Has Jerry Brown? Kevin de Leon? Kathryn Cortez? Xavier Becerra? Ruben Kihuen?
None of them are in prison.
Public ownership of the lands
What part of the Constitution envisions the States being 50% occupied by the Federal government? Can you think of any of the colonies that would have agreed to that in 1787?
repaid for his grazing on the lands
He paid the county, which was his way of saying that was the legitimate entity. If you don't agree with that, you can't even begin to call yourself a Constitutional conservative.
and renounced armed protest against our United States?
My ancestors at King's Mountain, Guilford Courthouse and Alamance all were armed protestors against a corrupt government. People who worship unlimited federal power should move back to England or Canada. If the populace feels so strongly about an injustice that they feel the need to arm themselves, then the people who refer to themselves as "the government" need to consider that. It means they've gone too far and have lost their legitimacy in the eyes of the people. The BLM transformed from a aid agency to a group of radicals who viewed Western settlers as a weed to be eradicated on the way to some hippy bliss paradise where the Evil Ranchers were driven off the land. When did we vote for that?
The Bundy's may not be the brightest bulbs but Ammon made an eloquent case for himself in Oregon and won the day.
Nothing they have done should have denied them bail. If you want to worry about someone with foreign connections who might skip town, think of Judge Navarro: she has NO connection to "Our United States", since not one member of her family was here before 1960.
Paying the county is a donation to the county, not payment to the US taxpayer. His grazing contract was with the US government.
The discussion thread here is about the Bundys.