern about excess power in the central government, and it's not just some minor corner-case threat to our social fabric. It has the potential to build into something truly awful and felt across the social spectrum. It is, in short, a very bad foundation construct just as is the related NSA domestic surveillance framework.