There Are Other Far-Right Groups Taking Over Federal Lands. It's Not Just Bundy:

[KittyWampus]

There are several areas where far-right squatters are doing exactly what Bundy does...

State by state, the Far Right is stripping women of their reproductive rights, people of color are losing their right to vote and now they are literally taking over Federal lands.


http://www.npr.org/2015/04/14/399397139/year-after-denying-federal-control-bundy-still-runs-his-bit-of-nevada

Indeed, the BLM has pretty much stopped managing or patrolling a vast, southeastern corner of the state — centered in the Gold Butte region — because of safety concerns.

The standoff, and now a year of silence from the BLM and the region's U.S. Attorney, has reinvigorated what's often called the "sovereign citizen movement" on Western lands. One of its goals is for states and local sheriffs to take over management of federal public lands; this year, nearly a dozen legislatures in Western states have considered bills that seek to transfer ownership of federal lands to the states.

Nevada's bill, sponsored by Republican state Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore, has some momentum behind it. Speaking on a show she hosts on a Las Vegas conservative news talk station, Fiore said the effort was about getting "our land back in the hands of the people, where it belongs."

The bulk of the state of Nevada is federal land open to various public uses — but the government's management of it, in this state where distrust of Washington, D.C., runs deep, long has been controversial.

Near the Bundy ranch in southern Nevada, homemade signs like this are a testament to the fact that the BLM has completely pulled out of the area in the year since the armed standoff over cattle grazing.
Kirk Siegler/NPR

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Bundy’s Seditious Victory has inspired Oregon “Militias” to take up arms against our Government.

https://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/bundys-seditious-victory-has-inspired-oregon-militias-to-take-up-arms-against-our-government/

[haikugal]

1. They'll sell off the public lands one way or another.

This is outrageous...we will have no future in this country. What the hell is Obama thinking? We have a lot of people who need jobs, this would be a worthy cause.

[n2doc]

3. Why sell when they will just take it?

That is what they are doing. "back in the hands of the people" yeah, right, like just anybody would be allowed to access those areas. They are de facto private lands held by a few well-connected and armed scumbags. I'm sure once they get another supreme court judge on their side they will argue that possession means ownership.

[Proserpina]

2. Most of Nevada cannot support human life

What is the point? Venting one's frustrations in this manner doesn't impress sane people.

It is an exercise in futility...an evolutionary dead end. Other than trashing a fragile ecosystem that might have yielded knowledge through careful scientific study, they accomplish nothing.

They cannot live off that land, farm it, graze it, mine it, sell it or build on it.

I'm pretty sure they aren't enjoying it for its scenic beauty and quiet remoteness, either.

It makes a great place to go sulk, if one no longer has a parent's basement or a bedroom of one's own....but the creature comforts are lacking.

No Man Is An Island

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

John Donne