Sunday, April 13, 2014

Nevada Cattle Rancher Wins 'Range War' With Feds

"Wins"? I do not think that word means what you think it means.


ABC News   " 'I have no contract with the United States government," Bundy said. "I was paying grazing fees for management and that's what BLM was supposed to be, land managers and they were managing my ranch out of business, so I refused to pay."
"The federal government had countered that Bundy "owes the American people in excess of $1 million " in unpaid grazing fees and "refuses to abide by the law of land, despite many opportunities over the last 20 years to do so."
However, today the BLM said it would not enforce a court order to remove the cattle and was pulling out of the area."
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... "One thing to set the dogs on protesters and taser one or two when your government bosses are backing you up.  Quite another when hundreds of folk are driving from hours away to be there for a harassed rancher and his family.
 
"With agencies like the IRS and NSA in their faces and pockets,  Americans are finally mad and aren’t going to take it anymore.
 
"Dozens of their letters to this news site and others prove that they don’t care if it’s about the Desert Tortoise, the Delta Smelt, the Spotted Owl, the Prairie Grouse, or even the Obama-claimed flatulence of cows.  They just want Big Government to stop driving landowners, ranchers and farmers off their land."

Bundy Ranch, the Federal Government, and the Nevada Water Tipping Point  ... " Many onlookers have been informed that this dispute is over protecting the desert tortoise.  But it is nothing of the sort.  In fact, the reality of the dispute goes far underneath what is being talked about.  The more appropriate source of the dispute is ground water as well as surface water – this is a war over water."

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