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

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Can someone explain to me why people are siding with Bundy when he has not payed his grazing fees for over 20 years, has lost twice in court already, and apparently thinks the federal government has no authority?

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have you kept up with everything?

a. he (along with 100 other ranchers in the area) have used this land for over 100 years for grazing
b. in the 90s the good ol' gov'ment decided in the name of conservation (or is it just anti-capitalism? anti-cattle? anti-non-green farming?) or whatever to start jacking up fees on the land these ranchers had used for a century.

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FYI THIS LAND IS THOUSANDS OF SQUARE MILES OF NOTHING THAT THE GOVERNMENT CANT POSSIBLY POLICE BUT THAT NEVER STOPPED BUREAUCRATS FROM LOOKING FOR NEW WAYS TO ELIMINATE INDUSTRIES THEY DON'T LIKE

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c. so yes lnchbox, you are correct. the government is well within their rights to withdraw their markers and frick over the cattle ranchers.

d. every other rancher (100s of them) have closed up shop due to ever increasing fees..essentially driven out of business

e. bundy is the lone standout. he decided to ignore the ever escalating and economically unsustainable EXTORTATION/FEES/INNOCENT GRAZING COSTS the government was charging and let his cattle wander around the desert like he's done forver.

f. cue the BLM (under orders from a left-leaning administrator) to drive the last cattle farmer off the land so now it can be "cordoned off" and sit useless...BUT NOW ITS PROTECTED FROM THE OH-SO-VICIOUS TRAMPLING OF BILLIONS OF TURTLES BY STAMPEDING COWS!!!

***g. oh but then a little known fact emerged that Harry Reid's scumbag son is actually selling land to the chinese in a political game to build solar farms. turns out they need an EQUAL amount of land to be under 'conservation' to offset this. that land intersects with bundy's easement.


make sense?

now his land isn't directly in the path of the solar farm, but it is the other side of the see-saw.

is it any wonder the anger that's been boiling over is from the 100 other former ranchers/neighbors who capitulated?

now you see why more than just bundy's cowboys showed up to face off against the BLM