Americans wouldn’t tolerate this cruelty if they saw it firsthand: terrified mares and foals chased to exhaustion, then sold for pennies to disappear into foreign slaughterhouses.
Enough.
Imagine dawn breaking over Nevada’s badlands. A herd of wild horses charges across the sagebrush, manes whipping in the wind — living emblems of American freedom, the soul of the West.
Then the silence breaks. Helicopter blades thunder overhead, driving the animals into traps.
Foals stumble. Mares collapse. Families scatter in terror.
This isn’t a scene from frontier history. It’s happening now — a government-funded assault on one of the most enduring symbols of the American spirit.
The Bureau of Land Management’s wild horse roundups have become routine cruelty disguised as “management.”
And with the agency preparing its most aggressive operations yet, the time to act is now.
No more federal helicopters terrorizing symbols of liberty while criminals flood our markets with cheap ‘beef.’
Congress once recognized the value of these animals.
The 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act promised protection and stewardship, not slaughter and imprisonment.
But decades of mismanagement have turned that promise into a taxpayer-funded nightmare.
The Bureau’s Wild Horse and Burro Program devours $142 million a year to chase, capture, and confine herds that should roam free.
The agency calls it conservation.
It looks more like erasure — the slow extermination of the very wildness that once defined the West.
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