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I simply pointed out an obvious double standard. Please let me illustrate my point further.
He has repeatedly thumbed his nose at the Federal Government.
So has every medical marijuana dispensory in the US. Are you saying if the DEA were to show up at certain smoke shops in, say, Colorado with machine guns and dogs that you have Holder's back? Didn't think so. Speaking of which, shall we discuss where these establishments get their inventory? How do you feel about pot growers who grow on public land, pollute the water, booby trap their groves, and open fire on any hiker or mountain bike rider who stumbles across the field? When I was a kid in Wyoming, WFG would stop me to check our hunting licenses etc. Even though he knew we all had guns, he got out of his truck unarmed. They only started carrying guns in the past 30 years because of pot growers and meth labs.
Why did he not just pay the 70k and avoid all this?
You are missing a big part of the story. He and the other ranchers did pay their fees until the BLM decided to limit the number of cattle to 160 head per ranch in the area in 1993, a number can not sustain, let alone have a profit, any cattle business. In 1998 the BLM banned all grazing in the area. The other ranchers complied and were forced out of business. He resisted. That is based on the inforation I have found.
He had been warned.
So was Occupy
Non payment of taxes.
first I have heard of this, please cite.
Avoiding taxes by conducting business in cash.
first I heard of this, please cite.
There is a difference between civil disobedience and lawlessness.
not really.
I am sorry but IMO he is in the wrong.
I didn't say he was right or wrong. I simply said that MSNBC's problem with him had more to do with him being the wrong industry/religion/maybe voter registration.
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