Posted on 04/13/2014 6:22:58 AM PDT by libstripper
The Bureau of Land Management vowed Saturday that it would continue its legal fight to remove illegal cattle from a rural Nevada range after ending a tense weeklong standoff with a rancher and his supporters.
"After 20 years and multiple court orders to remove the trespass cattle, [rancher Cliven] Bundy owes the American taxpayers in excess of $1 million. The BLM will continue to work to resolve the matter administratively and judicially," a statement from the bureau said. "We ask that all parties in the area remain peaceful and law-abiding as the Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service work to end the operation in an orderly manner."
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If the sheriff had done his job and arrested the federal cattle ranchers there would have been no need to negotiate the return of this stolen property.
“Legal Action” now there is a unique concept for the Democrats?
Nevada is overrun with communists Democratrs and these jackasses have no idea who hurt their economy and damn near destroyed their casinos. Reid is the example of fools electing fools.
The BLM cancels his grazing leases and then says he owes them money! Corruption personified.
He is doing his job. He is the Sheriff of Clark County, elected by the voters of Las Vegas and controlled by the power brokers thereof including Harry Reid. They want the ranchers gone in order to get their water rights and the BLM is doing their bidding
Some congressman, any congressman, needs to insert a rider in a “must pass” appropriations bill that states that *all* federal land takings in Clark county, Nevada, are to be returned to their previous owners and their families, stripped of federal preserve designations, and that no federal lease of that land is valid. It is either owned by private families or the county itself.
While the Democrats would likely spot it and kill it, it would drive Harry Reid nuts, because he would know that the minute he is out of power, that resolution would be passed, and he and his bastard son would lose all their precious Chinese graft money.
If the Republicans pass it when they are in power, it should include a formal apology to the ranchers whose land was taken, as well as reparations to them for their loss from the takings.
HISTORICAL FACTUAL DEFINITION OF MILITIA
1837-8 “But what is meant of our militia? Why, when he spoke of them, he meant American citizens, accustomed to the use of arms; not in the camp or in the field, but American citizens accustomed to use THEIR ARMS, and to all that manual dexterity which could only be gained by long practice; not field maneouvering and marching, but a perfect knowledge of the rifle and the musket.
Such a use of the rifle that you could take the eye out of a squirrel on the highest tree.”
“Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”, Vol. 4, by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1837-8 pp168-180
1775 ”In the American war the distresses of the country were aggravated from the circumstance that every man was obliged some way or other to be in the public service. In Europe where military operations are carried on by armies hired and by paid for the purpose the common people partake but little of the calamities of war; but in America where the Whole people were enrolled as a militia”
“The History of the American Revolution”, Volume 2, - By David Ramsay, 1793, P.285
HISTORICAL FACTUAL DEFINITION OF MILITIA
1837-8 “But what is meant of our militia? Why, when he spoke of them, he meant American citizens, accustomed to the use of arms; not in the camp or in the field, but American citizens accustomed to use THEIR ARMS, and to all that manual dexterity which could only be gained by long practice; not field maneouvering and marching, but a perfect knowledge of the rifle and the musket.
Such a use of the rifle that you could take the eye out of a squirrel on the highest tree.”
“Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”, Vol. 4, by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1837-8 pp168-180
1775 ”In the American war the distresses of the country were aggravated from the circumstance that every man was obliged some way or other to be in the public service. In Europe where military operations are carried on by armies hired and by paid for the purpose the common people partake but little of the calamities of war; but in America where the Whole people were enrolled as a militia”
“The History of the American Revolution”, Volume 2, - By David Ramsay, 1793, P.285
Rustler Reid.
This was all bluff and was not a Federal court order. The courts enforcement arm is the U.S. Marshals Service. Not the BLM. Was Bundy served by a Marshal? Why wasn’t the Marshal Service in command and control?
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You raise a damn good point. What is the government's claim of ‘ownership’ based on? Where is the agreement between Nevada and the feds? Why did it take place? What are the names of the persons who entered into such an agreement? Did the people of the State of Nevada have a voice in the decision? Was consideration (money) provided to the State of Nevada for the land? Did Nevada retain a reversionary clause giving it the right to reclaim exclusive control of the property.?
We need congressional hearings. Which committee has oversight over BLM?
Nevada gave up the land when they became a state
http://www.c-span.org/video/?314028-1/federal-land-rights-nevada
Probably the House Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
Louis Gohmert is on that committee.
Good luck with the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining.
Supposedly that “deal” was canceled in 2013......but I haven’t seen that proof, only a quote from a Liberal.
I agree with your point on the need for “leadership”.
That said, America and Americans are ALWAYS slow to get riled and get organized and have leaders matriculate to the top.
On 911, the F16s nearby were unarmed and no one could get to the ammo on time but two pilots, one code named “lucky”, a female “improvised” , along with her male colonel superior, and jumped in the planes to go ram Flt 93. Kudos to the gal. She did her DUTY! Today she is a mother of two.
Between Concords first shots and Yorktown was something like 17 years. And, its a fact, more “Americans” were killed in the Revolution fighting each other than were killed by British soldiers.
At Pearl Harbor, locked up ammo and Sunday morning prevented access to shipboard armories and ammunition for many precious minutes during the attack. Some locks were simply shot off by “emerging leaders”. A black sailor from Austin who was a cook manned the .50 cal. Why a cook? History isn’t clear where the sailor who was suppose to operate it was. But, the young black man emerged as a leader that day.
So, I think the big lesson coming out of this Nevada cattle incident is that when all the machines of government including federal agencies and federal courts, and politicians become corrupted that a “ well damn’t, lets go out there and confront these bastards with old men, pregnant women and bare fists up against their guns...... If that’s ALL WE CAN DO”...AND THEY DID, ......WORKS!
So, on a few minutes notice I think these old men, pregnant women and unarmed “just plain citizens” showed the world that is possible to get to an “enough is enough” point and stand up to the Feds.
I’m glad no one got hurt but I fear the Red River showdown is coming and being as it’s Texas, and the Marxist/socialist’s in DC HATE Texas, a different result could happen with lots of folks dead or injured.
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, the “tree of liberty” awaits in some future incident as millions of producing Americans are way beyond “enough is enough”.
§ 4100.0–2 Objectives.
(a)The objectives of these regulations
are to promote healthy sustainable
rangeland ecosystems; to accelerate
restoration and improvement of public
rangelands to properly functioning
conditions; to promote the orderly use,
improvement and development of the
public lands; to establish efficient and
effective administration of grazing of
public rangelands; and to provide for
the sustainability of the western livestock
industry and communities that
are dependent upon productive, healthy
public rangelands
(b) These objectives will be realized
in a manner consistent with land use
plans, multiple use, sustained yield, environmental
values, economic and
other objectives stated in the Taylor
Grazing Act of June 28, 1934, as amended
(43 U.S.C. 315, 315a–315r); section 102
of the Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701) and
the Public Rangelands Improvement
Act of 1978 (43 U.S.C. 1901(b)(2)).
[60 FR 9960, Feb. 22, 1995, as amended
Senate committee hearing would not happen.
I think you are right about the house committee: http://naturalresources.house.gov/subcommittees/subcommittee/?SubcommitteeID=5064
But I love the idea of involving Gohmert. What kind of a guy is Rob Bishop, and where does he stand on big government appropriapriating private lands?
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