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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
No they are not, unless the cops say they are. </sarcasm>
Holding up signs and taking video with cell phones are not Obstruction
It's like the government saying it's a fee, not a tax to get past certain laws that protect us!
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If you rent a house from someone and stop paying rent, then the owner can evict you by court order. This is essentially what has happened. If the sherif then came to evict you and you tried to stop him, you would be obstructing a court order or what ever they call it.
He stopped paying for the right to use the land, so the BLM whom manages the land got a court order to have this guy remove the cows from the land. The guy refused to remove the cows, so now the BLM officials are removing them and confiscating them. It's not like this guy had no warning or no time to remove the cows, he's been doing it for 20 years and was told to remove them.
Do you realize that assuming he had on average 1k cows each of those 20 years that $300k is like $15 a cow per year? Do you really think that guy would find anywhere else to put his cows that was cheaper?
It's public land, but it doesn't mean any Tom, Dick or Hairy can just use it for free to profit. It's not like you or I could go set up shop for free on Any public land and start building a business. The guy had a pretty sweet deal if you ask me and he wouldn't even pay for that.