It doesn't matter how much time... It doesn't matter for legal twists and turns... Anyone who thinks this will turn out any different from here on in doesn't understand what happens when rednecks hit 'oh, hell no!' territory. That Bundy Ranch will stay put now (to include every bit of range that he owns the water on) pretty much forever.
Them cowboys ain't gonna back up no more. Not one inch. Force will be met with force, even if there is no chance of winning. This isn't about law anymore. It is about right and wrong. They won't be convinced otherwise, no matter what. Nor their sons, nor their grandsons.
The only thing the feds can do is leave it alone... Completely alone... And hope folks forget about it enough that they can set their precedents some other way. Do anything else, and those cowboys will back their word.... and if they do and get stepped on, I bet Nevadans will too - and maybe the Desert Southwest... Make a big enough stink and the Rockies will rise up too - I guarantee it.
Push has come to shove, and now there ain't no backing down, whether the feds and all y'all know it or not.
I know it and I assume anyone who is familiar with cowboys knows it.
They won't. They have to demonstrate who's boss. Look for a Shock and Awe confrontation before 2014 is out.
Face reognition technology allows the f’ing Feds to scour the videos and figure out who was there representing the right side of the issue. The IRS audits begin shortly. These bastards don’t stop jst because they got scared away from a shooting war. This is not a fight to save our country; its gone. This is a huge struggle to get out constitution reestablshed.