While this cartoon was originally intended to depict the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, it can easily represent what is happening here in the US.
Posted on 04/16/2014 5:42:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
While distancing itself from the legal issues that prompted the Bureau of Land Management to round up Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy’s range cattle then release hundreds of them as the threat of violence loomed, the conservative Nevada Cattlemen’s Association issued a statement Wednesday that sympathizes with Bundy.
“The situation in Nevada stands as an example (of) the federal agencies’ steady trend toward elevating environmental and wildlife issues over livestock grazing,” reads the statement from Ron Torell, the cattlemen’s group president.
The statement adds that ranchers like Bundy, who graze livestock on multiple-use public lands, which include habitat for the threatened desert tortoise and other federally protected species, “have found themselves with their backs against the wall as, increasingly, federal regulations have infringed on their public land grazing rights and the multiple-use management principle.”
“This is not only devastating to individual ranching families; it is also causing rural communities in the West to (wither) on the vine. In the West, one in every two acres is owned by the federal government,” the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association statement notes. “Therefore, the integrity of the laws protecting productive multiple use is paramount to the communities that exist there.”
The group contends that the Endangered Species Act and other such laws “are being implemented in a way that are damaging to our rights and to our Western families and communities. In Bundy’s case the designation of his grazing area as a critical habitat for the endangered desert tortoise gave the BLM the rationale they needed to order a 500% decrease in his cattle numbers. There never was any scientific proof that cattle had historically harmed the desert tortoise.”
The BLM halted its roundup Saturday as gun-toting militia and protesters in support of Bundy converged on a corral near Mesquite where government cowboys were preparing...
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I’ve noted in the stuff I’ve seen, that the mention of the Hage case includes who the judge is, and you can find the case info... but I’ve not seen anything saying who this judge is, or where the case documentation exists. My opinion is that the BLM’s requests might have been a practice of a fraud on the court if he didn’t have the Hage case ruling presented with the request, in determining Bundy’s claims were “without merit”.
Anyone know who the judge is, what the case is, where the documents are ?
While this cartoon was originally intended to depict the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, it can easily represent what is happening here in the US.
MOO
Besides, Mr. Bundy is the white man they hate. Now if he was of Indian ancestry, hmmmmmm.
Yes Martha, bias and prejudice is alive and well in good ole USA.
A friend of mine told me that Texas has no land owned by the federal government. Don’t know if that is true but this was interesting.
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/socioeconomic/states/texas.html
Looks like their are no federal grazing or timber interests in Texas.
......well, let’s see, add about ten troopers, some attack dogs, stun guns, her pregnant, snipers in the background, machine guns, pistols on hip, some cool Raybans............uh, hmmm............yeah, that ought to be about do it!
Sounds to me like they might be afraid they’ll be the next Bundy. Wonder how many of them utilize BLM property to graze and water their herds...
Thanks
With four stomachs, they can have some significant belches too.
“These tortoises were doing so poorly a veterinarian, Dr. Jarchow, was consulted. He reported all six specimens were suffering from osteoporosis caused by a protein deficiency in their diet. Dr. Jarchow examined five specimens from the same mountains that shared their range with cattle. He reported these specimens were all healthy and well nourished.
“The historical record proves conclusively that tortoise thrive when cattle are on the range with them and without cattle grazing they are always malnourished and unhealthy and their numbers plummet.
http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com/?p=80
Hmmm....
if so, then the feds don’t have any “hooks” from that quarter, on the ranchers in Texas.
Thank you for continuing to keep us updated on this most important matter.
During the course of the day I am not able to hear or pull up the news, and for obvious reason, this standoff made history and I want to know how it is continuing to shake out.
The reality is, they didn't want his money, they wanted him out. Which is why he stopped paying them in the first place.
I stand with Bundy. Having said that, in Colorado, these are some of the same folks who groom their land for elk and won't let me hunt there if I don't have $8000 for the tags that the DOW gives them to do with as they please. They have, in many cases, made a deal with the devil after a fashion. I have had the red a$$ about that for years.
Now we are on the same page about being cut out from access.
I feel better now.
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