National Review Writer Compares Cliven Bundy To Mahatma Gandhi

Tyler Lewis, from St. George, Utah, stands in the middle of north bound I-15 with his gun near Bunkerville, Nev. while gathering with other supporters of the Bundy family to challenge the Bureau of Land Management on... Tyler Lewis, from St. George, Utah, stands in the middle of north bound I-15 with his gun near Bunkerville, Nev. while gathering with other supporters of the Bundy family to challenge the Bureau of Land Management on April 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jason Bean) MORE LESS
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Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy’s armed stand against federal officials this weekend is reminiscent of Mahatma Gandhi, the civil rights hero who championed civil disobedience through nonviolent means, according to one National Review correspondent.

Arguing on behalf of “a little sedition,” Kevin D. Williamson wrote Tuesday that Bundy was simply following the likes of Gandhi, America’s Founding Fathers, fugitive slaves, and even protesters who threw up barricades during the federal government shutdown last year.

Of course the law is against Cliven Bundy. How could it be otherwise? The law was against Mohandas Gandhi, too, when he was tried for sedition; Mr. Gandhi himself habitually was among the first to acknowledge that fact, refusing to offer a defense in his sedition case and arguing that the judge had no choice but to resign, in protest of the perfectly legal injustice unfolding in his courtroom, or to sentence him to the harshest sentence possible, there being no extenuating circumstances for Mr. Gandhi’s intentional violation of the law.

Williamson added that while “Bundy’s stand should not be construed as a general template for civic action, it is nonetheless the case that, in measured doses, a little sedition is an excellent thing.”

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  1. Just a bit of a stretch perhaps?

    I had forgotten that Ghandi was armed and contemplated hiding behind women, must be my dementia setting in again!

  2. Those who misread history are doomed to misrepeat it…or something.

  3. The amount of Double Think the clowns on the right have to engage in to vomit up this level of stupid is truly breathtaking.

  4. Occupy Wall Street Declaration by Kevin D. Williamson - October 2011

    So a bunch of dirty hippies shut down the Brooklyn Bridge because Goldman Sachs is mean to chickens. Or something.

  5. “Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy’s armed stand against federal officials this weekend is reminiscent of Mahatma Gandhi, the civil rights hero who championed civil disobedience through nonviolent means, according to one National Review correspondent.”

    This is just irrational. Gandhi would have absolutely rejected anything resembling the crowd around Mr Bundy who are armed and ready to be violent it seems. Gandhi faced down the British by nonviolent means. There’s a huge huge difference between Bundy and Gandhi. The law is against Bundy precisely because Me Bundy BROKE THE LEASE by choosing to not pay the fee. In doing that he lost any legal standing he might have had.

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