Posted on 04/10/2014 11:32:07 AM PDT by xzins
If the owner is ‘us,’ has he been sending you a dividend on the money he saved by grazing his cattle for free on ‘our’ land? Or some steaks?
Just a reminder, the federal government does not have rights - it has powers.
He never owed any fees!
The imposition of fees was unlawful.
I hope they impose fees to your toilet seat next.
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Somebody wants him off that land, and it's costing us a bunch of money to do it for no good reason that I can see.
That's not the way the daughter explains it, nor the way he explained it on TV last night.
So, there are 2 sides to this story, and today the Nevada Governor slammed the Fed and not Bundy.
We don’t need no stinking reasons...
Dollars to donuts that Reid ends up with his ranch after he is either killed and his family bankrupted and imprisoned or he is imprisoned along with his family.
Then why did he pay them?
Let me understand your logic, so the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave all this land to US Government and anyone on the land can be removed? So for all of California and Texas the people need to leave?
Can be but the Constitution does not require it to be. And since it is not ... the full powers of the enumerated Congressional legislative authority apply.
Adverse possession? That’d be an interesting argument.
The BLM stopped taking proper care of the land. The rancher maintained the land for ‘x’ number of years at his expense - therefore he claims it as his own.
It might actually be worth a try, depending upon the length of time stipulated I Nevada law before such a claim to be made. And assuming, of course, that he really did pay for all maintenance and improvements on the land.
And I haven’t been sending him a check for when I walk in the parks, either....free of charge. They eat the grass; I trample the grass AND fish in the waters with a STATE fishing license. I didn’t send him any smoked trout.
We the people...own the land. There is nothing in the Constitution that gives the Federal government authority to own vast tracts of land.
The 10th amendment then, gives it to the states or to the people.
The Fed’s out of control, Lou. I’m sure you realize that.
“NO WAY would our people or Eric Holder’s justice department EVER let the NSA get away with a scandal or something bad against this country.”
Live in a fantasy world much? Really? Eric Holder? You put much faith in such? Bet the next thing will be that you think Lerner is being set up. Naw, they aint doing anything wrong now are they?
>> “Look, the guy, by the law, has been trespassing. It was never his land” <<
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Your ignorance is impressive.
I didn’t resort to any name calling. None. Why are you resorting to lying?
I do not think you can get a prescriptive easement against the federal gov’t because easements are an issue of state law and therefore cannot override federal law.
Further, his payment for grazing in the past indicates that he acknowledges that the land is not his.
Fear, plain and simple.
Same stupid reason that we obey their unconstitutional gun laws.
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Once he stopped paying he gave up his “rights”. Sounds like the Feds bent over backwards on this one.
Well, you can’t pay them and then not pay them.
It’s time for Mr Bundy to come out of the closet and declare he is a proud gay man. That will screech everything to a halt.
>> “There is nothing in the Constitution that gives the Federal government authority to own vast tracts of land.” <<
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True, in fact, they are forbidden to own any land but the reservations that were specified.
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