Let's assume for the sake of argument that Bundy is one hundred percent wrong. This is entirely a civil issue. Slap a lien on his land, file a lien in every county with a sale barn within a thousand miles and let all the sale barns know that if they sell a cow with his brand on it, the check goes to the government. If he can't sell his cows, they are worthless and he'll be out of business.
Heck, up until the other day when he defied the feds and went and released his cows, he arguably wasn't even violating the injunction to remove his cows. Nevada is a free range state and if a landowner wants to keep someone else's cows off of his property, Nevada law says that he must build his own fence.
The feds could have filed their liens, put the sale barns on notice, and built a fence around Bundy's 160 acre homestead. But they did none of that. Instead, they did more or less nothing for the better part of twenty years and then they roll out with this massive display of completely unnecessary force that did nothing but nearly get a bunch of people killed. They deserve the egg they got on their faces.
Nothing illustrates the way the feds think and feel about us than their arrogant misuse of force to enforce a civil order.
