jobe wrote:

> My point is this... anyone on federal lands may be guilty of
> any thing. Wheather or not you intended to be guilty of an
> infraction.

Same as everywhere else.

> That is what they call them. With no way of knowing
> what is or is not an infraction. Did you take a shovel with you
> last time you were in the forest. If not, then you too were
> guilty of an infraction while there. So go ahead and send in
> you tax money.

Would you like some cheese with that whine?

> They used these same rules to kill off our native American
> brothers and sisters. Sad but true.

No, they just shot the natives.

> Where I was camping has campers there almost every day during
> good weather here. So these tax collectors could get a whole
> lot of tax money if they tried. I felt like I had been robbed,
> and I was.

Robbed? How so?

> So I plan on camping there another 100 times , just
> to get my monies worth. This was random persecution.

But were you guilty? It sounds like it.

> I did not feel like a criminal ;-o

Even when you violated the closure and were caught carrying a weapon?

> The broshure that the Lake Mead recreation area puts out from
> their offices to the public invites us to camp anywhere in the
> park.

Really? Doesn't look that way to me:

Vehicle camping is permitted only in designated areas in the backcountry.

Sounds more like you decided to ignore the rules and now you are whining because you got caught.