Bundy Ranch, Militia OTW.

A 20-year dispute between a Nevada rancher and federal rangers over illegal cattle grazing erupted into an Old West-style showdown on the open range this week, even prompting self-proclaimed members of militia groups from across the country to join the rancher in fighting what they say is U.S. "tyranny."

What began as a legal fight between longtime rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has escalated as Bundy kept his cattle on the federal land, and the government has responded by beginning roundups of the livestock.

A confrontation teetered on violence Wednesday when Bundy family members and dozens of supporters angrily confronted a group of rangers holding Tasers and barking dogs on leashes near Bunkerville, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

Federal officials say a police dog was kicked and officers were assaulted.

Bundy family members say they were thrown to the ground or jolted with a Taser.

In the end, the rangers got into their white SUVs and drove away, a YouTube video of the incident showed.

"Get out of our state!" the cheering protesters yelled at the rangers as they departed in several vehicles. "BLM go away! BLM go away!" they added, referring to the Bureau of Land Management.

The entire incident is now under investigation, Amy Lueders, the bureau's director in Nevada, said Thursday.

To some, the 67-year-old Bundy is a hero who hails from a long family of ranchers stretching back to the Wild West.

To environmentalists and the feds, however, he's an outlaw of sorts who owes U.S. taxpayers more than $1 million in unpaid grazing fees.

The U.S. government is rounding up Bundy's cattle that it says have been grazing illegally on public lands in Clark County for more than 20 years, according to the land-management bureau and the National Park Service.

Between Saturday and Wednesday, contracted wranglers impounded a total of 352 cattle, federal officials said. Bundy says he owns 500 of the more than 900 cattle that federal officials are planning to confiscate for illegal grazing, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Bundy told the newspaper that each head of his livestock is worth about $1,000.

I can't be the only one who saw 'bunny ranch' and thought of something a bit more fun.

Yes and your reasoning was crap and it was already stated as to why. There's no half truths, but continue thinking that.

He's still breaking the law, and he will be treated as such.

Looks like the Federal government just got its *** handed to it.

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/25231502/breaking-news-protesters-gather-on-i15-causing-traffic-delays-cliven-bundy-blm

The Fed's cannot just arm up and go after a person or his cattle.

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17
http://famguardian.org/Publications/PropertyRights/exclufed.html

The feds got away with making a lot of these laws over the years, but it doesn't make those laws legal, per the constitution.
Technically, federal parks and all federal "owned" land by rights belong to the states where that land is located.
The federal government has usurped large swathes of it under the guise of "preservation", but in reality it is to squeeze resources and money out of people.
His fight is valid if the state backs him, especially if it gets to the Supreme Court where they would have little choice but to side with the state on constitutional grounds.

so in order to "fight the man", people decided to stand in the middle of an interstate highway and hold up who knows how many people in the process. right. i would've just run them over tbh

Not that I agree with some of the tactics the fed has used over the years to tear into people's privacy and impose illegal taxes, but this isn't one of those cases, and I find it particularly odd that someone bordering on radical libertarian would support someone who is knowingly leeching off the government.

This rancher is fighting a crusade against big government in the worst possible way.

Also, the feds CAN just arm up and take his cattle, imprison him, seize his assets, and even go after his family member's assets.

So they just turned tail because of bad publicity and fear of someone getting ran over. SUUUURE that must be it, thanks for clearing it up so well.

Looks like the Federal government just got its *** handed to it.

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/25231502/breaking-news-protesters-gather-on-i15-causing-traffic-delays-cliven-bundy-blm

The Fed's cannot just arm up and go after a person or his cattle.

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17
http://famguardian.org/Publications/PropertyRights/exclufed.html

The feds got away with making a lot of these laws over the years, but it doesn't make those laws legal, per the constitution.
Technically, federal parks and all federal "owned" land by rights belong to the states where that land is located.
The federal government has usurped large swathes of it under the guise of "preservation", but in reality it is to squeeze resources and money out of people.
His fight is valid if the state backs him, especially if it gets to the Supreme Court where they would have little choice but to side with the state on constitutional grounds.

Obviously I can't say for sure why they stepped down, but I can tell you it's not because he's in the right.

You are incredibly arrogant in your ignorance.

Have you read into this at all? Or have you just browsed CNN MSNBC maybe even FOX? Fox is just as bad as the rest of them anymore.

So, a bunch of idiots block the road and that equates the federal gov't getting their *** handed to them? I'm sorry, who was affected by this stunt? Thats right, private citzens. No one else. All of the militia guys have accomplished nothing.

So lets review:
BLM has seized 390 of the 500 cows Mr. Bundy owns.
He still owes 1 million dollars in grazing fees
He still doesn't own the land.
Federal Courts have already issued several rulings, all against Mr Bundy.
Mr. Bundy is a freeloader.

Just as bad? In what way?