Ruby Ridge 20 years ago this month.
Even if the government is wrong which is 99% of their cases they keep the ranchers tied up in court until they are bankrupt. Look at the my brothers inlaws, the Hage family, almost 40 years of fightin the USFS and BLM.
My friend Joe Fallini has had his share of legal troubles with them too.
Years ago I was working the evening shift in the Kenworth shop in Reno. A cattle hauler came in for some minor repair. I could tell the driver was a rancher the minute he climbed down from the cab. I told him he didn't look like a truck driver, he looked like a rancher. He told me his family had been ranchers in Montana and after many years of litigation with the feds they had to sell to pay the legal bills. He told me they had never lost a case, but were driven into poverty.

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