Regardless of what response you favor, BLM did back off in the face of armed intimidation

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51. Yes. I am comparing them.

I'm saying both groups are on the losing end of court cases about what they feel are their rights. The difference is that the homeowners accepted the injustice against them and are trying to move on with their lives. This guy is flipping off the judge and denying enforcement of the decision. He feels the judge has no right to rule on this matter. He forced the government to back down. What would happen if the New London homeowners had blocked access to their homes through force? "You want my home? Come and take it from me."
If you are ruled against, you DO have a choice in how you respond. You can continue to beg for someone to hear you and hope you can convince someone to agree with you. Or you get some weapons and some friends and see how willing some underpaid bureaucrat is willing to take it.
Bundy chose the second way. He is keeping his animals. The BLM is paying him for the ones he lost. You think that would have happened without him standing up to the Feds? He goes begging, and he gets nothing. Those cows are his and his family's life. That's why stealing a cow was a hanging offense in the old west.