Fight federal abuse of property rights by making the government obey its own rules

http://washingtonexaminer.com/ ^ | APRIL 15, 2014 | BY RON ARNOLD

[Para-Ord.45]

ATT: DINGY REID :

Private rights in federal lands were recognized in an 1866 water law. It says, "… whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same."

That Act was passed a long time ago, but every federal land law since then contains a clause with language similar to, "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair any vested right in existence on the effective date of this Act."

Most ranchers don’t know that and federal agencies exploit their ignorance with harassment that runs them off the land. Actually, understanding vested rights is not too hard – they’re absolute rights not subject to cancellation

[Paladin2]

Hence the fraudulent use of the Endangered Species Act and other laws where the details of the Law have been delegated to the Bureaucracies to make up as needed to accomplish various personal agendas.

[cripplecreek]

Hearing and testimony about federal land management intimidation and threats from Oct 2013.

http://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=355977

Threatening financial ruin and to starve private owners out.

[Taxman]

Perhaps this essay will shed some more light on the legitimacy of Bundy’s claim: http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/bundy-ranch-crisis-causes-us-ask-actually-owns-americas-land/

[MeshugeMikey]

Lets Let Joey have the final word on this shall we?

[Bobalu]

The Bundy’s have been ranching that land since 1870.

IMO the land they have been grazing cattle on for over a century should belong to them.

[areukiddingme1]

“IMO the land they have been grazing cattle on for over a century should belong to them.”

Agree, but I think the Hairy Reed begs to differ...

[Usagi_yo]

Yea, it’s kinda hard to believe they’re interested in the Rule of Law when they disregard it so often.

[Dick Bachert]

The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) -- nearly 30% of its total territory. These federal lands are used as military bases or testing grounds, nature parks and reserves and Indian reservations, or are leased to the private sector for commercial exploitation (e.g. forestry, mining, agriculture). They are managed by different administrations, such as the Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the US Department of Defense, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Bureau of Reclamation or the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The above map details the percentage of state territory owned by the federal government.

[combat_boots]

Earthjustice funds the Ctr for Bio. Diversity.
Soros and the Tides Foundation fund Earthjustice.

[Para-Ord.45]

http://blog.heritage.org/2013/06/11/court-rebuffs-government-overreach-in-nevada/

The 104-page opinion by U.S. District Court Judge Robert C. Jones on May 23 in Nevada tells a sordid and infuriating tale of a two-decades-long conspiracy among federal employees of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the Department of the Interior to deny the grazing rights of a Nevada ranching family, interfere with their water rights, and destroy their cattle business by scaring away their customers.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/144609491/United-States-v-Estate-of-Hage-No-2-07-cv-01154-RCJ-VCF-Findings-of-Fact-Conclusions-of-Law-and-Injunction-D-Nev-May-24-2013

USC Chapter 15 §661. Appropriation of waters on public lands; rights of way for canals and ditches