The Bundy Affair – #13 – “Gold Butte Impound”
The Bundy Affair – #13
“Gold Butte Impound”
Gary Hunt
Outpost of Freedom
May 10, 2016
We are all aware of the events that occurred two years ago, resulting in the recent arrest of 19 people, based upon the government’s allegation of events. However, what we know is based upon Mainstream Media (MSM), as well as observations by various patriots, of those events. What we have yet to see is what the government’s side of the story is, at least from the planning of the operation.
The picture, above, is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) planner/artist conception of what the BLM base camp would look like. It is taken from the cover of the Twenty Page “Gold Butte Impound – Incident Action Plan- April 5, 2014” (Plan).
The Plan was implemented on April 5, just one week before American patriots “unrustled” the cattle that had been rustled by the BLM, according to their Plan. What is even more interesting is the amount of resources the government opted to commit, in order to steal the Bundy cattle.
In the past, a dozen men could handle and drive a herd of cattle to the railhead, many hundreds of miles away. Now, if it were rustlers, attempting to steal cattle (yes, steal cattle, in violation of state laws (see “Violence Begets Non-Violence”), could probably handle the task with half a dozen to a dozen men. However, the Plan eloquently demonstrates the inefficiency of government. They have allotted 26 office personnel, 21 contractors, and 195 agents to rustle a few hundred cattle. That’s right, about 242 people, primarily from BLM and National Park Service, who were tasked with this project. Just imagine what the cost of the operation might be, if they had sold the cattle, they probably could not be able cover the cost of more than a couple of days of the operation. But, then, who has ever expected the government to be efficient?
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