No apologies for Cliven Bundy

Do not despair if you invited Cliven Bundy to give your commencement speech. As luck would have it both Michelle O. and Eric Holder find themselves with free time on their calendars as they have both canceled speeches after protests from parents and in Holders case politicians. This blog will not be apologizing for Mr. Bundy's remarks on blacks for the patent reason that we  have never mentioned Bundy other than an actor in a dispute. The showdown in Bunkerville, Nevada was never about Cliven Bundy. It was about the capacious use of government force. We did not condemn the raid on Gibson Guitar and flock to the Stand with Gibson rally because we were enamored with Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz or kept a special reverence for the memory of Les Paul. As in Bundy's case we did not co-mingle principles with personalities.
So Bundy likes Mexicans but blacks not so much. He said Mexicans were hard working taxpayers but questioned whether blacks, as a group had sufficiently availed themselves of the country's bounty but rather had sold out too cheaply.
None of this exculpates the Bureau of Land Management for its Gestapo tactics. We stand for limited government because we can tolerate the Cliven Bundys but we cannot tolerate a police state.