It's about "First Amendment areas", and beatings, and swarms of officers harassing and eating out the substance of the taxpayers & Cliven Bundy.
What is a “ first amendment area”?
There seem to be two clearly different types of property involved. That owned by the rancher in fee simple, 150 acres or so and perhaps the remnant of an old homestead of 160 acres.
The rest is property owned by the government and not homesteaded or other wise conveyed since acquired in the 1840’s. Over time, methods were evolved for using the property that did not involve actual ownership. It is this contract evolution that is at issue. It appears that the rancher allowed the contract to lapse.
This isn't about "grazing fees" or "Federal property". It's about "First Amendment areas", and beatings, and swarms of officers harassing and eating out the substance of the taxpayers & Cliven Bundy.The court cases and legal judgments referenced just don't support that assumption. What the BLM is doing is much nicer than what I'd be doing if someone didn't pay me grazing fees for 20+ years on my land.