Plaintiff, Judge, Jury, Executioner?

Without due process, Cliven Bundy of Nevada was just convicted of something by Harry Reid in the court of his own mind:  "Well, it's not over. We can't have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it's not over".  On Mr. Reid's conviction, Mr. Bundy and his compatriots cannot just walk away--perhaps they might only crawl away or come away in cuffs?  Apparently, violations of law vex Mr. Reid when they are undertaken by the "American people" but what if they arise from the law's executors?

Mr. Reid's son, Rory Reid described the progressive method of prosecution that will yield a wished-for verdict against Mr. Bundy:  "if state and local prosecutors look at this more closely, they’re going to find that (Mr. Bundy) broke the law".  Note that there were about 200 federal agents--that's about 200 more than we have on the ground in Ukraine or Iraq--focusing, not on murderers or rapists or illegal immigrants, but on Mr. Bundy's dissidence toward creeping federalism.  If Mr. Bundy's guilt was a foregone conclusion to anyone other than the Reids (who, by the way, have or had financial interests in the form of foreign solar power investments nearby), why wasn't a warrant for Mr. Bundy's arrest served?  There were, after all, more than enough federal agents present to serve it.

And how closely do investigators need to look to find that Mr. Bundy broke a law--any law?  If 200 can't discover an instance, perhaps 2,000 might?  To look for anything under magnification is distortionate: to the straining, unblinking, omnipresent eye (ie. the NSA's), an awaited instance of infraction will appear, however ephemerally; as one zooms in, the forest is lost in the trees; under extreme magnification, what is a person may be mistaken for an insect--transforming a candidate for one's charity into a candidate for extermination.  Perspective is paramount--especially to law and governance:  otherwise, 200 armed federal agents might be assigned, uneconomically, to a cattle trespass--even as paroled serial offenders commit murder-rapes and even as drugs, guns, and humans are in traffic at America's open borders.  Politics that are all-permeating (this is totalitarianism) are pernicious to true perspective.  When what is political grows proportion-less, reason, expression, truth, and charity--in other words, humanity--must wilt in its shade.

If it's "not over", why did BLM agents skulk away from a daylight, public confrontation arising from their own confiscation?  If it's "not over", when will it end?  Will it become a grudge match between the federal government and a private citizen characterized by cumulation, escalation, retribution, and ultimately bloodshed?  If it's "not over", how will it end?  If not face-to-face, in the daylight, among droves of witnesses, perhaps the score might be bravely settled after the private partisans disband--under a veil of darkness, veniality, and federal tyranny?  Do you, Mr. Reid, wear your sunglasses at night--that is, as night is ushered and ushering into America?