[CedarDave]

Finally a judge who has a little common sense and will let Laney out instead of rotting in jail. Another article I saw had the judge asking why Laney was shackled in handcuffs and leg irons like a mass murderer.

It sounds as if the Forest Service types were looking for any incident to send him to jail. Maybe he shouldn't have interfered, but when you see your livelihood being taken from you, many of us might do the same thing.

[CedarDave]

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[farmfriend]

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[endthematrix]

" ''just kind of thumbs his nose'' at federal judges"

When you know in your heart that you are RIGHT, what else do you do? Bend over and take it? Just a small man, in a small town, actually standing up for himself knowing full well it is a losing battle...

[Robert Drobot]

The Forest Service since early March has rounded up 415 of Laney's livestock pursuant to a federal court order that found the rancher in contempt of court for grazing his livestock on the Diamond Bar allotment without a Forest Service permit.

So the man is being fined 415 head of cattle for letting his herd graze on public land????

The Forest Service has a beam in their eye, and another should be shoved up their you-know-what.

This is a government theft of private property as far as I'm concerned.

[FierceDraka]

Another article I saw had the judge asking why Laney was shackled in handcuffs and leg irons like a mass murderer.

It's called "rule by fear and intimidation". Once the preserve of tyrannical regimes, it now seems to be common practice in (largely unconstitutional) Federal law enforcement.