I think you are right that it's not a conspiracy, per se...but it seems to me there are many people who make money off of the fight. The media, consultants, fundraisers. It isn't a conspiracy so much as a natural state of being.
Yes, but it also isn't anything "new", either. :-)
The only issue at hand is the fence. Forget conspiracies and everything else. Simcox solicited funds for a fence advertised to cost 200 bucks per foot to construct. That is not in dispute. To date he has constructed a fence that at the top end cost 30 bucks a foot to construct. His original fence design will never see the light of day for many reasons so what we will have are a series of short 30 dollar per foot fences with the excuse that he couldn't get the required permits from the "evil gubberment". That will resonate with many of his supporters who come from the Patriot Movement. Simcox and associates know that and so they have a ready made rationale to pocket the surplus funds.