Bird-Watching, Patriotism and the Oregon Standoff - The New York Times: "But in effect, what the Bundy gang is doing is denying the value of such shared, set-aside space. Their demands are unclear, but at the very least it appears that by seizing the refuge’s land, which can now be visited by anyone, and returning it to “the people,” some of the people on it would be transformed into trespassers. Perhaps in the wide-open spaces of eastern Oregon, the idea that land should be equally shared among the members of the public makes less sense, but to those of us who live on top of one another elsewhere in the United States, there is no question that some property just can’t be private.
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