I doubt that.
Also, the vast majority of Americans are against them. So if it's a fight that you and your ilk want then it's a fight you'll get. If you want to start something me and millions more will send you to the same place Capt Moroni just got sent to.
Sounds like you folks want a civil war. Didn't you learn the last time you idiot rednecks wanted to start something? I'll gladly pick up arms and fight for my country when under attack. For every fence sitter siding with you and the Bundys there are millions of fence sitters siding with me and my government.
God Bless America!
It's really not your government, it's ours. A few posts ago you were pretty level headed. I've been looking up some stuff on this. The officials of Harney County were coming out to distance themselves from the protesters. This is ranching country, and few locals would have joined the standoff. The Bundys didn't make their case even with the local ranchers.
I don't think many people understand the rancher's side generally. Most ranchers are willing to comply with federal land policies, but more have just quit ranching and gotten jobs in town. ranchers and farmers have for almost a hundred years been giving up small-scale operations and getting college educated for teaching, business, and other professions.
I know federal planners are actually planning to reduce public access to government lands. I know the federal policies concerning agriculture have favored corporate ag business while being bit slow to help the little guys. Clear back in the 1950s the Dept of Ag wrote out a long-range plan for reducing family farming and encouraging larger operations. The markets would have done this with any thumbs on the scales, but that has been the actual policy behind all the smiles and pretensions of helping the family farmer. I've seen on UN websites the maps of the United States the big plans call for. Would require acquisition of large spreads of lands now private. Yah we got too many people, and if people have access to the land they can live sorta independent lives. That's bad for Management. Fed policy can be counted on to continue the pressure on rural life.
The point will come when a lot of people will begin to wonder why, when National Parks are closed to tourists to preserve the natural wilderness qualities, and highways are ripped up and replaced with soil or rock.
The trend we're on began with Adam Clayton Powell and will continue as long as the socialist/oligarchs own our government. Gradualism has kept a lot of farmers and ranchers willing to just be cooperative with Fed land policies and administrative policies in regard to commodity production in general, but mentally-unbalanced ideologues just never know when enough is enough, and they've already gone too far.
The political process of our country will turn around on this issue, but it will take decades if not a hundred years for common sense and prudence to displace ideological political imperatives and the mythologies that direct our policies today.
