Posted on 04/11/2014 6:05:57 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Groups from as far away as New Hampshire are riding out to Nevada to join the cattle rancher whose standoff with the federal government is growing tenser by the day.
The groups said they were going to the ranch, some 80 miles north of Las Vegas to stand with Cliven Bundy, who property is surrounded by federal agents. Bundy's herd, which once numbered nearly 1,000, is being thinned out by private contractors under the watch of dozens of armed federal agents in SUVs and helicopters, the government says, he has refused for two decades to pay fees to allow the cattle to graze on federal lands.
“Our mission here is to protect the protestors and the American citizens from the violence that the federal government is dishing out,” Jim Landy, a member of the West Mountain Rangers, who made the journey from Montana to Nevada, told Fox News Channel. “People here are scared.”
Bundy's family called for support this week after some incidents of violence between the family and protestors with law-enforcement. Bundy’s son was shot with a stun gun on Wednesday and his sister, Margaret Houston was pushed to the ground in incidents caught on video. The protests began to grow last week, after agents from the federal Bureau of Land Management shut off access to a large swath of federal land to round up Bundy’s cattle.
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Not that I would partake, but it is enzyme, and protein heavy...sautéed with fried potatos?
Heard an interesting comment from a BLM spokesperson tonight.
IT’S THE LAW OF THE LAND
Government is eager to protect a turtle but not and unborn human. that tells you where we are headed.
They’re trying to sell them, if they haven’t driven them to death or abandoned the calves. In calving season.
Problem is that the fedcoats are now rustlers. They need Bundy’s signature to legally sell the cattle. Governors have INTERVENED.
Nothing to do with tortoises and everything to do with property rights. The head of the BLM (Reid’s former senior aid) is bringing this to a head after 20 years of back and forth.
There is nothing the Feds would like better than for one of the militia types to threaten or open fire. I have mixed thoughts. There isn’t any doubt that the Feds are pushing this at this time for political reasons. They can’t have the next election on Obamacare so they’re going for something bigger.
The individual LEOs are, for the most part just doing their jobs. The ranchers in Nevada who I know will support Bundy 100%. They know the nazi BLM.
We can’t take this crap much longer. Our rights and freedom are being regulated and PCed away.
It’s gonna be tough selling them. Finding a livestock auction house that will go along with this scheme is going to be a tough hunt.
You are very correct sir. Although the cows eat the grass they also fertilize the grass for other plants to grow. The kind of plants that that damn desert turtle eats. So long as the land is not overgrazed the cows are the turtles best friend.
In far West Texas when I was a kid I would hunt out on the desert. Occasionally I would run across a desert turtle. I always puzzled how they survived. Only many years later as an adult I found out they get all their water from plants they eat. A properly managed desert range with cattle is that turtles friend.
I also lived in South Louisiana. Logger head turtles will go 100 lbs plus. They are a nasty bit of work, but turtle soup is divine.
This is what Obama wants so he can use his State Of Emergency Executive Order
That whole situation is insane.
I am planning a massive celebration party for when the hussein obama regime comes to an end.
The first "job" of any LEO is their oath which is to protect and defend the Constitution. A job that a very large majority of them are not doing.
“Lueders said she understood that the heavy equipment was being used to “restore land that has been affected by the trespass cattle.”
The Bundy family has expressed concerns that the cattle are being mistreated. Stetsy Bundy Cox, Cliven Bundy’s daughter, told the Washington Free Beacon that she believes calves are being left behind.
“I watched them gather a herd off the river with helicopters, and they had rounded them for miles and by the time I saw them they were pushing them up the wash,” she said. “Most of them were mamas with babies because it’s calving season, and they’re just little. And I watched the calves, they couldn’t keep up very good and they kept slowing down and the helicopter would swoop down and you could hear them honking at them. And he kept swooping down and honking at them.”
Cox said that calves will hide under brush, and it is likely that employees removing the cattle would not see them.
“I also know my dad’s cows, because a few of those cows out there are my own personal cows,” she said. “When you push them too hard, or if you rope them they sulk. They’re kind of stubborn. And if they don’t want to go they’ll sulk. And if they get down and sulk they’ll sulk so long they won’t even get up, they’ll just die. So if you stress those cows out too much, they’ll do that.”
“Do I think they are leaving baby calves out there? I do,” Cox said. “Do I think that cows are dying? I do.”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/blm-wont-say-if-theyve-euthanized-cows-in-ranch-standoff/
Check this out
http://www.blm.gov/ntc/st/en/broadcasts/planning_nepa_forum4.html
Are BLM satellite broadcasts to ‘employees & stakeholders’ subject to FOIA retention rules?
More on BLM’s National Training Center archive on their ‘mitigation’
http://www.ntc.blm.gov/krc/viewresource.php?courseID=704
I guess they do archive it (while it remains there).
I’d like to know who the ‘stakeholders’ are...
Why does Bureau of Land Management have "agents?"
and another
“Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone”
http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/wo/blm_library/tech_notes.Par.29872.File.dat/TN_444.pdf
They would really thrive in Washington.
“It’s gonna be tough selling them. Finding a livestock auction house that will go along with this scheme is going to be a tough hunt”
Yeh, so far the BLM is SOL. Utah told them to take a hike and the auctioeer in CO refused to take them. He said it would put him out of business. I doubt they will find an auction. Likely just start killing the cattle. Pretty sickening.
You do know there's a good chance we won't be seeing this in our lifetimes?
Yes we will.
...or array considerable firepower against a rancher over thousands of acres of empty, arid land suitable only for sparse cattle grazing rather than against an assault at one its own embassies.
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