Exactly what moral authority does Bundy have? He has been using public lands without compensation for his personal benefit. If he had been escrowing the grazing fees he could have at least claimed to be acting in good faith. Of course he didn’t do that because the courts have repeatedly told him that he is wrong.
Further, his arguments that since he is a member of the public he can do what he wants on public land is the same argument used by OWS when they occupied public parks. Medea Benjamin considers Congressional hearing rooms First Amendment zones, too.
What moral right did the patriots have to dump the tea into Boston harbor?
Hint: it ain’t about the money.
Ranchers have always grazed on open range, i.e., land that was not owned by anyone.
Nevada becomes a State, but inside it’s “borders” Fedzilla keeps title to most of the land.
It’s held until elite financiers need “their” CongressCriminal(tm) to give them a sweetheart land deal.
Until that time, it’s held by Fedzilla and called a “park” or something.
If you watch the move “Pale Rider”, you’ll get the gist of the story.
See, those ranchers...
Lahood: they’re standin’ in the way of progress.
Clint: who’s progress ? Theirs, or yours ?
The less illegitimate alternative would be to let each State’s OWN corrupt legislature administer land swindles at the State level.
In a State like Nevada, which would want to keep it’s hand in the range-grazed beef industry, they’d probably keep some arrangement going to let the rancher graze his cattle, and let their other land uses dovetail in with the rancher.
Once you get such a deranged (pun intended?) crook as Harry Reid in the US Senate, it becomes a certainty that he’ll use his office to rape the land and pillage the people, who will find it much harder to schmooze him at the Federal level than to schmooze local State legislators.
“Exactly what moral authority does Bundy have? He has been using public lands without compensation for his personal benefit. If he had been escrowing the grazing fees he could have at least claimed to be acting in good faith. Of course he didn’t do that because the courts have repeatedly told him that he is wrong.
Further, his arguments that since he is a member of the public he can do what he wants on public land is the same argument used by OWS when they occupied public parks. Medea Benjamin considers Congressional hearing rooms First Amendment zones, too.”
Lou, Lou, Lou. HOW, on God’s green earth can you compare what a bunch of squatting, defecating, fecal-throwing, garbage throwing, moral-lacking, sheeple did compared to a bunch of grass-eating range cows? Huh, Lou? How? lol.