Cliven Bundy is a Reckless Deluded Thief
Cliven Bundy, recently lionized in the Towanda Daily Review letters to the editor by Craig Pierce (4/18/14) and Sarah Scholl (4/22/14) , is a Nevada cattle rancher who has had a 2 decade battle with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over unpaid fees in excess of a million dollars for grazing his cattle on federal pasture lands. Bundy has lost multiple court case regarding his grazing claims. Bundy is deluded because he claims that he follows all Nevada state laws, but doesn’t “recognize the United States government as even existing.” Yet, the Nevada state constitution, framed during the Civil War, includes the Paramount Allegiance clause granting that the federal government may use armed force to compel obedience to its laws. His proclivity of waving a large United States flag while on horseback is also at odds with his non-recognition of the U.S. government. Bundy is a thief because he refuses to pay grazing fees that are 3% of what they are on private land, and accordi