This may SHOCK you, but the federal government - on behalf of ALL Americans - charges money for LOTS of different activities on federal lands. Do you know why Bundy is the last rancher in Clark County? The other ranchers couldn't stay in business paying this illegal fee. This is state land and it is a federal department trying to collect the money. A state should not set a tax that will eliminate a business by paying it.
Drill for oil/gas in Alaska? Pay a fee. Drill off-shore? Pay a fee. Operate a ski resort in national forest? Pay a fee. Operate a hotel in a national park? Pay a fee. Hunt on federal lands? Pay a fee.
Graze on federal lands? PAY A FEE! Why does this asshole expect better treatment than any one else? You're not really paying attention. This is like the smoking Nazis. They (the federal government) claims that they are trying to save the desert tortoise and to save the tortoise they don't want cattle on the land. Understand that so far? No tortoise if there are cattle there. Okay, they will allow cattle on the land if a fee is paid...understand that? They will allow cattle to graze (and somehow kill the desert tortoise) but only if they pay. It is a ripoff plain and simple. In fact the desert tortoise is thriving to the point that they sometimes destroy the tortoises in captivity. Yes, they kill the species that they are trying to save.
If people disobey laws that are proper and constitutional, they deserve to go to jail. You don't get to pick and choose what laws you will obey. This law is not proper or constitutional. Remember the purpose behind the original law has passed. It is a senseless law now. This is state land again but it is the fed besieging the ranch.
If a business owner refuses to build a handicapped ramp, he deserves to go to jail. Why does he get to tell disabled people "fuck off, I'm not paying"? Did you just hear what you wrote. He deserves to go to jail, not fined but jail. You really are some kind of fascist SOB. What if your owner runs a business that will never have a handicapped customer. What if it will cost a business owner a very large sum of money because of the design of the street and building?
If he can't afford to build the ramp, but other businesses can, then obviously he can't run a business very well and SHOULD go out of business. see above.
What exactly is your point about the use of force by law authorities? It is true for all laws - including the ones you like and the ones you don't like.
A monopoly on violence is a standard feature of all governments. It only becomes a bad thing if if is used for unjust ends. What exactly is unjust about preventing this freeloader from grazing on federal lands without paying fees like everyone else? You're impossible and a fascist. I got you a sign to wear.
If Occupy Wall Street - or some other left-wing goons - blocked access to your business and refused police orders to disband and allow you to operate your business, would you think it unfair it the police drew their weapons while forcibly removing the OWS assholes?
Stupid comparison (your brain must be getting tired), this man is not blocking anyone's access to anything. In fact, it is the federal government that is blocking him. So I guess you're okay with shooting the feds since they are, as you say, blocking his place of business.
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
You're an idiot, plain and simple. Here is an article from TODAY:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/12/us/nev...html?hpt=hp_t2
It says the land is FEDERAL land, NOT state land. Where is your link saying it belongs to the state? If it was state land, he would have won in court by now, right?
And if it was HIS land, then the federal goverenment would have to condemn the land and PAY him compensation. Where is THAT court decision.
Where do you get the idea that the law is unconstitutional? What law are you talking about? Post a link. Then explain how it is unconstitutional, idiot. We all remember your dopey statement about "ex post facto", so you are not exactly a legal scholar.
And who says it is "senseless now"? YOU? Again, this may come as a shock to you, but individual people do NOT get to disregard laws that they decide are senseless. When it becomes senseless, you petition Congress to repeal it.
This asshole has lost every step of the way because he does not have a leg to stand on in court.
He loses in court and then decides to ignore the court decision and keep on doing what he was doing before.
Kind of like Obama's illegal alien aunt. Or have you forgotten that thread?
And regarding the ADA, no business owner can say he will NEVER have a handicapped customer, so that is another horseshit diversion of yours.
And if you cannot afford to make you business handicap accessible NOW, there are provisions in the ADA that allow you to postpone repairs by submitting a plan that you will follow once you become solvent enough to do a renovation. But if you do a renovation and you do NOT make the handicap changes, you will get hammered in court.
Your ignorance of the law is staggering.
And I did not compare the rancher to OWS, idiot. I never said he was blocking anything.
My comparison was about whether or not YOU think the police should use weapons to remove OWS protesters who are blocking YOU from your property. You only seem to have problems when the cops draw their guns on law breakers you like.