Two hundred armed federal agents have virtually surrounded a ranch in southern Nevada whose owner is defying a court order to keep his cattle from grazing on federal lands.
The feds have set up a "Free Speech Area" for protestors, no doubt trying to keep them out of the media eye - and perhaps remove potential witnesses to whatever the armed feds have in mind to do with Mr. Bundy and his 14 children.
Someone
is going to get hurt due to the stupidity and incompetence of the BLM
in carrying out the court order. Didn't these idiots learn anything from
Ruby Ridge? Then as now, the government had the law on their side. But
the criminally negligent manner in which the law was enforced led to a
completely avoidable tragedy.
Bundy
is not in the right. He spouts nonsense about "preemptive rights" that
do not exist in precedent or the law. He refuses to pay grazing fees
while every other rancher who grazes on federal land must do so. Bundy
is losing his cattle because he is defying the law and the courts - no
matter his reasoning or claims to the contrary. The BLM is enforcing a
law passed by Congress, and enforcing a court order that Bundy is not
challenging. It's hard to see how Bundy has any kind of a legal case to
continue to defy the law.
Beyond
that, we have the spectacle of the Bureau of Land Management
overreacting in a situation that calls for tact and diplomacy, not
snipers targeting his family. I hardly think 200 armed agents are
necessary to enforce this court order. It's pure intimidation on the
part of the feds.
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