Yes I understand that many think it’s unfair that the government owns so much land out west but honestly that argument is a big red herring in this case.
The ownership situation is what it is. It is no secret who owns that land. Bundy willingly entered into permit agreements to use the land. Nobody forced him to use the land or increase his herd so he needed more land. He owns his own property that he has free use of, however he wants to extend the same “rights” to property that simply isn’t his. He wants to use US taxpayer owned property for his business, with no restrictions and at no cost.
He has consistently lost in court and has no legal leg to stand on.
“He has consistently lost in court and has no legal leg to stand on.”
Yes, he has IN FEDERAL COURT! The feds need to return the land they extorted from all of the Western States! That is what Bundy is really trying to accomplish. He was using that land long before there was a BLM or a scheme to charge for the use of “public land.” Also, the fact of the matter is that the BLM isn’t a “steward for public land.” The notion that they are there to “manage it” is laughable. The reason the BLM has left ( and least left for now) is that Dingy Harry Reid’s game here to take that land for a solar energy plant that his worthless son is cooking up with the Red Chinese has been exposed.
I take it that you are NOT one of “the many” who think that federal “ownership” of most of the West isn’t o.k. Just a thought, most of us on FR don’t feel the way that you seem to.