re: this Nevada issue highlights the true divide in this country....

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wouldn't surprise me if reid and his influence are behind this, but i'll leave him out of the argument ... the debate, sans reid, is whether this individual has the right to protest, in whatever manner, the government's handling of property he claims he has some right to use ... yes, those are private companies/landowners along the pipeline route ... someone will, at the behest of the companies, intervene to make the landowners give up their land should they refuse ... that 'someone' is the government, be it courts or eminent domain laws or whatever ... there are a lot of folks on here who will be claiming "the law's the law - landowner's just gotta give it up" ... because they want the pipeline since it fits with their agenda - jobs ... as is the case, most "conservatives" are fine with conservatism, as long as it's not in their "backyard", i.e. wallet ...

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I started a thread on the Keystone pipeline about a year ago raising this exact point. The vast majority of conservatives were A-ok with it.

Let's see how many patriots want to defend a citizen who wants to keep a pipeline from running across his property.