How many cows did the BLM steal, originally? I've read (here on FR) numbers from 200 to 900. "One" would be too many, but I'm curious.
Out of that, how many would be a "reasonable", "Believable", "pick-a-word" number to have met their maker during the time they were being driven around?
Of course, the answer is "Zero", if they're your cows being stolen. But I'd figure that livestock that size, being herded around from place to place, must come with some amount of risk, both to the animals AND the herders.
And the previous posters, discussing that there sure looked like a lot more cows in the hole the BLM left .... is spot on. Speculation that the BLM stalled until they'd covered up (or attempted to cover up) what they'd done....makes a whole lot more sense, to me. At least, that's what Occam's razor says, barring a more succinct explanation.
Zero is not only reasonable but normal. We move a thousand cows at a time without hurting either a cow or cowboy. One of the things we have is cow dogs who get the livestock moving but also keep them out of trouble. The brownshirts used dogs——to herd the people. No amount of massaging the numbers can show the BLM to be reasonable at ANY level in this matter. And they need to pay up promptly for the damage they’ve done. They could not possibly have had a court order that authorized killing anything. But if they did, or think they did, then there’s a judge that also belongs on the BIG LIST.
The first try at an explanation fed to the MSM and anyone else who would listen was that the cattle were rounded up and removed from the “grazing area that the government said they were not allowed to be...
The number was posted in several places in the number between 300 and 350 head of cattle...
I have not heard of any other number higher than that...
The commentary you posted in regards to the technical aspects of the words “stolen” is profound...One that pushes the burden of proof upon the state, in which the “state” has ZERO interest in allowing the public to see the truth...
So the more misinformation they can allow to diffuse the truth is in the government/administrations interest, much less covering for Harry Reid and his associations in this incident...