What Do the Bundy Brothers Have Against Wildlife?

[ellenrr]



The Bundy boys want the refuge “shut down forever”—proposing that “the federal government relinquish such control” of federal lands as part of a broader assault on the very idea that the people of the United States might protect and preserve pristine areas.

Condemnations of federal land management have long been voiced not just by the extreme right but by conservative politicians and media outlets that object both to land management policies and to serious protection of wetlands and wildlife.

 “Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt [a Republican] to protect the vast populations of waterbirds that were being decimated by wanton killing by the plume trade,” explains the Audubon Society of Portland. “The 188,000 acre refuge represents some of the most important bird habitat on the Pacific Flyway. It is one of the crown jewels of the National Wildlife Refuge System and belongs to all Americans.”

http://www.thenation.com/article/what-do-the-bundy-brothers-have-against-wildlife/

[DetlefK]

1. When they say, this land belongs to "We the people", they actually mean...

They do not mean that every single member of the group "We the people" is co-owner of this land and the group as a whole decides what happens with that land.

Instead, they mean that everybody is free to pillage and loot and mine and log that land for profit as he sees fit, first-come-first-serve.

[7wo7rees]

2. There are lots of resources corps want to extract.

These idgits are just useful little idgit tools.

Damn shame.

[cali]

3. They're Domionists