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.
None of us is free. Don’t pay your property taxes and just see how free you are in this country.Your land and your home belong to the state. You pay for the right to occupy them as long as you pay them what they tell you to pay. Does that sound like what the Founders had in mind when they established “the land of the free?”
How many acres does Cliv own in fee? On those he can do pretty
much what he wants. But on other owners property he doesn’t
have those same rights.