In the U.S. government agencies were getting ready to impose solitary confinement on all 16 participants in the Oregon standoff, held in custody.

While 111.9 million viewers, making it the third most-watched television event in U.S. history, were watching the Super Bowl—a perfect captive audience for Beyonce’s halftime political tribute to Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panthers, this is what the strong arm of the government was doing.

Most of us struggling to make it through the Valley of Tears on earth know that “The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away”. The Feds taketh away millions of acres of prime land; taketh it for keeps and to never return it.

The Bundy affair left high-handed Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents looking defeated, so there would be no peace in the valley as long as Cliven Bundy was still out there living with freedom of movement.

Yesterday, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who refused to take part in the Jan. 2 takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns— was arrested at a commercial airport , booked on federal charges related, not to the Oregon standoff but to the 2014 standoff at his ranch.

The same government that allows terrorists masquerading as ‘refugees’ freedom of movement, tracks domestic dissenters through über surveillance to stop them dead in their tracks as they go about their private lives.

Even most terrorists are spared solitary confinement. But Islamic terrorists have free reign over civilians, not government officials.

Ranchers and farmers still daring to fight off the BLM are, so to speak, dead men walking toward a certain tragic end

All aware of the closing chapter of the 2014 standoff at the Bundy ranch when federal agents—”to avoid bloodshed”—retreated from the ranch with Bundy supporters returning Bundy’s government-impounded cattle found on federal property, knew down at heart that the end of the story would someday be written in blood.

“Bundy has been under federal scrutiny since his ranch standoff with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. He has not paid grazing fees on federal land and he owes the agency $1 million in unpaid fees and penalties. He and militia supporters confronted federal agents who had impounded Bundy’s cattle that were found on federal property. “ ()

To the all-powerful government, all farmers and ranchers in dissent can be treated the same way.

The fable that authorities were working “to avoid bloodshed” came to a dramatic end on January 26 when Oregon Occupation spokesman Robert “LaVoy” Finicum was shot down in cold blood by state police at a 40-armed-man, routine ‘traffic stop’.

Finicum’s death was all but ignored by the mainstream media who were preoccupied by other shiny pony pursuits.

A hardline ignored by most of the mainstream media, who know that people do not want to read about LaVoy Finicum, Cliven Bundy or any other small-time protesting rancher. People want to read about Donald Trump, Megyn Kelly and Beyonce.

For any who missed it, the government is sending out a loud and clear message to its people:

Do not even try to protest the imprisonment of any area ranchers in dispute over federal land ownership just because you see them as our neighbours;

Do not question the authority of the government in any way;

Do not talk but remain stoically silent about the death of any man shot down at one of our ‘traffic stops’.

We are the Government, the law unto ourselves;

We are the owners of your life, your land and the families who depend on you whenever and wherever we so choose.

Still, there are many who contend that trying to fight off land-stealing government , capable of controlling your every move and ones still being worked out in your head, makes no sense, even though human nature proves over and over again that the common serf, no matter how outnumbered, will always go down fighting when it comes to defending his way of being able to provide for his family.

They are all human tragedies in waiting.

It’s both honorable and tragic that rancher and farmer dissidents think that staying safe from the government is a matter of people learning all there is to know about the Constitution.

Free speech, the right to assemble and civil disobedience now face the barrel of Big Government’s gun

“Ammon and I have both felt everybody’s prayers and I’m grateful for that. We do believe that God is in charge … If you can study the Constitution and you can learn about your rights and you know what you can do, that’s how you can help. That’s how we can help each other,” Lisa Bundy told NewsMax TV.

“This is a call to action for any elected representative in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, the state of Washington and Ohio. You have constituents in federal custody. Please visit and contact them to voice your support for free speech, the right to assemble and civil disobedience ...”

But the Constitution is no more, Lisa. A president called Barack Obama seized it in the same manner that the BLM seizes your land. He shredded it into tatters, throwing its pieces like so much confetti into the winds over all 50 states.

Free speech, the right to assemble and civil disobedience now face the barrel of Big Government’s gun.

Governments of the day do not hear the prayers of their people, being in a firm state of denial of the entity to which all prayer is directed.

And it’s not just the hard-working people of the U.S. being crushed by the boot of Big Government, it’s happening all over the world. It’s happening In Europe, where Western leaders are allowing their own populations to be over-run by unvetted ‘refugees’; and in Canada where the new Obama-propelled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in office for only three months, is displacing the personnel of seven military bases with 50,000 refugees.

Meanwhile, all ranchers and farmers still daring to fight off the BLM are, so to speak, dead men walking toward a certain tragic end, an end that leaves their wives, children and grandchildren in inconsolable tears.