Texas rancher: How the federal government took my property - and didn't pay me one cent

On The Record ^ | 04/22/2014 | On The Record

[Rusty0604]

VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Now, why did BLM seize the land in 1984?

HENDERSON: Well, there was a court case in Oklahoma City. And we were in the Oklahoma courts. And the judge there gave it to the BLM, even though the attorney general -- U.S. Attorney General John Greene sided with us on the Texas side.

VAN SUSTEREN: What has BLM done with this -- to 140 acres since 1984?

HENDERSON: Well, in the beginning, they didn't really want it and they asked me to file a title for it and all of that and they would get back to me.

And all of the sudden here in the last six months, they have shown back up and they are talking about taking another 90,000 acres by using my court case as the precedent to seize the other land.

VAN SUSTEREN: Why do they want it? What are they doing with it?

HENDERSON: ... They won't talk to us or be straight with us as to what their plans are. They keep talking about taking.

VAN SUSTEREN: And they seized it without any compensation?

HENDERSON: Yes. I bought the land in 1979. As a matter of fact, I borrowed a portion of the money from Farmer's Home Administration,... And they came out and inspected the land and said it was all here, surveyed it, and forced me to buy a title policy. And when we lost it, they refused to pay, even though they said that they guaranteed the title to this place whenever I was buying it and so, I have continued to have to pay for this land or the federal government would seize everything else I had. I made my last payment this January on land that I lost in 1984 in a lawsuit.

[Free Vulcan]

I saw that, wish they would have elaborated more. I’m still not clear how the BLM was able to do this and why this is a federal and not a state issue. We have had the same issue here in Iowa with Missouri and Nebraska and at no point were the feds involved in it.

[OldNavyVet]

they came out and inspected the land and said it was all here, surveyed it, and forced me to buy a title policy.

The word "title" is defined is defined in my Webster's Dictionary as ... "7. Law ... c) a right to ownership esp of real estate d) evidence of such right of ownership e) a document stating such a right; deed

There's no way in Hell that Obama's sleezeball politicians, lawyers included, can seize this land without BIG TIME PAYING FOR IT.