rockinbbar
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Look. I'm not a lawyer, especially a constitutional lawyer.
All I know is a man stood up against the government for whatever reasons he had. The whole deal smacked of the very hostile take overs of our rights and privileges that each one of us on this site, and those like it ought to be supporting.
When special interest groups can use big government to push their own agendas, then it is you and I that lose in the end.
The reason the government backed down, and even returned the man's cows was because public opinion was in his favor, and people have had enough of the type of behavior they witnessed in Nevada. The drumbeat of this sort of event where everyday people stand up for what they believe is right is becoming a drumroll now. In the near future, it will be so loud you cant ignore it.
If the government can kick off an old rancher whose family has homesteaded the land and ranched it for 140 years, then what kind of rights do you have?
I firmly believe the line is drawn in the sand.
People that used to be "like minded" in places like this are on different sides of the line.
Some are on the side that wants a smaller responsible government that is FOR the people, and recognizes that the PEOPLE are the boss. Not the government ruling the people.
Some people are on the side that fits with their ideals of the government being the supreme power of the land, and anything the government wishes to do is fine with them.
I know what side I am on. And further, I also know to what extent I will go for my beliefs. I'm one of those that has had a bellyful. I may not be anymore right, or any less stubborn than a hard headed old man in Nevada, but I have seen 6 years of crap like the EPA, IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Attacks on the Second Amendment, Environmental terrorist with a blank check and carte blanche, NSA spying, and all the other atrocities that our current administration perpetrates daily.
If given the choice of standing with a stubborn old rancher that believes he is in the right, or standing with BLM agents doing the bidding of an overreaching government. I reckon I'll choose the rancher. No regrets.
All I know is a man stood up against the government for whatever reasons he had. The whole deal smacked of the very hostile take overs of our rights and privileges that each one of us on this site, and those like it ought to be supporting.
When special interest groups can use big government to push their own agendas, then it is you and I that lose in the end.
The reason the government backed down, and even returned the man's cows was because public opinion was in his favor, and people have had enough of the type of behavior they witnessed in Nevada. The drumbeat of this sort of event where everyday people stand up for what they believe is right is becoming a drumroll now. In the near future, it will be so loud you cant ignore it.
If the government can kick off an old rancher whose family has homesteaded the land and ranched it for 140 years, then what kind of rights do you have?
I firmly believe the line is drawn in the sand.
People that used to be "like minded" in places like this are on different sides of the line.
Some are on the side that wants a smaller responsible government that is FOR the people, and recognizes that the PEOPLE are the boss. Not the government ruling the people.
Some people are on the side that fits with their ideals of the government being the supreme power of the land, and anything the government wishes to do is fine with them.
I know what side I am on. And further, I also know to what extent I will go for my beliefs. I'm one of those that has had a bellyful. I may not be anymore right, or any less stubborn than a hard headed old man in Nevada, but I have seen 6 years of crap like the EPA, IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Attacks on the Second Amendment, Environmental terrorist with a blank check and carte blanche, NSA spying, and all the other atrocities that our current administration perpetrates daily.
If given the choice of standing with a stubborn old rancher that believes he is in the right, or standing with BLM agents doing the bidding of an overreaching government. I reckon I'll choose the rancher. No regrets.