Eaglleia wrote:Just sounds like some cheapskate to me, the BLM's in the right here.
It says in the article he refused to pay fees in protest against an environmental regulation. Reading between the lines, he was probably limited in where he could let this cattle drink (as cattle do seriously degrade natural sources of water).
Such civil disobedience is all very well, providing he's prepared to take the consequences. It does hurt the government (they don't get the fees, and they have to pay rangers to remove the stock ... perhaps eventually they have to pay to imprison him or other protesters if they get violent).
He's got to be prepared to make a sacrifice though. Like anyone who refuses to pay taxes "in protest", his commitment to it must be proven by sacrifice on his own part, because there's an obvious financial incentive for anyone to refuse to pay taxes and anyone can say it's in protest, whether it is or not.
I wonder how much of that $1 million is interest on his debt ...