Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Originally Posted by Ghostinthemachine
Yeah, but he never owned the land. Maybe they should have put some forethought into the venture.


Nobody ever said he owned the land. He did own the permit/allotment to graze cattle on 600,00 acres of it though, and does own the water rights to it, and does own the homestead in conjunction with the above.


No problems for 140 years. I wonder how much more "forethought" a person would need?


Exactly the point of the discontent, it takes a lot of acres to graze 500 cows in the desert. Without the grazing rights he can't use his water rights and those go away without reimbursement also.

It's as simple as the government taking 3/4 of your stuff because they pass a law making it legal. It's theft by the government, pure and simple. Bundy's not a constitutional lawyer, just a little guy getting stomped on.


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