So nothing about this? Feds engage in cattle rustling, assault, in Nevada

So I can go build myself a house on the courthouse lawn and park my car in the lobby of the public library, right? Hey, those places are there for me and anyone else who wants to use them.

Would you build a house on any "lawn" sized piece of real estate? Would you park your car in any lobby? Talk about reductio ad absurdum...

Courthouse lawns can get pretty big, and city lots can get pretty small.

And why should I have to prove that I'd normally park my car in a lobby? It's public property; therefore it's my right to use it however I want.

One would hope that you could restrain your more insane impulses. Of course, given the tenor of your positions with regard to your perception of the "rights" of the criminal organization commonly referred to as government, that hope might be misplaced.

I heard on the radio that the whole "reason for the seizin'" is desert tortoises. The cattle might endanger them.
However the gub'mint KILLS these same tortoises when their population exceeds the land's carrying capacity.
Go figure.

Yep. The cattle might off the tortoises. On the other hand, the government definitely is offing them. Naturally, it's the cattle that have got to go. Not like that mob getting fat off us is gonna push itself around, so Bundy is the lucky boy this week.

Wait, there are tortoises involved?

Fuck this guy and fuck his cattle, then. I hope he gets the chair. Tortoises are awesome.

Okay, so I expected FOX to be biased against the Feds and supporting this guy just because, but even they're admitting...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/11/militia-groups-come-to-aid-nevada-rancher-in-battle-with-feds/

Not only has the land been off limits for a quarter of a century, but even before that the guy decided he didn't feel like paying for something he'd already accepted having to pay for in the past. He just decided one day he was special and the rules didn't apply to him any more.

This is most likely going to end badly for the guy, and it's going to be his own damn fault.

So he's a conservative, i.e. a Republican. We should expect better from him or better for him?

No, we shouldn't, on either count. I know you don't believe otherwise, but some people do. They're fucking retarded, and not just a little bit sociopathic.

I agree. For their contributions to scientific advancement, the arts, their philanthropic efforts and...

Oh, wait. They're tortoises. Thought you were talking about humans for a second there.

I'm pretty sure tortoises have done more for scientific advancement and the arts than you ever have.

Is that as clever as you get?

You're getting exactly as much effort as you deserve.

Hey, next time you have a racist meltdown and get banned, we've already got your replacement lined up.

Isn't that historically my line? What makes you think it'll pan out any better for you? Right, I forgot -- "progressives" generally operate under the hilarious delusion that they can turn the unworkable into gold just through the cachet of their own (presumed) brilliance.

Epic fail. That hasn't happened even once.

You missed my main point - the federal government is killing these same species of tortoises because the protections work so well they overpopulate, and the herd must be thinned. Yet the government claims the cattle are a threat, when it's the opposite. The cattle soften and otherwise temporarily disturb the soil so the tortoises have an easier time eating bugs, digging holes, etc.

Any time a conspiracy sounds so contrived, it usually is. This is a simple matter of eviction. The landlord has that right. Everything else is just rhetorical nonsense.

"Usually", or "always"?

The rancher is obviously in the wrong. The U.S. government hasn't ever forced people off of their land unless it was for a really good reason.

One question that bears asking: Why is Bundy the last man standing? What happened to all the other ranchers that were out there?

They understood their relationship with the land owner.

Wich version do you wanna bet is true? I'm guessing number 2.

They were the land owners. If not of the Federally-appropriated land around their ranches, certainly of their own ranches. So you haven't actually answered the question. Try it again.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/11/militia-groups-come-to-aid-nevada-rancher-in-battle-with-feds/

So, has anyone proven this incorrect yet? Because anything else is just noise.

Senile old man decides to go out in a blaze of faux martyrdom, libertarianforge swallows the story like a bunch of suckers.