Cliven Bundy, a cattle rancher in Nevada has been able to poke the eye of the giant and get away with it—for now.
See, Bundy raises cattle and for years has had his cattle grazing on “federal land”. About 85% of Nevada is federally owned so it is a stretch to even call it a state as such. Bundy and his past relatives have been grazing the same land (his cattle, silly) since the 1880s so he sees it largely as a continuing of a long past agreement. The gubmint sees it differently. Since 1993 Bundy stopped paying them and now they say he owes over a million dollars in past fees. Bundy says the fees charged would run him out of business and speculates that is the gubmint’s intent all along.
The gubmint also forwards that the land Bundy’s cattle graze on is also home to an endangered desert tortoise and that the cattle “routinely” kill them. As if the cattle see the tortoise and like an 8 year-old seeing a spider on the sidewalk move heaven and earth to splat them. Other sources say the Bureau of Land Management also are guilty of killing the tortoise in their practice of “land management”. The gubmint wants Bundy’s cattle off “their” land.
Enter state Senator Harry Reid. Yes, Harry is a politician. This makes him just a step above a child molester and otherwise a piece of shit and a liar. Harry has been linked along with his son Rory to a Chinese firm that were going to construct a wind farm of sorts on the BLM land that Bundy’s cattle graze upon. Some background here…
Harry has already been linked to suspect and shady land deals where he bought “shit land” for very little and shortly after the land was sold at outrageous profits for some construction effort. I’m talking hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Sort of reminds one of the Hillary cattle futures windfall of profits.) Harry’s son just happens to be a lawyer representing the Chinese firm that would build this green energy farm, probably for pennies on the dollar for the land and also being subsidized by YOU the taxpayer. They profit, you pay.
The gubmint’s response? They send in over 200 armed agents to surround the property and to confiscate the cattle “illegally” on federal land. One rumor had the gubmint euthanizing the cows. Another had them selling them presumably to pay the amount back owed since 1993. The Bundy’s went public. Members of local and national militias arrived—armed—to help protect and defend the Bundy’s private land. Cowboys came to help. Members of the Oath Keepers also arrived.
One official was quoted to say that he hoped the armed invaders “had their funeral plans made.” Imagine that! The gubmint threatening the lives of people who had yet to pose any physical threat of bodily harm. The threat did not have the desired effect.
Today, the gubmint blinked and backed down. See, everything is political to them (the left). Everything. Somebody higher than Harry and Son ran the numbers and saw that this was no longer politically feasible. Bundy’s cattle are reportedly going to be returned and they will be allowed to graze on the disputed lands. This probably means the boundaries of the wind farm will just be moved elsewhere. A friend of mine thinks the DHS will get its turn and make Bundy disappear. Hopefully Bundy has HIS affairs in order as far as land possession is concerned. The gubmint can’t kill the entire family, can they?
This is a lesson to us all though. Go public and have a grass roots theme. With enough support, the gubmint will back off. They don’t want the cause of personal responsibility and freedom to grow roots and grow support. They want dependency. It is your call.