re: #30 lawhawk

The nitwits who are showing up to support this guy’s theft of public resources is just as intelligent as you’d expect.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that permits the theft of public resources. You’re not defending someone’s legal rights here. This guy is engaging in grand larceny and trespassing.

Pay the grazing fees and all this disappears. He’s freeloading.

But it all goes back to the way that some out West think that the feds are trying to grab up all the land and turn it into protected lands (national parks/wilderness/monuments, or forests with limited rights for grazing/farming/hunting, etc.) It’s why you’ve got mostly GOPers trying to limit the President’s right to declare lands as preserved under the Antiquities Act and it’s why you’ve got people trying to come to this guy’s defense, ignoring the open and obvious theft of public resources.

They’ll gloss that over and claim that it’s the government hassling this guy who is just trying to make a living. Except that he’s not paying for the right to graze his herd on land that doesn’t belong to him.

Substitute a private landholder, let’s call him Rush, for the feds, and you see just how silly the sovereign citizens movement is in this particular instance. If it was a private landowner, there’d be no question that the guy would have to pay for the right. But now, because it’s the BLM, we’re supposed to ignore his responsibility to pay?

Moreover, you can’t declare a right to federal lands as a result of trespass/adverse possession. So, trying to claim that he’s somehow gained the right to the land doesn’t hold.

You should read the comments from the geniuses on that article, especially the ones who claim that cattle grazing is great for the land, prevents fires, and feeds the desert tortoise. Teh stupid, it burns.