[DuncanWaring]

Another perspective on this situation, from Ann Barnhardt:

Regarding the cattleman in Nevada: I would strongly discourage you all from hitching your cart to this particular horse. While I have all manner of criticisms of the BLM and certainly of thuggish FEDGOV tactics, it is essential that one pick one’s battles very carefully, and this is NOT a good battle to pick. The guy in question has been grazing his cattle at essentially zero feed cost for upwards of twenty years (well, THAT makes the cattle business easier, doesn’t it!) because he stopped paying the BLM any lease charges. Again, we can debate all manner of things including the ridiculous rules about closing land to grazing in order to “protect” lizards or prairie chickens or whatever the fake “endangered species” du jour is, and certainly we can debate the existence of the BLM itself, but there is no free lunch; everyone else pays to graze. This guy is claiming, as I understand it, some grandfathered right to the land through the Mormon cult (again, BIG red flag), but I don’t buy it. This situation stinks all around to my refined sniffer, and I would NOT die on this hill. Since so many have asked, that is my read. Just be careful with this one.

[Rusty0604]

I like Ann but I can’t help but wonder if her opinion would change if the family were Catholic instead of Mormon?

[ChildOfThe60s]

Certainly food for thought.

History doesn’t always work that way though. The Feds have gotten so bad that the rebellious explosion could be sparked by anything with a little or a lot of justification.

Popeye: “That’s all I can stands I can’t stands no more”

But I guarantee if/when serious resistance starts, regardless of the so called justification, the Feds are going to make this over reaching incursion look like a Sunday brunch.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Bump!

[Lou Budvis]

Bingo! No one should be siding with this person who mooches off of the public good. He stopped paying for grazing rights BEFORE it was declared off-limits for grazing. He’s been freeloading off the gov’t by grazing his cattle for free and pocketing the difference. He is a trespasser and taker.

It’s isn’t fair to law-biding ranchers who have to pay for lawful grazing rights.

[Dapper 26]

Maybe he used the wrong justification - Mormon - as his defense. How about if he said “Muslim” instead of Mormon? Do you think it would make a difference?

[demshateGod]

“Again, we can debate all manner of things including the ridiculous rules about closing land to grazing in order to “protect” lizards or prairie chickens or whatever the fake “endangered species” du jour is, and certainly we can debate the existence of the BLM itself”

Here’s something to think about. We have debated, won elections, been lied to by our pols. We’re debating while our rights are being taken by brute force. Maybe this guy unilaterally decided to take out the stinking trash that no one else would touch.

[BigEdLB]

Whenever a situation arises, someone finds something that makes a individuals case in one way or another impure. Certainly we musy be careful as to what “cart” to hitch our “horse” to, but at what point do we say “enough” to Authoritarian tyranny in this country. The BLM goons are supposed to be our servants, not the other way around.

[MaxMax]

The Gov does what they want instantly, knowing it would take decades to fix their wrong.
I don't see this issue as one Prarie chicken, or feeding cattle. This is about
the tyrannical existence the Federal Gov has become, and this Government has become
to-damn-bold. Those men shipped in from other places should be hunted down and posters
plastered in their neighborhood condemning them for their Brownshirt acceptance of
mistreating Americans and the Constitution for which they swore to protect!

One day the time for violence will come, and it will be the Feds who fire first.