noting that home detention is not freedom.
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Wonder why? Certainly got to be more freedom than locked in a jail cell.
If he is not free to use the land because the “desert tortoise” has more rights then he is not free.
If he can’t assert his water rights on the grazing land which reside with the State of Nevada, not Washington DC then he is not free.
If he can’t go back to his home at the ranch and live freely making a living unencumbered by the federal government’s rules, regulation etc. then he is not free.
Home detention at some house in Las Vegas away from the ranch is a far cry from the conditions I mentioned above.
It relieves the federal government of pressure from the public to change things and it stops the jury from seeing a jail uniform on Cliven Bundy when he is in the courtroom.