Posted on 10/23/2014 5:30:28 AM PDT by george76
Public Enemy No. 1 for rural Utah sheriffs just happens to be a fellow peace officer: Dan Love, the Bureau of Land Management’s special agent in charge.
Elected law enforcement officers from Nephi to Blanding call him an arrogant and dishonest bully who has little regard for local authority and dodges accountability, derailing a collaborative approach to police work on the state’s federal lands.
Love reportedly just laughed when Garfield County Sheriff James "Danny" Perkins relayed ranchers’ complaints about federal officers removing plastic feed tubs from the range and threatening the ranchers with litter citations.
He drew early controversy during an undercover probe of artifacts trafficking in Blanding in 2009. More recently, Love led the BLM’s aborted roundup of Cliven Bundy’s cattle following an armed standoff with anti-government protesters at the Utah-Nevada border.
While tensions with federal authority are hardly new to Utah, local officials say friction has intensified with Love at the helm of BLM law enforcement in Utah and Nevada.
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This refusal to coordinate, coupled with a lack of any meaningful oversight, has created a perfect environment where the abuse of federal law enforcement powers can occur," Perkins recently testified before a congressional committee.
For example, Perkins and San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge say, rangers pull over citizens without probable cause, even in areas where they have no jurisdiction, "bully" ranch hands, berate tourists for parking vehicles off dirt roads and illegally close roads. Federal officers refuse to help with searches and rescues, or when they do, they get in the way
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Challenge federal “authority” at every level whenever, feds are trying to extend their authority in whatever way they can
I think that a thorough application of tar and feathers would help the situation.
Bureau of Land Management special-agent-in-charge Dan Love will likely take a definitive step over the illegal line when Utah law enforcement is present and will be taken down hard.
It is a tough row to hoe but placing in statute at the state level, felony charges, for federal officers overstepping their authority, giving local sheriff’s and authorities the means to go after them and incentivizing their cooperation, instead of what in many cases is present federal policy.
I consider them the enemy.
They were the enemy even BEFORE the Bundy Ranch fiasco and the sequester wherein they harrasesd and terrorized people out in the wilderness.
If I see a BLM vehicle in the middle of nowhere stuck in a ditch I am not giving him a tow. He can walk.
This sounds like a character straight out of one of Matt’s (Travis McGee’s) books.
A Federal Judge has ruled that the family of Dr. James Redd may pursue allegations that a federal law enforcement agent used excessive force during the 2009 antiquities raids in Blanding.
Daniel Love, a law enforcement agent for the Bureau of Land Management, conducted the investigation and the raids.
... there is no evidence at all that Dr. Redd or anyone at his home resisted arrest in any way during the execution of the warrant. At a minimum, it was unreasonable on the facts alleged in the Complaint for Agent Love to call more agents to Dr. Redd’s home after he and his family were already sequestered, and posed no danger to anyone.
“Viewing Dr. Redd’s alleged facts as true… the court must conclude that he has sufficiently alleged facts that support a claim against Agent Love for violation of his Fourth Amendment protection from the use of excessive force
Then he could leave Utah where he is now a very polarizing figure.
Hopefully, wherever this Fed tyrant lives, his neighbors shun him and his family. Anyone have a picture of him?
Sheriff Danny - arrest agent Love and keep him in the cooler for a while.
Oh it’s gonna be just hilarious when Love’s arrogant pride gets the best of him and he finds himself surrounded by squads of citizens & sheriffs upholding the law.
Mark: 4:30.
And that's what each western state needs to do: take them down. One at a time, two at a time, I don't care. But each western state needs to start pushing its legal sovereignty over the fed boots on the ground.
Hopefully, a small start :
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby declined to toss out an excessive force claim stemming from the use of 80 to 140 federal agents, some heavily armed, to raid James D. Redd’s home in June 2009.
a valid claim Redd’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated .. Jeanne H. Redd filed the lawsuit against agents with the Bureau of Land Management and
2/3 of Utah is Fed owned land, for no good reason. The state is beginning the effort to take custody. Tensions are building by a couple of milligrams each day, with this Fed agent providing the fuel.
I think a few federal agents that “just disappear” would be a good thing too....and sends a message to the rest.
This is nothing new. The ultimate goal of the BLM is to keep everyone off the land. Its the Agenda 21 crap.
Mr. GG2 is originally from the West. He has told me about his many run ins with the BLM in the past. He had a ranger accost him in the woods once and try to tell him he could not go on his mining claim and that this was his land and he could do whatever he wanted. Mr. GG2 just happened to be with his attorney at the time who set the guy straight.
A BLM guy rode up on a horse once when Mr. GG2 and his hunting buddies were on a legal elk hunt with their hunting licenses. he tried to tell them they could not hunt there and the guy went nuts and was going to pull a gun on 4 armed hunters. They had to disarm him and tell him to get lost and he could pick up his gun at the sheriff’s office later.
The goal is to completely stop hunting and not let anyone on the public land. This has been going on a long time and Bush 41 and 43 didn’t stop it and no other GOP President has stopped it. Eventually its going to ignite a war.
States have rights. Feds only have enumerated powers. They need to be reminded of that.
I agree. Personally I think the governors of these western states need to be threatening to kick the BLM out of the state for this kind of activity. I guess Utah is pretty sensitive anyway as a majority of their land is federal land. The govt just keeps taking more land in Utah and nationalizing it.
Local sheriff’s have more authority than the BLM anyway.
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