Posted on 04/16/2014 11:05:04 AM PDT by ponygirl
New images of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy’s tense standoff with the Federal Bureau of Land Mangement (BLM) on Saturday afternoon reveal how the armed agency’s military operation configured to forcefully engage Bundy cowboys and their supporters who sought to liberate federally confiscated cattle over the weekend.
These exclusive images were taken by a GMN photographer positioned right above the action on the Southbound side of Interstate 15 near Bunkerville, Nevada.
Despite the BLM being instructed to leave the Bundy Ranch and Gold Butte area earlier that morning, the agency still insisted had a legal right to be there and that it would not let go of hundreds of cows it had already taken away from the Bundy Family. Critics are asking if that ‘legal right’ also includes stationing a federal military force in Bunkerville.
Prior to this standoff, the special agent in charge of BLM’s ground operations, Daniel P. Love, had issued a warning that any one who crosses the federal line in order to free the seized cattle – will be arrested. Love went on boasting his agency’s advantage over Bundy supporters when saying, “I’ve seen your numbers right now, you’d better hope that 10,000 show up.”
It turns out that protesters needed far less numbers to overcome Love’s federal army. In the end, a Bundy’s contingent of 150 cowboys on horseback and a few hundred of peaceful supporters – backed by a well-organised volunteer militia, all together, proceed to march past the BLM’s line of demarcation to the entrance of cattle holding area, prompting the platoon of armed federal tactical teams to stand down and fall back.
This is the first collection in a three part series, showing the federal government’s military build-up to Saturday’s climax under US Interstate 15…
(Excerpt) Read more at 21stcenturywire.com ...
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I agree with your assessment. as an X-LRRP with two tours in Vietnam, I have always had my doubts about these “Swat Teams”. Most of them would be hiding behind a truck crying and puking if they ever got in a real firefight. Every time there is an incident in the news, they are always hiding outside until the shooter is immobilized and then they go in and secure the area. as my son would say on his I phone- lol!
Every true American needs to tell the media that they have the will to use firearms to protect our rights.
What’s so wrong with that?
He’s dead, Jim...
Look t those pictures and then recall the rhetoric questions that were asked about what side the military and military types would take in the event of a SHTF scenario.
I have my answer.
I totally agree! I believe that most state LEO's & heavily armed federal agencies civilian-military squads & the U.S. military under the regime of socialist-fascist-muslim dictator 0bama, including all democRATS & GOP-e, would LOVE to crush & fire on any Christian, patriotic, constitutional conservatives. I believe the only way any grass roots rebellion will succeed is for 6-8 states led by conservative governors & legislatures to declare secession against the U.S. federal gubmint, and patriotic volunteers to swell their ranks, including an additional number of southern or western states. I believe the fascists let by the demoCRAP traitoers & GP-e will back down & turn tail & run in the face of any strong, cohesive, organized opposition to them. Bullies always turn tail & run whenever someone fights back!
Sarge said: while I agree generally, over time it simply reverts back to what it was before the “cattle r roaming”.
I've come to realize that real nature operates without regard to a status quo. The opposite, in fact, as it constantly shifts and changes, always has and always will. If life and "ecosystems" for lack of better word ever remained static, then we would be in serious trouble. Livestock on open land is as right to be there as not, just as men hunting sea otters and abalone on the coasts are right to be there, ecologically, as not. Change is a constant, so we might as well go with it instead of trying to "preserve" the wind and the weather.
Case in point: in the late 1800s, California coast probably had on average small abalone but lots of sea otters who ate them, said sea otters with fur perfect for clothing for folks in cold climates. Pelt hunters hunted sea otters to extinction on the mild California coast (they survived well in other coastal areas), and as a result, the abalone -- basically big sea snails -- exploded in population and size. As a fishery, delicious abalone supported three generations of commercial ab divers, along with sport divers, swimmingly. Suddenly it dropped off in the mid '70s when sea otter populations mysteriously revived and became FEDERALLY protected. What is the livelihood and food source of real living Americans existing and sharing in ecosystems with other wildlife, compared to a sea otter, after all? I mean, priorities, please!
Ecologists who claim extinction of sea otters "permanently" screwed up the ecosystem enough to cause lack of kelp beds in the '60s and '70s, are asking me not to believe my lying eyes. Ecosystems constantly shift and adapt; life does its thing and the idea of "status quo" is quaint and pathetic. The same thing has happened and is happening to America's fisheries on both coasts, as it is to these cattlemen: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS REGULATING THEM OUT OF EXISTENCE.
We have a right to cultivate, hunt, and harvest food, and be confident that the "environment" and harvesters adapt together as they always have. The Federal government wants to remove that right.
Bottom line.
Amen.
Thanks for the opinion; however, I believe my statement is true. But let me qualify it more. Yes, I agree that the ecosystem is impacted by the “long-term” presence of the cattle, and hence animal life will change as well, along with plant life. But I think the dominating element is the weather. Pull out the cattle, and the ecosystem will attempt to revert back, insofar as the weather was the same as before the cattle were introduced. If the long-term weather has changed to a new state while the cattle were there, the reversion will be slightly different, of course. But remove the big impact factor such as the cattle, and it should revert back to some extent. Note that I am NOT saying that life will flourish, but tend to revert back to the previous state of the ecosystem, whether desolate wasteland or an oasis. The presence of the cattle may have actually improved the ecosystem so that other species flourish as well, but with removal, they would die back to levels before the cattle arrived.
THIS is truth: Everything that happens on this planet is temporary.
What was the weather 500 years ago? 5,000 years ago? Or 20,000 years ago, when sea levels were so low that the Florida peninsula was more than TWICE as big as it is now? Sgt Hooper, that was only 20,000 years ago, before humans were around to anguish over rising sea levels covering more than half of the Florida peninsula with water.
We are mold on a cheeseball on this planet, and God is our host. We are along for the ride. We don't control the climate -- it controls us.
125,000 years ago, sea levels were so HIGH that the Florida peninsula was only half the size it is now; you can even see traces of the old coastline today. But that was 125,000 years ago, l-o-o-o-o-ng before humans could gnash their teeth and drive themselves crazy over the receding waters "endangering" so much wetland.
There is zero status quo in nature; there is nothing to "revert" to. Nature operates with zero, zilch, big fat donut hole, regard to man; we're just another critter in the system with as much potential to alter things that won't mean a hill of beans 50,000 years from now.
Pick the bones clean...let nothing go to waste. :)
“What was the weather 500 years ago? 5,000 years ago? Or 20,000 years ago, when sea levels were so low that the Florida peninsula was more than TWICE as big as it is now? Sgt Hooper, that was only 20,000 years ago, before humans were around to anguish over rising sea levels covering more than half of the Florida peninsula with water.”
Why are you taking this away from the context of cattle grazing? Take those cattle of the grazing land now, and I am willing to bet the land will revert back to what it was BEFORE the cattle were introduced, within 30 years, or less. And if you think the weather will change that radically in that timeframe, and in that domain you are wrong.
“We are mold on a cheeseball on this planet, and God is our host. We are along for the ride.”
Agree.
“We don’t control the climate — it controls us.”
Duh, really?
“125,000 years ago, sea levels were so HIGH that the Florida peninsula was only half the size it is now; you can even see traces of the old coastline today. But that was 125,000 years ago, l-o-o-o-o-ng before humans could gnash their teeth and drive themselves crazy over the receding waters “endangering” so much wetland.”
Again, waaaaay out of the cattle grazing context.
“There is zero status quo in nature; there is nothing to “revert” to.”
Really, for those that live in the country, stop mowing the yard, stop maintenance and upkeep, stop everything, and see how long it take for mother nature to wipe out any semblance of prior human habitation on that land. We are not talking thousands of years but decades.
As I indicated prior, reversion is to some prior point due in large part to the weather all other things being equal. Reversion occurs whether you care to admit or not. That is the truth.
“Nature operates with zero, zilch, big fat donut hole, regard to man; we’re just another critter in the system with as much potential to alter things that won’t mean a hill of beans 50,000 years from now.”
Keep it in the cattle grazing context, which term is significantly less (by factors) than 50,000 years.
No problem. I found it on some weather site looking for another graphic, found it and decided to use it for ZOTS.
Imported thugs are a little harder to find in order to sort things out later...but anything can be read on the web, anywhere.
I have been waiting for the mumbling about a damaged gas line and a 'gas explosion' for a while now. After all, the people who investigate it will be able to get any missile bits out of there..."No evidence exists..."
Well, I took a course back when in North American Archaeology from a real heretic who said Clovis wasn’t the first here, and that conditions were ripe for human migration as far back as 64,000 years ago. There might have been someone here to rue the higher high tides, even as the weather seemed warmer. Pre-Clovis discoveries have been happening (just had to dig a little deeper).
Absolutely right. Amazing that our government is systematically putting out of business the very people that provide our food.
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