Comparing The Move Movement And Cliven Bundy

The Move movement and Cliven Bundy standoffs ignite passionate feelings within most of the people that take the time to acknowledge them. At the same time, these events share several similarities along with differences that represent the current social climate of our country. These events both derive from the Move members and Cliven Bundy’s urge to fight against the law. For example, the Move members believe in Natural Law, which inspires them to ignore laws set by their government. This is a part of their way of life that they try to protect against the change that the Philadelphia law enforcement force on them. In comparison, Cliven Bundy and his followers go against the law to allow cattle to graze on land that was taken away from the Bundy …show more content…
However, the Philadelphia police took drastic measures and decided to surround the Move house with a plethora of cops that fired over ten thousand rounds of ammunition at assumed armed members. If this was enough, they shut off their utilities and evacuated the neighborhood to fight Move members with fire and water. When the federal government’s reinforcement met the Cliven Bundy followers, they didn’t fire anything at them and eventually left, which allowed the armed followers to bring the cattle back to the government’s land. One of the most important differences to note is the way the system treated each event. The Cliven Bundy movement was treated as heroic and gained many followers including the approval of Deputy Chief Tom Robert of Las Vegas and other police officers in that area. On the other hand, there were a few people that would stick up for the Move movement and only two of the Philadelphia police bothered to save a Move child from a head injury during the standoff. As a side note, the children present in these events are taken into account in dissimilar ways. For instance, the police officers in Pennsylvania killed the Move children by burning the house down. While the children in Nevada were spared most likely because of the color of their skin or the overwhelming armed mass that surrounded …show more content…
Their ethnicity might have played a large part in the way the occurrences were represented through media and the steps taken to solve the issue. For example, Philadelphia cops were less tolerant of the black Move members than the white cops and federal enforcement in Nevada. This isn’t confirmed, but it’s clear that the police in Nevada were very supportive of the “white man’s heritage”, but Philadelphians could care less about John Africa’s religion. Furthermore, the Cliven Bundy family is apparently extremely wealthy, which is a large contrast from the Move members bank accounts. This is a wise difference to note because it reveals that the Bundys have an advantage in most situations through their access to resources that will ultimately drive their movement. When the Move members were attacked, they had a limited amount of assets to survive. Their ability to defend themselves was nothing close to Bundy’s army of followers and