I'm not sure of the timeline, but it sure seems as if the feds escalated in response to Bundy's armed resistance, and then again when the bubba militias started showing up.

I can't really blame them either, you can't tell what those whacko militia types are going to do. What kind of person drops everything and loads up a car full of guns to go face off against a roundup of illegal cattle....??

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Just guessin' here, but I'd say somebody who's a) independently wealthy and doesn't need to show up for work or b) somebody already on the dole who doesn't either.

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Maybe we are beginning to see just who his supporters are....

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People enraged about their ****ty lives...blaming the government.

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Yeah, like occupy wall street demonstrators.... No wait, these guys apparently went back to work Monday while the OSW guys stayed there for weeks at a time.

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The 'militia' db's were not just there for the weekend, you're making things up again....
OSW at least was planned. Many people took vacation time, other protesters didn't have jobs... IIRC that was part of what they were protesting about...

Occupy Wall Street has nothing to do with this issue....
Obviously you have nothing left with which to support your position, so you create the strawman.... Have fun beating it.

One has to stretch to try and keep these unrelated issues in check.
Sharpton is not the issue here either.

It's interesting... sometimes, when my kids are told that they cannot do something, they will respond with 'But-so-and-so-does-it....'
The 10yo is starting to grow out of it already....

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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In Sharpton's case they prolly want him working so he can pay his taxes....kindof like Willie Nelson about ten years ago.

I want tax cheats working so they can pay their fair share for sure.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I want a dead beat tenant residing in my property evicted. If he arms himself and threatens violence I want them to show up with whatever it takes to get him out. He is stealing from all of us.

I'd say they were way too lenient with him. I get deadbeat tenants out of my property in ten days. You can't rent to a paying tenant if you have a dead beat squatting.

You righties complain about government waste but in this case inexplicably you take the dead beat's side and don't want our government exercising good business practices...?????

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

LOL

Where do they do that Tom?

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Sorry, but government and good business practices just don't work together in the same sentence.

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lmfao!

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Actually they should have kicked him out 19 years ago....apparently.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Apparently the News Media is really struggling to make things look worse then they are:

"It is, of course, customary for the U.S. government to bring armed soldiers to an oil dispute. (Operation "Iraqi Freedom" for starters...) Heavily armed snipers, helicopters and militarized soldiers have never been invoked over tortoises. (Anyone who thinks this siege is about reptiles is kidding themselves.)..."

I thoght that the only Soldiers were US Army, US Arny Reserve and the National Guard.
I also thought that all Sodiers are militarized because they are obviously a Military.

BLM fracking racket exposed! Armed siege and cattle theft from Bundy ranch really about fracking leases

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I'm not saying there isn't an interest in oil and gas in the area, but WOW, what a hysterical article!

This document from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology(1) shows significant exploratory drilling being conducted in precisely the same area where the Bundy family has been running cattle since the 1870's. The "Gold Butte" area is indicated on the lower right corner of the document (see below), and it clearly shows numerous exploratory drilling operations have been conducted there.

The portion I highlighted is an outright falsehood. Notice that the cleverly cut map detail gives you NO indication of what the pretty colored map locators actually MEAN. They DON'T indicate "exploratory drilling operations" as alluded to in the above quote. Looking at the full map linked in the article tells the real story.
Notice that there's nothing south of Gold Butte, and only two productive sites considerably north of there. All the purple indicators are labels of rock outcrops that are possibly productive rock types. That's all they are.... Scary!!
The article spends considerable time telling us about some goings-on in Wells Nevada as if it had something to do with or is somehow close to the Bundy deal. It's not. Wells, NV is about as close to Gold Butte as Las Vegas is to Phoenix. Just more hysteria....

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And if so, would that not be better for the economy and independence from foreign oil? Something conservatives would applaud.

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