Posted on 01/30/2016 11:37:25 AM PST by Mechanicos
Harrold, Texas, cattle rancher Ken Aderholt and his family have worked the same land since 1941 – and now the federal government says it never belonged to them.
The Bureau of Land Management is taking stock of land along the Red River, which happens to be where the Aderholt family has lived for more than 70 years. The federal government says roughly 600 of the family’s 1,250 acres have always belonged to Uncle Sam.
“The BLM is saying we should have never had a deed to it, that Texas should have never produced that deed,†Aderholt told KAUZ-6 Texas Oct. 10. “It is a land grab. As far as I am concerned, this is private property.â€
The rancher said his understanding was the federal government owned everything from the middle of the Red River to the beginning of the land’s vegetation line.
Aderholt told the Blaze on Thursday he received a phone call in 2014 from a BLM official who said, “You have reason to be concerned,†when he said the agency’s plan to redefine boundary lines along the river threatened his home.
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Governor Abbott was supposed to be all over this Red River land grab. Hope he hasn’t forgotten.
In before the: DMWT, guys show up, and appropriately so!
Since Texas was an independent nation before joining the United States, when did the United States of America get any title at all to a square inch of Texas? Did they purchase it?
Adverse possession. If they have used the land long enough and made improvments without the Feds expelling them, they should be able to claim it.
Tell that to the American Indian.
This is a very tricky issue. The Red River is almost certainly unique as a boundary. It all traces back to the treaties establishing the indian lands in what became Oklahoma. These treaties gave the indians all the land to the southern boundary of the red river. Most boundaries between sovereign entities, such as states, follow center of channel. The problem arises when the river deposits land on the southern side of the river. Has the boundary moved? Who does this deposited land belong too? The courts ruled many years ago that this ‘accreted’ land belongs to the federal government.
Why does the federal government own ANY land? Shouldn’t they be leasing or renting from the states?
PING
States having dominion over their own territory?
Who ever heard of such a thing?
Inside the Beltway, I mean.
I know where the other BLM learned their tactics.
BLM attack mode against ranchers in full overdrive before 0dungheap leaves office. MF’ers!
The government owns most of the land out west, how hard would it be to just leave this guy alone?
Adverse possession. If they had been on your land or my land, it would now be there’s.
the federal govt would have to fall before any of the BLM cases go the way of private citizens
In the 1980s I had a neighbor who taught political science at a California university. A nice enough guy, but one who said that he wasn’t a liberal, he was a radical.
Anyway I learned something very interesting from him. Professors are entitled to sabbaticals, and he had just used his year off to go work for the BLM.
So if you think that it’s regular everyday civil servants implementing radical policies in federal agencies like HUD and BLM that’s not the case. It’s political radicals from the universities, rotating in and out of these agencies in their sabbatical years.
This is how radicals crush little people using the power of the federal government. It’s something that none of the GOPe even talk about. It’s tyranny by unelected zealots abusing government agencies for their own purposes. If we are lucky enough to elect a Cruz or a Trump it has to be stopped. And those who conspired to do this need to be prosecuted.
This is seriously getting out of control. Under the constitution the federal government cannot own land. If this rancher has the deed to the land it is their land by law. Overreach like this will end in blood all over again just as it did earlier this week. I have a feeling this is all orchestrated to create an uprising so the supreme leaders can rid themselves of us pests.
You can’t adverse possess against the government. Good try, but a miss.
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