What Happens Now That the Bundy Trial is Over?

[L. Coyote]

https://blogwest.org/2018/01/10/what-happens-now-that-the-bundy-trial-is-over/

“The Mess, Put Succintly” by Joseph E. Taylor, III

Last month I took my fourteen-year-old daughter to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Afterwards I asked her what she thought of all the rationalizations, manipulations, and stabby-stabby. She replied, “Who were we supposed to root for?”

I recalled that moment yesterday when I learned that Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro had dismissed all charges against Cliven Bundy, his two sons Ammon and Ryan, and Ryan Payne. Although the ruling is not yet published, quotes from Navarro’s decision, which took a half-hour to read aloud in a Las Vegas courtroom, ought to be read by everyone who cares about a case that started with Cliven Bundy not paying his grazing fees.

Do not listen to Bundy, who is delusional about the U.S. constitution and sovereignty, and do not listen to environmentalists, who are cultivating apocalyptic fears. This case turned on prosecutorial incompetence, bureaucratic blundering and abuse, and dumbass policy decisions made two decades ago. Like Shakespeare’s play, there are no good guys.

So, let’s start at the beginning in 1980 with the Santini-Burton Act, and in 1998 with the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act, both of which empowered the BLM to sell lands in Nevada and use the revenues for recreation and land consolidation. .......................