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Militias head to Nevada rancher’s standoff with feds: We’re not ‘afraid to shoot’
Washington Times ^ | April 11, 2014

Posted on 04/11/2014 11:23:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s decades-long battle against the federal government over grazing rights has heated to the point where militia groups have joined in and taken up spots against the feds who’ve circled his land — and talk is, they’re not afraid to open fire.

A spokesman for the one of the militia groups said as much to local 8 News Now: I’m not “afraid to shoot,” he said.

Margaret Houston, Mr. Bundy’s sister and a cancer survivor, said at a town hall gathering this week that the situation “was like a war zone” and that she felt “like I was not in the United States,” The Daily Mail reported. The Las Vegas Review-Journal described it this way: “Serious bloodshed was narrowly avoided,” in a story about how dogs were unleashed on a woman who was pregnant while the rancher’s son was hit with a taser.

On Tuesday, armed Bureau of Land Management agents stormed Mr. Bundy’s property, escalating a court dispute that’s wound for two decades over the rancher’s refusal to pay for grazing fees.

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Now militia groups are on the scene, promising to help the Bundys keep up the fight.

“This is what we do, we provide armed response,” Jim Lordy, with Operation Mutual Aid, told the local broadcast station. “They have guns. We need guns to protect ourselves from the tyrannical government.”

Mr. Lordy also said “many more” militia groups are coming to the site to join in the Bundy family defense.

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To: Jim Robinson

Jim, This is a disgrace, and it’s not going to end well unless the BLM leaves the area, which they are not likely to do. Texans always talk about how they are stalwarts of the Republic, well my wife’s family were farmers in Northern Nevada and Texas has nothing on Nevada ranchers! The larger issue here is the fact that the Federal Government “owns” 85% of Nevada (and nearly half of California for that matter). That needs to be changed.


21 posted on 04/11/2014 11:38:23 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: mountainlion

Why has Obama created this crisis? What is he doing that he wants to divert attention away form?

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Look at Harry Reid first, the sockpuppet not so much. The current BLM fuhrer is a kid protege of Harry Reid and has some roots in this area.


22 posted on 04/11/2014 11:39:14 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: Mr Rogers

I’d expect a lot of other disgruntled ranchers then...


23 posted on 04/11/2014 11:39:18 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Maybe it's time to start pushing back or even pass time.
24 posted on 04/11/2014 11:40:06 AM PDT by The Cajun (tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: beelzepug
I suspect the BLM will shoot one of their own to get the ball rolling.
25 posted on 04/11/2014 11:40:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
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To: Jim Robinson
I ask you, Father in Heaven, to calm the souls of all your children in NV, so that a peaceful outcome may be achieved. In Jesus name I pray, amen.

5.56mm

26 posted on 04/11/2014 11:41:23 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Mr Rogers
The federal government has a reputation for forcing violent confrontations where it later turned out that things weren't so clear cut.

Ruby Ridge, and the government settlement of millions to Weaver jumps to mind. Weaver was a 'nut-job' according to the government and media.

Whatever the situation, the government needs to de-escalate the situation to ensure violence doesn't occur.

/johnny

27 posted on 04/11/2014 11:41:43 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: GeronL

That’s not what it says.

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.


28 posted on 04/11/2014 11:41:55 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Jim Robinson

The gov of NV ought to send out the state police and arrest the BLM hoods.


29 posted on 04/11/2014 11:41:59 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’ll attempt to either provoke a response or fake a response, kill everyone that can testify against them, hide all the evidence, and blame the protesters for being massacred.


30 posted on 04/11/2014 11:42:02 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: M Kehoe
Amen.

/johnny

32 posted on 04/11/2014 11:43:20 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: demshateGod

“Be a little more specific. What kind of land does the constitution say the feds can own?”

Given that the ratifying states then handed over large swathes of land to the US government, I’d have to say the original intent allowed the US government to own large swathes of land:

“Federal land ownership began when the original 13 states ceded title to more than 40% of their “western” lands (237 million acres between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River) to the central government between 1781 and 1802. Federal land acquisition from foreign countries began with the Louisiana Purchase (530 million acres) in 1803 and continued via treaties with Great Britain and Spain (76 million acres) in 1817 and 1819, respectively. Other substantial acquisitions (620 million acres), via purchases and treaties, occurred between 1846 and 1853. The last major North American land acquisition by the U.S. federal government was the purchase of Alaska (378 million acres) in 1867.”

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/crsreports/crsdocuments/RL34267_12032007.pdf

Are folks suggesting we need to give Alaska back to the Russians? Or revoke the Louisiana Purchase in 1803?


33 posted on 04/11/2014 11:43:35 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I sooooo miss America!)
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To: Mr Rogers
This is NOT the place for conservatives to rally!

It never is. I don't blame him for not thinking of himself as a US Citizen. I feel the same way most days.
34 posted on 04/11/2014 11:44:53 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Mr Rogers

Meanwhile, our government turns unelected, unaccountable, unconstitutional bureaucrats into unconstitutional military-like armed police forces to conduct war against we the people. Under Marxist/fascist leaders like Obama, America is fast becoming a fascist police state.

If the bureaucrats at the BLM can get a valid eviction order from the court, then they should get the county sheriff to serve it.


35 posted on 04/11/2014 11:45:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: MrB

They’ll attempt to either provoke a response or fake a response, kill everyone that can testify against them, hide all the evidence, and blame the protesters for being massacred.

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I think they will confiscate or destroy more cattle, threaten Bundy with further action, call it a win and then leave. Everyone will go home. Things will go quiet. Then some dark night fedgov assassins masquerading as “law” enforcement will disable local communications and wipe the man and his family out.


36 posted on 04/11/2014 11:45:50 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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Would a county sheriff serve a Federal eviction... maybe it would save face for this fellow.


37 posted on 04/11/2014 11:46:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Amendment10

Ping.


38 posted on 04/11/2014 11:46:18 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Mr Rogers; JRandomFreeper
The guy is a nutjob who believes US law doesn’t apply to him.

What do you call those running the fedgov who ignore laws on a wholesale basis, as matter of routine, all while rewarding millions of illegal alien trespassers who break our laws?

They have zero respect for our laws and rules and they don't think US law applies to them.

How come you're so excited about this one guy and his cows in Nevada?

39 posted on 04/11/2014 11:46:52 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Mr Rogers

What’s the BLM so upset about? I’ve never heard of a cow eating turtles much less endangered ones.

Heard on Glenn Beck radio show that the rancher owes 1.1 million in fees, but it costs the government over 3 million to remove the cattle.


40 posted on 04/11/2014 11:47:30 AM PDT by A'elian' nation ("Political Correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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