Posted on 04/30/2014 10:46:56 AM PDT by opentalk
Every month, Raymond Yowell, the 84-year-old former chief of the Shoshone Indian Tribe in northeastern Nevada, has almost $200 garnished from his $1,150 Social Security check, and it all dates back to a 5:00am phone call on a Friday morning in 2002.
That morning, a government official from the Bureau of Land Management told him to come down to a seizure site where the 132 cattle he owned were about to be impounded.When he arrived, men brandishing handguns told him he couldn't get any closer than 250 yards from his cattle.
He watched from a distance as the government loaded the livestock onto stock trailers.Within a week, the cattle had been sold at a private auction – for what Yowell estimated to be a quarter of their market price.
The proceeds belonged to BLM, officials told him, paying a portion of the grazing fees he suddenly owed. It wasn't enough to cover the full debt, and BLM sent Yowell a bill for $180,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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Looks like they made some money on those confiscations in the past.
This is an excellent article. The BLM is a disgrace.
“Every month, Raymond Yowell, the 84-year-old former chief of the Shoshone Indian Tribe in northeastern Nevada, has almost $200 garnished from his $1,150 Social Security check...”
That means that the Feds are probably already garnishing money from Cliven Bundy’s Social Security check and also reducing his Medicare benifits.
Oath Keepers is going
educate Us on this !
Guillotines from orbit, it’s the only way to clean up the BLM criminal enterprise of this current regime.
Breitbart is good as a source.
Useless as a place for discussions.
Stay here at FR and avoid the Daily Kos Trolls that have taken over at breitbart.com
I saw this on Drudge and was just reading it. This is a very important story but you probably won’t hear about it through the MSM. I am disgusted with the media making Bundy out to be the bad guy here. Just the fact that some federal bureaucracy “owns” land shows how much power they really have.
Thanks for posting. Hope a lot of people read it.
But it goes way back before Obama. We Americans are oblivious to so much our government does, so much they get away with. We have been taught we are a free nation. That is a lie and it becomes a bigger lie every day.
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