Cliven Bundy is the Nevada rancher who recently had a standoff with the federal government over the Bureau of Land Management's assertion that he owes $1.1 million in unpaid grazing fees.

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Bundy has refused to pay grazing fees for 20 years and has ignored multiple court orders to remove his animals from land where his grazing rights have been revoked.

The Bureau of Land Management agents who had rounded up Bundy's cattle eventually released them out of fear for the safety of their agents. Armed militia and protestors in support of Bundy had shutdown a highway near Bundy's ranch.

Via bigstory.ap.org

"I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro," he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, "and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn't have nothing to do. They didn't have nothing for their kids to do. They didn't have nothing for their young girls to do.

"And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?" he asked. "They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I've often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn't get no more freedom. They got less freedom."

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