It just a shame that the article/timeline conveniently leaves off the “rest of the story” - that ties to Harry Reid and his family, back-door deals with foreign companies to use the land, control of gas/mineral rights, oh - and the history of Feds actually killing the supposedly “endangered” tortoises...
And For so many to just label Bundy as a “freeloader” - he admits to owing grazing fees. But he stopped paying when the Feds yanked his permit.
The law was arbitraily changed in the 90’s by Clinton with, what I understand, without Congress. Just another executive power grab ala Idaho under Clinton.
He pays his county and state grazing fees because the law says so. The money goes directly to help local farmers. Then, out of the blue, the feds decided the money should go to the U.S. Treasury instead where it wasn’t “earmarked” (a lie actually - no tax money is truly earmarked or Soc Sec would be sitting on trillions in funds) for local farmers.
At least that’s how I saw it explained.