Year After Denying Federal Control, Bundy Still Runs His Bit Of Nevada

[phantom power]

Cliven Bundy. Still not in prison. Apparently, he and his band of thugs now rule American public land like local warlords.

It's been a year since Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his militia supporters stood down federal agents with the Bureau of Land Management outside Las Vegas.

Bundy owes more than $1 million in delinquent cattle grazing fees and penalties, but the BLM has stayed quiet in the year since the showdown, and Bundy's supporters marked the anniversary by throwing a party.

For Robert Crooks, founder of the Mountain Minutemen, it was part reunion and part victory celebration.

"What you're seeing here are the people that were here in the beginning, and will be here in the end," Crooks said. "We're gonna stand our ground."

The event was billed as a "Liberty Celebration," with a barbecue featuring Bundy-raised beef, patriotic music, cowboy poetry, off-roading and shooting. Crooks proudly carried his semi-automatic handgun on his hip. He spent a good deal of the past year camped out in his RV near the driveway that leads to Bundy's ranch house.

"We the people stood with them, and Mr. Bundy got his cows back, and he's got his ranch, and BLM's gone," Crooks said. "BLM no longer exists in this section of Nevada."

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/14/399397139/year-after-denying-federal-control-bundy-still-runs-his-bit-of-nevada

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. The buzzards will get Bundy before the Feds do.

Sorry to say..........

[dhol82]

2. So it appears

Does anybody know why the Feds don't want to do anything? Seems strange.

[phantom power]

3. The only story I ever heard was "something something don't repeat Waco"

Which might explain pulling back for a day, but doesn't even come close to explaining why they just let these fuck-knuckles run free for a year (and counting), and apparently just pulled out of the entire area, like it was fucking Saigon and not our own land.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Eric Holder is on it ...

[frylock]

5. He kicked the can long enough for Loretta Lynch to ignore the issue

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Noticed his cattle back on the

disputed range land last Thursday afternoon. Just poking a stick in the BLM's eye again. Several of the Metro Officers that were there are really pissed this guy and his troop of thugs are running loose. The Story in Vegas is there will be some type of round up coming.

[LittleBlue]

7. It's a fight the admin doesn't want

Too much politicial fallout for a million in grazing fees. Nobody cares anymore