Amen to that.

We can only hope that those who live there - candidates and voters - use this experience as a reminder at election time...

But that wouldn't enhance their power and the power of their sponsors. F-ing looters.
IMO, they are trying to extract everything possible as security for the debt held in foreign hands.
Possibly being done to prevent or forestall the demise of the dollar as world currency.

Those would be powerful images and they are probably killing the tortoises they are supposed to be protecting. Unreal.

They don't want people to see the round up. They do the same when they round up the wild horses. They don't want people to see the broken legs, the tongues hanging out from exhaustion etc.

Also, since these are most likely cow/calf units, they are running the hooves off the probably 1 month old calves. Cows won't intentionally step on a tortoise, but chase them with a helicopter and they will run over anything in the way.

I was thinking they wanted open skies for support helicopters. You may be right. If video of the cattle being rounded up starts playing on the evening news it would really drive home the point of how militant the Feds are.

I think the FAA got in the game because the Feds do not want any pictures.

He may now that all this attention is on it. Another thing that grinds me. The only way some of these politicos do the right thing is if the media shines a spotlight on it.

This practice of federal agencies coordinating is chilling. I wish the governor had some balls and did something about this.

Truth