Bundy led a non violent protest in Oregon in early 2016 and that the FBI ambushed protesters on the highway with LaVoy Finicum being killed and Ryan Bundy injured.
No violence at Bunkerville from the Bundy side but feds tasing Ammon Bundy, beating up Dave Bundy and knocking down Margaret Houston in the days leading to the April 12, 2014 standoff.
The federal land control in the West as its screws have tightened since the BLM was started in 1960 just the screws of Jim Crow racism tightening in the South over the decades in the late 1800’s to around 1900.
The federal land policies impoverish the farmers and ranchers preventing them from making a living just like the racial policies kept black people from the better jobs in the South.
“..back in July urging patience in this and other matters. Well, here we are six months later and squat.”.......
I see this entire mess and related trials, re-trial and further delays as a way to eventually “break” the Bundy’s and their supporters with the federal government eventually out spending them. The end game being all for the purpose of getting that Bundy land. Seems that’s where this fiasco all started way back when.......
I know and understand. I was closely monitoring the Bunkerville event and actually was in the truck headed there when the Feds gave the cattle back.
Bundy’s are not the hill to doe on. .gov overreach is the issue. If Trump knows anything about this event it most likely was that a bunch of rabble rousers took up arms against a lawful court ordered Federal operation. Trunp doesn’t get the Western lands issue. Zinke on the other hand is sympathetic.