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re: 300+ Nevada ranchers and militia stage an armed insurrection against the USBLM
Posted on 4/16/14 at 10:01 am to teke184
Posted on 4/16/14 at 10:01 am to teke184
quote:I feel bad for the guy, but is the fed government supposed to be stuck with this guy / his family forever? Put another way, is the fed goverment stuck with the rancher until the rancher decides to stop using the land?
They're attempting to get that land by fricking Bundy.
This post was edited on 4/16/14 at 10:05 am
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Posted on 4/16/14 at 10:07 am to boom roasted
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s the fed goverment stuck with the rancher until the rancher decides to stop using the land?
what? how are they stuck with anything. its a few cattle wandering over several thousand acres of desert land that just kinda sits there.
they came up with the 'cattle fee' to run off all the ranchers (which they did) except Bundy.
when the chinese solar farm goes up, they have to have an equal offset to match. they can't very well do that if there's a few hundred head of cattle roaming around out there somewhere.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 10:11 am to boom roasted
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I feel bad for the guy, but is the fed government supposed to be stuck with this guy / his family forever? Is the fed goverment stuck with the rancher until the rancher decides to stop using the land?
IMHO, the government has methods they could use to stop Bundy's ranching on the public lands in question.
Going after him and other ranchers in the area very unethically, such as skyrocketing their per head / per day rates as well as severely limiting their allowed herd sizes, though, is just strongarm bullshite.
If the government wanted him out, they should have renewed his lease and said "At the end of the lease (maybe 10 years), we're not renewing it again."
That's different from jacking rates up through the roof to try and price him out of the business and sending jackbooted thugs to rustle his herd.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 10:18 am to boom roasted
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I feel bad for the guy, but is the fed government supposed to be stuck with this guy / his family forever? Until the rancher decides to stop using the land?
Yep. Apparently the lesson here is if you and your ancestors get to do something for cheap for a while then you are entitled to do it forever.
This whole thing is nuts to me.
Imagine there was a Louisiana fisherman who for the last 20 years has been completely ignoring all Louisiana fishing regulations regarding licensing, limits and size.
And then the LDWF tried to make him stop.
And his arguments were that his great-grandfather didn't used to have limits, and that he refuses to recognize the authority of the state of Louisiana in salt water.
And then the entire country got super angry at the State and armed protesters started showing up demanding that this guy get to do whatever he wants for free for ever.
That's pretty much whats going on here.
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