‘Right-Wing Political Culture’ Wrong to Celebrate Gun-Toting, Anti-Gov’t Rancher

[gejohnston]

1. the most he could possiblibly owe is $70K

because that is about how much 900 cattle for 21 years would come out to. Other than the guns, what has Bundy done that Occupy hasn't done? He grazed cattle, they illegally set up encampments on public land. That makes Occupy lawlessness too.
You either believe in civil disobedience in principle or you don't. To say it is OK for Occupy to take over a city park but not OK for this guy to graze cattle is hypocrisy at best. Bundy's supporters also include anarchists and libertarians that also supported Occupy.
In case I have to explain my core values to you too:
reason before dogma; principle before party. IOW: Ed Shultz calling Laura Ingram a slut = Rush Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a slut. The fact that I mostly disagree with Ingram's politics is irrelevant. Mike Papantonio's and Lawrence O'Donnell's anti Mormon bigotry = Glen Beck's anti Muslim bigotry. IOW you support the rights of people you don't like. If not, you are unAmerican. Since I don't like MSNBC anymore than i like Fox, and I have no idea who this guy is, I really don't care.
Do I support this guy's cause? I don't know. I don't think there are any clean hands either way.

I do know one thing for certain: it is about western ag's decades long love/hate fest with BLM and nothing to do with gun culture. If this guy doesn't get that, he doesn't understand the issue, and his opinion worthless.