Same legal arguments as before:
US Government owns the land in question
US Government can decide what to do with that land
If the US Government thinks a solar farm or tortoise ranch or rock garden is better use for that land, they can decide what to do with that land.
When Bundy stopped paying the grazing fees, he lost his right to access and graze on someone else’s land
For the past 20 years or so, Bundy has been freeloading off of the public lands without paying the fees that are legally required to use that land.
How do you freeload on land the government pays nothing for, does nothing to improve, and has driven everyone else off of it for a corrupt Senators pet project?
Are you working for a solar development company by any chance?
Bundy’s family has been using that land long before there were any fees to do so.
You are both missing a key point. The Federal Government, the Sierra Club, and corrupt politicians have manipulated the Endangered Species Act, the Environmental Protection Act, and the BLM policies to vacate long standing grazing rights and water rights which have long been sacrosanct in the West.
That is what is going on here. Someone wants the land, and they want Bundy and his cattle gone. The instrument of this mischief is the Desert Tortoise who gets along quite well with cattle but not so much with solar farms and suburban housing developments. The are arbitrarily restricting the size of his herd and jacking up the fees to run him off using the tortoise as their legal battering ram. This is how Reid has been operating for years and why he is so powerful in Nevada. You screw with him, and he will take away your livlihood.
This dispute has been in the courts for years and that’s where it belongs. Do you wonder why after all of these years we suddenly have the BLM doing a reenactment of the Normandy invasion? It’s because Harry Reid’s son has cut a deal with a Chinese company to build a solar farm and they want that land NOW.
The US govt is us, we the people. And we the people spoke and said we want the land used for cattle ranching. We decided, not some cabal of corrupt politicians paid off by corrupt business interests and not some court that does not represent our interests.
“Same legal arguments as before:
US Government owns the land in question
US Government can decide what to do with that land” - TC
Do you still contend that the US government owns the land in question?
I have seen it reported that it is state, *not* federal, land.