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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