re: BLM vs. Nevada Rancher

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My point is that I don't think the Govt should use force like that for non-violent offenders. If he had killed multiple people and was likely to do it again, ok, you go in with force.

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He's armed and he threatened violence against the gov't before they showed up with the SWAT teams. He's also refused to recognize the authority of the federal gov't. I wouldn't be showing up with a pencil and pad to issue cease and desist order to the guy. They told him to remove the cattle. He refused. they told him if he didn't remove the cattle, they would. He threatened violence if they tried it. They came in with overwhelming force to execute the removal of the cattle - and then backed down. I don't see the government acting wrongfully here.

I believe that it may have been the court that acted wrongfully - just as in the Waco case - and just as in the Elian Gonzales case.