re: Bundy/BLM: Sheriff: "Feds Strategizing for Raid"

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Secondly, why has the BLM not gone through the proper legal channels and filed a lien against the Bundy assets, instead of stealing private property. If he owed the IRS $1million dollars, would they have stolen his cows?

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Can some address this please?

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The issue that the BLM has with Bundy is not so much that he owes money. He does, and it's a problem Bundy has with the BLM, but that's not why the BLM is impounding his cattle.

The BLM is impounding his cattle because the cattle constitute a trespass on federal land. The cattle are causing damage. The seizure of the cattle is to remove them from federal land.

The BLM has been authorized by federal court order to impound the cattle since 1998. The BLM has planned impoundments of the Bundy cattle in the past, but it has canceled those plans because Bundy threatened violence.