the more important topic is why the fuck are our federal tax dollars being spent to buy land in a STATE to help save some fucking turtles.
Do I really need to give you a lesson on how the food chain works? Do you even understand the ecological harm 900 head of cattle does to an already fragile desert environment? 15,999 public ranchers pay the fee because they understand that the land needs to be managed if they are going to have enough food for the cattle to graze on in the coming years.
Bundy would be out of business if not for the BLM. They kill the wild horses that eat the brush his cattle need. If the BLM didn't manage the land then Bundys cattle would starve. Had you done the most basic fact checking, you would already know this.
Bundy is claiming taxation without representation.
Once again, no he is not. Obs already corrected you on this.
it is clearly a gross misuse of federal power and money (again tax dollars) to have the BLM show up with men armed with full tactical military grade gear to take someones property due to said tax evasion.
Bundy will be held responsible for the cost of the roundup, not taxpayers. Law enforcement tends to enforce the law, that's what we pay them for. When a group of Militia members say they have guns and will fight back, I would imagine coming unarmed would be foolish.
Free speech zones are nothing new. They use them during political conventions. I don't see any uproar when the RNC puts protesters in caged fences, so I have to believe that this outrage is manufactured.
If they were justified in collecting taxes from this guy, they just wasted more money by killing cattle that they could have sold....
Rounding up 900 cattle is a massive operation and I expect they had issues. Two of Bundys cattle were killed, one for safety of the workers, and 1 because it broke its back during the round up.
Pretending that the BLM is an evil operation because they broke a water pipe is some great hyperbole though. Please keep going, this is fun.
