Posted on 04/12/2014 8:33:43 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
This week, the Bureau of Land Management has been attempting to confiscate the cattle of Cliven Bundy, the last rancher in Nevadas Clark County. On Wednesday, BLM agents confronted the Bundy family and supporters, using attack dogs, tasers and stun guns. Bundys son was tased and his daughter thrown to the ground. Three others were injured. Bundy supporters eventually drove the BLM off, but not before they had taken some cattle.
The BLM claims the cattle are tresspassing on land designated for the endangered desert tortoise. This designation is a red flag that something else is going on. Desert tortoises have co-existed with cattle for over 100 years and the cattle offer no threat.
Sure enough, as Dana Loesch reports today in a great piece of investigative journalism, Senator Harry Reid, known as Cleanface by the Nevada mob, and named by Judicial Watch as one of Washingtons Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians, has been using the BLM to seize rangeland on behalf of campaign contributors. One of Reids former senior advisors, Neil Kornze, was recently appointed to lead the BLM, but he has worked there since 2011, and been de facto leader for at least a year. According to Loesch, Reid even ordered BLM to alter boundaries of tortoise habitat to allow top contributor, Harvey Whittemore, to develop the land. Yet another compassionate Democrat concerned for the environment. Good old Cleanface.
All other ranchers have been driven out of the county, but Bundy refuses to bend. The BLM claims Bundy owes them grazing fees dating back to 1993, however, he says his grazing rights predate the BLM, his family has used the land since the 1800s and those rights should have been grandfathered in. Contrary to BLMs accusations, Bundy has been paying grazing fees, but to the governmental entity he believes has true title to the land: Clark County, Nevada. Loesch relates:
The BLM arrived much later, changed the details of the setup without consulting with Bundy or any other rancher and then began systematically driving out cattle and ranchers. Bundy refused to pay BLM, especially after they demanded he reduce his heards head count down to a level that would not sustain his ranch.
The BLM may have authority under the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. Bundy says that public land belongs to the citizens, but the court claimed that the public lands in Nevada are the property of the United States because the United States has held title to those public lands since 1848, when Mexico ceded the land to the United States. In justifying the seizure the court stated Bundys cattle have caused and continue to cause damage to natural and cultural resources and pose a threat to public safety. It would be interesting to see the justification for that claim. What cultural resources exist in that open, undeveloped, remote area, and what was the damage to natural resources? Certainly not the tortoise, which they used as an excuse to close the off the land in the first place. What they really want is the land.
The desert tortoise is so endangered in this area, that the government is planning to euthanize some of them. Furthermore, the tortoise was virtually extinct before people even settled the area. Ranchers actually improved its prospects by accessing springs and developing other water sources, according to Myron Ebell, Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institutes Energy and Environment Center. But with the extreme environmentalists at the Interior Department no good deed goes unpunished, because they want the land, period.
The governments agenda in this and many other land confiscation activities is actually motivated by Agenda 21′s Rewilding program, which advocates pushing humans out of rural areas entirely, and into densely packed urban zones. The idea was a brainchild of Dave Foreman, founder of EarthFirst! who popularized the use of tree-spiking to prevent logging. Read here how its working out in California. However, these environmental hypocrites have all shown their true color when these precious lands subsequently are sold, developed or otherwise used to benefit the politicians who fixed the deal.
The politicians who fixed this deal are Senator Harry Reid and his son, Rory. And they did so on behalf of the Communist Chinese who intend to build the largest solar energy complex in America. Reuters reports:
[Reid] and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert. Reid has been one of the projects most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada.
His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission. (Emphasis added.)
So now we get the true picture. Likely Clark County political corruption going along with this. All for the tortoise, that will doubtless become completely extinct when this massive monstrosity blankets its ground. This issue needs to be fought at every level and Harry Reid & Co. need to be brought up on charges!
Bundy is getting some support. Sheriff Richard Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Police Officers Association, is traveling to the ranch along with some fellow CSPOA members, and state representatives from Arizona and Nevada, as well as Nevadas governor, Brian Sandoval, have issued criticisms.
Sandoval has taken a wait and see attitude. Earlier this week, I advised the BLM not to limit or hinder the constitutional rights of Nevadans and be mindful of its conduct he said. Clearly the BLM has done neither. Will Sandoval let them get away with it? It is now clear what is happening. Will Sandoval allow this fraud to continue? Is he part of it? This is a telling moment for the Republican govenor. Will he do his job and honor his oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic? Right now it appears that we are dealing with enemies both foreign and domestic.
The legal issues on the land rights may be debatable, but the federal governments increasingly despotic behavior toward defenseless citizens is completely without justification. Furthermore, its alleged reasoning is outrageous, given what we now know about the filthy handed, Cleanface, Harry Reid.
This is a defining issue and a defining moment in U.S. history, one that should be at the forefront of our nations attention today.
I only wish that the other ranchers would RETURN and with double the head of cattle!!!!!! GO TEA PARTY PATRIOTS... You and other conservative Americans stood your ground.
Well need to ban all Congressmen, Federal and judicial officials from investing in businesses from countries that we run a trade deficit with.
The number of deals that China has with our politicians is why they won’t address what China is doing to our economy.
Looks more like treason to me.
There is a similarity between Hillary and Read in that in both cases American lives were considered of little importance.
It's just 'Communist' - not 'Communists
Harry Reid had yucca mountain stopped making it more difficult to push nuke power. This is just another step in his plan to make bucks off solar.
Both were hippies in the sixties which seems to be a common thread among demorats in power today.
I swear, I will donate 2 weeks of my pay to any charity when I see this corrupt BASTARD being led away in shackles and an orange jumpsuit.
I seriously hate this POS.
All I can say is there had better be an alternative to the Internet setup ASAP because you can guess the next play for the feds will be to start dismantling the communication and news feed apparatus of the right wingers in order to keep the word from getting out when they pull these fiascos. The “sale of the Internet” to Russia may have had something to do with that anyway.
I swear, I will donate 2 weeks of my pay to any charity when I see this corrupt BASTARD being led away in shackles and an orange jumpsuit.
I seriously hate this POS.
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This might be the opportunity to see that. The INSTANT collapse of the fedcoat effort when Reid’s traces showed up makes me think he is VERY exposed.
Also, if the Reid corruption angle is not pressed, the Bundys are as dead as Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru on Tatooine when people disperse and attention is diverted.
My ancestors settled in Clay County...
Who is Reid to "order" BLM to do anything? No doubt it was suggested by this sleazeoid, but it was "ordered" by Holder.
There are some real dirty dealings in this. But when one claims it, they'll play the race card. Guaranteed. But I was inured to that crap a long time ago in Vietnam.
What about the Wookie?
This article states that a Reuters article stated that the Chinese firm ENN was buying land from Clark County. If this is the land in dispute, how is the land owned by Clark County (=state of Nevada) if it is claimed by the Fed Gov?
“[Reid] and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert. Reid has been one of the projects most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada.”
WAKE UP VOTERS!
U.S Senators Visit China
In This Photo: Harry Reid, Xi Jinping
U.S.Senator Harry Reid, Democrat from Nevada, at center left talks with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping at center right at the Great Hall of the People on April 21, 2011 in Beijing, China. Majority Leader Harry Reid leads an unusually large delegation of 9 other U.S. senators for talks with Chinese officials on topics from clean energy to human rights.
Has anyone ever stopped to ask if what we're seeing is a peeling back of the curtain on why China has been so quiet in the Puppet's fiscal irresponsibility? You know...'payola'???
ENN Energy isn't just involved in Nevada:
Exclusive: Chinese firm puts millions into U.S. natural gas stations
I just have to wonder if what we're seeing in this latest episode ala 'Bundy Ranch' isn't an extension of what Reid negotiated in his trip(s?) to China. I also have to wonder what else was promised to the Chinese in exchange for their continued buying of Treasuries to prop up the RED INK...ya know???
I know, but I’m just a pauper
http://www.nps.gov/olsp/planyourvisit/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=634172
More on the China/Reid connections
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-usa-china-reid-solar-idUSBRE87U06D20120831
Ironically, I’ve been researching the background on this and then came across your post...
Tea Pot Dome and Tammany Hall on steroids.
'Course you can find other places on the 'net that say it just ain't so.
Mister Reid will be, apparently, forever untroubled by that conscience thingy.
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