A-Frakking-Men, Old Fart! These lead-fetishists are real-life Looney Toons, and the absolute LAST people who should own anything more lethal than a butter knife.
The grazing fee on western federal land is $1.35 per month per cow - about 4 cents per cow per day. The average grazing fee on private land is $16.80 a month, and as high as $150 on state lands. Considering he could be paying as high as $5 per day per cow, Cliven Bundy is getting a hell of a deal, but he doesn't even want to pay that. The wingnuts who tout "personal responsibility" and want to "privatize everything" are not only full of shit, they don't even know a good deal when they have one! The federal lands grazing program is just food stamps for cows. It already loses over $120,000,000 per year, and deadbeats like Bundy just cost taxpayers even more. Source: Congressional Research Service and the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Now that his property no longer enjoys the protection of the court, let's hear it for modern cattle rustling! What's he going to do, bring you to court?
By the time Bundy starts dealing with the liens on his property for fees, fines, legal costs, and costs of the aborted round up, and with his assets being attached and his accounts frozen and no banker in his right mind being willing to talk to him, the Feds will end up owning the ranch. By the time he is dealing with incitement charges and definite contempt proceedings with the real possibility of prison time, he'll wish he had just paid his rent.
I'm gonna end up sounding prejudiced, but when I look at that Hannity report and see the fat old shotgun-slinging cowboy and his fat kids in the frame who probably got FAT off their cows illegally grazing on federal land free of charge, and then hearing him trying to be a smartass at Harry Reid by saying "Mr. Reid sherd tayk kayr of d'fendun us frum Fowrin Nayshuns 'steada bothrin us farmwurs", I feel like I'm gonna snap. Nevermind that I'm not a US citizen, shit like this just inflicts brainfuck on me. Why is it that the stupidity of other people hurts so much?
He won't get away with it. He'll be lucky to avoid jail time for contempt of court. Federal judges are touchy about that, especially when it's done with the flamboyance with which Bundy has done it. He could have just quietly negotiated a financial settlement and obeyed the court orders regarding the cattle. Instead, he put the Feds in a position where they have to make an example of him.
On Friday, John Jacob Schmidt of Radio Free Redoubt said that according to Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, Attorney General Eric Holder has approved drone strikes against the Bundy ranch to take place some time in the next 48 hours. According to Schmidt, the information came from a source Oath Keepers has within the Department of Defense.
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