re: Breaking: Confiscating Legal Weapons at Bundy Ranch in Nevada

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Well let's hope the government doesn't find some exotic animal on your land

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What?

The government owns that land, that's the whole point. We have to respect land ownership rights, even when the land is owned by the People in common. If the government tried to claim my land, I would simply provide our tax records from the courthouse as evidence of my ownership. (As a matter of fact, I would provide the results of the title search I did on the property all the way back to the original claim, as well as records of taxes paid.)

If I wanted to put a chinese power plant on my cane field, I'd just tell the cane farmer not to prepare the field for the next planting. I don't care if his father was farming that land for my family before I took ownership, if it's my land, I have rights as to what I can and can't do with it. That includes evicting one tenant for another.

What I DON'T want to see is the tenant having more rights to MY land than I do just because his father farmed it on a lease.

That's what this is about, tenant vs land owner rights. What rights do tenants have? If the rancher owns that land, let him prove it through weight of evidence. If he doesn't, I'm afraid his rights to it are limited.

Look, my family did it right and have been paying their taxes on the land the whole time. Why should this guy be able to get away with not paying rent OR taxes for land he claims?