In reading Robert Gehrke’s article about Cliven Bundy and his band of misfits, I concur totally that this man and his family are nothing more than thieves in sheep’s clothing. Crying that they are being persecuted by the federal government for asking what is rightly theirs, payment in full for use of federal land.

Yet Bundy thinks those are his rights, according to the Constitution, to use and abuse land he thinks is his personally. No, Mr. Bundy, it’s not your land, it’s our land and we want payment immediately. You have no right to that land; you did not homestead it, or pay for it. Why? Because it’s federal land. That means it belongs to everyone, not you personally.

But then again this is why the country is in the hands of a man, or should I say the tweeter in chief, who has the same exact reasoning. It’s his government, it’s his military, it’s his way or the highway. As long as our representatives turn a blind eye to what the executive is doing, our country will continue to dive deeper and deeper into what none of us want to hear, a dictatorial regime. Democracy will only be thought of in the past tense.

Thank God for the free press — it does keep some semblance of a real and working democracy. We can only hope that the country will come to its senses, and actually vote for people with integrity. And not allow the Cliven Bundys of this world to continue to act in such a selfish and belligerent way, holding them accountable for their actions.