[MarMema]

Cliff Gardner is sentenced to a month in a Reno halfway house, along with a $5,000 fine and a year of probation. He has been under house arrest for the three previous months for not taking his cattle off of federal land. When his sentence — which affirmed the U.S. Forest Service's authority over the disputed land — was announced, more than 50 states' rights protesters were in the courtroom with him. Three were dressed in white wigs as American Revolutionary War patriots and another wearing a wig and red coat said he was England's King George. "Has the West been won, or has the fight just begun?" read a banner at a rally outside the courthouse where 15 protesters on horseback carried signs while children waved the Nevada state flag. "This court has tried to intimidate the citizens of Nevada by attempting to make an example of Cliff Gardner," said Cliven Bundy, a Clark County rancher.

[GregoTX]

The history of the dispute in chronological order. Very interesting read, thanks for posting.

[bigbob]

Thanks - very useful.

[areukiddingme1]

Waco Texas and Ruby Ridge Idaho — Name two places in American history where Bill Clinton’s Attorney General killed Americans.

[Tenacious 1]

Here is something that goes unmentioned. Why would the states voluntarily “give” their land to the government and let the government collect permit fees for the effort? Deserts don’t need to be “managed”. The endangered species BS, which has mostly been a ruse starting with the Buffalo and working it’s way through and including newly discovered species of insects has been used as a federal weapon to confiscate land, power and wealth.

Remember the family that was finally forced to sell their redwood forest so that the forest could be saved (Northern California)? They owned and logged and cultivated that redwood forest for almost 150 years. In the 80s some lady climbed a tree and stayed there for a month to prevent loggers from cutting down their own tree. In 1998 the state and fed purchased the forest from the logging family (under duress) for $1 Million. Almost 10 years later, most of it burned in a forest fire because the dead wood was not being cleaned from the forest any longer.

Anything the fed touches turns the shit. They couldn’t manage a ham sandwich if Emeril Lagasse was their chef.

[70times7]

Really? Everything I need to know? Considering what this writer's head if full of, one wonders why it is called "yellow journalism".

She clearly has an agenda. She depicts those resisting the government as ignorant and aggressive. They cannot spell, they ignore authority, they plant bombs, they shoot and steal signs. The ranchers want to kill animals. Oh, those evil ranchers!

OTOH the government authorities are patient, long suffering, backed by science and oh so many studies. They just want to protect the land and its animals!

I reached the end of the article and was wondering where the section was on Harry Reid's connections to China and his friends and relatives working a deal to place a solar "farm" there. BTW - go research what would happen to the grouse and other birds if a solar farm was placed there. I guess those are things I don't need to know about.

[Altura Ct.]

I wouldn’t trust much of anything from the Wash Post

[ponygirl]

I thought this part of the article was veeeerrrrry interesting:

March 27, 2014: Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins also supports Bundy. “The U.S. government has perpetrated a bigger fraud on people over those tortoises than Al Capone did selling swampland in Miami."

And then from Facebook: Darin Bushman - Piute County Commissioner I was just told by commissioner Collins of Clark County NV that all of us folks from Utah are a bunch of "inbred bastards" and if we are coming to Clark Cointy NV to support Cliven Bundy we all "better have funeral plans". We should "turn our asses around on mind our own f-ing business". Now there's some classy leadership for you. · April 7 at 10:56am ·

Interesting change of heart there, Commissioner Collins. I think I just got whiplash.

[februus]

I can’t wait for that future time when we are able to incarcerate politically partisan bureaucrats for “failure to disperse” - and for setting illegal perimeters and cordons (so-called “free speech zones”) - whether in Washington DC or in Nevada, for unequal applications of law, for failing to abide by FOIA, for using hidden email accounts, secrecy, cronyism, use of force, and...and...

[The Toll]

No one is violating any laws. We are just delaying the implementation of compliance until after the midterm elections.

[Valpal1]

Bump, thank you for posting.