"Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid."~John Wayne
Posted on 04/15/2014 10:12:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Following remarks Senate Majority leader Harry Reid made at the University of Nevada, Reno on Monday, the Nevada Democrat told Reno's KRNV TV his thoughts on the cattle controversy in Gold Butte. "Well, it's not over. We can't have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it's not over," Reid said.
There is no question that there were a lot of things going on down there with breaking the law," Reid said. "And that is not over yet. We can't let that continue. So I'm sure it is not the end of it."
Reid was confronted earlier at UNR during the Q & A time after Reid's speech about the cattle issue by Kim Kollman a former teacher at Truckee Meadows Community College, The Reno Gazette Journal reported:
Citing Reuters News Service, the Drudge Report and another website, Kollman asked Reid if he was in collusion with his son and the "Communist Chinese" to forcibly remove Bundy from his property to help bring more solar energy to Southern Nevada. Kollman said Reid was "papering over" the question of possible collusion.
Reid replied, "That is an easy question to paper over. Do you know what you just said? Please read something else. And that is how I'm going to respond to that question."
The crowd applauded Reid. Kollman then asked Reid, "What are you afraid of, sir?" before Kollman was asked by an organizer to sit down, which he did.
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Reid was critical of BLM's inability to conduct a successful operation in Bunkersville saying, "The BLM shouldn’t have started this if they couldn’t develop a plan to finish it successfully.
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When do some of the other senators call him out. He has gone way past the line. Or does someone need to be killed first.
No but we can have 11+ million Illegals circumventing the law and sucking the taxpayer dry!
I don’t need proof that the government drives ranchers or any other businesses or persons out of business. I know it does. My point is Bundy’s the wrong guy to make this stand with. The law and facts are not on his side. Where’s the money he’s paid the county/state for “grazing rights”? Where are his receipts or proofs of payment?
The government has given him several outs already that were better than the deal he’s going to get: federal liens. He didn’t take them. This process has taken two decades. It’s been through numerous courts. There isn’t a direct due process case to be made here.
What we should be doing is:
1. Publicizing this in such a way that suburban/urban voters can understand what’s at stake.
2. Looking for good cases to make against the abuses of the BLM, in this case, and other government agencies.
3. Electing the most conservative US House and Senate we can and demanding that they act to reduce the scope of the federal government.
4. There’s a great state’s rights issue here and it can be exploited for our cause. Let’s approach state legislators and appeal to their own selfish motives to demand federal land be turned over to the states.
Jacquerie among others has been pushing to repeal the 17th Amendment. There are some issues with that, we’ll get an Internet sales tax if we ever lose the House again , but this is in the same vein.
Jacquerie, courtesy ping since I mentioned you specifically.
Clive Bundy is not going to jail. He will go down as a martyr fighting for liberty if necessary.
Bundy is the one standing up to them. The others have all gone by the way and caved.
There were quite a few state reps at the ranch supporting Bundy.
Great video. The the reason OWS is completely incompatible with the Freedom movement is they want the government to punish the corporations, take their wealth, and subsidize all gay marriages with it. If they were really just about the unfairness of a system that allows most of the wealth to be consolidated in 1% of the population, they would have been occupying K street. They were set up by unions.
That refreshing WILL come. Bank on it: buy ammo.
I will be writing a Rory article the next couple of days (sooo much to do). Reviewing my old notes.
To ponder: Rory took over Dario Herreras County Commisson seat, so Herrera could run for Congress. Herrera then sent to jail for taking tittybar bribes from Mike Galardi at Cheetahs.
Harry and Rory need to keep this in the news so we can take a can of whoop ass to their sorry cadavers.
Will Jeb Bush give a Freedom award to Harry Reid after the killing starts as he did to Hillary Clinton?
Brave? For writing blog posts? Seriously?
Well it was the Young Democrats that invited Reid the Red to speak - and they’d applaud Dingy if he ordered them to leap from a cliff and then do as he commanded.
Thank you very much. If Rory ever becomes Governor of Nevada, you can bet that Nevada will be in for a helluva ride. If you can call being royally raped by the Reids a ride.
"Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid."~John Wayne
He doesn’t even have the sense to STFU. This is the level of arrogance when we let people grab too much power.
Thanx for the post.
“”Well, it’s not over. We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over,” Reid said.”
ELKO - More than 75 organizations, including some that receive federal funding, have endorsed a plan to end livestock grazing on federal lands in the West.
The plan was unveiled last fall by National Public Lands Grazing Campaign and would involve purchasing grazing permits from ranchers, then permanently retiring the permits.
Special legislation would be needed in order for the group to accomplish its goal. Meanwhile, letters have been mailed to the approximately 25,000 grazing permittees to introduce them to the buyout proposal and ask for their support.
"Some ranchers have already voluntarily relinquished their grazing permits to the government in exchange for compensation from third parties, and we believe many more would sell their permit interest to the government and retire the associated allotments from grazing," NPLGC reports on its Web site, www.publiclandsranching.org.
Mark Salvo, attorney for the group, also works for American Lands Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based group that has threatened to petition for listing of the sage grouse as a federally protected species.
At a RangeNet conference last fall, Salvo told the audience grazing takes place on 270 million acres of federal land, which is "a significant land area." But he said the number of ranchers using the land is "insignificant" and contributes less than a tenth of one percent to employment in the West.
American Lands is one of the endorsers, along with Western Watersheds Project (Idaho), Alliance for the Wild Rockies (Montana), Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics (Oregon), Humane Society of the United States (Washington, D.C.), Wild Utah Project (Utah), The Wildlands Project (Vermont) and 70 other groups.
An article by Salvo and Andy Kerr of The Larch Company says, "Domestic livestock grazing (mostly beef cattle) have done more damage to North America than the bulldozer and chainsaw combined. Not only have livestock been degrading the landscape longer than developers, miners, and loggers, they have grazed nearly everywhere. Yet, the conservation movement has paid scant attention to this issue, even on federal public lands where livestock mow through 257 million acres annually."
Buying out the grazing permits would be cheaper for taxpayers than allowing grazing to continue, they say.
Others on the group's steering committee are Katie Fite of the Committee for Idaho's High Desert, John Horning of Forest Guardians, Bill Marlett of Oregon Natural Desert Association, Jon Marvel of Western Watersheds Project, Randi Spivak of American Lands Alliance and Martin Taylor of the Center for Biological Diversity.
Some of the groups endorsing the plan have received federal funding. These include California Trout, based in San Francisco; Land and Water Fund of the Rockies; and World Wildlife Fund.
NPLGC is preparing to publish a book titled "Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West," due out this summer.
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