1) This case was tried in court. He lost the case. The court decided that the cattle would be forcibly confiscated.
2) He is aware that the law is clearly against him and insists he doesn't need to follow the law
There is a conflict between state and federal law. Similarly a ruling can be unjust, which is when people will protest. Instead of listening to said protests and gauging whether they are validated or not, just send in the police and fuck em! Because as we all know, moral actions aren't moral because of what you've done, no, they're moral based on who you attack.
The reason why there are those armed people around is because THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU IGNORE THE LAW. Men with guns show up and enforce the law. If you fall behind on rent, the sheriff evicts you. If you illegally occupy land in the backcountry, men in helicopters with rifles come and confiscate your shit. And if your son ignores the fact that a year of legal proceedings have made it abundantly clear he needs to GTFO from a patch of land he insists on standing on, he gets arrested and removed from that patch of land.
His family have been in that land since before the BML existed. His son was perfectly within his rights to film the officers. I haven't seen you excuse the police assaulting the protestors yet, so there's that. This isn't a sheriff coming over or something, this is an army. Their family have been on that land for 150 years, and are unlikely to move.
The right wing is making a big deal about black helicopters and armed federal agents while ignoring the whole court case and ample warning. This guy has been treated with kid gloves.
No, he's being treated with black helicopters and armed federal agents. I've noticed you haven't been talking about this man as a man, but rather you have been talking about this man as if he were the right wing political machine. It is rather dehumanizing, and rather redundant. It is unwise to blindly tie yourself to a movement and treat all outside that movement as enemies.
He is not just getting off lightly compared to what someone would expect in say, Russia
USA: At least we're not Russia.
Carol Bundy said five agents took Dave and “threw him on the ground.”
“One put his knee on his head, the other put his boot on his head and pushed him into the gravel,” she said. “He’s got quite a bruised head. Just bruised him up pretty good.”
Yeah, fuck that 67 year old man. Of course they needed more police, more surveillance! Shutting down all the roads wasn't enough. More guns. If you aren't tazering everyone twice you're doing it wrong.
he's getting treated gently compared to what your typical urban poor person would expect if they feel behind in rent.
What does this even mean? NBC definitions or what? What does this have to do with anything?
Oh but he's rich and he's a "producer" not a leach on society so he's justified on wasting millions of dollars of government money with this dog and pony show.
When you look at something murky, it's always a good experiment to see who benefits.
There is a fair chance that the reason why the feds are spending at least $3,000,000 to claim $1,000,000 is to remove this man and make way for Bechtel and Brightsource Energy who are getting subsidized $1,600,000,000 by the US gov to build their solar farms, especially considering the BML wants to get rid of the cattle "for the tortoises safety" whilst simultaneously knowing the solar project will result in the extinction of the tortoises in the area.
I never quite get that about Americans, one half fears the big corporation controlling more of their country so they make the governments bigger. The other half fears the big government controlling more of their country so they make the corporations bigger. The corporations get bigger and lobby the government with copious amounts of money, and in turn the government makes sure that through legislation the corporations get more money. I'm not sure whether you genuinely want paramilitary forces enforcing your laws with the zeal of Russian KGB, or if you are only supporting the snipers and black helicopters because they're targeting a republican.
Either way, I despair, I wish that you never run afoul of the US law enforcement.