Posted on 04/21/2014 1:37:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
After the recent Bundy Ranch episode by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Texans are becoming more concerned about the BLM’s focus on 90,000 acres along a 116 mile stretch of the Texas/Oklahoma boundary. The BLM is reviewing the possible federal takeover and ownership of privately-held lands which have been deeded property for generations of Texas landowners.
Sid Miller, former Texas State Representative and Republican candidate for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, has since made the matter a campaign issue to Breitbart Texas.
“In Texas,” Miller says, “the BLM is attempting a repeat of an action taken over 30 years ago along the Red River when Tommy Henderson lost a federal lawsuit. The Bureau of Land Management took 140 acres of his property and didn’t pay him one cent.”
Miller referred to a 1986 case where the BLM attempted to seize some of Henderson’s land. Henderson sued the BLM and lost 140 acres that had been in his family for generations. Now the BLM is looking at using the prior case as a precedent to claim an additional 90,000 acres.
Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) represents the ranchers in this region of north Texas. According to Thornberry’s legislative analysts, the issue of the ownership of this land dates back to the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. When the BLM made the claim on Henderson’s land, their position was that Texas never had the authority to deed the land to private parties and therefore it would fall under federal control.
In 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court attempted to settle the boundary dispute in Oklahoma v. Texas and declared the boundary to be defined by wooden stakes set on the river bank. That boundary apparently lasted no longer than anyone could expect wooden stakes to last in the shifting sands of a meandering river...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
You might want to take a look at Lake Texhoma. Just a whole lot of beautiful water - one side is Texas, the other Oklahoma. We stayed up there over Thanksgiving last year near Pottsboro. Beautiful, beautiful area. The Feds need to stay away from our land and our water.
Holy cow...they couldn’t have picked a state less likely to sit still for their crap.
.... Could real estate on American soil owned by China be set up as “development zones” in which the communist nation could establish Chinese-owned businesses and bring in its citizens to the U.S. to work?
That’s part of an evolving proposal Beijing has been developing quietly since 2009 to convert more than $1 trillion of U.S debt it owns into equity
And there is this little nugget in the article:
“According to a BLM document provided to Breitbart Texas courtesy Rep. Thornberry’s staff, the BLM is going through a scoping period where they are gathering facts on land whose ownership they believe to be in question in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The BLM is in the process of developing a Resource Management Plan. The plan will cover a total of 411,585 square miles, or 263 million acres of land. The BLM describes its “decision area as about 104,000 acres of BLM administered surface lands, 593,000 acres of split-estate land (private land with federal mineral interests) and 5,270,000 acres of federal mineral interests on land managed by other federal agencies.”
411K square miles is slightly over 800 X 500 miles in what they say is the 3 states of OK, TX, and KS. So where are we talking and what are they scheming?
Also notice that they are moving eastward in their confiscation.
Get rid of all the “Alphabet Agencies”.
They have all become subsidiaries and enforcement arms of the organization of extreme leftists who call themselves democrats.
“In 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court attempted to settle the boundary dispute in Oklahoma v. Texas and declared the boundary to be defined by wooden stakes set on the river bank. That boundary apparently lasted no longer than anyone could expect wooden stakes to last in the shifting sands of a meandering river...”
Federal ‘logic’ has always been a bit difficult for “normal” folks to understanding or for that matter God’s natural laws to conform to..
There will always be persons of the jackboot mentality depending on ‘government’ to give them the OK to beat up other citizens. Jackboots don’t even have to be citizens or patriots going back to our Revolutionary war.
Check my post, #44 and read the last paragraph that was in the article. Interesting in light of your post.
Does this guy have a legal defense fund?
Since 1803 when the Louisiana Purchase was completed, there has been a controversy over the
boundary between Oklahoma and Texas. The boundary is supposed to be the vegetation line on
the south side of the Red River. But the River has moved over time. The problem is the definition
since 1803 when the Louisiana Purchase was completed,of that boundary line- Oklahoma and Texas
each use different semantics to define it. And the BLM is finding ways to use the disputed words to
give them the ability to seize the land.
According to the BLM, the Red River is always Accretion (gradual accumulation of sediment) to
the south, and always Avulsion (rapid formation of a new river channel) to the north. So according
to the BLM, the boundary only moves one direction, never in the direction that favors the ranchers.
They are looking to re-draw the entire portion of the Red River boundary. That includes 90,000
acres of land along a 116 mile stretch of the river.
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Secession is looking better every day!
WOW! I never thought or had any idea that when I was overseas in WWII I was fighting for some other persons to own the land I was supposedly fighting for and for which my brother who was killed and gave his life for. Obama’s change is starting to really show and behind the curtain are such people like Soros, Reid, and a bunch of international bankers and even governments like the Chinese.
it is essentially a border dispute with Oklahoma, except the Feds are sticking their dirt little heads in and calming anything and everything Oklahoma might win.
No more "common" person getting rich, only because their ancestors were "lucky" enough to settle the land first. That's a White Privelege that is no longer tolerated in the New Skool.
All wealth is now the federal government's wealth to distribute as it deems worthy. And worth is defined by the political parties that you align to, not the heredity of your claim or the work that you put into creating the value in the first place.
-PJ
263 MILLION ACRES?? WTF!
I’ve been hearing that for some time now and who some of the key players are like Democracy Alliance and Steve Mostyn anfd other progressive LGBT groups. I think they will work on large and moderate cities first to try and conert their political infrastructure. They know they can’t take rural conservatives on and win so they’ll go for the nerve centers and let the poson spread from there outwardly. Its going to take vigilant efforts to expose them for what they andwill rely on the fortitude and will of the people of Texas to tell them to oack their ags and go home. Educating the voters as to the true intentions agendas of the lefties who act like they want to be your friends will be key in thwarting their advances. While they are focusing theirefforts here we should be attacking ther turf to out them on the defensive too.
I’ve been hearing that for some time now and who some of the key players are Democracy Alliance and Steve Mostyn anfd other progressive LGBT groups. I think they will work on large and moderate cities first to try and convert their political infrastructure. They know they can’t take rural conservatives on and win so they’ll go for the nerve centers and let the poison spread from there outwardly. Its going to take vigilant efforts to expose them for what they and will rely on the fortitude and will of the people of Texas to tell them to pack their bags and go home. Educating the voters as to the true intentions agendas of the lefties who act like they want to be your friends will be key in thwarting their advances. While they are focusing their efforts here we should be attacking ther turf to put them on the defensive too.
Do it, BLM. Do it!!! Oh please, do it. There isn’t a damn Texan left who will die for the land.
Valerie Jarrett: "OK, we had to back down in Nevada to a bunch of psalm-singing cowboys. Anybody got any better ideas""
BLM wonk 1: "We gotta try somewhere else, boss. Somewhere they don't care so much about land rights and nobody has a gun."
BLM wonk 2, peering at list: "Well, here's a place called Red River. That sounds communist enough. The people down there will probably back us 100%"
VJ: "Yeah, Red River. Anybody here ever been to Texas or Oklahoma?"
(Heads shake throughout the room)
VJ: "OK, Red River it is. Send word to the local Occupy people to meet us there. Pack the limos, boys!"
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