/johnny
“What part of a civil dispute warrants over 200 federal agents with guns, and tasing protesters?”
When cops are faced with a riot, what do they do? They go in with force and try to keep things under control by having a LOT of control. This is a standard police action. The guy is a nutjob who believes US law doesn’t apply to him. He thinks he has the right to graze as many cattle anywhere and anytime he wants - which will destroy a desert environment. It did it before, in the early 1900s.
Want to fight about something? How about the town in Arizona that can’t restore its water lines except by hand? THAT would be a fight I would drive to and support! But a rancher who wants free forage, while every other rancher in the US pays for it? Nope. Wrong fight, wrong cause.
Let us remember Waco.
Imagine if the feral government put that kind of energy toward defending our southern border...
This is what really squeezes my gut. Why/how can the government send out It’s armed goons like Nazi SS and Gestapo to make a confrontation without going the full public, i.e. court path, to prove their contention along with the real interests of the Nation as well as all back stage, cloaked interests for full public decision. I have no respect for people, man or woman, who cannot separate USA Constitutional rights from the self serving political desires of people like Harry Reid who never put his life on the line for all the money he takes in. I feel proper in making such criticisms as a WWII overseas vet with a brother killed on Okinawa fighting a nation of people who would have had the same control as Reid and his ilk including all the way up to Obama and his enablers such as Jarette.
The Fed’s are simply setting a precedent that they will use to implement their statist agenda.