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FEDS SEIZE FAMILY’S RANCH-Property owners fight government ‘land grab’!!!
Tea Party Tribune ^ | April 17, 2014 | TPT Admin

Posted on 04/19/2014 11:28:48 AM PDT by Texas Fossil

When Kit Laney answered a knock on his door Saturday, law enforcement officers from the U.S. Forest Service handed him a piece of paper announcing his Diamond Bar Ranch in southwest New Mexico would be shut down Wednesday and his 300 head of cattle grazing there would be removed – one way or the other.

Other Forest Service officials were busy nailing similar notices on fence posts along the highway and informing neighbors that after Feb. 11, they should not attempt to enter the Diamond Bar property.

Laney was not surprised. He knew someday there would be an on-the-ground confrontation to enforce a 1997 court ruling which says his cattle are trespassing on federal land. That day has arrived.

(Excerpt) Read more at teapartytribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: agenda21; blm; bundy; bundyranch; federalland; federallandgrab; feds; grazingrights; kitlaney; land; laneyranch; newmexico; nfs; nm; seize; trespasscattle; usforestservice
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To: 1rudeboy

Its not meaningless, they have to be read in conjunction with each other and as always the specific overrides the general.

Nonetheless, the enclave clause as you can see does more then the District - it tells what is allowed and how to obtain it from within the States.


101 posted on 04/19/2014 1:14:58 PM PDT by Mechanicos (When did we amend the Constitution for a 2nd Federal Prohibition?)
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To: 1rudeboy

You are talking about the surface rights issue.

Those rights can only expire by failure to continue their use.

Prescriptive surface use is the highest class of ownership there is.
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102 posted on 04/19/2014 1:16:03 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: 1rudeboy; editor-surveyor

I don’t know about New Mexico - but they do in Nevada.

Yes, you did mean to cause the reactions - you did not post your first in good faith. You posted to elicit a squabble.

The argument made by editor-surveyor does not depend on grazing rights existing in perpetuity, it rests on the fact that the transfer to the US government made in the treaty was not one of property rights (of which grazing is one), but a transfer of governmental authority.

It would behoove you to read what others say, and understand it, before you start constructing all of your strawmen.


103 posted on 04/19/2014 1:17:36 PM PDT by GilesB
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To: Zeneta

Bundy stated exactly that at the town meeting video.

And for your information Agenda 21 is not a conspiracy theory. It is a real thing.


104 posted on 04/19/2014 1:22:14 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: LucyT; Jim Robinson; B4Ranch; 2ndDivisionVet; DaxtonBrown; null and void

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/04/17/we-are-rioting-against-federal-government-rancher-cliven-bundy-stands-firm-after-sen

At the bottom of the above article in the statement by Rand Paul he mentions a bill dealing with land etc that Harry Reid has not let come to the floor for even discussion.
Time to file ethics complaint Get Reid removed from position of authority

Contact information here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145893/posts


105 posted on 04/19/2014 1:27:42 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: Zeneta

You state it well, as far as it goes. One point that you missed is that many of the grazing rights existed prior to the feds taking “possession”. The feds had no authority to charge grazing fees - in these cases they were termed “management fees”.

As managers, they operate at the will of those who own what is being managed. When they began managing for the environmentalists instead of the grazers they were guilty of mismanagement and in violation of their enabling legislation - and many ranchers set about to fire them.


106 posted on 04/19/2014 1:27:45 PM PDT by GilesB
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To: 1rudeboy

No the 10 square miles refers to DC. There would be no need to talk about forts, arsenals, dockyards etc. in land already owned in DC. The enumerated purposes spelled out in the remainder of the enclave clause refers to land held by the inidiviual states which may be sold by state legislatures to the feds for those specifically defined uses.

Puts an end to the type nonsense we see in the West where certain states have become nothing more than vassals to DC as they’re in effect owned by the feds. AS I noted earlier, the feds can’t owne these vast swaths of land for non enumerated uses.

FEDgov is limited to very specific enumerated powers, everything else is vested in the people and states.


107 posted on 04/19/2014 1:29:35 PM PDT by bereanway
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To: SgtHooper

I understand your position, however I don’t think there has been some directive from “on high” that is directly responsible for these actions.

That is conspiracy territory, and there is no need to go there.

What we are talking about is government bureaucracy and their ability to define or re-define what and how much authority they think they have.

What we have are Land Management agencies that are constantly being sued by “Non-Profit” environmental groups for not “protecting” some obscure creature that another Government agency has deemed “protected”.

The BLM, USFS etc, are losing these lawsuits and their only recourse is to restrict access to these lands by ranchers.

Unless of course it’s for some “Green energy” project.

This is what’s happening.


108 posted on 04/19/2014 1:30:54 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: 1rudeboy
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
Article IV, Section 3.
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The congress has power with respect to Territories. The second part advises that nothing should be construed to mean anything pertaining to the State's Claims or the Fed's claims.

Elsewhere, there is quite a lot of evidence that the Feds have violated the original intent of the constitution by ignoring the state's rights to the land; and equal footing doctrines.

Legitimate Federal ownership and use-age of a state's lands is limited, and it certainly isn't supposed to be up to unelected bureaucrats to proclaim the laws, Congress is the only part of government that can pass laws.

109 posted on 04/19/2014 1:35:14 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I have a problem in general with the Federal Government ‘owning’ land.

I think part of the problem is how the federal government is trying to re-define "publicly owned lands" to "government owned lands".

This conceptual shift was evident during the partial government shutdown last year. In previous shut downs the government did not try to prevent citizens from walking on or visiting outdoor areas owned by the public. But this time they did.

From the viewpoint of our present administration, and their Democrat supporters, the land isn't collectively owned by the citizens of our nation, it is owned by the government itself, which they consider somehow separate from and above the citizens. That's the real problem.

110 posted on 04/19/2014 1:38:31 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: GilesB

Thanks,

I’m trying to discern the historical difference between “Grazing” rights and “Water” rights.

I’m certain that in New Mexico and parts of Arizona the historical claims of Ranchers occupying those lands at the time of these fed land deals where provided relief from Federal authority.

Not so much in Nevada.


111 posted on 04/19/2014 1:42:58 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: wonkowasright

Maybe a better question would be, who is supposed to own the property when a state has been admitted to the Union?


112 posted on 04/19/2014 1:44:36 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Zeneta

If you go to the link at the end the link used here which is at NRO the date is 2004.


113 posted on 04/19/2014 1:44:40 PM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: greeneyes

Thats a good point.


114 posted on 04/19/2014 1:45:49 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: Texas Fossil; waterhill
For later......
(since my first post on this thread got pulled)
...LOL
115 posted on 04/19/2014 1:51:07 PM PDT by Envisioning (It's the Jihad, stupid......)
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To: wonkowasright

That’s a relief. After all the furr that’s been flying up thread. Thanks.


116 posted on 04/19/2014 1:52:24 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Texas Fossil

bkmk


117 posted on 04/19/2014 1:54:34 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Lazamataz

“I no longer think the Civil War will be postponed past 2014. It’s happening this damned year.”

I agree.


118 posted on 04/19/2014 2:03:56 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: CitizenUSA

Really the Ballot box is one of the best ways?

Is that how we got Obama twice?

When the dead, and even pets are voting?

I have no desire for a shooting war, but this Ol Marine ain’t afraid of one either.


119 posted on 04/19/2014 2:05:34 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: bereanway
It appears in both NM and Nev. the feds, regardless of whether its BLM or Forest Service agents are using some sort of environmental crap as the excuse to get at the ranchers land.
Apparently its a war on ranchers and began in the 70’s and gained momentum in the 90’s. In Nevada at the Bundy's ranch last big ranch standing by the way, it was the tortoise. In NM its the wild-lands project used to get rid of the Laney's and many other farmers. Their only hope seems to be if they can document water rights and other rights going back years and years.
Laneys had 1,000 head of cattle and were cut back to 300 by the forestry agents. Now they will lose those 300 and then their ranch.
The local sheriff says he won't allow the cattle to be sold but little hope is seen for survival of the Diamond Bar Ranch.Just like the commies or the muslim radicals the US government is willing to wage a 30,50 or even 100 year war to get rid of its citizens and their rights.They are the ones that must go.
Actually the war is much wider than seen in these two instances.
Down here we have a war waged by the Everglades Park Service and fomented by their top guy and obama appointee.
They care cutting the areas we can navigate,boat and fish every five years by claiming that this specie or that specie might lose habitat or get hurt or the grass under the water gets hurt you name it they have an excuse.
It's never “be careful of this or that or that bird or that fish or the endangered crocodiles” its always GTFO or else.
Meanwhile in NC on the Outer Banks they are closing off the Banks as quick as possible due to bird nesting. Once again it the Nat. Park service doing the dirty work for the rabid environazis. They claim that rv’s dunebuggys,beach walkers, fishermen and picnickers are doing away with endangered birds the piping plover nesting areas.
Trouble is when they get rid of all the people the predators, foxes and coons come back and eat the birds now they have a new problem.Once again its never be careful of the birds nesting on the ground its always just get the heck out.
Its all bullshit and we have to stand up to the feds or lose our entire country.We can do it at the voting booth and when we get control of the federal budget.
Time to defund all these agencies and get rid of their sorry asses.
120 posted on 04/19/2014 2:08:30 PM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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