Why Ryan Bundy feels he has committed no crime of federal grazing laws

In 2014, Cliven Bundy would not stop grazing on federal/public land beccause he felt the state had sovreignity over grazing rights and his family had been on the land 140 years.

Cliven, his sons Ryan & Ammon are now in jail because of it and other family members awaiting trial for the 3rd time.  The other 2 trials were mistrials.

In November 1998, a federal judge permanently banned Bundy, whose ranch is located about 90 miles north of Las Vegas, from grazing his livestock on a swath of federal land known as the Bunkerville Allotment and ordered him to remove his cattle by the end of the month. Bundy didn’t.

Instead, Bundy allowed his cattle to graze on even broader areas of federal land run by the BLM and the National Park Service.

In May 2012, federal attorneys sued Bundy to stop his “unauthorized and unlawful” grazing of livestock on federal lands, which they said contain archaeological sites, sensitive and rare plants, and the desert tortoise, a threatened and protected species.

Ben states that this issue has been made very political by Harry Reid, the Judge Gloria Navarro, the corrupt Bureau of  Land Managment.