There is also a big play by the Center for Biological Diversity ( and yes that is one of those nasty Soros backed ‘ngo’ groups) that keeps threatening to sue BLM in court ‘if they don’t (fill in the blank as to action)’. They have decried the BLM for not taking all of Bundy’s cattle and have called Cliven and family lawbreakers and other nasty names.
To me the big take away from all of this was that peaceful Americans (not the stone throwing anarchist type but actually peaceful) walking towards government agents and refusing to stop as ordered were able to make the feds stand down. This says that no matter what one may think there are still a lot of people who will not fire on their fellow citizens
hahaha
More like, they never expected the reaction and they thought they had any reaction that DID occur corralled - literally - in a plastic fenced area they called "your 2nd amendment area" where the people would be well removed from the actions of the jackbooted.
But they were dealing with cowboys. Cowboys are real men - they can think for themselves and they aren't easily 'cowed'.
They also never expected hundreds pouring in from around the country - and then the line of mounted cowboys, sidearms on their hips, riding towards them - along with the people on the ground - AND the up on the "highgrounds" - embankments, with guns, were hundreds more.
WAs it that they wouldn't fire on their fellow citizens - or were they scared stiff and wanted nothing more than to get outta there?
I suspicion the latter.
Now, someone in the know and with connections inside theBLM says they're planning a late night raid on the ranch itself, once the people still there helping out leave. These are the kind of outfits that like to work, like rats, in the dark of night.