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To: Mr Rogers
What do you do when someone is violating the law...say, heck, that’s OK?

Yes. If it's a bad law. Do you propose we follow whatever law is passed regardless of its constitutionality? Americans are European peasants that simply obey their overlords. Americans don't have overlords.

61 posted on 04/11/2014 7:23:37 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Durus; JRandomFreeper

“Do you propose we follow whatever law is passed regardless of its constitutionality?”

Ownership of land by the federal government is specifically provided by the US Constitution, which gives Congress responsibility to pass laws to manage it as Congress sees fit. We live in a democratic republic. If you don’t like the law, you work to change it...but since these laws involve property rights and are IAW laws used since the country was founded, I doubt they will change just to allow one rancher free, unrestricted grazing.

“Just because one court ruled, doesn’t mean that’s the end of it.”

So...did Bundy file an appeal? He’s past the time limit to do so. If you lose in court, and do not appeal, it IS over. After that, you comply with the law and if needed work to change the law.

Conservatives are not a bunch of hoodlums in the inner city who do knee-jerk protests because “the man is oppressing the black man”. We do not believe in tribal politics, where all that matters is if you identify with someone - and yes, I identify with ranchers, not the BLM. I oppose most of the environmental laws passed since 1980, and I am very pro-grazing. I spent several summers in my youth as a peon data collector working on research projects that showed the benefits of grazing for wildlife.

But I am not a fan of uncontrolled grazing. I’ve known of ranchers who overgrazed their allotments, running 3-4 times as many cattle allowed until a court order stopped them...and yes, OVERgrazing is very harmful. A year of overgrazing can destroy the land so thoroughly that it will take 50 years to recover.

I am not a fan of unrestricted grazing because it leads to disaster. The Grazing Act was passed in the 30s for a reason - look it up!


64 posted on 04/11/2014 8:37:28 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I sooooo miss America!)
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