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Originally posted by: forkushVQuote
Originally posted by: BobOrme
This should have started happening decades ago...
Lawmakers from 9 states gather in Utah, discuss ways to take control of federal lands.
From the Salt Lake Tribune
Fine. But if they do it by force, in defiance of federal courts, threatening to murder our troops and our police, they are terrorists, like your friend Bundy.
Yeah, lawmakers from 9 states might have met to conspire to commit all of those things.
There was plenty of force on and close to the Bundy ranch, the vast majority of it put into place by the government. The "First Amendment Area" was real special...something that I'd expect from an authoritarian regime. If ANYONE had actually threatened to MURDER any government agent, the FBI would have intervened, arrested them, and they'd be facing felony charges. If Bundy was a true terrorist threat that you, Reid, and many on the left make him out to be, there would have been bloodshed long before agents rustled 400 head of his cattle.
I understand why the Bundy family has tried to protect their ranch and family legacy. They were paying all of the fees associated with grazing on public land until politicized science was used to alter annual contracts for those grazing rights. The BLM was going to force them to reduce their herd to a point where the ranch would no longer be a viable business, as they have done with many other ranchers, not only in that region, but in areas all over the west. Bundy doesn't believe the US government has the authority to force his family ranch out of business for the reason(s) the government claims. I agree with that...as do others who support the Bundy family. It's called common sense.
The demonization of the Bundy family and those who support them, comparing them to terrorists, is un-American. Citizens of this nation are not here to serve the government. The government is here to serve its citizens. ...or at least it was.