Stanton Gleave helped retake Cliven Bundy's
cattle from the Bureau of Land Management in Bunkerville, Nev., and he
was a guest in the Cane Beds, Ariz., house of Robert LaVoy Finicum. At a January "property rights" workshop in
Cedar City — while Bundy's sons Ammon and Ryan joined Finicum in
occupying an eastern Oregon wildlife refuge — Gleave posed for a photo with a notice in his left hand that he would "withdraw consent" to be governed by the BLM. But the lifelong Central Utah rancher never sent it in. Nor, he said, did the six ranchers to his right in the photo, each holding a notice of his own. Gleave said they were talked into compliance by Tony Rampton, chief of the state attorney general's Public Lands Section, at a February grazing rights conference in Richfield. Since that photo was taken, Finicum was shot
dead after veering into a snowbank at a police roadblock, and more than
three dozen others were indicted for their roles in armed standoffs in
Nevada and Oregon. Many of the central figures have strong ties to
Utah. That includes Finicum, whose funeral was held in Kanab, and
Cliven Bundy, who prayed at an LDS temple in St. George before deciding
to fly to Portland, where he was arrested. And yet Utah — harder hit by grazing cuts than
any other state, according to Farm Bureau CEO Randy Parker — has avoided
a similar conflict, in part by mediating disputes and begging patience
from some of its more aggrieved ranchers. Ranchers like Gleave...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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These people are displaying rational behavior. They are following the laws as they currently exist. If they want the laws to change, they can work toward that in a legal manner. Laws are changed in our country and states all the time.
As intelligent, law-abiding members of a community, they have chosen to NOT engage in criminal behavior by breaking laws with which they disagree.
If you disagree with a rule, regulation, or law, try to have it changed. The law is not set in stone and unchangeable. But until it is changed, do the smart thing and follow the law.
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