Posted on 04/11/2014 11:23:22 AM PDT by george76
They’re almost like a hired gun’. Armed Rangers were brought in from out of state by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to assist in security surrounding the Bundy Ranch, according to the family.
A heated confrontation on Wednesday resulted in Cliven Bundy’s son Ammon being tasered by BLM officials and a 57-year-old protester being shoved to the ground.
Stetsy Bundy Cox, Cliven’s daughter, told the Washington Free Beacon that some of the rangers had Oregon and California license plates.
“You know, some of these guys don’t even know why they’re here,” she said. “A few people have talked to them and they got called in here on an emergency feed and they didn’t know what it was for, it just said they had to be here.”
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Cox said she spoke with an out-of-state Ranger who was ashamed of his job.
“I actually went and talked to one, he was in the back, nobody was even talking to him. He didn’t say much,” she said. “He had a huge big gun on him, but he didn’t really even touch his gun.”
“I asked him, ‘What are you doing? Do you know what you’re doing? You’re stealing an old man’s cattle, his livelihood. He’s a poor man that doesn’t have anything,’”
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As of Wednesday, 352 cattle have been removed from the public land ranched by the Bundy family for more than a century. An estimated 200 armed officials have surrounded the ranch
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Try the decaf.
Wonder what plates the Blackwater guys’ cars have on them...
C’mon, tomkat, I’m an old man tryin ta take a nap an you keep batin at me with yer dang paws over minutia!!! Maybe you could use a kat nap yerself. Peace on ya!
Desert tortoise faces threat from its own refuge August 25, 2013Back at the conservation center, a large refrigerator labeled "carcass freezer" hummed in the desert sun as scientists examined the facility's 1,400 inhabitants to find those hearty enough to release into the wild. Officials expect to euthanize more than half the animals in the coming months in preparation for closure at the end of 2014.
More glaring proof that the FedMob is incapable of managing lands or wildlife.
That's an understatement at best.
This is calving season and there is no accounting for the calves that have been born and separated from their mothers and those who are yet to be born from the overstressed and driven mothers who will likely die.......
This is a travesty of so called justice!
I can't believe the number of so called conservative FReepers who are supporting the government's attack on Mr. Bundy........
I saw the same thing 30 years ago in an effort to cause problems for a particular type business out of staters with no connection to the locals were imported. U.S. has been this type of thing for a long time.
Thanks for the links
Thanks so much for the ping!
The Governor should have announced that he has given orders to the State Police and Sheriff’s departments to arrest any armed Federal agent - better yet, ANY Federal agent until this is all sorted out.
Flex a little of that 10th Amendment power (or what little of it remains).
Granted the first few minutes of a fight would look like Tianamen square but after the first few shots & word spread about what had happened it would turn into Custer’s Last Stand with the BLM playing the part of the 7th Cavalry.
Also it wouldn’t stay a Nevada incident as it involved federal agents & lots of dead bodies, there would be investigations cover-ups & politicians sweet heart deals exposed but the guilty in high places being allowed to escape the “Justice System” . What would result is a dirty little war .
I’m not sure, but is that a mushroom cloud in the background? Yeah, that must be the emergency.
Good points and it reminded me of thoughts I had when it looked like the feds were going after the Minutemen Project on the border.
You did not have to be there -- there were plenty of opportunities around Anytown, America to express your opinion.
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