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On the surface the private property battles in Oregon and Nevada seem to be between ranchers and the Bureau of Land Management. 

That’s on the surface. 

“I wonder when hunters and anglers in the West are finally going to take to the streets.
For 30 years, a handful of special interests has been trying to steal the public’s forests and rangelands. The faces of the Sagebrush Rebellion are shirttail bandits like Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who has spent a lifetime raping public rangeland in southern Nevada and has flouted federal law and court orders for the better part of 20 years, but Bundy and his confederates couldn’t get news coverage next to the comic strips in the Pahrump, Nevada, Valley Times if it weren’t for the potent financial, political, and legal backing they get from a much different band of activists — the billionaire supporters of organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). 

With the big money behind it, the Sagebrush Rebellion simply won’t die. 

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Selling a Birthright: What would the West be like without its federal lands? 

by Guest Essay | MAY 12, 2015

Republicans support miners & drillers. Like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil. 

In turn the Koch brothers & Exxon Mobil insure the Republicans win elections. 

Mineral extraction industries want ownership of Federal lands transferred to them.

"Sovereign Citizen Patriots" want Federal land transferred to private property owners called ranchers. 

But the big money behind the private property movement is mining and drilling companies. 

Sovereign Citizens like the Bundys are, like Sovereign Citizen Timothy McVeigh and the murderers of Arkansas State Troopers Evans and Paudert, terrorists. 

The reason Republicans call the Bundys "patriots" and not terrorists, has little to do with ranching and a lot to do with the mineral extraction industries. 

The DHS stopped investigating domestic terrorism at the request of Republicans. But it was really stopped by their mineral extraction financiers. 

That leaves us with Republicans and Fox News supporting Sovereign Citizen terrorists in Oregon.  Do Republicans and Fox News also support the Oklahoma City bombing and numerous other Sovereign Citizen terrorist attacks? 

Maybe Republican's support of terrorism will stop at the next Sovereign Citizen mass murder, maybe not.