re: 300+ Nevada ranchers and militia stage an armed insurrection against the USBLM

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It is still land they own, so it's theirs to do as they see fit.

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Philosophically, who owns this land? The government owns nothing; The people own this land. Everything the government pays for is funded entirely by taxpayers dollars.

You have to be naive if you think this is about grazing fees. The IRS has $300 billion in outstanding taxes that they aren't collecting on.

IRS Owed 300 BILLION!

Not to mention the State Department can't account for 6 BILLION dollars over the last 6 years.

State Department missing 6 BILLION.

Don't you think the response to Bundy is a bit unbalanced? I'm proud that American's will still stand up for their fellow man.

I think people should read the Declaration of Independence. Our ancestors fought for sovereignty in conditions much less oppressive than what we face now.

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."