Well we all know this is not about the desert tortoise and its not about grazing fees. Its about a man who finally got fed up with being pushed around by an overbearing and out of control US govt. He is doing the unthinkable and the totally unacceptable thing of pushing back.
Unless you have personally experienced the full intimidation of the US govt you have no idea how much courage it takes to face them down.
Agreed. The Bundy Standoff at BunkerVille was not about the tortoise or the fees. However, some blame Bundy for not paying those fees to the Fed, and that he stopped paying the fees to the Fed before the tortoise became an issue.
I discovered that the tortoise was an issue before he stopped paying the Fed and that year-to-year new requirements did fit his narrative of the Fed trying to drive him out of business.
All of that said, I think that the Fed considering itself the “owner” of 80%+ of Nevada is constitutionally obscene. It’s obscene because there is no constitutional provision for such ownership by the Fed, because the constitutional allows the Fed to dispose of what it owns, and because on becoming a state, Nevada became a full and equal sovereign state with all others, and all territorial claims of the Federal government changed.