According to Bundy’s daughter on FB her gr-grandpa paid for pre-emptive rights to the land in 1887. He then sold those rights to his son and he gave them to Bundy.
The BLM was paid grazing fees to help him manage the land but they stopped using the fees for management and started using it to buy up the other lands. Bundy refused to sell and basically fired them. He tried to pay fees to Clark County but they refused.
Bundy used his own equipment, labor and money to manage the land over the years...no tax dollars! He has been to court to defend his actions and as the BLM has tax money to spend they kept after him. Lastly, they have used the protected species act to get his land.
I think his basic claim to graze on the land is that it’s between him and the State of Nevada...not the Feds business. I agree.
see post #81
Bundy is arguing that he basically has a patent claim. BTW Bundy will be on Sean Hannity tonight.
“According to Bundy’s daughter on FB her gr-grandpa paid for pre-emptive rights to the land in 1887. He then sold those rights to his son and he gave them to Bundy.”
People claim a lot of things when they are not under oath. In court, the land he is grazing on was first rented from the BLM in 1954. Much of the land he is now grazing on is land he didn’t use even in 1998. If he had been using land he was entitled to, the court would have noted his arguments if only to reject them. But he does not have a track record that backs his claims up.
The guy is a liar. He is a cheat. The ranchers I know PAY for their grazing. He wants it for free. And he bases his wanting free grazing on his belief that the US government does not and cannot own land - which is directly contradicted by the US Constitution.