Every Freeper should acknowledge that these ranchers and their supporters have highlighted a serious issue that normally gets little attention. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS NO RIGHT TO HOLD LANDS WITHIN A STATE UNLESS IT CAN SHOW A SPECIFIC CONSTITUTIONAL REASON TO DO SO.
Yes. The feds are in the wrong here and hold this land illegally and unconstitutionally. The ONLY reason I know of in the Constitution fro the feds to hold state lands is
to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings (Art i, Sec 8, Cl 17).
National Parks and the like are patently unconstitutional. Unconstitutional federal acts are by definition acts of tyranny. The National Parks that Teddy Roosevelt started could be called "feel-good tyranny." Sooner or later, as here, tyranny will not feel good but will feel deadly.
This cannot be fought on an individual or small group scale alone. They MUST have state backing. Here it's up to the state of Oregon.
States must reclaim their own lands and kick the feds out. PERIOD!