Federal agents spend huge amounts of time and money to pursue trade in trinkets.
Result:
Three suicides, including town's only doctor, whose home is raided by 160 armed agents.
Numerous families destroyed.
No one goes to prison.
Agent in charge gets plum job as reward.
And isn’t the agent the same one still making waves? Wasn’t he the Bundy raid guy?
We live in Wyoming and when neighbors in these parts come across a site the buldozers usually come out right away to destroy it all just to avoid problems like getting kicked off your own land. It’s ironic that these laws that are supposed to protect old things are causing their destruction.
I remember seeing a story about a guy who was finding dinosaur bones. He was eventually charged with felonies.
The assumption is that the government owns everything. Touching anything is a crime.
I think we need to shut down some of these agencies altogether.
Seriously, I’m looking for the politician who is willing to shut down BLM.
They have outlived their reason for being. Federal lands need to be divided up and handed off to the states. If they want to employ former BLM people to manage their lands, thats their business.
archaeological sites = 1,000 year old trash heaps
Prima facie evidence of a government gone berserk.
“... Congress made it a felony to take ancient items worth more than $500 from public or Indian land.”
So, price them below the threshold.
“Gardiner was from a prominent Mormon family...”
Well, Mormons believe they are descendants of native tribes. So, aren’t they really picking up family trinkets and entitled to do what they want with family property?
When I lived in the 4-Corners area almost all people had a few shards and clay bowls found around the Animas, La Plata and San Juan rivers. Some of the gas well platforms had so many shards around them you lost interest as there were so many.
Last time I visited, the shards were all gone.
FedGov is not on our side. The sooner people learn that, the better.
This surprisingly well-written story from the LA Times underlines why conservatives must, ABSOLUTELY MUST, elect a pro-2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff in their counties.
In its most simple terms, leftist Washington DC armed fascists must be met by armed sheriffs and their armed deputies and volunteers.