It’s not just about Constitutional Rights, it’s about trading/selling of recently acquired/to be acquired private land and mineral rights to foreign entities, and using large tracts of federally ‘owned’ land as collateral on loans from foreign entities. Those foreign entities want their ‘property’ protected, thus the government is now keeping the public out of most federally owned land.
Sorry, to me it is most certainly also about Constitutional rights as well. I know all about the Clinton Foundation and others trying to control and sell the land.
But that land should never have been, and should not now be “owned” and controlled by the Federal government. The Constitution is very clear on what lands the federal government can posses once a State enters the Union.
Anyhow...going over over the exact nature of the reasoning behind the protest itself was not my point. My point was much more about how Lavoy ended up getting shot.
IMHO, in that incident, he made some serious mistakes in a very dangerous situation that led to the shooting.
But the overall culpability IMHO is squarely on the shoulders of the Federal and state managers who choose to needlessly escalate the entire thing to a mortally dangerous situation in the first place.
I pray that the judicial process will focus on that and in some way, hold them accountable.
Lavoy did not need to die. It was a senseless, tragic thing brought about by decisions by Federal and state management that put those officers and the Bundy group in that sorry situation.
But I am becoming repetitive, so I will simply back away now and not keep repeating myself.