If Cliven Bundy’s behavior is legitimized by the gravity of his circumstances, how many others may follow suit, singing his name as they go?
Many, many more. We can all hope. The more that stand up to tyranny, the sooner it crawls away.
Hinderaker concedes at the outset that “legally, Bundy doesn’t have a leg to stand on,” that Bundy’s claim that the federal government does not own the land is flagrantly incorrect,
Bundy is correct. The BLM illegally annexed State land. That is the dispute. The first Sagebrush Rebellion proved that the Federal Government cannot steal land that belongs to the States.
RE: The first Sagebrush Rebellion proved that the Federal Government cannot steal land that belongs to the States.
So, why did the state of Nevada allow the Federal government to take over their land in the first place?
I love the cowards that hide behind “legally, Bundy doesn’t have a leg to stand on.”
This assumes ALL laws are just and valid. The left ignores laws they don’t like at will but I don’t see anyone saying they don’t legally have a leg to stand on. No, people like Cooke just look the other way.
So the Feds and courts arbitrarily say some of the land is now “protected” without recourse or compensation to farmers, ranches and miners that have leases. They have LEGAL contracts that the government ignored and then used their muscle to destroy. Criminal!
Remember how those GM and Chrysler bond holders had the law of a contract ignored by Obama? So Obama, legally, didn’t have a leg to stand on. Did that stop him? No.
Instead we got even RINO’s and so-called conservatives (plenty on FR) saying “what, did you want them to go out of business?” Yes, if that’s the result of their bad management. But we have bankruptcy courts that weren’t even used. So many knees jerked it was laughable. If that thinking had prevailed 150 years ago we’d still be subsidizing stagecoaches.
Never happened. The land was federal land under the Treaty that ended the Mexican War, which was before Nevada ever became a state. When Nevada was admitted to the Union, it disclaimed any interest in federal lands within its borders.
The BLM was formed by merging the General Land Office with the United States Grazing Service