Nevada Showdown: All Hat, No Cattle (Hurl Alert applicable?)

Townhall.com ^ | April 15, 2014 | Debra J. Saunders

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Yep, the BLM just woke up one morning and decided they had to do something about the Bundy family. They could ignore him for 20 years, but not another day. We are supposed to believe that nonsense.

Something motivated the government to go after this guy after all that time, and I think Harry Reid knows the answer.

[Jim Robinson]

bump!

[MarMema]

It's not so black and white as you have posted it. But then you probably don't have ranches in New Jersey.

Western freepers seem to get this much more easily than those on the east coast.

[MarMema]

What makes you think he had an understanding?

Please show me where he has said this.

[goodnesswins]

I kinda think the point is the Feds should NOT own land

[wideawake]

I agree. The land should have been sold a long time ago.

[GSWarrior]

John Hinderaker summed it up nicely, IMO

[xrmusn]

When the feds come and tell you how to maintain your home I hope you step up and obey.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = =
I would imagine most jurisdictions are ‘basically’ the same.
I used the example of the city having a ‘right-of-way’ for a few feet behind your sidewalk, - In Maryland, (it used to be) the first 5 or so feet of your driveway had to match the specs of the street or road...- ANYHOW,
Say the city came along and PROCLAIMED that their ROW extended to your stoop.
Really not a whole lot you can do about it - Maybe vote the fools out but by the time that happens, “THEY” are so far entrenched that ‘they ain’t going nowhere’.

The GOVT gets more intrusive...go back to the DC BUSHWACKERS, when ‘they’ stopped all lanes of a Major Highway and went car to car, In Boston they were withing an “RCH” of declaring martial law - some probably thought they were under siege anyway, and recently the MD State and Montgomery County Police did a car to car on another Major Highway in order to try and get a couple of bank robbers.

When will ‘they’ take it upon themselves to STOP EVERY CAR AND SEARCH FOR WEAPONS?

[MarMema]

http://wtvr.com/2013/07/08/viral-video-of-police-stop-has-drivers-thinking-about-rights/

[celmak]

Here, here!

[sodpoodle]

Before statehood was granted, the land was occupied by settlers who had squatters’ rights. Why would statehood be necessary if the US already had jurisdiction and ownership???

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/statehoodproc.htm

The Typical Process
Historically, Congress has applied the following general procedure when granting territories statehood:
•The territory holds a referendum vote to determine the people’s desire for or against statehood.

•Should a majority vote to seek statehood, the territory petitions the U.S. Congress for statehood.

•The territory, if it has not already done so, is required to adopt a form of government and constitution that are in compliance with the U.S. Constitution.

•The U.S. Congress - both House and Senate - pass, by a simple majority vote, a joint resolution accepting the territory as a state.

[sodpoodle]

http://www.50states.com/statehood.htm#.U02L9VLjidI

[Elsie]

The federal government, which owns RULES more than 80 percent of Nevada land, including the land on which the Bundy family had settled, threatened to put him out to pasture.

We citizens (subjects?) 'own' it and LET the gummint run it!

[Elsie]

The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) – nearly 30% of its total territory. These federal lands are used as military bases or testing grounds, nature parks and reserves and indian reservations, or are leased to the private sector for commercial exploitation (e.g. forestry, mining, agriculture).

WHAT???

A vast majority of these are SOVERIGN nations!

[Fledermaus]

Shove it Saunders, you became irrelavent years ago.

It’s funny listening to idiots like this who would be counted among the loyalist if this was 1774-1776.

[Elsie]

Mr. Bundy doesn't actually have a right to graze his cattle for free on our land.

Hello!

From what I've read, Bundy had paid NEVADA for years what they determined was fair.

When the FEDs decided that THAT wanted the money; he stated he had NO contract with them, but with NEVADA.

NEVADA refused to take his money.

So here we are today.

[Elsie]

That’s how I’ve heard it!

[Fledermaus]

While there is probably no direct nexus between the solar power project and the Bundy’s problems

In politics there are no coincidences.

[Elsie]

How did that happen?

Uh...

Not many people moved there and tried to buy it from the gummint in the early days??

And now the gummint don't wanna sell any of it?

[Elsie]

“...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...,”

Declaration of Independence

-- Thomas Jefferson