Many valid points and valid questions. It just seems to me that starting this fight over unpaid range fees seems, I don’t know ... petty on both sides.
Protest over it ... sure go ahead. Call your congressman or even organize a campaign to vote them out. No problem. It just does not seem like the right time and place to “go hot”. It just seems to me like there are plenty of other injustices to get upset about. For example, Connecticut and New York’s gun laws are a clear violation of the 2nd Amendment. There are plenty of others but this just feels wrong because there really is no moral high ground over this incident.
Perhaps as history unfolds, there will need to be a series of these transgressions of our government before the final straw that breaks the back is added to the haystack. This just does not feel like the hill to die on.
.......thank you for your response. Perhaps without meaning to, you make my point, indeed everybody’s point, at least on the right side of the line (politically). And, that is that this whole affair in Bunkerville was not about cows and grazing fees. Indeed, it is ALL ABOUT the Mood of the American hard-working patriot and how sick and tired he/she is of the Obama Administration and all it’s Czars and Marxist’s Cabinet members ignoring the “Rule of Law” and just making it up as they go along. Obamacare, just to name one example, has been illegally modified 37 times for the sole purpose of giving the Dems some electoral boost.
I can’t speak for all but speaking for myself, and what I THINK I saw in these cowboys and others, I am just sick of this lawless administration and the time for standing up to them is most likely way past due. Indeed, arguably, to allow it to go any further is only serving to make things more bloody down the road.
I refer you too to Thomas Jefferson’s statement about the “Tree of Liberty”. Millions think that is where we are and these cowboys proved that there are still people out there ready, willing and able to water that tree if that is what it takes.
When you have Ivy League types like George Will saying essentially the same thing on a Sunday Morning talk show it’s really time to start paying attention.
Meanwhile, in the 1860’s Civil WAr. China and Russia did not have Nukes. If we get to fighting the leftists over here, will the Russkies and Chinese mis-calculate?