Posted on 04/23/2014 11:14:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy is being portrayed by some as a man of principle, an iconoclast who should be admired for his willingness to stand up to the federal government. But in fact he's a petty scofflaw who seems to think that he has the right to pick and choose which rules must be obeyed.
Bundy is the cattleman who grazes his herd on federal land operated by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, but unlike more than 15,000 other ranchers, he refuses to pay the associated grazing fees. After 20 years of disagreements and court battles, the U.S. government began rounding up his cattle this month. The rancher and a group of armed supporters confronted the federal authorities, leading to a standoff; the authorities withdrew.
Bundy justifies his stingy and illegal behavior with a variety of claims. One is that this is a states' rights issue and that he doesn't "recognize" the federal government. Another is that his family grazed the land long before it came under the jurisdiction of the BLM.
Actually, more than 70% of the land in Nevada is federally owned, including the land in question; the state Constitution recognized that ownership years before Bundy's ancestors arrived, despite his assertion otherwise. (Various reports also have cast serious doubt on whether his family was grazing cattle on the land as long ago as he claims.) For that matter, if prior use of land were all that was needed to avoid paying a landlord, the land would revert back not to Bundy but to the control of Native Americans, who were on the Nevada land long before any white settlement of the area...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Like the illegal aliens you defend vociferously in your newspaper every day?
Oh...they're finally criticizing Obama! /s
And I thought a president arming a government agency like an army and using it against American citizens was a violation of the Constitution and Posse Comitatus.What this goon Obama did against Bundy was send a army against an American citizen for a civil matter. that is a violation of Posse Comitatus and calls for imprisonment of Obama as it is a crime
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I don’t know how these scum at the LAT think they have any credibility at all.
Obama & Holder are going to demonstrate that principle to us first, right LAT?
Holder? Obama? Sebelius? Lerner?
Our federal government picks and chooses which laws it will enforce. I don’t see the Los Angeles Times criticizing it. But they think we can’t do the same I guess because what is white for Washington is black for us. When was the last time by the way, liberals really cared about the rule of law?
If the federal Government owns the land then why did Mr. Bundy have to pay the State? Seems like the State should pay the government the money they are seeking the money which has already been paid to the state by Mr. Bundy
For libs, “rule of law” is really the rule of man.
The Beast cannot be defied.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
That is the thing I don’t get.
I have tried to unravel the “who really owns the land” thing.
But the bottom line...is what you said. Illegals can do what they please...Americans not so much.
LA SLIMES.. crazy delusional paper and people who post to their articles. Not worth my spit.
Sheer irony that men of no principle, such as the collection of humanity (loosely-termed) at the LAT’s editorial board, think they have the discernment to say who is a “man of principle” and who is not. All while making themselves look like obvious government stooges.
Has he been tried by jury of his peers in a court of law and convicted of any violation of law?
government owning this much land in the USA is monstrous socialism/communism and marxism .86% of the land in Nevada is owned by the federal government . how many Americans even know any of this?
Not many Americans know that the federal government all these lands and are not allowing private businesses to develop that land,practically all of it for environmentalism(again communism)
“The MSM is the country’s biggest threat.”
Without a doubt.
The funny thing is that all those liberals who attack Bundy would support Public Housing tenants were accused of refusing to pay their rents.
What haters. Mr. Bundy is committing an act of love to support his family. His critics are nativists!
>>Actually, more than 70% of the land in Nevada is federally owned, including the land in question; the state Constitution recognized that ownership years before Bundy’s ancestors arrived, despite his assertion otherwise.<<
The government OWNS no land. We, the people own the land.
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