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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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.
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.
I’d expect a lot of other disgruntled ranchers then...
5.56mm
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
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.
The gov of NV ought to send out the state police and arrest the BLM hoods.
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.
/johnny
“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?
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.
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.
Would a county sheriff serve a Federal eviction... maybe it would save face for this fellow.
Ping.
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?
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.
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