Harry Reid's last roundup

WorldNet Daily ^ | April 13, 2014 | Joseph Farah

[libstripper]

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy performed a remarkable public service for America over the last couple weeks.

He exposed the utter ruthlessness, brutishness and Gestapo tactics of the federal government in dealing with honest, hard-working Americans who live off the land – our land.

Claiming Bundy’s cattle ranching operation was endangering desert tortoises, the Bureau of Land Management treated him like he was Ted Bundy. I take that back. The serial rapist, mass murderer and necrophile got due process.

When Cliven Bundy’s neighbors turned out to support him, as good American neighbors should, the BLM sent in helicopters, four-wheel-drive vehicles and an estimated 200 armed officers to deal with the cowboy and his family, threatening another Ruby Ridge or Waco-style slaughter

[eyedigress]

I do not understand what good folks of faith see in Obama.
He is not truthful nor is he a protector of rights given by our Creator.

He is a blatant liar and does not have a foundation of our Nation. November 2014 will reflect this.

[353FMG]

It is because our national debt belongs to the Chicoms and the likes of Harry like to take advantage of that fact to enrich themselves.

Sell America to the highest bidder.

Delve a little deeper and you’ll find that there are other politicians that play the same game but have not been caught yet.

[Old Yeller]

I hope Mr. Bundy runs for president.

I hope Hairy Reed runs for his life, and fails.

[ronnyquest]

That, too.

[Chode]

[crz]

They scrapped the LAUGHLIN project.

THE LAUGHLIN...project.

Get to your map and look where Laughlin NV is.

[crz]

Becks boys did a piss poor job of investigative reporting on this.

The Laughlin Project was dropped. Laughlin is 12 miles from me.

The area in question is the Dry Lake/Gold Bute zone-northeast of Vegas...which involved the Bundy Ranch.

The Blaze had better do their research better.

[rolling_stone]

Bundy relies on NRS 321.59 which has not been fully adjudicated

NRS 321.596 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that:

1. The State of Nevada has a strong moral claim upon the public land retained by the Federal Government within Nevada’s borders because:

(a) On October 31, 1864, the Territory of Nevada was admitted to statehood on the condition that it forever disclaim all right and title to unappropriated public land within its boundaries;

(b) From 1850 to 1894, newly admitted states received 2 sections of each township for the benefit of common schools, which in Nevada amounted to 3.9 million acres;

(c) In 1880 Nevada agreed to exchange its 3.9-million-acre school grant for 2 million acres of its own selection from public land in Nevada held by the Federal Government;

(d) At the time the exchange was deemed necessary because of an immediate need for public school revenues and because the majority of the original federal land grant for common schools remained unsurveyed and unsold;

(e) Unlike certain other states, such as New Mexico, Nevada received no land grants from the Federal Government when Nevada was a territory;

(f) Nevada received no land grants for insane asylums, schools of mines, schools for the blind and deaf and dumb, normal schools, miners’ hospitals or a governor’s residence as did states such as New Mexico; and

(g) Nevada thus received the least amount of land, 2,572,478 acres, and the smallest percentage of its total area, 3.9 percent, of the land grant states in the Far West admitted after 1864, while states of comparable location and soil, namely Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, received approximately 11 percent of their total area in federal land grants.

2. The State of Nevada has a legal claim to the public land retained by the Federal Government within Nevada’s borders because:

(a) In the case of the State of Alabama, a renunciation of any claim to unappropriated lands similar to that contained in the ordinance adopted by the Nevada constitutional convention was held by the Supreme Court of the United States to be “void and inoperative” because it denied to Alabama “an equal footing with the original states” in Pollard v. Hagan, 44 U.S. (3 How.) 212 (1845);

(b) The State of Texas, when admitted to the Union in 1845, retained ownership of all unappropriated land within its borders, setting a further precedent which inured to the benefit of all states admitted later “on an equal footing”; and

(c) The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, adopted into the Constitution of the United States by the reference of Article VI to prior engagements of the Confederation, first proclaimed the “equal footing” doctrine, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which the territory including Nevada was acquired from Mexico and which is “the supreme law of the land” by virtue of Article VI, affirms it expressly as to the new states to be organized therein.

3. The exercise of broader control by the State of Nevada over the public lands within its borders would be of great public benefit because:

(a) Federal holdings in the State of Nevada constitute 86.7 percent of the area of the State, and in Esmeralda, Lincoln, Mineral, Nye and White Pine counties the Federal Government controls from 97 to 99 percent of the land;

(b) Federal jurisdiction over the public domain is shared among 17 federal agencies or departments which adds to problems of proper management of land and disrupts the normal relationship between a state, its residents and its property;

(c) None of the federal lands in Nevada are taxable and Federal Government activities are extensive and create a tax burden for the private property owners of Nevada who must meet the needs of children of Federal Government employees, as well as provide other public services;

(d) Under general land laws only 2.1 percent of federal lands in Nevada have moved from federal control to private ownership;

(e) Federal administration of the retained public lands, which are vital to the livestock and mining industries of the State and essential to meet the recreational and other various uses of its citizens, has been of uneven quality and sometimes arbitrary and capricious; and

(f) Federal administration of the retained public lands has not been consistent with the public interest of the people of Nevada because the Federal Government has used those lands for armament and nuclear testing thereby rendering many parts of the land unusable and unsuited for other uses and endangering the public health and welfare.

4. The intent of the framers of the Constitution of the United States was to guarantee to each of the states sovereignty over all matters within its boundaries except for those powers specifically granted to the United States as agent of the states.
5. The attempted imposition upon the State of Nevada by the Congress of the United States of a requirement in the enabling act that Nevada “disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within said territory,” as a condition precedent to acceptance of Nevada into the Union, was an act beyond the power of the Congress of the United States and is thus void.

6. The purported right of ownership and control of the public lands within the State of Nevada by the United States is without foundation and violates the clear intent of the Constitution of the United States.

7. The exercise of such dominion and control of the public lands within the State of Nevada by the United States works a severe, continuous and debilitating hardship upon the people of the State of Nevada.

(Added to NRS by 1979, 1362)

http://law.justia.com/codes/nevada/2010/title26/chapter321/nrs321-596.html

[blueplum]

that explains a lot about why the prices went so high

[blueplum]

I found the below, and apologize it’s from a save-the-horsies link, but couldn’t find it anywhere else. The drive to take back Fed lands within Nevada was active in 1996. I wonder what happened? And does this help Bundy in any way?

http://www.wildhorsespirit.org/nv_question_4_ballot_vote.htm

Also, and bear in mind I’m as dumb as lemons when it comes to law, modern-day Clark County, in 1864, was part of the Territory of Arizona’s Mohave County. Given to Nevada in 1866 to punish Arizona for siding with the Confederates, this land wasn’t gifted by the Feds until after Nevada became a state. “The Ordinance” of 1864 siezed ownership of Nevada land for the Feds, but would this additional territory of MohaveCounty/Clark County be subject to the same forfeiture ? or is this additional territory actually outside of the terms of “the Ordinance” and so belong only to Nevada?

[longfellow]

Amen to that.

[Vesparado]

To the extent that Bundy relied on this “legislative finding” (which has the legal status of whining for more than the state originally got), it has.

From his most recent court hearing: “In sum, in this most recent effort to oppose the United States’ legal process, Bundy has produced no valid law or specific facts raising a genuine issue of fact regarding federal ownership or management of public lands in Nevada, or that his cattle
have not trespassed on the New Trespass Lands.” (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/grazing/pdfs/Bundy_I_Notice7-26-13.pdf)

There is a very good disposition of all of the Bundy legal claims (including the equal footing doctrine argument) here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/12/1291572/-Does-rancher-Bundy-have-a-legal-claim-No

He’s had his bite at the legal apple. Several bites, in fact. And the Feds have shown remarkable restraint in reining in this stubborn man who simply refuses to obey the law.

[Little Bill]

How could Harry do this to a fellow Mormon?

[Night Hides Not]

“The Chinese company eventually shelved the project in June 2013 when it failed to find a customer. The deal is over and the proposed construction will not happen.”

Isn't that convenient, just one month after Harvey Whittemore was convicted?

[Night Hides Not]

How could Harry do this to a fellow Mormon?

You really had to ask that question? lol

[Chode]

cause he'd do it to his own mother if he could make a penny...