Wildlandfirefighter wrote:
So much BS in this article I don't know where to begin. So the police officer that k**led Floyd was a part of a Chinese or foreign plot and the other 3 cops that were with him and did not have the sense to stop him were accomplices in this foreign plot as well? Garbage. The article itself helps to foster the BS it supposedly is trying to warn against. Crazy conspiracy theories only add to the confusion we see around us today and make things worse, furthering the cause of these same foreign foes. And yes I believe there are foreign entities who see this as a real opportunity and who want to destroy this country involved in the protests we see right now to some degree, and I hope that law enforcement has the ability to try to track this. But much of what this article provides is garbage.
The mentioning of the Bundy Ranch fiasco caps it all. There are no significant mineral resources there, if there were they would have been mined years ago, and if a new discovery it would not stop the B*M from issuing a mining permit. Bundy never had control of any mineral rights to any of the land he rented from the B*M for his cattle, so that whole argument is ridiculous. And this all happened because he had not paid his dues to the government for his cows grazing on all of our lands for years. Do you know that the B*M rents lands to ranchers at a cost of $1.50 per animal unit per year. So ranchers get to raise their cattle feeding them for 8 months or so of the year on our federal lands for a measly $1.50 per cow. Most cows are brought to market when they are less than 2 years old, so the rancher has $3.00 owed to the government (to the people) for growing their cow for 2/3 to 3/4 of its life. So how much was a pound of hamburger the last time you went to the grocery store? Bet it was more that $3.00.
You know what the state of Idaho charges for similar use of ranchers by state owned grazing lands? $9.00 per animal unit or 6 times what the Feds charged Bundy. But Bundy was too good to pay a measly $1.50 per animal per year for many many years, instead getting rich off the backs of other working Americans (yes the government pays to do range improvement work that the ranchers benefit from, and yes the Government pays for wildfire suppression and protection of ranch property for all these acres, the rancher pays nothing for any of this help and support, so in actuality at $1.50 per animal we are paying the ranchers to graze their cattle on land owned by the American people, by a lot). In my opinion he was s**mming every American and it was way past time to do something about it.
So this is just another big batch of conspiracy theory crap that was probably hatched from a Russian misinformation bot designed to further the craziness and divide in this country. Lets not help them!
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