Posted on 05/18/2014 2:29:20 AM PDT by blueplum
Federal officials have opened up an investigation into whether or not Cliven Bundy supporters damaged a protected archaeological site when they rode all-terrain vehicles through it during a weekend protest. On Saturday, hundreds of protesters gathered near southern Utah’s Recapture Canyon, voicing their opposition to the fact that the area has been closed to recreational vehicles by the Bureau of Land Management since 2007.
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As RT reported previously, the BLM had barred motorized vehicles from Recapture Canyon after it discovered an illegal trail that was built through Native American archaeological sites – home to artifacts, dwellings and other objects left behind by the ancient Pueblo tribe that were as old as 2,000 years.
According to Reuters, local sheriff’s deputies and undercover BLM agents kept an eye on the protest as it unfolded, gathering information for a probe that could lead to charges if damages are confirmed.
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For protesters, however, sealing off the park to motorized vehicles was yet another example of government “overreach” regarding public land. The man behind the protest – San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman – criticized the BLM not only for closing off Recapture Canyon, but also for not processing “right of way” requests that would’ve allowed vehicles to re-enter the area.
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"We’re not proponents of breaking the law," he said on Saturday. "This was a supervisor’s discretionary closure. It’s a county road. We claim it. Just because BLM owns the property, that doesn’t mean they own the right-of-way that exists."
Although Lyman – who said he orchestrated the protest as private citizen – expressed concern over the possibility that charges may be levied, it remains unclear if such a development will occur. He added that when he visited the site of the protest again on Sunday there was no damage noticeable.
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I had to chuckle at Shelley Silbert, of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness Group: "It's not appropriate to ...go into the canyons with weapons." I suspect that's one "old broad" who's never encountered a rattlesnake or mountain cat or desperado out in the "wilderness" she's self-appointed herself an expert on.
link to mentioned Reuters article is here http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/13/us-usa-utah-showdown-idUSBREA4C10U20140513
Jury nullification - probability at least 99%, and BLM/Reid/Obama have to know it. They are somewhere on the spectrum between stupid and evil, but even they cannot be that stupid.
How about another guntoting ride? huh? Like that feds?
Charges should against the BLM for destruction of both govt and private property. Not to mention the bodily harm they caused.
“There’s an ATV in the park! Oh, noooooooo...”
The Obama government insists on embarrassing itself.
Ried is using the constitution and government power to prosecute American citizens while his son makes criminal dealings with China and OUR land.
How about arresting the illegals who are protesting for the “Dream Act”? Legal citizens have no right to protest on federal lands?
How about arresting the illegals who are protesting for the “Dream Act”? Legal citizens have no right to protest on federal lands?
Only the ‘old broads’
get to trapse thru canyons unfettered,
little excavation brushes
and laminated ID cards in hand.
Protected by the army of the BLM
While law enforcement at the border
And Armed Forces overseas
are warned
not to fire a single round
but to put up a fence instead.
Reid just trying to punish those pesky militia members for making him lose out on millions on the sale of the land to the Chinese.
I approve.
Do they Federal Prosecutors think they can get 12 of Cockroach Reid’s SEIU cronies on a jury? That is the only way they will get a conviction.
They are just begging for a fight. Some people think Obama wants to cancel the 2016 election by declaring martial law. I would be surprised if he looks for a way. To cancel the mid-term election.
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Before they wire up this investigation, haul the National Park Service into federal court for destroying parts of Effigy Mounds in NE Iowa.
When the feral feds aren’t ignoring and breaking laws themselves they are abusing and misapplying them to persecute citizens.
Instead of representing and serving the citizenry, our federal government has become a killer parasite, sucking the lifeblood from the nation.
“Protection” racket.
Reid is using the constitution and government power to prosecute American citizens...-ronnie raygunWhose constitution? Can't be ours because the first amendment clearly states:
“Congress shall make no law... abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”via: Heritage.org Link
So let’s say for the sake of argument that this had ben a protest for gay rights and along with four wheeler tracks they left tons of litter and defecated on a couple of BLM vehicles. Would we be talking about filing charges. Oh wait that happened in New York by the anti wall street thugs!!!
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