Posted on 04/14/2014 8:14:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
This is the power of social media. This is the power of personal video cameras. This is the power of citizen journalists. And the next time Senator Feinstein calls for “licencing” only “legitimate journalists,” that the 1st Amendment only extends to people who work at the New York Times, Washington Post, or MSNBC, remember this moment. This is how the bullies with the power, the cronies and their allies, are turned back.
Dianne Feinstein First Amendment Is A Special Privilege
This is not about a rancher owing the Bureau of Land Management money. This is about a federal government which just assumed control of public land years ago (not government land like military bases or federal courthouses – though the taxpayers do pay for these too) changing the rules and telling citizens to lump it. It’s about a central authorities passing regulations in Washington with little regard, indeed contempt for the little guy out in flyover country.
Well the little guy stood up this time and other little guys came to his aid. This is how it’s done. Film it. Share it. Get the word out.
And always remember your 1st Amendment right. It is the 1st Amendment for a reason.
(From ABC News)However, today the BLM said it would not enforce a court order to remove the cattle and was pulling out of the area.
“Based on information about conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public,” BLM Director Neil Kornze said.
“We ask that all parties in the area remain peaceful and law-abiding as the Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service work to end the operation in an orderly manner,” he said.
The roundup began April 5, following lengthy court proceedings dating back to 1993, federal officials said. Federal officers began impounding the first lot of cows last weekend, and Bundy responded by inviting supporters onto his land to protest the action.
“It’s not about cows, it’s about freedom,”
the link to people to call is on the same page as paypal to Bundy.
Reid is perfectly happy to take both their money. Their aims are not in conflict. Solar companies don’t give a rat’s patootie about the cows or the tortoises, and the Enviros are perfectly happy to trade some desert over in that spot for total control and absence of man in this spot.
Earth worshiping death cult types don’t approve of cows, independent living or meat eating in general. Anytime they can screw that up, they will. What do you want to bet that the executives of these “non-governmental agencies” moonlight as conservation and mitigation consultants and soak up some of the mitigation money.
And there is a a solar company involved, just not a Chinese one. Although, if they revive that deal, they’ll designate the exact same land as off site mitigation and collect the fees for it, no problem.
They hate the idea of people other than themselves making a buck. For example, they hate logging, even if it helps the forest by thinning, because somebody's making money on it. It has nothing to do with eating meat. The environuts are wrong about the tortoises vs cattle, too, and playing on the ignorance of most people. They can and do coexist quite nicely. The tortoises love the partially digested food the cattle leave or them...
If the enviros cared about the Desert Tortoise, they would have thrown more of a fit when the government decided to kill them off by the hundreds (thousands?) when they shut down a preserve. They chose to kill them all rather than release the healthy ones. (Or did I screw this one up, too?)
Ahhhhh! Thank you so much for clarifying!
Although I pray to God I am wrong...
Anyone who thinks this is really over for the Bundy family is smoking wacky tobacky.
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