BREAKING NEWS: Major development in Bunkerville cattle battle

[Moostache]

9. Selll the cattle and keep the proceeds to pay for 20-years of illegal grazing.

Sounds perfectly fair to me.

I have watched one of the videos of these protesters and the only thing I came away thinking was that a) the police in that video were dangerously close to being the next New Mexico Execution squad at times - we desperately need to re-evaluate just who we are bringing into our civilian peace keeping forces (because they are looking more and more and more like the military minor leagues and it fuels things like this land dispute into rallying cries for psychotics); and, b) it is also exactly why having people armed to "resist tyranny" is such an odious concept.

These people in Nevada (and the protesters and agitators) that are aligning against the enforcement of a court order are playing the short game and failing to see the long game consequences. They are nothing more than the next Waco or Ruby Ridge waiting to happen. They are filled with grandiose visions of resisting the government and fending off the feds...but what would happen if they were armed? A lot of people would needlessly die and the cattle would STILL be removed from the federal lands and the court order would STILL be enforced and other people would end up jailed. Its simply not a matter of "IF"...its a matter of "WHEN" and "HOW".

To put it more bluntly to these self-defense and anti-government nut cases, YES - your guns MAY allow you to repel the first wave of federal workers or police (even overly zealous wannabe SEALs masquerading as police). But what happens next? Do you think you will also repel the Sheriff, the State police, the National Guard, and the real SEALs if it ever came to an escalation? What about the 10th Mountain division? Think your shotguns and rifles can overcome armored troop carriers and tanks? How about if the PResident of these United States one deal is asked to deal with an armed camp of resisters? Think THAT scenario has never happened? Ask some native Americans to recount the tales for you...and be sure to ask them about the joyful camps and reservations they received in the end.

Bottom line, this is a civil dispute and the people being angry about it are part of the problem. If cooler heads do not prevail, there will be a body count, an outrage from the fringes of society and opportunistic shucksters in the GOP and eventually the cattle will no longer be grazing freely on federal lands. If the outcome is not desired I suggest to these free-loading, land-loving, salt-of-the-earth ranchers that they pull themselves up by the bootstraps and stop being so damn lazy as to live off the government teat in the form of free feed to their livestock.