The Bundy Ranch situation has nothing to do with preserving a relic from our distant past, and keeping the ranching lifestyle as some sort of Colonial Williamsburg living museum. This is about a corrupt criminal enterprise deciding that it wants what is yours and is going to do whatever it has to do to take it, come hell or high water.
If some corrupt senator decides that they want Hanson's vineyards, they're going to find a way to take them. If they can't buy him out, they'll tax him into bankruptcy, rig the court system, plant evidence (marijuana), declare his land a fragile ecosystem, bring in SWAT teams and burn him out... whatever they have to do, they will do it if it serves their ends. And as long as we keep putting up with it, it is going to keep happening.
Eventually, every one of us who believes in the Constitution is going to be considered an ancient relic who is in the way of "progress."
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