The Federal judge in the Bundy Trial has declared a mistrial and it’s not known if they will be retried at a later date.
Good interview with Carol Bundy here. www.azcentral.com/… When they tear out the water lines eliminate allotments and buy out everyone it tends to radicalize people.
Judge Navarro cited five key pieces of information that prosecutors did not disclose: records about surveillance and snipers at the Bundy Ranch; unredacted FBI logs about activity at the ranch in the days around the standoff; threat assessments about the Bundys dating to 2012; and internal affairs reports about the BLM.
For my part I’m not real sure the turtles that this is all about are doing any the worse for wear.
If one gets down to the nitty gritty the whole thing isn’t about the turtles or unpaid grazing fees but rather hippy/cowboy hate. There’s a certain kind of green that just can’t stand ranchers, worse even than ranchers can’t stand hippies. The idea that some ranchers would stand off the US government pisses that kind of person to no end.
Tickles me pink. While I certainly support the scientific management of our public lands and the rule of law and I especially don’t like the introduction of firearms into any potentially volatile situation, I also can’t see running people off their land by appropriating their grazing allotments based on sketchy evidence of turtle endangerment. What it came down to is environmentalists using their power to push people off the land, a lot of that happened during the Clinton administration. And now we get Bundy and Zinke etc. Action reaction. Pendulum swings.
As a new conservationist I believe the people most affected by any conservation action should have the most influence on that action, whether the people are subsistence hunters in tiger habitat or ranchers in Nevada.