Last I check, Brown won the war. He prevented the “wiser more mature men” from succeeding. Not a coincidence that the Battle Hymn of the Republic is built upon John Brown’s Body.
Who knows how the election of 1860 would have turned out without Harper’s Ferry, but once a majority of voters in a majority of states, though they themselves were an overall minority, had adopted a more radical course, and another polarized group pulled their officials out of Washington, things happened.
Write your own history, then. Throw in with Bundy, but just for good measure what’s his legal argument for not paying the BLM fees?
If he’s correct, then why aren’t other land owners using that same legal argument to avoid fees?
Just to be double safe, why not find a dozen other real victims of government abuse. It’s just insurance for when Bundy’s exposed as a fraud and a kook or when the bloodshed starts because some hothead thinks it’s about Cliven Bundy and not about American liberty.