This needs some editing. MSM, the Left, and many Freepers. It's quite amazing to note the number of people on this forum who have bought into this line.
It bears reminding everyone of the roots this dispute. The BLM jacked up the allotment fees in excess of all reason for the purpose of forcing Bundy and other ranchers off the land. To do this, they manipulated the Endangered Species Act and claimed that the increased fees were required to mitigate damage to the Desert Tortoise. The tortoise and cattle are symbiotic, the cattle enhance the environment so far as the tortoise is concerned, so the BLM claim is fraudulent on its face. Of course, the BLM does not care about the tortoise. They have decided that ranchers have no right to graze on public land, the use of which ought to be reserved to enviornmentalists, nature lovers, urban elites on a spree, and of course, Chinese businessmen wishing to cash in on the green energy scam.
> MSM attacks to defamate his character and portray as a right winger who wanted “free” land to graze his cattle on while he gets rich selling cattle (we KNOW this what the left will do; they are so predictable),
This needs some editing. MSM, the Left, and many Freepers. It’s quite amazing to note the number of people on this forum who have bought into this line.
It bears reminding everyone of the roots this dispute. The BLM jacked up the allotment fees in excess of all reason for the purpose of forcing Bundy and other ranchers off the land. To do this, they manipulated the Endangered Species Act and claimed that the increased fees were required to mitigate damage to the Desert Tortoise. The tortoise and cattle are symbiotic, the cattle enhance the environment so far as the tortoise is concerned, so the BLM claim is fraudulent on its face. Of course, the BLM does not care about the tortoise. They have decided that ranchers have no right to graze on public land, the use of which ought to be reserved to enviornmentalists, nature lovers, urban elites on a spree, and of course, Chinese businessmen wishing to cash in on the green energy scam.
I agree with you. You need to put these words in the hands and on the lips of conservative MSM
It is my understanding that Bundy's land consists of 160 acres. If that is true, then that is the same amount of land that was allowed when land was granted in the 1800s. As other FReepers here have pointed out, in the Nevada desert environment, 160 acres is not even enough land to sustain one cow for an entire year, much less a herd. Talk about doing damage to the environment! Putting that many cattle in such a small space would destroy it. That is why these grazing lands were established in the first place. Everyone keeps saying, "He should have kept the herd on his own property!" In that case, there would not be a single rancher left in the entire state of Nevada because they've not been able to buy up that much land - the state owns it! Over the years, the Fed has moved in, claimed ownership and gradually made all these ranchers trespassers.
I expect the administration to go balls-to-the-wall with the media and all online news site, commenters, even here on FR to paint Bundy as a psycho, "tea bagging" nut job. (This is already in progress.) Once they drive this meme hard enough to turn the LoFo Voters against Bundy, then they will move in to try and finish him. It's up to all of us to get the word out. Hit your social media. Hit all the news sites. Get your message straight and be clear. Don't engage in tit-for-tat with the idiots out there whose purpose is to drive us off message.