[Jim Robinson]

Yeah, and they would “allow” Bundy to graze a certain number of cows per acre for a fee. But the number was totally insufficient to sustain his ranch. And that was the entire purpose of the feds. To run him out of business and off the land just as they did all the other large ranchers in the territory. It’s tyranny.

[Ben Ficklin]

Bundy doesn't really own a ranch. He owns some land that his family homesteaded, but he can't raise but a few cows on that land.

But he, and those before him, had the large grazing lease that he could graze large numbers of cattle on. That's the way Congress set it up way back when.

But Congress changed it in 1976 with FLPMA, and the Sagebrush Rebellion coincides with FLPMA.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Faux conservative journalist at Reuters attacks Bundy:

COLUMN-The Cliven Bundy in all of us
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/22/salam-bundy-idUSL2N0NE13L20140422