"I would strongly discourage you all from hitching your cart to this particular horse. While I have all manner of criticisms of the BLM and certainly of thuggish FEDGOV tactics, it is essential that one pick one’s battles very carefully, and this is NOT a good battle to pick. The guy in question has been grazing his cattle at essentially zero feed cost for upwards of twenty years (well, THAT makes the cattle business easier, doesn’t it!) because he stopped paying the BLM any lease charges. Again, we can debate all manner of things including the ridiculous rules about closing land to grazing in order to “protect” lizards or prairie chickens or whatever the fake “endangered species” du jour is, and certainly we can debate the existence of the BLM itself, but there is no free lunch; everyone else pays to graze. This guy is claiming, as I understand it, some grandfathered right to the land through the Mormon cult (again, BIG red flag), but I don’t buy it. This situation stinks all around to my refined sniffer, and I would NOT die on this hill. Since so many have asked, that is my read. Just be careful with this one."
Ann is spot on.
Ann is wrong. If FEDGOV-BLM has a problem with this rancher. Get a warrant for his arrest and do it legally. It is not “Okay” for 200 armed BLM thugs to surround his ranch, use weaponized helicopters to round up 300 cattle and take them.
This about control. Obama thugs are waging a war of attrition against western ranchers. They seize land by declaring an endangered species. Creating little “pens” for 1st amendment “zones”? Snipers training their weapons on unarmed citizens with cameras? Arresting protesters who refuse to get into the 1st amendment pens?
I do not care what religion the rancher is. If he was Catholic...then Ann would be right there foaming at the mouth.
This IS the time to take a stand and fight. No more Waco’s...No more Ruby Ridges...