re: #195 Rightwingconspirator

Has anyone been taking about the protest planned from well before the Bundy confrontations? The understanding I have had about BLM for twenty years is they manage to piss off the locals and not just the citizenry. Local elected officials etc. They do have a ham handed approach too often. And when the Feds have and use control of 90% of the area in question, building resentment is a certainty. And that is the real backdrop for Bundy. BLM is a little less popular with locals and ranchers than the IRS audit people.

There is some minor local tension right here near Los Angeles, as vast swaths of National Forest are still no trespassing zones since the Station fire. The reason given is that even scattered human footprints of picnickers or hikers will disturb the natural recovery. As if limiting access via numbers of visitors was not an option. Or understanding that in these long human inhabited mountain range of impact is strictly a negative. There is a better balance available. Bad tempers, militias and glacial bureaucracies are not a good mix. Unarmed civil protest and disobedience is the respected way to go.

Bundy is an ass, the militias are damn dangerous. But that does not let the heavy handed officials have auto amnesty from poor decisions.

Cliven Bundy II? Utah protesters prepare for new face-off with feds

Property-lovin’ conservatives should have no problem understanding “ownership”. That’s, like, “Get off my lawn ecosystem.”