Posted on 04/11/2014 10:45:43 AM PDT by bimboeruption
A 20-year dispute between a Nevada rancher and federal rangers over illegal cattle grazing erupted into an Old West-style showdown on the open range this week, even prompting self-proclaimed members of militia groups from across the country to join the rancher in fighting what they say is U.S. "tyranny." What began as a legal fight between longtime rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has escalated as Bundy kept his cattle on the federal land, and the government has responded by beginning roundups of the livestock. A confrontation teetered on violence Wednesday when Bundy family members and dozens of supporters angrily confronted a group of rangers holding Tasers and barking dogs on leashes near Bunkerville, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. Federal officials say a police dog was kicked and officers were assaulted.
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We ought to call this thing “Occupy Nevada” or something.
Good idea!
is this one of the counties that allows prostitution?
cuz those cows need new jobs
I need a map to get me there from Sacramento.
Why is he doing that? The Supreme Court has already ruled that the local sheriff, being the highest elected law enforcement officer has jurisdiction over any and all other state and federal law enforcement.
This is his domain and he be acting accordingly.
I don’t know if this site is credible or the news is current, but the sheriff seems to be sitting this one out:
You can make up your own mind, but he seems to be a desk ornament.
You're exactly right! I just wish that for ONCE, a Republican governor would tell the feds and any fed judges to just pound sand! It is about time that a Republcan governor or so-called "conservative" would grow a pair of balls and issue an executive order of his own, nullifying any fed rulings against the state's constitutions or legislative laws.
In this particular case, Gov Sandoval should order his state police to disarm the fed BML agents and to escort them out of the state.
The Governors have lost their courage. I think they have allowed the Feds over time to make them believe they don’t have sovereign rights.
Our repulican GA governor Nathan “Raw” Deal would do nothing to protect us. If push comes to shove the citizens and the sheriff’s will have to take care of it and in GA it won’t be a problem.
Seems like this time we’re gonna see who has bigger tools.
I suspect BLM will wait until the citizen posse goes home and then they will come down on this family en masse, once and for all and be done with it.
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