A week after a tense standoff between gun-toting states' rights advocates and federal Bureau of Land Management police, self-described militia members are still protecting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his family.

Others, however, are taking a stand in the time-honored tradition of the Founding Fathers and Thomas Paine: by taking pen to paper to document their grievances against an overweening government.

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Famed cowboy poet and Nevada rancher Waddie Mitchell, who spoke with Newsmax TV last week about the clash between Bundy and the BLM, has made the standoff the subject of his latest poem. He shared the piece, "A Call to All," with Newsmax:

This poem is not about a cowman who refused to give up rights

Or how the Feds have treated him and started all these fights

And it's not about what side I'm on for a tortoise or some fees

This is all about our government out doing as it please

A Call to All

Americans, listen up and fear

About what's happening out here

How our bureaucracies do anything to win

They stomp all over rights

Starting State and local fights

Stealing land and property from citizens

How the bureau of mis-management

Doesn't even have to get consent

To spend six million to put one lone rancher down

Cuz, a tortoise might get stepped on

And some fees they disagree on ,,

Make it worth Gestapo force with guns and hounds?

The roots from which this stems

Come from their rules, all wrote by them

And they enforce their rules, but if you disagree

Guess who judges the whole mess?

You don't even have to guess

The monster's growing folks, it's hungry and wants feed

Shall we all just sit and watch

While they carve another notch

From the rights that they have whittled on for years

One more gouge might cut plumb through

Allowing government to rule

And that would be the summit of our fears

Do you want a wolf Bo Peep

That will kill and eat your sheep

Or a guard dog to protect the sheep you own?

The offensive they've unfurled

Is reminiscent of third world

Who have ever thought it'd happen here at home?

And the puppet bureaucrats

Who are supposed to have our backs

The gorilla tactics they employ, folks, just ain't right

They are poking hornet nests

Causing anger and unrest

They've no idea the deep resolve of folks they'll fight

And sheriff, what the Hell's with you ?

Do what you were sworn to do

Your siding with the Feds on this seems odd

Which politician got to you?

You protect and serve just who?

We need sheriffs not afraid to do their job

For, if they get away with this

Our freedom's thrown to the abyss

And we will all feel Big Bad Brother's iron hand

We best get out of our chairs

Prove to them that we do care

For the rights and freedoms that have built this land

Civil disobedience

Makes sense, when there's no other sense '

It's a shame but sometimes people must stand strong

It worked for Civil rights and Vietnam

And for the rights that women won

And,in each case, it proved the government was wrong

And how did the Feds respond?

Well, they went so far beyond

And murdered citizens for how they think and feel

How many wars, of late, have we been in

Because they lied and fed their spin?

And we lost soldiers, reputation and billions in the deal

You good folks who do not live out here

It's best you listen close and fear

The systems rigged and now they're wanting more

They've shown willingness to kill

For things against the peoples will

As Americans are we to take much more?

And this ruling with force and fear

Seems to escalate each year

Friends,they are nothing more than 'enemies of state'

Why would they come with thugs and snipers

Taze and threaten folks like vipers

If what they're doing is at all legitimate?

And for the mess that we have got

Follow the trail way up the top

They need arrested where they haven't spread their claws

We go get individual crooks

That are juggling the books

Why does a government job protect them from the law

And accomplices should do time

For participating in the crime

Just as bank robbers, armed and acting tough

I can't conceive what kind of minds

Would condone these kinds of crimes

Against neighbors just saying, "that's enough"

And the puppet bureaucrats

Alibi- ing shameful acts

Like the guards did from the concentration camps

Claim "We just do what we are told"

That willingness make tyrants bold

All agencies and powers need revamped

It's sad but true, it's come to this

Our government has gone amiss

Just when last did the Senate do its job?

Have they earned thIs kind of clout

Or even your benefit of doubt?

We'd be better off if we dealt with the mob

Remember, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Kent State ?

Will you allow that be our fate?

While we stand up for the rights of me and you

The facts are there, folks, you discern

Stand and show that you 're concerned

For the nightmare of Big Brother's coming true!

And don't believe there's "Public Ground"

That just has a pleasant sound

Folks it's "federal" when they when they want to lock the gate

And our taxes pay for all their crimes

As they grow bolder all the time

Don't let a police state with a ruler be our fate?

Waddie Mitchell