Posted on 04/16/2014 6:01:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Feds may have set a troubling precedent by allowing a Nevada rancher and his band of armed followers to win a standoff with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The rancher refused to pay more than $1 million in fines for letting his cows graze on government land
It could have been a catastrophe. For several days last week, hundreds of angry protesters faced off with federal workers on an arid ranch near Bunkerville, Nev. Militiamen squatted among the sagebrush and crouched on a highway overpass, cradling guns and issuing barely veiled threats at the government officials massed behind makeshift barricades. The specter of a violent standoff hung over the high desert.
The hair-trigger tension seemed at odds with the arcane origins of the dispute. Twenty years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decided to clear privately owned cattle off this patch of public land to protect the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise. Dozens of ranchers left. Cliven Bundy stayed.
Bundy, 68, has refused to recognize federal authority over the land, or to pay the feds for allowing his cattle to graze there. Those accumulated fees and fines now total more than $1 million, according to the government. Armed with fresh court orders, the government moved last week to impound a few hundred of the rancher’s cows.
Bundy balked, and the far right-wing media sounded a clarion call for his cause, casting the standoff as a flashpoint in a broader struggle against federal oppression. A cavalry of patriots arrived, bearing weapons and a seemingly bottomless grudge against the government....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
I quit reading Time decades ago....
Thats not what i saw on all the video tapes. But then I am sure pictures lie.
I hope I live to see tanks punching holes in the Time magazine building.
Never mind that cattle and tortoises had been sharing the land for 100 years before that, and still are.
I thought (according to what all our local radio stations said) that it was the goobt mercenaries up on those overpasses.
Do they write this way about the millions who violate our immigration laws?
I like how the supporters of big brother don’t ask the question “Where does the government get the right to just declare untouched land its own property?”
I guess Time wanted BLM to slaughter supporters of Bundy.
“Federal workers”? Sounds so innocuous. All federal workers now wear camo, flack jackets, helmets and carry AR-15’s?
No bias here...nahhh...
Oh, and apparently being a productive producer of food makes one a moocher nowadays, not leeching off welfare money extorted by force.
Although I’m a huge desert rat, most of the BLM land is considered wasteland. That’s either literally — in the fallout path of above-and-below ground nuclear tests — or figuratively. There is usually one BLM goon per million or two acres. I don’t know where they rounded up so many goons (or the goobt has been squandering money again on more “rangers”).
It was always nicknamed Bureau of Land Mismanagement. After their cattle (and wild horse) slaughters of late, that’s quite an appropriate name.
Says it all.
(Just ask Putin whether that wasn't the case after the last election!)
Federal workers!
ALL states should stand up and declare their sovereignty over all their land. Period.
Hey, where’s Bruce Springsteen on this? He’s supposed to be lookin’ out for the ‘little guy’....like the ‘farmers ‘n’ stuff’. Where’s the Nashville musicians creating a fund raiser for Bundy? Yeah, thought so. Fakes one and all. Disgusting!
“a seemingly bottomless grudge against the government”
The metrosexuals at Time just can’t wrap their designer shoes around the concept, “If you want my land, well, you’re just gonna have to kill me.”
It’s the Code of the West.
I haven’t read Time either since college, when they made me. Or Newsweak. Rolling Stone sends my daughter free copies, and they go straight to the recycling tub. The Economist, ditto. Weekly Standard, same/same.
The MSM is close to successfully completing its total estrangement of the American weekly journal reading public.
What?
Federal workers.
They were there just to trim some grass, and pick up a few turtles. Maybe smell the dust in the air. It was hot there also. I am sure they were going to take some pics of the landscape to send back home. It was hot there. After kicking some rocks, they just wanted to go home. It was all so innocent, see?
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