However, he also said that around 1990, there was a guy who went around telling ranchers that they didn’t need to pay grazing fees, and that the federal government could not own land and that people were citizens of states, but not of America. One of his close friends bought off on it and has spent 20 years refusing to pay income taxes, get a drivers license, etc.I knew sovereign citizen tax protesters were in there somewhere! Anytime you hear the ever-changing stuff that Bundy was saying in court and on TV about who the land belongs to, it's "freeman on the land" woo.
Where are you going to be when the Feds come into GA? Spouting rules and regs that by the way are not voted on by the House or Senate?
Just in case you didn’t know the US Congress never voted to declare the Bundy range a Tortoise sanctuary. Nor did the US Congress ever vote to make or change the rules regulating how many cattle could be run on a certain amount of acreage. The US Congress votes on almost none of the regulations that are in question here. So what this means is that its all done on an arbitrary basis by a bunch of progressive bureacrats backed up by Federal judges.
Truth be told the whole thing is unconstitutional. Mr. Bundy’s declaration of pre-emptive rights are far more legitimate and have more standing than the Dept of Agriculture’s BS regulations that change on a whim.
He’s claiming more or less a patent claim. We have patent claims in GA going back 150 years or more. They are handed down from one generation to another and there are no fees charged and many of these claims are on public land.
There’s a storm coming and you better get your head screwed on straight Bubba your mouth is not backing up your tag line.
I agree with you on the sovereign citizens woo being an influence. That’s one of the reasons I think the BLM should arrange to have Clark Co. collect the fees for them.
Let’s see if Bundy pays up or starts up with some more woo on the subject of money.
There are no angels dancing on the head of this pin, both sides are wrong. The BLM was/is using bad science to bolster their ideologically driven management of public lands to the detriment of the locals and Bundy is a charismatic woo salesmen using specious legal reasoning to avoid paying his bill.
But... and it’s a big BUT... this episode has demonstrated the serious power of social networking on law enforcement activities as well as how developed the militia movement has gotten. And how feeble the federal response was to it, this time.
We live in interesting times.