You have to wonder how high this went.
I can imagine terse phone calls between Reid and Obama.
Bundy better have armed people around him at all times from now until the end. Fedgov will take him out otherwise.
What? Confiscated private property that doesn’t require a billion forms, six court dates and eight delays?
To me, this seems like a clear demonstration of how armed citizens no longer have to act like surfs going before the king in the hopes that he might look on in favor for whatever pittance they request that day.
Seriously BLM, get a judgement. At least try to look fair.
Cattle on the hoof was 1.35 a pound day before yesterday. A grown steer comes in at about 1200 pounds, doesn’t it?
That’s a lot of money.
Now that they’ve had the roundup, Bundy should just go to market. :>)
I wonder at what level of Government this was called off? Coincidental that it happened right after Harry Reid’s involvement was exposed. Obama is too stupid to figure it out so it must have been Valerie Jarrett. Follow the money......
PRO TIP: The technical term for a situation where the guys with guns escort their leaders away from the confrontation to take them to safety is called "Retreating" which means those leaders have lost the battle.
I suspect that the BLM overplayed it’s hand and Reid and Obama began to see some political blowback. I have heard that none of the cattle auction operations would touch the cattle. That would force the BLM to shoot the cattle, something that they could not do without a photo leaking. That would have been a major political disaster.
They will go back, lick their wounds and go at it another way. In the meantime, Reid’s criminal activity has been exposed and he needs to be hit in the face with it.
“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.”
Our founding fathers would be proud today.
It certainly looks like a victory from Bundy. Now, I guess we’ll wait and see whether he’ll continue to graze the restored cattle on the disputed land.
I know there are arguments in all directions as to who “owns” the land—the feds, the state, Bundy, etc. But after a hundred years of grazing cattle there, it seems to me that the Bundy family have a legally established right to continue grazing them.
Harry Reid was so deep into this as to defy belief even for a Democrat.
As soon as the crowds of supporters are disbursed the Feds will stuff Bundy through the meat grinder.
They will make him pay dearly for thinking he has any rights.
Harry Reid wants that land vacated for his pals to take over and the Feds will get it for him one way or the other.
Cattle rustling is okay if you give them back afterwards?
Looks like this just deals with the cows already taken by the BLM. It doesn’t appear to address the larger concerns.
More to follow, it seems.
This retreat beats the Vichy French. Something tells me that Reid wanted this to go away NOW.
Given that the land is owned by the State of Nevada (my "buddy" Hanity says so), I don't see where the feds have any constitutional control over the land since it evidently wasn't purchased under the Constitution's Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I, or the eminent domain clause of the 5th Amendment.
So what constitutional clause am I overlooking?
“... a SWAT unit at the scene to keep the peace ...”
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They are so good at that...
All the cattle were just released. I watched on Live feed. 130 dead from being chased in the heat.
Cow cuffs?