Nevada ranching family claims victory as government releases cattle

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81. Yes. incredible as this seems, this goes to the origins of "Corporate Personhood" argued by Big Rail

Back in 1880's in the Superior of Santa Clara County, California. Southern Pacific was sued by the Santa Clara County for damages and public property violations, to which S.P. refused to pay, so Santa Clara County brought suit only to have it dismissed by the Court based on discrimination of personhood or S.P.'s claim to the 14th Amendment of all things.. which as turns out, was a clerical error but has held as "case precedent" ever since, none the less. The history of big business usurping public property with impunity as outlined in your post above should have been held to account so long ago, but we continue to be victimised by the corruption of the political toadies beholden to the Big Business along with their useful idiots, like Bundy et al.

Owned by every American – all 300-plus million of us. It is a peculiar property right we each have to this commons, as we acquire it simply by dint of citizenship, and what we own is spectacular. The marvel of the federal public-lands system is that it exists at all. During the 19th century and into the early 20th, much of the land was leased and sold off in a frenzy of corrupt dealings. Railroads, corporations, land speculators, mining interests, and livestock barons gorged on the public domain, helped along by the spectacularly pliable General Land Office, which from 1812 until its closure in 1946 privatized more than one billion acres, roughly half the landmass of the nation. The corruption was such that by 1885, The New York Times’ editorial page had denounced the “land pirates” whose “fraud and force” had excluded the citizen settler—the farmer, the homesteader, the cowboy—from “enormous areas of public domain” and “robb him of the heritage to which he was entitled.”