EXCLUSIVE--TEXAS AG ABBOTT TO BLM: 'COME AND TAKE IT'

Breitbart ^ | April 22, 2014 | By Bob Price

[Jim Robinson]

After Breitbart Texas reported on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) intent to seize 90,000 acres belonging to Texas landholders along the Texas/Oklahoma line, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott questioned the BLM’s authority to take such action.

“I am about ready,” General Abbott told Breitbart Texas, “to go to go to the Red River and raise a ‘Come and Take It’ flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas.”

Gen. Abbott sent a strongly-worded letter to BLM Director Neil Kornze, asking for answers to a series of questions related to the potential land grab.

“I am deeply concerned about the notion that the Bureau of Land Management believes the federal government has the authority to swoop in and take land that has been owned and cultivated by Texas landowners for generations,” General Abbott wrote. “The BLM’s newly asserted claims to land along the Red River threaten to upset long-settled private property rights and undermine fundamental principles—including the rule of law—that form the foundation of our democracy. Yet, the BLM has failed to disclose either its full intentions or the legal justification for its proposed actions. Decisions of this magnitude must not be made inside a bureaucratic black box.”

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas, General Abbott said, “This is the latest line of attack by the Obama Administration where it seems like they have a complete disregard for the rule of law in this country ...And now they’ve crossed the line quite literally by coming into the State of Texas and trying to claim Texas land as federal land. And, as the Attorney General of Texas I am not going to allow this.”

[Paladin2]

"first I give them those words and what they mean."

That's my experience, but H0lder and 0bama have made the Law become like that of King John - The Law is in my Mouth...

[Norm Lenhart]

A lot of people felt that way. Once. Look up Wildlands Project and Turtle Island. Even crazier by far, but still 100% UN approved under A21.

It is all so nuts people just shut sown when they hear it as you dis. I cannot blame them. But it is quite real. Lots of ‘crazy things’ are real. And the advantage the libs have is that by being so outrageous with this crap, people do not accept it until there’s no turning back from them.

Not without CW2 anyway.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post; link from another thread.

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”

Declaration of Independence

[boxlunch]

It is TIME to DownSize DC! Close Entire Rogue/Unconstitutional Departments including their SWAT Teams.>p? The only way to remove the subversive Bureaucraps that are doing this is close their nesting place. Total elimination.

Move anything worthwhile back to the State level where they can be closely watched. And the funding starved to keep them in check.

AGREE..... Ditto times 100!!!

And, an Article V convention proposing Amendments such as: rescinding the 17th amendment, States having the power to recall Federal judges and elected federal officials, States being able to override/veto federal laws, States being given the power to impeach and convict Federal officials.. etc, etc. We need to return the balance of power to the STATES!!!

[Paladin2]

"CTRL"

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[tflabo]

Us conservative northern transplants to Tx love this state and defend it too and reject big Govt. tyranny. States rights baby—its Constitutional.

[yorkiemom]

What is “Wilderness to Wildland”.

I notice that designation on the area where we have a cabin, in the Sequoia National Forest. Since it is a national forest, doesn’t that mean the feds own it?

[RedMDer]

God Bless Texas!

[Paladin2]

I believe that it means that the Feds need to drive you out, ASAP.

[prairiebreeze]

ping

[prairiebreeze]

I see now that you are already here.

:)

[Democrat_media]

Yes I agree with what you and Texas Fossil said. that's could save our Republic of the USA. however local and state legislators can also be tyrants. so what about making legislators at all levels also be directly accountable to the people. My plan

1. Repeal all laws, regulations, amendments and government to 1900

2. This is supposed to be government “by WE the People” right? ok then any law these government cretins try to pass MUST be approved also by a vote of at least 66% of the registered voters in a county, State or , Country or 66% of the voting population. if a law is SO needed then surely 66% of the people will also go to vote and approve it .

3. any new law must only fit on a page and be easily understood.

4. any new tax, any new gov program must be put on a ballot and people must come out to vote to pass it by 66% of the voting population otherwise their dumb law does not get passed this is in addition to the usual legislative process.

5. My reasoning for this is that the only laws needed are those that prevent the use for force . also government is unaccountable and evil and doesn't work. furthermore anything you can possibly imagine you will ever need can be produced by the free market as the millions of new products out there on the Internet, ebay, google, amazon ,walmart, dollar tree etc. prove. government is just corruption, force, unaccountability ,a waste and evil and just hampers the free market and our opportunities

Any one with a brain think that the Constitution intended for all the members of ONE party the democrat party to pass a 3000 page bill called Obamacare on Christmas eve without even them reading it? And they did it behind the people's back. no I don't think so

[jy8z]

They think a lot of people showed up at the Bundy ranch? They ain’t seen nothing yet.....

They obviously do not understand Texans. The show of force would make their sphincters pucker to the point of puking.

[Alamo-Girl]

Buuuuuuump!

[X-spurt]

Rick ain’t been someone nobama has been able to push around, but Abbott is proving out to be tougher than a wood hauler’s ass.

[Milton Miteybad]

Texas does seem to have the most private land. This is why it's the most prosperous and free of the states.

Exactly right. Sometimes people ask "What makes Texas so different from all the other states?" The answer is fairly simple: When Texas was admitted to the Union, it retained sovereignty over all of its unpatented public lands within its borders; in contrast, the other western states ceded sovereignty over their public lands to the federal government, usually for the purpose of dumping the cost of law enforcement in the sparsely populated public range onto the feds, who were only too happy to take the western states up on the deal.

Most of the lands in Texas have been severed from the sovereign, i.e., patented into private hands. Those that were not, totaling some 2.1 million acres, were placed into the Permanent University Fund, the bulk of which are situated in the massive mineralogical storehouse known as the Permian Basin. Lease bonuses, oil and gas royalties and surface lease reveneues from production activities on the University Lands, which are shared by The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A & M University, place these two institutions squarely among the wealthiest public institutions of higher learning on the planet.

The Henderson ranch, which is at the center of the Red River controversy, was duly patented and the Henderson family holds the same pursuant to a regular chain of title from said patent (actually, a series of patents) to the present day. These are clearly private fee lands, severed from the sovereign, which could have been one of the following entities, depending on when each particular survey was patented:

1. Spain

2. Republic of Mexico

3. Republic of Texas

4. State of Texas

Please note that the cited sovereign entities which could have patented any or all of this 90,000 acres now owned by the Henderson group DOES NOT include the United States, which has literally had to purchase just about every acre in Texas it now owns.

Contrast the Henderson situation with that of the Bundy family, who, with the exception of 150 acres of private fee lands they own, are running their cattle on public lands which have never been patented, i.e., severed from the sovereign, and which for all purposes is still owned by the U.S. government. The Bundys may have some prescriptive claim on at least some portion of these lands, but at last report they had yet to persuade a judge or jury as to that assertion.

At any rate, next time somebody asks, "What the hell makes Texas so different?" you'll have the answer ready for them.

[deport]

What is “Wilderness to Wildland”.

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Work you way around this site for some info. It essentially is an attempt
to reduce human influence on the exploitation of natural resources as I understand it.

http://www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org/htm/twp.html

[Windflier]

Related:

50,000 Strong - Oklahoma Militia Pledges to Support Cliven Bundy

"It seems that the Oklahoma Milita has pledged their support to Cliven Bundy and vows to take up arms against the BLM if needed. Several members of the Oklahoma Militia are already in Nevada and the members at home are seeing a similar BLM land grab developing along the Red River."

[redgolum]

Ct. Auto correct slammed me

[Taggart_D]

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