So, I'm not quite sure what to make of this ongoing situation. You guys will have to shed some light on it for me, but this is what I've gathered from reading several articles and watching the video;
1) Feds enact law decades ago that you must be permitted to use federal land for grazing.
2) Bundy says no, it's his land by "preemption."
3) BLM finally comes to remove his cattle by force after 20 years of noncompliance with the law.
After that, from what I gather, he legally has zero right to the land. The rest of the cattlemen have been paying for the permit since it became law, and the Cattleman's Association(?) even refuses to support Bundy. I'm told that the BLM is despised in the mid-west....yet I'm not really seeing much support against the BLM in this situation by the mid-west. All the pokers in the fire seem to be from Bundy's family and organizations like the Oathkeepers. That's pretty telling, to me.
Then the claims of his ranch being surrounded by hundreds of snipers and SWAT teams....I'm not finding any third parties which are confirming these claims. Memes are popping up on facebook showing supposed pictures of them, but they're obviously photos from different events (including Iraq) not related to the Bundy Ranch at all.
Then the video......I'm sorry, but playing stupid games gets you stupid prizes. Trying to kick a police dog? Gimme a break. Everything I could observe from that video is that the agents were fairly restrained, and when they saw their tactics were making the situation more explosive they packed up and left. Smart, IMO, because that had the potential to be a really bad day.
So, add your info. Learn me the cowboy life. Discuss. To me, at this point, it appears the pro-Bundy crowd is full of mouth-breathers who are doing more harm than good to their situation by making unverifiable, or outright false claims.