If the Government were serious about the BLM/Nevada situation

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57. I absolutely believe the BLM is justified

in removing his cattle which have been illegally grazing on public land for twenty years. Despite Bundy's ludicrous beliefs that the government of the United States is a fictional entity, that the federal courts have no authority over him, that Article 2 of the US Constitution -- which grants that "[t]he Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States" -- doesn't apply to federal land in Nevada, whatever he believes, he can't simply go on ignoring the law and using public land as if it was solely his own without regard to what the law, the public, or the authorities have to say. There is nothing unjust about requiring someone who uses public land, public infrastructure, or public resources to compensate the public for that use. And no one can simply use public land however he wishes.

As much as I'd love to simply move into one of the empty cabins in Cade's Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and start grazing sheep there, I can't simply declare that I don't recognize the authority of the Park Service or the federal courts and then move in without expecting to be forcibly removed.

Shame on this deadbeat for trying to welch out of paying the modest grazing fees required to use public land and then trying to justify his actions with preposterous arguments. Pay the damn fee like every one else, deadbeat. It's publicly owned land -- my land.

F#ck this guy. He's like some deadbeat stealing from the power company with an illegal tap and then waving guns around at the service workers who come out to disconnect him.