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April 17, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2

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	Yes, America's anchorman is away.
	As you know, he's in California having surgery while you still can.
	Rush, by the way, does things the old-fashioned way.
	And when he wants medical treatment, he goes to see a doctor.
	And at the end of seeing the doctor, he gets his checkbook out and writes a check.
	That's the way he does that.
	There's a hospital in southern New Hampshire that has made that illegal.
	that won't take you now.
	If you come in because you've been shot in a liquor store holdup and you're bleeding all over the floor, and they say, well, what kind of insurance do you have?
	Do you have Blue Cross Blue Shield or Blue Shield Blue Cross?
	Which is it?
	And they say, I don't have any, but I've got a checkbook here.
	I've got a wallet full of cats.
	They won't take it.
	They won't take it.
	They won't take a gold bar.
	They won't take doubloons from the pirates of the Caribbean treasure chest.
	They won't even take Canadian dollars.
	They're worried.
	Basically, they're worried that they're going to be in non-compliance with Obamacare if they accept paying customers.
	Paying customers.
	Don't let that idea catch on or the whole system will go to hell.
	So they won't even take.
	So what Rush does, like when he had his heart problems and they say, are you Blue Cross, Blue Shield, or Blue Shield, Blue Cross, or Blue Blue, Shield Cross, or Shield Cross, Blue Blue?
	They say, no, Rush says, no, I'm just going to write you a check.
	They're not going to do that.
	They're not going to do that at this hospital.
	And this is interesting.
	At some point, it will be illegal just to break your leg and pay a couple of hundred dollars to the doctor to have him reset your leg or whatever it costs now.
	But Rush is away.
	He's itching to get back.
	He's itching once he's had this new ear, this bionic ear attached.
	He will be here in the middle of next week.
	But in the meantime, I'm here.
	Buck Sexton's here for Good Friday.
	What's the day they do the Easter egg roll at the White House?
	The IRS commissioner, when he was asked why he'd visited the White House 473 times and he said he occasionally went for the Easter egg roll.
	I think they have the Easter egg roll on the, is it the Saturday or the Sunday?
	I forget what it is, but he's going to be, it's the Saturday.
	Sunday.
	They do it on Easter morning.
	Monday, it's Monday now.
	They're doing the Easter egg roll on Monday.
	Okay.
	Well, I don't know.
	Maybe the IRS commissioner will be just staying the whole weekend at the White House rolling Easter eggs.
	Who knows?
	But on Monday, Buck Sexton's here for Good Friday.
	For the Monday Easter egg roll, Mark Belling will be there for Easter bang holiday.
	Tuesday, Eric Erickson will be here.
	And then it's going to be Buck or maybe Rush, depending on how fighting fit he feels.
	So we'll see how.
	Bit of unfinished business from the last hour.
	I was talking about the Ukraine.
	We were doing all these 1930s comparisons and whether Putin is Hitler and does that make Obama Neville Chamberlain?
	And I demured on that because Neville Chamberlain was an honorable man.
	Neville Chamberlain, no one was ever in any doubt that Neville Chamberlain wanted to preserve British power in the world and he just made the wrong call in the late 1930s.
	No one was ever in any doubt about that.
	Whereas Obama has, to put it mildly, an incredibly relaxed attitude to the decline and decay of American power in the world.
	But more 1930s comparisons.
	All Jewish people in Donetsk in the Ukraine have been told, over 16 years old, have been told to register as Jews and supply a detailed list of all the property they own or have their citizenship revoked, face deportation and see their assets confiscated.
	That's in Donetsk, where the pro-Russian leadership of the area is now registering Jews over 16-year-old.
	They've got to provide documentation to all their real estate, including vehicles.
	It seems like old times.
	That's Donetsk in the Ukraine, Jews registering there.
	Another bit of news on the hiding emails front.
	The IRS is refusing to cough up its emails.
	And that's interesting because when the IRS asks you for anything, you've got to cough it up before the end of the month or you're in big trouble.
	You can't delay.
	I think every citizen should have the right to delay the way the IRS has delayed cooperating with Congress for a year now.
	They've just said, oh, no, we can't do it.
	It would take us seven and a half years to compile the information.
	Try that.
	The next time the IRS asks you for an RU12 and you say, oh, I can't fill in that form for at least seven and a half years.
	That's how long it's going to take me to pull all the information together.
	Say it's going to take you seven and a half years and see how far that gets you with the IRS.
	But when the IRS is asked for information, they say it'll take us years and years to compile this stuff.
	I had a very traumatic tax day on April the 15th on Tuesday because I'd had some back and forth.
	This again makes the Rumsfeld point.
	Nobody knows.
	The tax code, nobody knows.
	My accountant had said to me that I need, for some little itsy-bitsy nothing sum, I need a 1099R.
	I'm ashamed of myself for knowing these numbers.
	You know, I've lived in various countries, and I never knew the government form numbers.
	This is the only country where the government forms are household names.
	People say, oh, yeah, well, I'll send you the W2 and then you send me the 1099, and that way we'll be able to fill in the 1040.
	Oh, wait a minute, I haven't had the W8 from you yet.
	This is the only country in the world where government forms are household names.
	So I was, and it's not like there's just one 1099.
	I apparently needed a 1099R.
	I'd never heard of a 1099R before, I don't think.
	That was a new one to me.
	I thought it was like something the pirates had.
	You know, if you're in Pirates of the Caribbean and you're one of the scurvy lads on the deck, and come April the 15th, you have to say to the captain, ah, captain, you'll be issuing me a 1099 R, won't you?
	And because he got like three groats for being on the ship, I thought that's what a 1099 R.
	But it turned out to be something I needed.
	The bank said I didn't need one.
	My accountant said I didn't need one.
	I looked at it.
	It seemed pretty obvious.
	So the bank then we had some back and forth, back and forth.
	And I finally got the bank, the useless New Hampshire bank, to cough it up at like 4.17 p.m. on April the 15th.
	They finally issued this 1099R.
	So even the banks, this is just like federal paperwork.
	Even the banks don't know what they're meant to be issuing half the time.
	As Rumsfeld said, there's no correct answer.
	Nobody knows, nobody knows, nobody knows.
	It's obscene.
	It's obscene, that text.
	I'm ashamed of myself for knowing the names of these government numbers.
	But Lois Lerner is refusing to cough up her emails.
	And just to tie that in, my own case, I'm currently being sued for defamation by Michael Mann, the guy who invented the global warming hockey stick, which was the big thing.
	It showed, you know, basically the last millennium as the blade of the hockey stick, completely flat and was known, everything, just a constant temperature for a millennium.
	And then the so-called blade of the hockey stick shooting up for the 20th century and disappearing out the top right-hand corner of the graph.
	And he is consistently, he's a very litigious man.
	He's suing me.
	He was in court in Virginia and the Virginia Supreme Court just an hour or so ago released a decision that says that he does not have to cough up his emails from the University of Virginia in that case.
	And the reason that so I doubt very much, I mean, they're probably already shredding them, they're probably putting them in the incinerator and pouring the gasoline and tossing the match in right now.
	We've asked for them in my case as well, because this is This is public information.
	He's at a public university, and these are emails that were written and sent in the capacity as taxpayer-funded employees of a public university, exactly the same as Lois Lerner.
	And this Supreme Court in Virginia, for what seems essentially political reasons, they didn't want to take heat from the higher education establishment and all kinds of people, has basically gutted the Freedom of Information Act in Virginia and rendered it meaningless by saying that if you're a powerful enough client, you don't have to respond to freedom of information requests.
	So now all these and the reason this is important is because it affects public policy.
	People want to see, if you're going to be told that you have to pay massive carbon taxes because of the global warming scare, you want to know the science underlying that.
	You want to see the data underlying that.
	You want to see how this cockamame graph was created.
	So there is a public interest in knowing that.
	Nobody, Einstein didn't say, oh, I'm not showing my research for the theory of relativity.
	Isaac Newton never said, oh, no, no, I'm keeping that all.
	He didn't have email in those days.
	He had to write it with a quill with a feather on it.
	But he didn't say, oh, no, no, no, my quill-feathered parchment is not for you to see.
	Those guys weren't like that.
	And when public policy and massive and massive amounts of money depend on it, then there is a public right to know that.
	Now, there's also, that's exactly the same principle at issue in Lois Lerner refusing to cough up those emails.
	So these are serious issues about public access.
	And just to tie it back into the 81% of Americans who believe that they're being lied to, how can you know if you're being told you have to actually just to tie it into the urine in the Oregon reservoir, the 38 million gallons of water because some guy was seen urinating into that.
	Wouldn't you like to have a toilet tank that big?
	Instead, everyone now has the new Clinton Gore toilet tanks, which Al Gore imposed on the nation in the interests of saving the planet.
	So we're told you can't, and for a while they were illegally smuggling in man-sized toilet tanks from Canada.
	There's a whole thing.
	It's like bootlegging in the 20s.
	Cross the border, man-sized Canadian toilet tanks smuggled across the border.
	Because you've got to have the new weenie-sized Clinton Gore toilet tank because it saves the planet.
	So if your life has to change, if you have to drive a smaller car, if you're not allowed to use so much water, if you can't do this, if you can't do that, all in the interest of saving the planet, you're entitled to know the basis on which those public policy decisions are taken.
	If they think it's so serious that one guy urinates in a reservoir and 38 million gallons of water have to be flushed out, why are they regulating the toilet tank in your house in the interest of saving the planet?
	These are public policy matters.
	And if there is no right to see the underlying data on that, then they're not a free society.
	That gets to the census business as well.
	You know, if there is no agreed data, if the census is politicized, if your tax return is politicized, if your healthcare is politicized, then what is left?
	In other words, if the basic agreed building blocks of a free society can no longer be trusted, you can't know that the IRS data is correct, you can't know that the census data is correct, you can't know that the healthcare data is correct, then there is no building block.
	There are insufficient building blocks for a free society.
	1-800-282-2882, Markstein in for Rush, more straight ahead, Mark Stein in for Rush, feeling mighty pumped, and not just because I've been showering in Welshman's urine.
	There's so much going on right now.
	I don't know whether you've been following this story about the Bundy family on their ranch down in Nevada, where they've got some dispute.
	They moved out there in the 19th century, and the reason the West was opened up was because people, the government said you'll be able to graze your cattle on federal land.
	And then as so that's why they moved to Nevada.
	Otherwise, why would you move to Nevada?
	It's like nothing going on.
	It's a big desert.
	So they move out there in the 19th century and they're grazing their land and then they change, the rules change, like 20 years ago, and the Bureau of Land Management starts charging them these fees for keeping their cattle on this public land.
	And gradually, the fees are not, the fees are supposedly management fees, but they're designed, in fact, to manage all these pesky American citizens off the king's land.
	That's essentially what's going on.
	So where before there were dozens of ranchers in the area, there's now just one guy left, and he's in this showdown with BLM snipers.
	Because like every minor tinpot bureau of compliance in the vast great alphabet soup of federal bureaucracy, the Department of Paper Pushers has more firepower at its disposal than the average European Union Army.
	By the way, NATO's a waste of time.
	If you look at the firepower that the Bureau of Land Management has, instead of figuring out whether we should send the French and the Belgians to protect Estonia from Putin, they'd be much better off sending the Bureau of Land Management.
	Matter of fact, let's not even make it a foreign, let's not make it even a NATO thing with foreign countries.
	If the Bureau of Land Management snipers had been stationed at the consulate in Benghazi, then that whole deal would never have happened.
	So I find that interesting.
	But what I found absolutely most astonishing about this story is that the Bureau of Land Management is that over 80% of Nevada is owned by the national government, right?
	Owned by Washington.
	It's not federal anymore.
	I mean, basically, when it owns over 80% of the state, in what sense is Nevada a state?
	So 81% of Nevada is owned by the federal government.
	That is, and the Bureau of Land Management controls that.
	And that's about 90,000 square miles, which is like the entire landmass of the United Kingdom, or about the size of Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic combined.
	So in other words, the entire heart of the Habsburg Empire.
	That's what the Bureau of Land Management owns just in Nevada.
	Why?
	Why?
	Why does a government agency run 80% of Nevada?
	You know, as I said, equivalent to the size of the United Kingdom.
	Now, right now, Scotland is having a referendum on whether to break up and secede from the United Kingdom.
	So Scots, a lot of Scots, they think the United Kingdom is too big.
	That they want to become an independent nation of Scotland, which would be a tiny little country that would fit into about one-third of the Bureau of Land Management's real estate just in Nevada alone.
	Now, the US government owns most of the West.
	I have no idea why.
	But that means that the Bureau of Land Management owns about an eighth of all the real estate in the United States.
	It's ruling an area the size of Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Portugal combined, just in Nevada.
	If you take the whole eighth of the country, it's ruling the equivalent of about three-sevenths of the G7 biggest economies on the planet.
	In other words, the Bureau of Land Management, one rinky-dink, nothing federal agency that most people have never heard of, rules over an area the size of France, Germany and Italy combined, or about the size of South Africa.
	And if you've heard all those things, Bush used to talk this way, Schwarzenegger used to talk this way.
	You know, when they say, oh, if Texas were a country, it'd be the 12th biggest economy in the world.
	If California were a country, it'd be the eighth biggest economy in the world.
	If the Bureau of Land Management were a country, it would be the 26th biggest country in the world out of about 200 of them.
	That's why it's got an army bigger than Belgium's.
	That's why it's got an army bigger than Italy's.
	Because this nothing agency no one's ever heard of rules over one-eighth of the United States.
	And in this little corner of Nevada, it's driven all the ranchers off the land.
	What does it need?
	Why is one eighth of the land mass of the United States owned by the Bureau of Land Management, controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, and they determine who has access to it, when they have access to it?
	They can change the rules of access.
	They can change the terms of access.
	They can get the National Park Service to arrest Japanese and European tourists as they did during the government shutdown.
	They arrested them for illegally photographing King Barak's deer and held them in, made them go back to the designated hotel and sealed off the hotel so these Japanese and European tourists couldn't go anywhere.
	Why does one rinky-dink, nothing little federal agency rule over with an increasingly iron fist one-eighth of the United States of America?
	It makes no sense.
	And what all these stories have in common, the IRS, the Census, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Bureau of Land Management is they are increasingly open about their despotic nature.
	I don't use that term lightly.
	I'm not saying they're Hitler.
	I'm not saying they're Stalin.
	I'm not saying they're Kim Jong-un or Saddam Hussein.
	But they are increasingly open about their despotic nature.
	That they are the rulers and you are the ruled and they tell you what to do.
	And that is just the way it is.
	Mark Stein InfraRush will talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Hey, great to have you with us.
	Rush is, I always love reading my hate mail on days.
	Where is that?
	Where is that Russian?
	He's playing golf again, isn't he?
	Now he's actually undergoing surgery, you insensitive twitties.
	He's having high-tech work done on his ear.
	And he's itching to get back.
	And all being well, he will be back here Wednesday.
	Don't forget, don't forget, if you are a Rush 24-7 subscriber, that you can go to Rush and you can get Rush at rushlimbaugh.com in any form you want him and at any time of the day you want him.
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	You can get the whole thing and you need not be discombobulated by any sinister foreign guest host.
	So if you go to RushLimbaugh.com.
	Now, he's having his ear worked on.
	The joke here around EIB is that he's, you know, he's playing it by ear.
	Everyone's playing it by ear as to when he's going to be back.
	And it reminds me of my favorite political ear story, which was released, I think, about 10 years ago in Liberia when President Charles Taylor's Ministry of Information released a congratulatory telegram.
	And it went like this: we say a congratulatory press release from President Charles Taylor's Ministry of Information in Liberia.
	We say, well done to Mr. President and advise him to always keep the communication highway free and clear of any hindrance so that a people-to-leader and leader-to-people approach can be adopted and maintained, so that everyone will at least have the opportunity to have the ears of the chief executive instead of a select few.
	And I remember Chuckly when I first read that because a few years earlier, only a select few had got the opportunity to have the ears of the then chief executive, President Samuel Doe, in Liberia.
	And he'd fallen into the hands of one of his successor's allies in the battle to unseat him.
	Because when you have the president-for-life system, basically the only way the president is leaving the presidential palace is when he's carried out by the handles.
	And in this case, President Samuel Doe was basically stripped to his underpads and tied to a chair.
	And then he was ordered to have his ears cut off, and the guys cut off the president's ears and ate them.
	But they then had a big fight because they cut off the private parts of the outgoing president and then fought over them in belief that the powers and manhood of the person whose parts you're eating are transferred to the new eater.
	So again, this is part of the change of power in Liberia, that the outgoing president has his private parts chopped off and eaten by his successor as part of the trans it's the equivalent to swearing the oath on the Bible and it's part of the ceremonial transfer of power.
	And frankly, you know, the last presidential inauguration I thought was so boring with Beyoncé lip-syncing to the Star Spangled Band.
	I thought they could have done with a bit of genital eating itself there to perk things up a bit.
	But they said the way they did it in Liberia.
	But I was thinking of that by the reminder of that by Rush's ear operation.
	And he's not having anything as drastic in the form of ear surgery as poor old President Samuel Doe did in Liberia.
	But it is still a tough business and it's always a tough call when you're undergoing surgery.
	So we send our best wishes to Rush and we want him back here.
	But we want him back here when he's in tip-top shape.
	So don't begrudge him if he takes an extra day or two.
	Buck Sexton's going to be in tomorrow for Good Friday.
	And Mark Belling and Eric Erickson and a whole host of substitute host level excellence in broadcasting talent waiting to take you through until Rush's return.
	Let us go to Louise in Indianapolis, Indiana.
	Louise, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Thanks for waiting.
	Hi, Mark.
	Are you I'm doing good all things considered how are you keeping?
	Well I'm great and I love it when you guest host.
	You are so smart and so clever and funny and you always give me a good laugh and these days I need a good laugh so thank you for that.
	Well, you know, whatever comes next, the Russians, the Mullahs, the Chinese Politburo, the space aliens, they're going to be laughing at us because we did this to ourselves.
	Well, the reason I call, it has to do with the census.
	And I figure that since this dishonest administration intends to use the census for political purposes, I have no intention of giving them honest answers.
	I don't know what the questions are going to be, but I'm going to skew it as much as I can.
	And I got to tell you, Mark, this is not like me.
	I'm a Midwesterner, and like most people I know, I follow the rules.
	I try hard to be a good person and an honest person.
	But I have had it with these people and their dishonesty and their manipulations.
	And I tell you, they're laughing at us.
	Well, Louise, you put your finger right on the nub of it, right on the nub of it.
	That when your political class lies to you, they not only forfeit all respect, but they actually call into question the entire premise of the relationship between you.
	Because why should you give them an honest answer if they're not giving you honest answers?
	And I'll tell you, just before you do that, by the way, and I would love to see people, for example, when they get the census, just filling in just doing the same thing that people did when they donated money to Obama, when he didn't have his website set up in 2008 with the proper control.
	So people were saying, you know, Adolf Hitler, the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, I'm giving you $500.
	And it didn't reject any of these people because they were giving money from out of the country or under fake names, under Mickey Mouse or whatever.
	I would love to see that.
	And it would be a wonderful thing to do to say if the census is meaningless, if the census is being manipulated for political purposes, there's no reason why we should give honest answers.
	The only thing is that if you lie to, they can lie to you, but if you lie to them, you go to jail.
	Martha Stewart went to prison for lying in a matter in which there was no longer even any underlying crime.
	But because she lied to a federal agent, they sent her to jail.
	She lied to an employee of the United States Attorney General.
	The United States Attorney General, a man called Eric Holder, lies to Congress.
	And he's in contempt of Congress.
	And that's fine.
	So Eric Holder, the font of the American justice system, can lie to anyone he wants to.
	But if you lie to a minor functionary of Eric Holder, you'll go to jail.
	So Louise, I would love to.
	I'll come and I don't know what the penitentiary is like, the federal penitentiary in Indiana is like, but if you do that and they come after you, I will come and visit you.
	I will bake you a cake.
	I appreciate that.
	A cake.
	I love that.
	And I'm old enough that I guess I can just declare dementia and tell them I didn't understand their questions.
	Yeah, but everything's politicized now.
	So, like, dementia is covered by Obamacare, but Lois Lerner will be targeting sufferers from conservative dementia.
	So if you have the really extreme form of dementia where you think you're supposed to be living in a republic of limited government by self-governing citizens, Lois Lerder will come and say that that's not covered by Obamacare and you've got to pay full freight for that, Louise.
	So don't bank on dementia.
	Actually, you know, I mean, just to make a serious point here.
	When a society loses its, I mean, basically when you can no longer tell the truth about reality, a society does in fact descend into a form of collective dementia, as it were.
	And if you can't tell the truth about trillions of dollars of debt, if you can't tell the truth about tens of millions of illegal aliens walking across the border and then claiming benefits and receiving fast track to citizenship,
	if you can't tell the truth about out-of-control federal bureaucrat, if you can't, if none of that, if reality can be sufficiently recreated, then society is living in a fall.
	You're basically, Louise, it's the equivalent of like an early check-in to the old folks home where the guy in the bed next to you thinks he's Napoleon and the fellow on the other side thinks he's Mary Antoinette Louise.
	That's the way it's going on.
	Thanks for your call.
	Great to have you with us.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Lots more still to come.
	Mark Stein, in for us on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	The Food and Drug Administration.
	We were talking earlier about the insanity of this, the alphabet soup of Washington, the Food and Drug Administration, for centuries, spent grain, which is what you have when the breweries are finished making beer.
	And so they don't need this stuff anymore because they're just in the beer business.
	So they don't need to spend grain.
	And so they give it to farms and the farms feed it to their cattle.
	This goes on all over the world and has done for millennia.
	But just because you could do it in the 11th century doesn't mean you can do it in America in the 21st century.
	The FDA has now decided that if you're a brewery and you give your spent grain to cattle, you're basically not just a brewery, but you're also in the livestock feed business.
	And so you have to process it and you have to do all the rest.
	So the farmers now, who used to be able to rely on getting a certain amount of this unwanted spent grain from the breweries, are not going to be able to get that anymore.
	So in other words, the ranchers, the guys like this fella out in Nevada, are going to have their profit margins cut back even more because the FDA...
	Now at some point, at some point, there has to be something that you can do in this sclerotic republic without having to fill in a ton of paperwork and comply with a bunch of stupid, wasteful...
	heavy-handed increasingly onerous regulation and that goes from the 1099 r that i was talking about a few minutes ago uh all the way to whether a man and by the way the 1099 if you just think about what is that You need a 1099 for 600 bucks, I think it is now.
	Is that right?
	600 bucks.
	In other words, it's illegal.
	It's illegal in a republic of limited government for one American to write a check to another American for more than $600, which is crazy anyway.
	But this whole, the whole sclerosis of the republic, the whole seizing up, the way everything is takes more and more time, everything is slower and slower.
	Federal regulation alone taking up 10% of GDP, just federal regulation.
	And they keep finding more.
	They keep finding more.
	Where are the Republicans on this?
	Where is the Republican Party on this?
	What agency are they going to abolish?
	What bureau are they going to abolish?
	Where do you go?
	What's the point of electing anyone if all the laws are made by people whose names you don't know?
	The guy who dispatched the snipers to Nevada, he's some pin pusher sitting at a desk somewhere in the Bureau of Land Management, and he's like a little Generalissimo.
	He can order troops here.
	What's his name?
	Where do you go to vote him out?
	The new head of the Bureau of Land Management is somebody of Harry Reid's.
	He's the, as I said, he rules a landmass that is the size of South Africa or France, Germany, and Italy combined.
	No one knows his name.
	He's the sultan of the Bureau of Land Management.
	He's the Sultan of the BL Emirates, in effect.
	Where do you go to vote him out?
	Where's the voting booth that his name's on?
	Nobody's allowed to set foot in his one-eighth of the country that he controls, and he's not on the ballot anywhere else.
	Where do you go to vote out the guy who decides that breweries can't give unwanted grain to farms anymore?
	Where do you go to vote that guy out?
	Where do you go to vote out the guy who says it's not enough to have a 1099R?
	Next year, we're going to introduce a 1099R XY2PZ.
	Where do you go?
	What's the point?
	There's no point in electing people to Congress if they just are basically the veneer of democratic accountability on top of a huge, great they're the cherry, the democratic cherry, the responsibly elected cherry on top of a vast, permanent, ever more onerous bureaucracy.
	Let's go to Nathan in Sonora, California.
	Nathan, you're live on the Rushland Bush.
	So great to have you with us.
	I appreciate that, Mark.
	It's so good to talk to you, and I appreciate your articulate way that you speak for us conservatives.
	Well, thanks.
	Thanks, Nathan.
	The issue with the Four Bundy family, you know, it's just like the federal government to spend $4 million to collect on a $1 million, in their word, debt, you know, that this gentleman owes.
	But we continue to see more of the heavy-handed thug advance of our federal government over its people.
	And they've long forgotten that they work for us.
	This is a good example to push a family like that and to push many people that came down to protest to the point of a second revolution is crazy.
	It's ludicrous.
	Well, you're absolutely right, Nathan, to say that they've forgotten that they work for us.
	These are not a pro and there's a reason why they're willing to spend $4 million to collect a $1 million debt.
	Because what's important to them is not the million bucks.
	They don't care about that anyway.
	Who cares about that?
	That'll slightly reduce the trillions of dollars they owe China.
	What difference does it make whether they get the money?
	It's to make an example of him.
	They don't care how much it spends to ensure that it won't do it.
	So it's effectively deterrence.
	It's what in the Cold War we call deterrence.
	So they're prepared to spend a ton of money, more than they'll ever recruit, deterring American ranchers.
	But they wouldn't spend any money to deter America's enemies in, say, Benghazi.
	They're not willing to spend any effort deterring, say, Vladimir Putin or the Iranian mullahs, but they're willing to spend money to deter American citizens.
	And this is simply not appropriate in a free society.
	This style of policing, guys in the full RoboCop over a cattle standoff, you know, it's like some weird cop.
	What was that Space Aliens, that Western with Space Aliens movies that came out a couple of years ago?
	My kids were bored stiff through it.
	It's like that, where they took the Western and put some Space Aliens.
	That's what this looks like.
	You got guys in cowboy hats facing off RoboCop.
	It's not appropriate in a free society and it shouldn't be happening.
	Thanks for your call, Nathan.
	We've got more to come.
	I was trying to think what that movie featuring the Cowboys and Aliens was called.
	And apparently it was called Cowboys and Aliens with Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig.
	Absolutely terrible movie.
	Cowboys and Aliens.
	It's like in my disc jockey days.
	People used to call up and go, Mark, that song you played, I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain.
	I'm singing.
	What was it called again?
	It's the same thing here.
	That Cowboys and Aliens movie was called Cowboys and Aliens.
	And that's what it is at Raja Devada.
	You've got guys in cowboy hats facing American bureaucrats from the Department of Paperwork dolled up in the full RoboCop.
	It is simply not the way that policing should be done in free societies.
	And you see that all over this country.
	They sent a SWAT team to kick down the door of somebody's house.

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