A poster commented last week that had Bundy paid the fees, he would have been required to acknowledge the federal dominion of the water shed and this would have cut his water usage by half resulting in losing his cattle business.
Something caused 50 or so ranchers in Nevada to be put out of business. That is the real scandal. That is what needs investigating.
“...he would have been required to acknowledge the federal dominion of the water shed and this would have cut his water usage by half resulting in losing his cattle business.
Something caused 50 or so ranchers in Nevada to be put out of business.”
Bingo
The pretense of "environmental protection" via Federal authority has created a situation where the government is driving all manner of American producers of food and energy out of business by making them outlaws for doing what humankind has done for the past 5,000 years or more.
The same is happening on both coasts with American commercial fishing. Feds "protect" voracious sea mammals such as seals, otters, sea lions, and other critters. Before said protection, these smart animals learned pretty fast not to mess with fishermen and kept their distance; the critters and West Coast fishermen pretty much co-existed. Once the Feds got involved, the critter populations exploded by about quadruple and ATE FISH, not to mention clambered anywhere they pleased and sunk docks and half-sunk sailboats at anchor in the process, and are still doing so.
But gullible Americans have been bamboozled into blaming American fishermen for "depleting" the fish stocks. Meanwhile, in exactly the same fashion as the Feds clamp python-like with ever tightening "environmental protections," food producers from cattlemen to fishermen are CRIMINALIZED.
Desert turtles and fish have adapted to a lot more intense environmental change over the past hundred million years than anything man can throw at them in the course a few decades or even centuries. But the Federal government has decided that individuals no longer have the right to decide to fish the seas or harvest crops or run livestock on open land, as mankind has done for millennia. The root of tyranny lies in preventing free people from producing their own food and energy.
That's what this is about, and environmentalist "saving the planet" horse manure is its false benevolent pretense.
EXACTLY!
How many were targeted by the IRS, EPA, or other rogue agencies! The feds are clearly over stepping their authority. Time to start hanging these bastards!