Feds preparing to charge Bundy ranch supporters over Utah protest

RT.com ^ | May 14, 2014 21:12pm | Staff

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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.

[tumblindice]

I seem to recall that about a month ago the cattle-shooting BLM mercs, in their haste to beat a hasty retreat (once they discovered they were outgunned), ran over a `nest’ of their own protected feral turtles with a feral truck.
Yertle the turtle, RIP.
Won’t anyone think of the turtles?
Don’t laws apply to them?
Finally, did you notice from the article that the orders to execute came from the WH?

Also, didja notice in the thread immed. above (`Bundy assembling legal team’) in the article referenced by Ben Ficklin, post #3—the orders to execute on Bundy’s ranch came from the WH itself?
Yet another scandal in which another low-level underling close to retirement will take early retirement, after receiving assurance that his/her pension is safe, along with a fat under-the-table payment.
Because Uncle Sugar is loaded, donchaknow?

[tumblindice]

Oops, sorry Ben! Here you go:
“Also, didja notice in the thread immed. above (`Bundy assembling legal team’) in the article referenced by Ben Ficklin, post #3 ...”

[tet68]

undercover BLM agents

To me that is the scary part.
undercover agents or provacateurs?

[The_Media_never_lie]

#23: probably had both bases covered.

[onedoug]

Tenth Amendment bump....

Me too.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Ditto.

[4Runner]

So what the heck happened to the militia demonstration that was supposed to materialize in DC on Saturday under the leadership of that Colonel? They were talking about a million or more presence. The last article I saw on it was sometime Friday. Since Saturday morning the story seems to have disappeared from the internet. I haven’t been able to find any references to it anywhere. What gives? Anyone know?

[4Runner]

Okay. I found a thread on FR the thing was a bust. No one showed. Possibly a false flag event.

Some responses:

To: redgolum

False flag operation?

We were wondering the same thing this morning. Nobody heard of it until a day or two ago.

The fellow on Savage yesterday just sounded like the stereotype the left has for a Tea Party’er...a retarded, drawling hick.

18 posted on 5/16/2014, 1:42:27 PM by x1stcav (”The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
It was designed to fail from the start for the purpose of demoralizing the Tea Party movement ahead of elections.

Yeah that was my gut feeling as well.
19 posted on 5/16/2014, 1:43:05 PM by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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[B4Ranch]

Do you actually expect unbiased media from a Russian ragtag ?

[blueplum]

I think if you compare the two articles, RT versus Reuters, the RT article very similar, but a bit more informative than the Reuters article, which is why I linked both and made the RT article prominent. For instance, Reuters did not disclose that the closure of ReCapture was a ‘supervisor’ level decision - that is, arbitrary.

The envirowackos stated pretty weak arguments for limiting access to Recapture, just like their arguments for the Bundy turtle were proven weak and unfounded. Part of the issue with the Bundy ranch was some group giving the BLM large money to “protect” a willow flycatcher bird and refusing to turn the money over until Bundy’s cattle were gone. We’ve demonstrated at least in discussion that cattle don’t hurt turtles or birds.

Now the main enviro concerns about Recapture have been voiced in print, we go to work to defeat those arguments and offer a solution doable for both sides. We carry that policy through to any BLM land we’re trying to free access up to, regardless of where that BLM land is situated. If the enviros balk at common sense, logical planning of free access to a majority of public land, they hand us the tools we need to publically marginalize them as the real fools and by proxy the wacko BLM that serves fools and not the People. We expose the arbitrary ‘supervisor’ decisions that keeps the public and the county off their own roads. We use their own tactics against them to gain public support. We beat the drum, even if we have to utilize sources such as RT.