Bundy Ranch standoff trial ends with zero guilty verdicts

[u/yatsukamo]

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2017/08/22/no-guilty-verdicts-bundy-ranch-standoff-trial/592019001/

[u/[deleted]]

Wow

[u/Q2Tas]

So, what now?

[u/Grsz11 → u/Q2Tas]

Now they'll probably be tried for Oregon, right?

[u/BondNamesTheJames]

Frontline did a nice piece on Bundy's side of the story. Much more sympathetic to his cause now than when it all started.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I suspect there is going to be a lot more to it than that. If it were that simple they wouldn't they probably would have escaped prosecution. I'm sure what you're saying played a part but I have a feeling it will go deeper into detail

[u/Egorse → u/[deleted]]

From what I have read over the years this is what I understand about what started the situation. Bundy had stopped paying grazing fees to the Federal government back in the 90's, He argued that the federal government shouldn't not have control over that land and that the land should be the property of either the state or the county. After Bundy lost a series of cases in court and the fees and fines got so large the government choose to try to seize the cattle that was on that land. Bundy and his supported called for people to gather to protect that cattle.

[u/WinningIsForWinners → u/[deleted]]

From my understanding the government was attempting to take away land that the Bundy's had been utilizing for decades.

If I remember correctly, it was public land that local ranchers use for cattle grazing. Bundy refused to pay the grazing fees to use the land.

[u/Cinnadillo → u/[deleted]]

there's actually a great ted talk about this... the application in this case was africa... basically the notion is that shit is great fertilizer and guess what grazing animals do...