It is amazing what an American citizen can do when they are threatened by a tyrannical government agency and refuse to knuckle under to the government’s unthinking, uncaring bureaucrats – and that there efforts are accurately reported by the mainstream news media.
Snipers, Dogs, Tasers …all arrayed against an American citizen …
The Bureau of Land Management has issued the following statement …
Impound Operation Concluded
Statement from Director of the Bureau of Land Management Neil Kornze on the Cattle Gather in Nevada:
As we have said from the beginning of the gather to remove illegal cattle from federal land consistent with court orders, a safe and peaceful operation is our number one priority. After one week, we have made progress in enforcing two recent court orders to remove the trespass cattle from public lands that belong to all Americans.
Based on information about conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public.
We ask that all parties in the area remain peaceful and law-abiding as the Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service work to end the operation in an orderly manner.
Ranching has always been an important part of our nation’s heritage and continues throughout the West on public lands that belong to all Americans.
This is a matter of fairness and equity, and we remain disappointed that Cliven Bundy continues to not comply with the same laws that 16,000 public lands ranchers do every year.
After 20 years and multiple court orders to remove the trespass cattle, Mr. Bundy owes the American taxpayers in excess of $1 million. The BLM will continue to work to resolve the matter administratively and judicially.
Coincidently, this release comes hours after the release of media stories detailing Nevada Senator Harry Reid’s involvement with BLM operations and his family’s connections to a Chinese Solar Energy company who may want this very land for a solar plant.
Deleted from BLM.gov but reposted for posterity by the Free Republic, the BLM document entitled “Cattle Trespass Impacts” directly states that Bundy’s cattle “impacts” solar development, more specifically the construction of “utility-scale solar power generation facilities” on “public lands.”
It is also embarrassing to learn that the stated purpose of the land grab, to protect the desert tortoise was a bogus issue as the federal government was killing desert tortoises because they had overpopulated a designated desert tortoise sanctuary.
“A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher; they want his land,” journalist Dana Loesch wrote. “The tortoise wasn’t of concern when [U.S. Senator] Harry Reid worked with BLM to literally change the boundaries of the tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the development of his top donor, Harvey Whittemore.”
It is still not right …
According to sources, the BLM wants to proceed with the sale of the cattle already gathered during the roundup but is reportedly willing to share the revenue from the sale with Bundy. <Source>
Bottom line …
This is not a matter of a land dispute, but an abuse of government power to confiscate public lands for the purpose of commercialization that benefits politicians and their special interests.
It appears that Senator Harry Reid has improperly used his position for personal gain and should be investigated and prosecuted. It also appears that Harry Reid, a progressive socialist democrat is willing to aid and abet a foreign sovereign power to develop critical energy infrastructure and potentially gain a control point on the energy grid – including all of the classified measures to protect our electric grids from foreign cyberattacks.
You cannot trust the progressive socialist democrats when it comes to national security or the security and safety of all Americans. Not to mention protecting the American public from the tyrannical abuse of government’s constitutional authority and usurpation of states’ rights.
We are getting live streaming reports from the scene that the BLM has completely stood down and left the area in the last few minutes and the cattle are being released to the Bundy family. One live stream showed a massive caravan of federal and federal contractor vehicles leaving the area. One witness counter 80+ […]
According to a post on the Bundy Ranch Facebook Page, cowboys are moving out to take back the cattle that were being held by the BLM. Cowboys are now leaving to go gather the cattle themselves and return them to the river and to their rightful homes! We have not heard from the Sheriff or […]
According to a live stream by the local sheriff at the protest area at the Bundy Ranch, the Bureau of Land Management has agreed to cease their operations near the Bundy Ranch. We are unsure if the Bundys will be getting the cattle back that are currently being held by the BLM. The situation is […]
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The Federal Government's revenue before the Civil War came mostly from tariff taxes on imports, mostly collected from Southern ports, like Charleston, South Carolina.
There was no Federal income tax.
Tariffs made foreign goods more expensive, resulting in people buying domestically produced goods from Northern factories.
But the taxes that helped the North, hurt the South, as the South had no factories to protect.
Southern economy was agricultural, mostly cotton and rice, which relied heavily on slave labor.
Less than two months after Lincoln was inaugurated President, South Carolina's economy experienced a downturn and the State threatened to stop collecting tariffs.
Federal troops were sent to Fort Sumter in Charleston's harbor to force them to collect the tariffs.
This provoked Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard to fire upon Fort Sumter, APRIL 12, 1861, beginning the Civil War.
The first years of the Civil War, the Confederate Army was nearly unstoppable, twice winning battles at Bull Run, Virginia, just 20 miles from Washington, D.C.
Union troops fled in panic to the fortifications of the U.S. Capitol.
The tide of the war did not begin to turn until Lincoln claimed the moral high ground by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
This caused European support for the Confederacy to evaporate, as no country wanted to be accused of supporting slavery.
On November 15, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln spoke with Pastor Byron Sunderland of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, D.C.:
"If it had been left to us to determine it, we would have had no war.
And, going further back to the occasion of it, we would have had no slavery.
And, tracing it still further back, we would have had no evil...
On both sides we are working out the will of God.
Yet, how strange the spectacle!
Here is one half of the nation prostrated in prayer that God will help them to destroy the Union and build up a government upon the cornerstone of human bondage.
And here is the other half equally earnest in their prayers and efforts to defeat a purpose which they regard as so repugnant to...liberty and independence...
And they are Christians and we are Christians. They and we are praying and fighting for results exactly the opposite."
On March 4, 1865, in his Second Inaugural Address, just 45 days before his assassination, President Abraham Lincoln stated:
"Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained....
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
It may seem strange that any men should dare ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
The prayers of both could not be answered.
That of neither has been answered fully.
The Almighty has His own purposes...
If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God...He now wills to remove,
and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came...
so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'"
President Calvin Coolidge, on May 25, 1924, at the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, stated:
"It was Lincoln who pointed out that both sides prayed to the same God.
When that is the case, it is only a matter of time when each will seek a common end.
We can now see clearly what that end is.
It is the maintenance of our American ideals, beneath a common flag, under the blessings of Almighty God."
Update: IS IT GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION FROM A PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT WHO WANTS TO AID THE CHINESE TO BUILD A SOLAR PLANT?
It now appears that government corruption may be behind the land grab. Senator Harry Reid, members of his family, and former associates may be involved with BLM changing rules and regulations so that a Chinese Solar company can build a solar plant in the area. If this is true, Harry Reid needs to resign as Senate Majority Leader and be impeached for corruption. Read more at Breaking: Sen. Harry Reid Behind BLM Land Grab of Bundy Ranch
Deleted from BLM.gov but reposted for posterity by the Free Republic, the BLM document entitled “Cattle Trespass Impacts” directly states that Bundy’s cattle “impacts” solar development, more specifically the construction of “utility-scale solar power generation facilities” on “public lands.”
“A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher; they want his land,” journalist Dana Loesch wrote. “The tortoise wasn’t of concern when [U.S. Senator] Harry Reid worked with BLM to literally change the boundaries of the tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the development of his top donor, Harvey Whittemore.”
Original Post ...
It appears that the full weight of an out-of-control government bureaucracy is being aligned against a Nevada rancher in a land dispute with the Bureau of Land Management. A situation that could easily become as famous as Waco or Ruby Ridge – both symbols of government oppression and overreaction.
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval …
Governor Brian Sandoval today issued the following statement regarding the Bureau of Land Management’s roundup and reports of organized protests against it:
“Earlier this week, I advised the BLM not to limit or hinder the constitutional rights of Nevadans and be mindful of its conduct. The ability to speak out against government actions is one of the freedoms we all cherish as Americans. Today I am asking all individuals who are near the situation to act with restraint. Although tensions remain high, escalation of current events could have negative, long lasting consequences that can be avoided.” <Source>
"No cow justifies the atmosphere of intimidation which currently exists nor the limitation of constitutional rights that are sacred to all Nevadans," Sandoval said in a Tuesday statement. "The BLM needs to reconsider its approach to this matter and act accordingly." He took particular issue with the government's decision to establish a specific area in which residents could protest. "Most disturbing to me is the BLM's establishment of a 'First Amendment Area' that tramples upon Nevadans' fundamental rights under the U.S. Constitution/"
The fight dates to at least 1993, since which Bundy has refused to pay the federal government fees for his grazing cows, according to the Los Angeles Times. In 1998, a federal court told Bundy to stop letting his cows graze there. And, last July, the same court reaffirmed that order, giving Bundy 45 days to remove the cows before the federal government would. They started Saturday, acting on two federal court orders, they said in a statement that day.
"The BLM and the [National Park Service] have made repeated attempts to resolve this matter administratively and judicially," the Nevada BLM statement read. "The agencies are now implementing two Federal District Court orders to remove the cattle. The BLM and NPS are working closely with local, state and federal officials to ensure that removal occurs in a safe and orderly manner." <Source>
What Emergency?
BLM Rangers Brought in From Out of State for Nevada Ranch ‘Emergency’
Armed Rangers were brought in from out of state by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to assist in security surrounding the Bundy Ranch, according to the family. A heated confrontation on Wednesday resulted in Cliven Bundy’s son Ammon being tasered by BLM officials and a 57-year-old protester being shoved to the ground.
“You know, some of these guys don’t even know why they’re here,” she said. “A few people have talked to them and they got called in here on an emergency feed and they didn’t know what it was for, it just said they had to be here.”
“They’re almost like a hired gun,” Cox said. “Because what they’re supposed to do is they each have a road, and are told to stay on that road, and they’re supposed to keep people off that road, whatever means possible. That’s their job. They don’t even know how many cows have been gathered.”
As of Wednesday, 352 cattle have been removed from the public land ranched by the Bundy family for more than a century. An estimated 200 armed officials have surrounded the ranch, the culmination of a dispute dating 20 years over “grazing fees” and the protection of the “desert tortoise.”
And, how many people have been taught that the horrific bombing at the Murrah Federal Building was directly caused by the reaction of a self-proclaimed patriot to government overreaction? That Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirators first considering killing FBI sniper Lon Horichi who was present at both events and who is alleged to have been responsible for starting the Waco firefight and killing Randy Weaver’s wife at Ruby Ridge. In both cases, the government covered up key facts such as the fact that in Waco, they could have easily taken the main suspect into custody as he strolled the downtown streets with his ice cream; and it appears the entire Ruby Ridge event was precipitated by a gun sale where the barrel of a purchased weapon was a fraction of an inch shorter than regulation.
It is one of the most important rules of a dictatorship, make sure your troops do not have friends and relatives on the ground that could dissuade them from firing on citizens. It is helpful if they are brought in from across the country, and preferably do not speak the local language.
What the hell is going on here?
We know that the progressive socialist democrats, the government, and the environmental movement have been infiltrated by socialists and communists who are seeking to destroy America from within. Using outrageous environmental rules and regulations to force the downsizing of America and to kill its western cowboy heritage that stresses freedom and independence over collective control by a ruling elite. So what is at play? Government control over land to protect an endangered species, in this case a desert tortoise? An attempt to reduce cow flatulence to reduce global warming? A hipster vegan dislike of meat eaters and the production of meat? Or simply a bureaucratic power and publicity grab to diminish the rights of the states from which all constitutional federal authority flows.
Bottom line …
It appears that the federal government continues to exert control over vast tracts of land that exist in many states for the simple reason that they can use this land to generate additional income to support a unionized and bloated federal bureaucracy. In a number of cases, we have seen politically-connected individuals given valuable mining and oil rights based on little more than their political connections.
It appears that we have a self-supporting rancher who is helping our nation to feed itself. And, he is being harassed by bureaucrats who are little more than public parasites – using petty causes and issues to justify their pathetic existence.
But the real problem is that the government is trampling the Constitution’s First Amendment by setting up so-called “protest zones” and criminalizing any actions that occur outside these zones. This is a clear and present danger to our democracy. It is time that we remove the progressive socialist democrats from the House and the Senate and start cleaning house by reducing the political influence of the unions that keeps fellow travelers in the government employed against the interests of all Americans.
If you believe this action against a rancher to be outrageous, remember this when you vote.
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