Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined his state’s top attorney on Wednesday in blasting the federal Bureau of Land Management over concerns that it may be looking at laying claim to thousands of acres of property in northern Texas.
“The federal government already owns too much land,” Perry told Fox News.
At issue are thousands of acres of land on the Texas side of the Red River, along the border between Texas and Oklahoma. Officials recently have raised concern that the BLM might be looking at claiming 90,000 acres of land as part of the public domain.
On Tuesday, state Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is running to replace Perry, raised the issue in a letter to the BLM director. He also told Breitbart.com he’s ready to “go to the Red River and raise a ‘Come and Take It’ flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas.”
Abbott reiterated his comments Wednesday night on "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."
"At a minimum, (the federal government is) overreaching, trying to grab land that belongs to Texans, or worse, they are violating due process rights by just claiming that this land suddenly belongs to the federal government, swiping it away from our Texans," said Abbott, who threatened court action. "This is just the latest symptom of what seems to be a federal government run amok that is messing in states’ rights and now messing in private property rights."
Let those slack-jawed ill-bred curs come and try it.
Here’s what I don’t understand. If the BLM is laying claim to that land, then it must mean that the BLM already “owns” the land north of the river, and it isn’t part of Oklahoma.
I mean they’re not just saying that, poof, the border changed, and since it can’t possibly mean more real estate for Oklahoma, it’s our job to lay claim to it. Are they?
BLM said it is merely in the 'initial stages of developing options for management of public lands,' as part of a 'transparent process with several opportunities for public input.'
There's "public input", and then there's public input:
Let's hope they actually listen to the first, so we can avoid the second...
Texas is one State that will kick BLM ars, take their guns and escort across the border. They they will give King Obama a real headache. This is one State that can be self sustaining and not miss Washington at all.
Read it again - “not expanding Federal holdings along the Red River.”
They're right, they're not 'expanding' because they claim to already own it.