That depends: do you honestly believe an armed militia would start digging trenches for long-hairs?
The people. However unlike Bundy, most of us buy, pay taxes on, and/or rent the land we need for our personal use.
I'm sure contemporary intellectuals made similar arguments about the War of Regulations, Shay's rebellion, the Whiskey rebellion, and--of course--the Civil War. People that compose the states (and original colonies) of our union, however, still fought those conflicts. I reiterate: those PEOPLE.
The ultimate question here is not whether or not other people tolerated exorbitant fees and/or taxes that were designed to gouge the ranchers, but rather whether or not they should have.
