Quote:He willfully violated the law that's been in place for multiple decades.

 

He trespassed on land illegally. That comes with fines, fines he chose to ignore. The courts than told the BLM they could seize the illegally trespassing property. 

 

You are hypocritically defending one criminal because you agree with his ideology. If you disagree with laws then you work with your politicians to change them. You don't raise an army while calling for a range war sparking what we saw here. He had fines to pay and chose to ignore them. In the case of the traffic violators they end up in jail and you were ok with that but this guy is hero? You ignore the fact that it's illegal and give him a pass including his inflammatory call for war because you like his ideology. You have to see that right?

 

I'm arguing against the existence of this law from the start. No one has argued against the existence of a speed limit. So the arguments are not the same, if a law is not justifiable in ALL cases I support non-compliance, I'm very consistent in that regard. Now if you're taking the road of non-compliance then confrontation is inevitable. To assume the system can always be corrected from working within the confides of the system is assuming the system is correctable. If an access fee was charged for you to drive on the highway for example (A government toll you can call it) I'd take the same stand what right does the federal government have to charge a toll for access, those roads belong to the public (we paid for them). That land long before the government went broke in the 1930's was used to graze cattle, so because the Feds need a fund raiser the ranchers should just bend over and pay for access to land they've been grazing for generations? 

 

I'm not as much of a pacifist as Bundy is, he tried to keep the waters calm and regardless of his outdated views on race worked to stop a confrontation. I'm a bit more pro-confrontation, the Fed needs to be confronted and challenged it's out of control.

 

Now if you want to pretend ranchers fighting fee's for access to land is the same as a thief who stole products from another private entity and then not paying his probation fee's we're on two different levels.

 

 

Quote:There is plenty of white there. Or he could continue to lawfully pay for the grazing permit like 40,000+ other ranchers do. Seems simple to me. 

 

You see plenty of white in the west?

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