Posted on 04/12/2014 1:43:52 PM PDT by smoothsailing
By Caroline Bleakley, Senior Online Editor -
LAS VEGAS -- Armed Bundy family leaders are meeting with BLM officers to discuss what will become of the cattle that the feds removed from BLM land, over the past week.
Tensions are running high and I-15 is closed in both directions, about seven miles south of Mesquite, because protesters have blocked the freeway, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
The protesters have gathered in support of rancher Cliven Bundy, who has been locked in a legal battle over grazing rights with the federal government.
Nearly two dozen police officers and a SWAT unit are on scene.
NHP is advising people to not even try to go to Mesquite from Las Vegas. Troopers have tried to get cars through the area but they are not having much luck.
There have been no overt threats of violence from the protesters.
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The BLM law enforcement officers are in Mesquite as they wait to leave the area. Police are there to help them do that safely.
It was announced Saturday morning that Sheriff Douglas Gillespie, Bundy and the BLM were able to reach an agreement over the cattle the BLM has already removed from the federal property.
The BLM has offered to pay Bundy for the cattle already confiscated, sources say. The protesters say the cattle should be returned to Bundy.
This is a developing story.
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Wickedness has a way of making itself look stupid.
I hope so as well. It is time that people working for the feds start thinking about what they are doing. It can’t be just a job. No job is just a job. You are known by the company you keep and right is right no matter how many are against you but wrong is wrong no matter how many are for you.
You can’t just follow orders. There are always consequences for you and you alone for everything you do.
Thank you. This is what I have understood as well.
Is this still state land? If it is who in the state is agreeing to sell it and has it been offered for purchase by sealed bid?
LOL.
Now I don’t care who you are, that there’s funny....
That’s my accounts. We’ve been monitoring the situation closely.
Don’t have cable TV so didn’t watch Hannity but did listen to his radio show yesterday. He seemed to be honed in only on the tortoise issue. Hope he does his research, goes to Nevada and does start digging into Reid’s involvement.
The most corrupt administration....ever.
Hannity, or somebody needs to follow up on all this.
They will be back when nobody is expecting them
That is one beautiful picture.
Looks way too organized.
That is what protests like these often lack, organization. In the videos I watched the protesters seemed unorganized and even belligerent. Didn’t seem like there was any leadership, seemed like a mob. If people want CW2 they better be more organized than that and have some real leadership or it will crash and burn.
Lib websites are having an absolute “cow” about this development
“Armed Bundy family leaders “
The lesson seems to be that the only thing the feddies/feebs respect is a show of force.
The SPLC is calling them a terror organization. If it were a US corp building a nuke plant, the SPLC would be on Bundy’s side.
All these people are traitor commi bastards.
I bet Reid was like Castro during the missile crisis... hoping Russia would invade, still believing in the lie of the Soviet greater greatness when it was still a backwater.
pieces of crap all of them
i am starting to feel that Liberals want a foreign Hitler or Mao to keep backing them up. zno wonder they cover up for the foreign birth certificate.
What is the urgency in all this crap?
I have family in the cow business, and heard that the Feds were told unequivocally that no stockyard, auction barn or slaughterhouse in the West will take the cattle off their hands.
GOOD! That’s as it should be.
Consenting adults
I was merely quotimg what the government claims he owes which is why I wrote claim.
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