Oathkeepers and the "no felons welcome" crowd are taking ownership of the issue.

There is money in this one, more than what is at Bundy, and more than one mining claim under dispute. I say we need our own boots on the ground guys before pouring a lot into saving financially successful miners from financially motivated BLM predators and then going broke because of it.

The mining claim area is a heck of a good candidate for an autonomous zone where people can earn their keep at the mines and then take turns with a local security oriented militia operation but I am a little lost on the logic of diminishing my own preps, supplies and operational capability to help people make a grand a day operating mines.

This is where the professional to semi-pro security outfits willing and capable of tangling with the government can really pull ahead in a situation without taking on any sort of "terrorist" label, since everyone understand business and economics on the level that someone is trying to save legitimate successful business from someone who is just corruptly trying to use force of government to force something out of business.