Posted on 04/12/2014 2:12:37 PM PDT by smoothsailing
By Caroline Bleakley, Senior Online Editor
LAS VEGAS -- A deal has been reached between Bundy family leaders and the BLM, but not without some very tense moments.
Armed Bundy family leaders met with BLM officers Saturday afternoon in Mesquite to discuss the fate of the Bundy's cattle that the feds removed from BLM land, over the past week. The cattle are being held at a holding area in Mesquite.
Prior to the meeting, hundreds of protesters, some armed, tried storming the BLM's cattle gate, but weren't successful. The crowd was urged to wait 30 minutes and give both sides a chance to talk. An agreement was reached that the cattle will be released to the Bundy family later Saturday.
At one point, I-15 was closed in both directions, about seven miles south of Mesquite, because protesters had blocked the freeway. Nearly two dozen police officers and a SWAT unit were at the scene to keep the peace and assist the BLM enforcement officers to safely leave the area.
Protesters have been gathering all week in support of rancher Cliven Bundy, who has been locked in a legal battle for the past 20 years over grazing rights with the federal government
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I imagine the BLM and every other alphabet agency have been chomping at the bit since Waco and Ruby Ridge. They all sit around and say things like “If that had been us that stormed Mt. Carmel, we would have killed them all without losing a man. The BATF is a bunch of pussies. We’ll show them if we ever get the chance.”
The “130 dead” bit is not true. That number came from a lady that Alex Jones’ guy David Whoever interviewed on livestream. She was talking about some people she knows in AZ where that incident happened. And David just kept repeating it.
At this point, who knows how many cattle were liberated? I hate it when one little line gets picked up and repeated as a fact, when in fact, it’s not a fact! (LOL, not yelling at you, at the press in general)
Yeh its pretty sickening but then the US govt is pretty sickening on its best day.
My man.
It’s just as difficult to maintain control over 2000 cops as it is over 2000 civilian militia. Probably even harder.
Wait, are you telling me the BLM has its own army?
I hope it’s clear to Reid and the BLM that what goes around comes around.
>>I found it interesting that the BLM had to recruit agents from other states to man the perimeter.<<
If it had turned into a shooting match it sure would have been a long drive back to those other states in their dusty BLM vehicles! I don’t think they would have made it home safely.
“Now that they’ve had the roundup, Bundy should just go to market. :>)”
If so, he’d better keep it in cash. I’d bet the BLM will be in court soon to place a $1 million lien on his property and bank accounts. And the banks will turn over anything the court says to turn over, with the click of a computer.
The federal government is clearly too big when a “land management” agency can afford to have its own sniper team. A government agency that has more money than it needs to conduct its core functions is an agency that will busy itself with finding more things to control and ways to extend its power. This is the Iron Law of bureaucracy.
A government that can create its own money does not have to ask taxpayers for permission to spend more to feed its self-serving bureaucratic activities. When states start calling for a Convention to consider amendments to the Constitution, the first topic must be to restrain federal spending. A government that must live within its means is a government that must focus on the important things rather than imposing evermore intrusive laws and regulations having the weight of law.
Every day more people are coming to the judgment that a carefully organized effort to repair the constitution via the States’ power to propose and ratify amendments has less risk to our liberty and prosperity than the present trajectory of the federal government and especially the federal bureaucracy.
Water rights in western states are funny things. The fed may well wind up paying a lot of our tax dollars to replace or repair that infrastructure.
In theory, people that did the destroying could go to jail.
/johnny
I was already packing ... in both ways
>>i’ve read upwards of 5K and beyond with more coming.<<
I think the FEDS will have a different picture in their minds about Nevada cowboys and their neighbors when they all get back to their home offices. This mobilization caught a lot of people off guard. The next time they will be ready to go on a moments notice when support is requested.
Well we all know the Feds were not worrying about the health and welfare of the cattle since none of them had signed up for O’Care. :-)
Besides, Bundy has taken possession of the remaining live cattle, and the BLM has pulled out and run away, since they know it was a bogus cop after all.
/johnny
Drones, against a law-abiding American citizen, no due process. This could be a trial.
You can about count on it that they will, who knows how many of them have their own snouts in that trough?
This is just Dunkirk, not D-Day, for Reid and Fedzilla.
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