BLM Agent Daniel P. Love Named in Investigation [ Cliven Bundy family and more ]

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Agent Daniel P. Love has been breaking the law for years. Using and abusing his authority to run his own personal fiefdom. Bullying citizens until they commit suicide. All while believing he was above the law. Or so a report released last month seems to indicate.

On February 14th, a letter from U.S. Reps. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, named Daniel P. Love and questions an investigation that points to the deletion of hundreds of documents the day before a congressional investigative committee issued a subpoena for these documents.

The letter asks the Office of the Inspector General to further investigate Love. It outlines witness tampering, destruction of documents, and obstruction of a congressional investigation. As felonies, someone should be heading for prison, if the allegations are proved to be true.

The Congressional letter indicates that several documents were destroyed in February 2016, so it would seem that Love’s behavior did not limit itself, but continues like a reign of terror.

Chaffetz is particularly interested in finding out who leaked the info of the subpoena, and specifically mentions that former BLM Director Neil Kornze was provided, as a courtesy, advance notice of the congressional document request, as the dates seem very coincidental.

Thank you for posting the letter.

Here’s a link to a story I wrote in our local paper. http://www.mogollonrimnews.com/sylvia-allen-holds-stakeholders-meeting-on-federal-overreach/

On February 3, 2017 Sylvia Allen held a meeting at the Arizona State Captial to discuss the case of LaVoy Finicum, the Arizona rancher who was shot and killed by Federal agents in Oregon last year. I was glad to have the opportunity to attend the meeting regarding Finicum’s death and the challenges western ranchers have faced while dealing with the federal bureaucracy.

The previous administration clearly did not understand the situation and in fact, due to the shifting political winds over the last decade, many ranchers have been unfairly persecuted and some still sit in jail as a direct result of this. The Bundy Family, the Hammond Family nor the Finicum’s have ever fired a shot or damaged property yet they have been treated worse than the thugs who have rioted, burned cars and threatened violence.

I was proud of Senator Allen for taking a stand against the corruption as she was elected to do. She plans to put pressure on at the federal level to require a formal Congressional Hearing which should be good news for all Americans. The right to free speech, the right to peacefully assemble and to be able to “redress” our grievances peacefully with our government, the right to keep and bear arms and the protection against unlawful searches. So many of our basic Constitutional Rights have been violated in the case of these patriots, it has been a serious concern to any of us who were paying attention.

As Senator Borrelli stated, “This was not a routine traffic stop – this was a planned execution.” He has the experience of over 20 years in the Marines so he should know what a planned ambush looks like. We cannot let behavior like this become the new normal, it could be you or your neighbor next who finds themselves in the cross hairs.

Here is a link with the details that Sylvia Allen put together following the meeting with Jeanette Finicum. http://www.mogollonrimnews.com/part-i-lavoy-finicum/

Excerpt from the link above, ““We need to put God first in our lives, strengthen our families, and fight to restore our freedoms.” LaVoy Finicum

This is a two-part update on the death of rancher LaVoy Finicum at the hands of the FBI and Oregon State Police. Western ranchers had gone to Oregon in support of the Hammond family. Their peaceful protest was labeled by law enforcement and some elected officials as domestic terrorism. Federal statutes were used to prosecute western ranchers who were trying to bring national attention to the overreach of federal agencies in taking western ranchers’ leases.

Part I: LaVoy Finicum

Last summer I traveled to Cane Bed, Arizona, located on the Arizona Strip, to visit Jeanette Finicum, wife of slain rancher, LaVoy Finicum. I wanted to meet her and to get a firsthand knowledge, not tainted by the media, of her husband’s death, why he went to Oregon, and how her family got caught up in Federal Agencies labeling her husband a “domestic terrorist.” I found Jeanette to be a wonderful, gentle, and kind woman who was bravely trying to recover from this tragedy in her life and to find justice for her husband.

On February 3rd, 2017, I held a stakeholders meeting at the Capitol to discuss the overreach and lack of due process by the federal government in regard to western ranchers and the wrongful death of Arizona citizen, LaVoy Finicum. Other legislators in attendance were Senators Sonny Borrelli (LD5), Gail Griffin (LD14), David Farnsworth (LD16), and Judy Burges (LD22), and Representatives Brenda Barton (LD6), Bob Thorpe (LD6), Mark Finchem (LD11), Becky Nutt (LD14) and Rusty Bowers (LD25). Jeanette Finicum, two of her and LaVoy’s daughters, Terra Belle and Arianna, her lawyer Morgan Philpot, a Utah attorney and former Utah state legislator also attended. We also heard from Michael Gibbs, Deputy Director of Arizona’s Tenth Amendment Center.”

The following is some of the testimony of Jeannette Finicum :
“LaVoy traveled to Oregon Jan 1st, 2016, to join with others in the peaceful demonstration-march and to visit the Hammond ranching family, showing his support for her husband and son who were facing imprisonment for a crime they had already served time for. (More about this in part II.) He considered them his neighbor, and wanted to help, to let them know that they were not alone. LaVoy was not aware of any plans to do anything other than march through town and deliver flowers. However, when asked to stay and continue in a peaceful demonstration 35 miles outside of town at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, he agreed.”

Note: The refuge was operated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It is not occupied during winter months. The buildings were not locked and the utilities were still on. But this wildlife refuge had been the center of much of the negative impacts that had happen to Oregon area ranchers including the Hammonds. It was a symbol of the excessive environmental regulations that were being used to remove ranchers from their grazing leases. Reports that the ranchers caused damage to the property were lies. The ranchers took dated pictures of the condition they found the property in at the time they occupied the area.

Jeannette reported, “I believe there are many who are responsible for the negative outcome of this peaceful demonstration:
SHERIFF DAVE WARD for relinquishing his authority to the FBI instead of allowing them some time to exercise their 1st Amendment right to free speech and peacefully demonstrate as others throughout this country have been allowed to do;
JUDGE GRASTY for refusing to hear or take into consideration the redress of grievances Ammon filed months before hand;
OR GOV. KATE BROWN for her letter dated Jan 20, 2016, to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey, six days before they murdered my husband, which says, ‘I must insist on a swift resolution of this matter. I request…that you instruct your agencies to end the unlawful occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as quickly as possible.’ Naming them as “Radicals” and “Criminals”, claiming they ‘are harassing law enforcement and their family members,’ all of which was not true!;
OR SEN. RON WYDEN who said to KOIN 6 news, ‘This should have ended a long time ago,’ this was ‘a situation where the virus was spreading, and action needs to be taken.’;
THE FBI AND THE OREGON STATE POLICE for escalating things within the town of Burns, inciting fear in the hearts and minds of its citizens. By walking around town tacked out and armed to the hilt. And for the murder of my husband.”

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