re: regulators mount up militias to take on LBM in nevada.

Typical freeloader bullshite. The cattle guy who rents my MiL's pasture pays around $5K per year for 150-200 acres in Grand Parish on the Red River. Not sure how many head he runs on it. I'm sure it produces more grass than the Nevada desert, but these western cattlemen graze their cattle on public land for next to nothing. Then there is a shitstorm when elk or buffalo compete, or wolves eat, or there is any interference with their "right" to cheap use of public land. Let them pay the going rate like everyone in LA has to do.

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Rancher is going to lose. Any militia who show up and take shots at government agents will go to prison.

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Yep, this happened in Alaska during the great Jimmy Carter land grab. They went in and burned down the homesteads and trapper cabins at the time. Many folks here still haven't forgotten.

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Same thing happened at a chemical plant where I used to work. Workers trying to unionize lied to the EPA and FBI who came charging in with an absurd raid. It dragged on for years since there was zero chance that the EPA or FBI would apologize for screwing up and acting like a bunch of Neanderthals. Finally the plant owners apologized and paid a fine just to make the nonsense go away. The Feds really are full of themselves.

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This happened in Chicken. It created some interest.

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"The EPA's use of unnecessary armed intimidation tactics against Alaska miners this summer was extreme, especially to investigate potential Clean Water Act violations from what are essentially a handful of small business owners," said Vitter. "At the very least, EPA owes Congress and the American people a thorough explanation, but since they have refused to publicly explain their raid, I hope DOJ will investigate EPA's excessive actions."

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Again, it's expected when you go into business with the federal government. Their land, their rules.

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You say that like he went to the government and asked them if he could graze on their land. That's not how this happened, ya know. He didn't just decide to "go into business with the federal government".

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through imminent domain

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Imminent domain is some fricking bullshite, my family lost A LOT of land to Entergy/LP&L many moons ago through this crap.

Went from having land about the size of the Bonnett Carre to barely enough to put 6 or 7 houses on it.

Well, his family signed a contract with them 125 years ago. So, I'm sure he's aware of how the gov works. I don't see how profiting off of 600,000 acres of gov land is legal, but we are about to find out.

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600,000 acres of gov land

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Wasn't it $0.25 per acre? If that is per year $150000 to graze 900 cows.

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I don't see how profiting

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Typical freeloader bullshite. The cattle guy who rents my MiL's pasture pays around $5K per year for 150-200 acres in Grand Parish on the Red River. Not sure how many head he runs on it. I'm sure it produces more grass than the Nevada desert, but these western cattlemen graze their cattle on public land for next to nothing. Then there is a shitstorm when elk or buffalo compete, or wolves eat, or there is any interference with their "right" to cheap use of public land. Let them pay the going rate like everyone in LA has to do.

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Uh...do you have any familiarity with a BLM or Forest Service grazing leases whatsoever? They are quite intricate with deliverables required of both parties, and it's nothing like the typical quid pro quo Lessor/Lessee arrangement you're familiar with. The "rent" charged by the government represents only a fraction of the lessee's expenditures on the land that benefits the govt.

Perhaps you may consider reserving facile pronouncements until after you sufficiently educate yourself on the situation, especially the BLM's failure to produce its deliverables and utilize collected monies collected in a manner dictated by the agreement.

(I purchased the remaining 28 years of a 75-year Forest Service lease for 6,500 acres in New Mexico. It bears absolutely no resemblance to a simplistic Boudreaux's Mama's deer lease.)

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This happened in Chicken

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Good grief. That's about the last place I'd picture something like that happening. For people who don't know about Chicken it's a tiny little tourist trap in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Staging a raid on Chicken seems like one of the goofiest ideas imaginable.

In the case I know of they showed up at the plant with a massive show of force, forbid the operators from controlling the plant (nuts), wandered around the plant with their guns and no safety gear (hardhats, hearing protection, etc which are mandatory), parked in all the handicapped spots for weeks, convened a grand jury which they kept going for years desperately looking for anything to stick when their original charges fell apart. If anybody had told me something like it could happen I would have thought they were tinfoil hat kooks.