You will also notice his problems increased when he stopped paying rent.
Paying rent to use something you do not own is a pretty simple concept. We citizens have the right to expect our government to collect rent on public land they let ranchers use. Other rent paying ranchers don’t have the problems Bundys are having, and it’s not too hard to figure out why. They deliberately escalated it to this point and could have avoided it by just continuing to pay rent.
You beware. The feds overplay their hands here by being overly heavy-handed by using violence, you can expect these regulations will go away in the future. Congress who has secede their responsibility to the Executive branch and an irresponsible and lawless Obama administration, will get much public pressure to rein in BS regulations.