It doesn’t serve Bundy’s cause well to not be accurate in saying things like this: “They want his land.”
That is simply not true, the land isn’t Bundy’s and never was. Accuracy matters, especially when people are saying things like “this is the beginning of CW2.” Stick it to BLM, stick it to Reid, but be accurate and stop acting like Bundy actually owned the land.
You make a good point, but this article is actually one of the better ones making the rounds. In the arid West, actual ownership of the land is not nearly as important as ownership and control of the water rights and the grazing rights.
Bundy claims that Clark County owns the land. The Federal government holds the title to the land, but Clark County controls the grazing rights and Bundy has a well established claim to those grazing rights for which he has paid the authorities. He also controls water rights, which is just as important. That’s the way things work in the West and why land disputes always center around water and grazing.
Reid and his cronies, together with their environmental wacko partners in crime have co opted the Endangered Species Act and the Environmental Protection Act to run legitimate ranchers out of business by denying them their water and grazing rights. It’s organized crime in operation out on the range and when they can’t get the courts to go along, they bribe or change the judges.
Thats my thoughts as well
Bundy needs some more innovative legal strategeries.
Also known as “pick your fights”. I feel the same way. If I had access to the trillions of dollars the govt has I could be a rich man easily. But since I don’t own that money I do not expect to be able to use it. That isn’t his land even if his cattle grazed there for friggin millennia. Its not his and he shouldn’t assume access to it. I pick my fights and this is a crappy one.