Overall, the federal government is in the right to take the cattle off of the land, because the rancher is way overdue on his lease payments, and at some point you have pay the piper. However, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is going about it in the wrong way. They are causing an uproar with the free speech areas, snipers, and the closing of roads. Now, this was probably done to stop an even bigger issue from occurring, but it is heavy handed and stupid.
There may be more to the story that hasn’t been reported, but I’m sure there had to be a better way to deal with the situation. I wonder if the BLM needed to justify having so many people working for it, and so they decided to send around 200 armed agents to deal with a few cows. Or is it that they were just bored sitting around the office, it’s not like they have things to do. Do they have FBI envy?