This thing with Cliven Bundy is not going to end well.

[Shandris]

103. He's definitely been using the land. It -seems- he hasn't paid his taxes...

...and (as I point out in another response down-thread, things may change on the Bundy front and me not know about it; I don't tend to follow people I consider idiots very closely) to the best of my knowledge he has no right to use the land. By the same token, I know (with the caveat above, of course) that the sheriff never had him arrested for whatever reason. Personally, I don't -care- overly about the 'narrative' one way or the other. What I care about is someone knocking off something that progresses into a major conflict because they wanted to 'be right' and 'show those mean gun-toters how life is'.

My proposal is simple. A settlement of some kind. The terms are variable and can be negotiated, so long as they involve paying the taxpayers back for at least a portion of taxes owed. The IRS settles all the time. There's no reason to bring this kind of thing to a head without trying plain, simple, honest tactics first. If they continue to hold out in the face of legitimate government attempts to settle, they'll lose what support they have among even the RW American People and Bundy will still get arrested at some point.

We can't back away from people who think their rights are being trampled on for whatever reason, but neither do we have to go out of our way to spark a conflict with the desire of killing them.