The original deal with the BLM was that the NUMEROUS ranchers were to pay the BLM fees for managing the range.
This worked well at first, but then the BLM started using the fees to drive the many ranchers out of business, and stopped using the fees to manage the range.
Are you saying you'd hire a kid to mow your lawn and still keep paying him after you caught him REFUSING to mow the lawn, but was instead spray-painting graffiti on your house with paint cans purchased with YOUR money?
That’s correct, but it’s not Bundy’s original argument for not paying the fees.
Find those other ranchers and bring them to the fore. We have to make this about government abuse and mismanagement not about Cliven Bundy. Bundy’s not a hero, but a kook who, like a stopped clock, is right twice.
Get those other 50 families and you have a cause. Right now it’s a tar baby and the feds will win.
As has been pointed out a jillion times in here, given that the BLMaggots have surely blown thru well north of the disputed million $ last week,
the 'delinquent fees' bullshit is just their Reichstag fire to spoon feed to the LIVs while they do some Nazi calesthenics.
I sincerely hope that any fedgov JBT who fires on those people doesn't make it out of that desert alive.
Additionally, justice would be served should escalating developments give reason to introduce the (posthumous) nickname 'Crossfire Harry'.
(but as cowards never rarely get near the sharp end, won't hold my breath for that last bit)
Not to be a stickler for details, but there wasn’t any BLM when the family started ranching out there. It hadn’t been invented yet.