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If anyone had Netflix I strongly recommend watching Unbranded a really wonderful film by four recent grads of Texas A&M who decided to adopt wild horse from the Bureau of Land Management and ride them from the Mexican border to Canada. Now that may not seem to be germane to the topic but throughout the movie there is quite a bit of discussion about the BLM's struggles to satisfy the competing constituents that use Federal lands, cattle, wild horses, environmentalist and ranchers. It sort of puts this whole brouhaha into a larger perspective.
Excuse me? I happen to live in "the middle of nowhere" myself. Those thugs could just have easily come out here to ranching and farming country in western Colorado and occupied a small national monument that is located about 2 miles SW of my farmhouse. If I do a quick mental count there are at least 100 people (mostly farmers and their families) living within a 5 mile radius. If a gang of "militia" from out of state decided to show up in our county for some reason of their own and pretended to speak for everyone who lives here, I would be very angry and yes - ultimately terrified if the situation continued. If this were either the summer or fall, I would be horrified to have a pack of criminals advocating arson camped a mere 2 miles away across the alfalfa fields from me. Toss out a match in a dry season and the mix of native plants and juniper/pinion trees plus fields full of drying hay bales would go up like a tinder box. What? Only people who live in New York City get to be protected while those of us who live out here growing the nation's food are of no consequence? Your statement is incredibly ignorant and dismissive and it makes me more angry the longer I think about it.
And I just heard on the news that 7,000 people live in the county in which the wildlife refuge is located.
Just take one of these and reach out and touch someone. Show Y'all Qaeda what power projection really is.
You literally just cited a right-wing blog as a source.
When did City-Data get taken over by Stormfront? Man, back in the day, this place used to be a little more balanced.
Hey if you think City-Data is bad, check out the Tea Party's attempt to mess with the minds of Wikipedia users. If you look up Harney Basin (where the wildlife refuge is located) and click on the "external links" at the end of the article, you get broken links to Tea Party blogs.
You literally just cited a right-wing blog as a source.
When did City-Data get taken over by Stormfront? Man, back in the day, this place used to be a little more balanced.
By this place, I'm just going to assume you mean the US as a whole. Have you seen who's actually leading the Republican polls for President? This place is going to crazy town.
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