RANCHER BUNDY SHOULD TATTOO HIS FACE

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy knows very well the rules and regulations that related to public grazing land. He was not willing to pay $1.35 per month to allow a cow-calf unit to graze public lands but he kept his cattle on government range anyway. If he could not afford it, he should get out of the cattle business. Everyone knows ranching is a tough business. What he has done makes no sense at all.

The Bureau of Land Management does a great job. They control the number of cattle allowed on the land and regulate the water supply, thus making it available to as many ranchers as possible. They prevent mining companies and oil companies from taking over the grasslands and prevent private owners from buying the land to prevent other ranchers from grazing it.

As public land, it is “our” land. Who does he think he is? I look at it as Bundy stealing “our” grass—cheating us. My government should have rounded up his cattle and sent them to slaughter or put them up for sale.  

He and his family and neighbors hate the government. They are acting like a bunch of tattooed faced punks. As for the whims that need their high-powered rifles to make them into “real men” who were protecting his criminal activity, they should be ashamed. I bet if you asked them they would all say the same thing; they are law-abiding citizens fighting the evil government for their constitutional rights—no, they are not; they are defiling that document in a most fundamental way. The good people in this nation should ask them specifically what rights are they fighting for? Reporters should ask them just what “right” do they think they have picking and choosing what laws to follow? That is the question everyone decides when he or she vote. Being Republicans does not give them special rights. Just because they have guns does not give them special rights. Just because they “would like to dream they live in the wild west of bygone years, does not give them special rights. Their freedoms do not include stealing from others. Because they are preventing the law from being enforced, they are cheap criminals, as is Bundy. We live in a civilized nation.

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