Thursday, April 17, 2014

The Bundy Ranch Cattle Battle

I just found this comprehensive article at the Washington Post web site:
Everything you need to know about the long fight between Cliven Bundy and the federal government
By Jaime Fuller Updated: April 15 at 12:20 pm
One snippet:
April 5, 2014: After decades of trepidation, federal officials and cowboys start rounding up what they think are Cliven Bundy's hundreds of cows. The operation was going to cost $1 million, and reportedly last until May. BLM contends that Bundy owes $1 million in fees, and will also have to pay the round-up expenses. Bundy — who retorts that he only owes $300,000 in fees — says the city folk are only hurting themselves by taking his cows. He told a reporter from the Las Vegas Review Journal that there would be 500,000 fewer hamburgers per year after his cows were towed away; “But nobody is thinking about that. Why would they? They’re all thinking about the desert tortoise. Hey, the tortoise is a fine creature. I like him. I have no problem with him. But taking another man’s cattle? It just doesn’t seem right.”

He also thinks the co-habitating cows and tortoises could have a beautiful, symbiotic relationship if the government would let them. “The tortoises eat the cow manure, too. It’s filled with protein.”
The Cattle Battle has been ongoing since 1993.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately the Washington Post is not a credible source. A mere, and major, propaganda organ of the Democrat Party and the Obama Administration.

Anonymous said...

Fox's Meghan Kelly interviews it's own eye witness

This video illustrates the true nature in Fox's fair and balanced on-the-ground eye witness account of a NY journalist.

In the last closing statement, the NY'er reveals that the only network journalist on site was from Fox...no other network trucks were visible anywhere during the critical moments of this past weekend's standoff. The lack of curiosity & reportage from network on-the-ground witnesses suggests this was in line with a long history of msm protecting this administration from any negative publicity.

The eyewitness from NY also was present on the border over the years. Never has the BLM ever sent this much force to halt the trespass of illegals. If the Bundy family, a generations-long established tax paying,law abiding citizen family is threatened by militarized feds, how long before (assuming the feds haven't already)will this administration accept monetary compensation to keep the borders open to any and all who will?

Always On Watch said...

Anonymous,
Unfortunately the Washington Post is not a credible source. A mere, and major, propaganda organ of the Democrat Party and the Obama Administration.

Agreed.

Even so, some of the details in the WaPo are worth knowing.

Always On Watch said...

Anonymous,
Thank you for that link.