Nevada rancher's son freed, BLM collecting cattle

KLAS- TV LAS VEGAS ^ | Posted: Apr 07, 2014 2:07 PM PDTUpdated: Apr 08, 2014 11:48 AM PDT | By Glen Meek, I-Team Reporter -  By Kyle Zuelke, Photojournalist

[FBD]

LAS VEGAS -- The son of a rural Nevada cattle rancher has been freed from federal custody, a day after his arrest by agents working to remove cattle from disputed grazing areas northeast of Las Vegas.

A U.S. attorney's office spokeswoman in Las Vegas said Monday that 37-year-old Dave Bundy is accused of refusing to disperse and resisting officers.Bundy's mother, Carol Bundy, says U.S. Bureau of Land Management agents arrested her son Sunday in a parked car on State Route 170 near Bunkerville.

Pictures obtained by the 8 News NOW I-Team show where David Bundy had parked his car to take pictures of the cattle eviction.

Bundy says he was only exercising his First Amendment rights when federal officers told him to leave  the area and when he didn't, they grabbed him."Two officers surround me, third one in front of me. They jumped me and took me to the ground. You can see they scraped up my face," Bundy said.Bundy's father, Cliven Bundy, says his cattle are entitled to graze in the Gold Butte area."They steal my cattle, and that is bad enough. But they make my son a political prisoner," Cliven Bundy said. 

This weekend wranglers, hired by the federal government, started  removing cattle owned by Bundy from a stretch of land near the Virgin River Gorge.

[Dead Corpse]

Was just going to start looking in to that very topic...

First thing that turns up is this:

http://www.naturalnews.com/044670_BLM_lies_fracking_leases_Bundy_ranch.html

[Paladin2]

The current Head of the BLM was working in Dingy's office as recently as 3 years ago.

"CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A natural resource manager who grew up in Elko has been named director of the Bureau of Land Management.

The U.S. Senate voted 71-28 on Tuesday to confirm the appointment of Neil Kornze to the post.

Kornze was raised in Elko and is a former senior adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He joined the BLM in 2011 and has been leading the agency as principal deputy director for the past year."

"Kornze joined the organization (BLM) in January 2011 as a Senior Advisor to the Director. "

"Before coming to the BLM, Kornze worked as a Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada."

Then this has Dingy's fingerprints all over it.

[Paladin2]

Kool:

"The way this works, of course, is that BLM runs land theft operations by claiming they are "managing" the land and thereby kicking everyone else off it. They then invoke a reptile, an owl, a bird, a snake or some other animal which they claim to be "saving," even while they are stealing and destroying hundreds of cattle belonging to a private rancher trying to make an honest living in a nation where productive Americans are increasingly branded "enemies of the state."

Once control of the land is established via court order or by bringing armed men with automatic weapons, BLM then turns around and leases the land to fracking companies who proceed to exploit the land using hydraulic fracturing techniques that inject toxic chemicals into groundwater supplies (and have been linked to earthquakes). The money collected by the BLM is then used to increase BLM salaries and bonuses.

In essence, the BLM is a criminal mafia racket, and Cliven Bundy just happened to be in the way of their next target, the Gold Butte area of Nevada. That is why they brought hundreds of heavily armed men to a "save the tortoise" operation."

So is Dingy, his fam or buds getting a piece of the oil action?

[combat_boots]

This needs its own thread and posted far and wide.

Is this about Reid’s gang divvying up who gets oil/fracking leases?

[Dead Corpse]

Of course. Disgustipating...

[Dead Corpse]

Could be. I certainly wouldn’t put it past them.

I’m not the author of that particular piece, so feel free to steal it and claim the glory. ;-)

[Paladin2]

Maybe taxcontrol is getting his piece of the pie too.

[Jane Long]

Thanks for posting that link. Interesting background.

[taxcontrol]

It’s not his land. His cattle are grazing on federal land.

At the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, Mexico and the U.S. signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which granted title to that land to the U.S., for which the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million.

Sixteen years later in 1864, Nevada became a state. A provision of the Nevada Statehood Act of 1864 promised that Nevada would disclaim all rights to the unappropriated public lands lying within its boundaries, and that such land would remain at the sole disposition of the United States.

Cliven Bundy has no legal right to graze his cattle on federal land without permission. When he stopped paying grazing fees, the federal government sold his grazing rights to the Clark County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan.

In short, the U.S. bought and paid for that land. It owns it. It makes the rules on it. Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution specifically enumerates Congress the EXCLUSIVE legislative authority in all cases whatsoever. State law does not apply. County law does not apply. Cattle Barron law does not apply. Open range law does not apply. The ONLY law that does apply is US Federal law.

[kiryandil]

Another thing that the .govlovin' tyranny supporters fail to mention or address is that The King and his agents can send you Official Lying Nastygrams all day long, and you must respond to them, or the lies stand.

If a peasant tried the same thing, The King's men just laugh, and file the missive in the circular file (send it registered!). the peasant has no gunthugs on his payroll to enforce his pathetic little arguments.

The King's Men have a bottomless well of taxpeasant money to attack any peasant who they have targeted.

And, they have heavily armed men-at-arms, who are deployed in a (your) money-is-no-object fashion.

[kiryandil]

Since you don't give a rip about the Constitution or the Declaration, your arguments citing the Constitution are invalid.

Your points are analogous to a Muslim arguing for an outcome and using Natural Rights to buttress his position.

Nice try.

[kiryandil]

The current Head of the BLM was working in Dingy's office as recently as 3 years ago.

How surprising that ol' Bumfights has a connection here.

[taxcontrol]

I passionately support the constitution and especially the concept of enumerated powers.

Article 1 section 8 specifically enumerates Congress with the power to regulate lands that are owned by the US Government The US government has owned that land since BEFORE (1848 - treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) Nevada was even a state (1864). Long before Bundy’s ancestors first purchased the grazing rights that land (1870s).

[Dead Corpse]

You believe they are “Enumerated, but unlimited” apparently.

I’d be delighted to be wrong on that score, but the way you’ve been twisting and turning on these threads to back up the FedGov’s over-reach leads me to no other conclusion.

[taxcontrol]

First off, I have not been twisting or turning any threads. I have been repeating the simple facts which you cant or wont refute. I have consistently shown that in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of this nation, Bundy has no claim to the land as it belongs to the US Government.

Second, enumeration is in of itself a limitation as the powers have to be limited to the enumeration itself. Once the limits of the enumeration have been met, there are no other limits on those powers. In Article 1 section 8 the very introductory clause clearly defines that Congress shall have the exclusive legislative authority in all cases. If you don’t like that then change the Constitution the the legal means provided in the Constitution.

[glennaro]

Do the feds want Bundy’s ranch? Say, for development?

Apparently so. They want to redevelop the open grazing land as a place of peace and relaxation for a turtle.

[Dead Corpse]

I’ve refuted your facts. You are just ignoring the refutation to keep your house of cards standing.

[Dusty Road]

A Fracking Lease?

Now that’s funny.

[Dead Corpse]

More asshattery by the BLM...

http://misguidedchildren.com/domestic-affairs/2014/04/red-river-rumble-blm-wants-to-seize-90000-acres-of-texas-ranchers-land/18596

[taxcontrol]

Sorry, you have not refuted any of the facts. When I assert that the US Government owns the land and even provide a history of how by treaty, by acceptance into statehood and by building useful buildings, I am showing facts to prove the position that the US Government owns the land.

You have responded with what? Conjecture that the US Government should not own the land. Despite the government having met the constitutional requirement of useful buildings? Your argument that it is a requirement for the government to own the land and even that point has been proven to be fulfilled.

Please enlighten me how your conjecture some how proves that the US government does not own the land in question.