Posted on 09/18/2014 9:38:00 AM PDT by redreno
SALT LAKE CITY — Five Utah men have been slapped with federal charges for taking part in an ATV protest ride in southwestern Utah earlier this year that the group said was to call attention to the federal government’s overreaching control of public lands.
Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday they have charged the five southern Utah men with misdemeanor conspiracy and illegal use of all-terrain vehicles Wednesday in connection with a ride organized to show displeasure with the federal government.
Prosecutors say the May ride through southwestern Utah’s Recapture Canyon was an illegal protest.
“We respect the fact that the citizens of this state have differing and deeply held views … and recognize that they have the right to express those opinions freely,” said acting U.S. Attorney Carlie Christensen in a statement. “Nevertheless, those rights must be exercised in a lawful manner.”
About 50 people participated in the ride, which came shortly after the BLM had a confrontation with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
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Who was the legislator that came up with a law that would make an “illegal use of all-terrain vehicles” illegal?
They should have called themselves, “Occupy Recapture Canyon” or something like that.
The Department of Redundancy Department?
They never imposed those conditions on the "Occupy" crowd.
Federal land, federal charges. I know someone who had rented and ATV and was riding through the Roosevelt National Forest outside of Estes Park in Colorado. Park rangers caught him off the marked trail and issued a $500 citation. They don’t mess around.
Were the "Occupy" crowd in a federal park?
They were certainly occuyping federal land in D.C.
LIAR!
Maybe if they had merely looted, vandalized, stolen, attacked people in packs, beat them into comas...
Naw, that only works if you’re balck.
Example after example of how intrenched the communists party is in America. DEMOCRATS ARE COMMUNISTS!
These fed employees (I hesitate to say “workers”) are coopted degenerates. They get a kick out of harassing citizens while they look the other way when it comes to illegal aliens, drug cartels and other degenerates.
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