[Uri’el-2012]

There are many other dimensions to this situation.

• Downare is a local rancher with very deep roots in the community
• Downare is a rancher raising Buffalo as livestock for use as consumer food.
• Colorado has "open range" Law
• Hawn is not a rancher, but from Austin Texas
• Hawn is President and CEO of Attachmate a privately owned computer corporation from Seattle Washington
• Hawn did not respect the law after advice from his first counsel
• Hawn did not act in a reasonable manner, instead attempted to bully his neighbor
• Hawn hired a anti-American illegal alien activist group to slaughter his neighbor's livestock
• Hawn personally slaughtered his neighbor's livestock
• Hawn had his lawyer draft a notarized letter authorizing the slaughter of his neighbor's livestock
• The former owner of Hawn's property put him in contact with the Illegal Alien activist group

Hawn being the President and CEO of AttachMate computer corporation,
I can assume that he was not ignorant of the Law

I can only assume that Hawn is a city-slicker carpet-bagging bully
who thought that Colorado law did not apply to him,
as he is from Austin Texas and a big-time CEO.

or he is an unstable sociopath.

I'll bet he voted for either Barak Hussein Obama or Hillary Clinton

[MtnClimber]

Good summary!

[TexanByBirth]

I can only assume that Hawn is a city-slicker carpet-bagging bully who thought that Colorado law did not apply to him, as he is from Austin Texas and a big-time CEO.

Your probably safe in assuming that!

But let's call this what it really is: a guy with more money than brains! Just because someone may be smart in business, does not mean they have a lick of common sense. Austin is full of such "new rich" people!

And you residents of Colorado, please don't assume anything done by folk in Austin represents the rest of the people in the State of Texas. Austin is like Boulder. It leaves the rest of us scratching our heads and going "WTF".

And living in Austin, it would be a safe bet that Hawn voted for either Barry or Hillary.

[george76]

Excellent summary.

[SES1066]

There are many other dimensions to this situation.

Obviously I wrote mine before I saw yours. It appears that we are in no significant disagreement although I was trying to be dispassionate and not read anything beyond the obvious. I perhaps could / should have waited but it was an interesting exercise in logic.

[piroque]

WELL SAID

I can only assume that Hawn is a city-slicker carpet-bagging bully who thought that Colorado law did not apply to him, as he is from Austin Texas and a big-time CEO

[RJL]

I'm a suburban type, not a rancher. I understand the anger and the waste of Hawn's actions, but Downare seems to have plenty of guilt here too.

The former owner of Hawn's property put him in contact with the Illegal Alien activist group

Interesting. Why would he do this? Perhaps Downare wants to grab Hawn's land cheap and is using his Bison and their destructive behavior to drive the former owner and now the new owner, Hawn, off his own land.

Also interesting: on April 1 officers "retrieved a spent bullet from one of the wasted bison carcasses that had been shot weeks prior to the first contact with hunters at the Hawn property."

How big are these ranches? At least one, perhaps all of Downare's livestock are off his ranch for weeks at a time before he notices them gone. Wouldn't all the destroyed fencing give Downare a clue?