So he didn’t sign a contract and ran cattle anyway. Thats breaking the law.
I have some goats, I’ll drop by your place and leave them in your back yard...for 20 years.
I’m just say’n peaches, no reason to throw the “I” word around
Ignorance can be corrected, but apparently not in your case. I can only conclude that you are a complete idiot.
It’s true he was technically violating the law, but the law is an ass.
Is it wrong to disobey illegitimate administrative rulings based on bad science intended to a achieve a predetermined policy goal based on ideology?
His non-cooperation with the BLM has it’s history in the Sagebrush Rebellion of the nineties when the BLM and USFS was fully taken over by the environmentals who saw the election of Bill Clinton as their chance to conform public lands policy to their earth mother Gaia belief system.
You are something much worse than ignorant.
I don’t know the details, but if he is illegally running cows on government land I personally do not care. The government lets illegal aliens flood into this country, gives them special treatment, taxpayer funded handouts that would stun people if they knew half what they get. Illegals damage the environment, have a big impact on wildlife on public lands every single day and the same government and non-government people that are “concerned” about cattle and turtles says nothing about the damage illegals do. The government says they cannot stop illegals from coming in, says we have to give them handouts, etc.
When this same government goes after a rancher that is not causing near the issues or costing near the money shows a real interest in stopping illegals then I might begin to have a concern about whether or not people are grazing cattle illegally on government land.
The politicians we have in charge now do not follow the law- they instead change it as we go along without even taking the proper steps to do it, flaunt it, bend it to suit them. What the issue really is here is many people have lost all respect for the politicians/government and are tired of having their freedoms taken away and seeing force used in ways that are not what this country is supposed to represent.
The first confrontation the government rent-a-cops and this ranching family was over the top. Can you imagine the outcry if anyone representing this government confronted a group of illegals in the same manner? You will never see that for sure.
The real lesson here is how many people are fed up with the government for so many different reasons. Early on someone said this was bigger than Bundy. They were so right.
He was given an a surfed contract designed to break his business. It was a lose-lose offer: sign and agree to unworkable conditions, or leave outright.
He responded with a third option: FU, give me reasonable conditions.