Libertarian Fail

I'm not exactly the most versed person on the subject but I would assume that there are some Federal owned lands that need to be managed by the Federal government?

 

The BLM is chartered to come up with a plan and strategy for the use of natural resources. They are not a conservation entity.

Fish and Game wasn't a big power broker over land use until recently, as we've amassed more data that our land use is disrupting local ecology more than previously thought.

The two entities have completely different interests, and the existence of both will provide a better outcome IMHO.

National Parks have little to do with BLM. They are set aside specifically for preservation. Aside from land resource management near national parks, the BLM doesn't really consider them at all.

 

Maybe not all the FOL are National Parks...

So we can shot pigs?

From what I've read, he was making use of FOL and have not paid for its use for several years. He has taken his case to higher courts and the BLM has won at every stage.

 

The Bundy's are asshats. They've been jerks to a lot of people down in Southern Utah/Northern Arizona. There is a lot of bad blood, and they are the only party who seems willing to spill it over the issue.

I have a solution: give the land back to the Native Americans.

 

fanboy fail

American Indians

 

Can you possibly not know how this works? The BLM oversees large tracts of public land, most of it with limited resources, those limitations largely in or controlled by scarcity of water.

It allows use of that land and those resources for grazing, mining, drilling, ski resorts, etc etc, at absurdly low fees, precisely because it wants to administer the public's land in such a way as to encourage economic activity and jobs, which you may have heard are scarce in the rural west.

Last I looked public grazing fees were about 1/3 the free market rate.

No wait, that isn't a free-market rate, is it? Because the availability of cheap public grazing is already pulling the market price down.

This guy has been grazing his stock on our land-- yours and mine, Matt, the public's-- for years and ignoring the bills.

He doesn't need grassroots support for his heroic resistance to tyranny, he needs a paddling.

 

Besides what taosjohn told you, who sets the law of the land? Until that changes, Mr. Bundy and Nevada need to abide by what the constitution says:

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/const/nvconst.html#Art1

 

"Say" and "prefer" are just a little too bland as verbs to describe Mr. Warmth's various detonations on this issue.

 

He also has strongly worded views about red-headed hookers with big tits.

 

I believe that was to take land from the Indians, not from the Federal government.

 

This mindframe is really hard for me to understand:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/bundy-ranch-constitutional-sheriffs-oath-keepers

 

He may be all that, but just because you go to a class with a teacher like that it does not mean you agree with what he said.

I mean remember the whole Obama with his old Chicago Preacher

 

This guy says his family has been grazing on these lands for 150+ years so it belongs to them.

Can't wait for that multi-million dollar property tax bill with his name on it.

 

Apparently the proximate dispute involves not fees, but rules concerning a protected species where his stock has been grazing.

 

Source/link? (That's my polite way of calling bullshit. Besides, I wonder how long they'll support him once they realize the logic of his claim is that he owes a shit-ton, to use your favorite phrase, in property taxes.)

 

Yes, yes, yes, you've proven that people love free stuff from the government. Congratulations.

 

To prevent paying property taxes? What?