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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmmon Bundy compares himself to Rosa Parks
Yeah, because an armed militia taking over federal property is just like one woman refusing to go along with racist laws.
"We are doing the same thing as Rosa Parks did," Bundy tweeted early Wednesday. "We are standing up against bad laws which dehumanize us and destroy our freedom."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/01/06/oregon-standoff-leader-compares-effort-rosa-parks/78345968/
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Ammon Bundy compares himself to Rosa Parks (Original Post)
cali
Jan 2016
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MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)1. He's more comparable to George Armstrong Custer. eom
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)2. These guys really are short a few cards of a full deck! And, they are heroes only in their
own minds. What megalomaniac grandstanding!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3. He's more like Rosie Palm.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)4. I figured it out! He's talking about Alternate Universe Rosa Parks!
You know, the alternate universe where Rosa Parks and her buddies get heavily armed, storm the bus and commandeer it because they don't want to pay the bus fare!