Ditto, With all due respect, you sound like you don't understand how this fight started....In a WaPo article outlining the years and the issues to date, it says:
"1989: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists the desert tortoise as an endangered species. A year later, its designation was changed to "threatened."
We all know how this listing is used in modern times to control people, and in some cases steal their property in favor of species that get put on the list (in some cases for political reasons) and then never removed even after the supposed threat of extinction is gone....
"the Bureau of Land Management designated hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land for strict conservation efforts. "Among the conservation measures required," according to the Post's coverage, "are the elimination of livestock grazing and strict limits on off-road vehicle use in the protected tortoise habitat."
So, in 1993 The BLM steps in and just declares the land off limits....It is a land grab.
"Many people were not impressed by the new conservation plan. "Cliven Bundy, whose family homesteaded his ranch in 1877 and who accuses the government of a 'land grab,' are digging in for a fight and say they will not willingly sell their grazing privileges to create another preserve."
So, this sounds exactly like some of the recent eminent domain cases...The government tells someone that they must give up their land, or their property, or their rights because the government wants them....At some point we have to stand up and say NO!
Now, I don't think that at this point Bundy is making his case very well, but as I look more into it, it seems he does have a point.
Quotes taken from:
Everything you need to know about the long fight between Cliven Bundy and the federal government