To: zoilandon@msn.com
I am sending this message only to my European and UK friends.
What happened yesterday may be the biggest event in our history in terms of
property rights, federal lawlessness, and the people's ability and resolve to
fix America. It is a template for other Western countries.
Cliven Bundy is a 67 year old rancher whose family had used a 600,000 acre
plot of semidesert land for grazing since 1887. Under common law, land use is
very important in determining ownership.
However, the US government started taking land from the states decades ago.
The land grab was greatly increased under Clinton. The Bureau of Land Management
was created decades ago to manage federal land, but as time went on, it was used
increasingly to simply remove farmers and ranchers from land that had been used
by their ancestors for many generations.
Obama is a statist and central government radical who seems to believe that
Sates' rights and even individual rights are subordinate to federal law and
power. No president has ever transferred more power from states and indiduals to
the federal government than Obama.
The BLM descended on the Bundy ranch earlier this week with 200 men armed
with assault rifles. They set up sniper posts and told Bundy that his cows were
"trespassing" on federal land. Previously, Bundy was paying them to manage his
ranch land, which had been leased to his family for 140 years but they did
nothing. So he stopped paying years ago.
They rounded up 700 head of his cattle and were going to ship it away to an
auction. Bundy's family tried to take photos of this and some, including a
woman, were wrestled to the ground and roughed up. The news of this abuse spread
through the internet and informal state militias and other groups went in and
confronted the BLM thugs.
Some brave cowboys went in and released the cattle held by the BLM. More
groups vowed to travel to the ranch and help.
The next day, BLM men took positions behind their patrol vehicles, while
the citizens' groups advanced toward them on foot and horseback. Many of them
had been in the military and in police work. They too were armed and one of the
militia leaders had ealier said "We are armed and not afraid to shoot."
The BLM men warned the crowd not to come any closer or they would shoot
these civilians. But the crowd continued to advance, knowing that the entire
scene was being videotaped and that the BLM would not dare to shoot civilians
for fear of triggering a civil war, which some Americans feel is imminent
already due to government lawlessness and abuse of citizens.
The BLM backed down. They then entered into negotiations with the Bundys
and the standoff ended when the BLM said they were calling off the
operation.
Some state officials and even judges sided with the Bundys.
This could lead to a shakeup of American law under pressure from those of
us who believe in the Constitution and feel we have had enough.
This is not by any means the whole story. Please go to InfoWars and search
for if. Probably you will not find anything BUT this story today.
It reminded me of the way Putin took Crimea. He understood that what the
Western powers had done in Ukraine was unlawful and he did what he thought was
necessary to right the wrong. The world is starting to say enough.
You folks don't have guns but you can avail yourselves of civil
disobedience in different ways to oppose the EU and their puppets.. Maybe it is
time for the world to fight back. Carpe diem, seize the moment.
Don Hank
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Friday, 11 April 2014 20:15
Last Man Standing: Nevada Ranch Family in Fedgov Face-offWritten by William F. Jasper
Tensions are rising and the potential for violence is
escalating in Nevada’s Mohave Desert. Last week more than 200 armed federal
agents from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and other agencies, many decked
out in camouflage uniforms, descended on the area around Bunkerville, a small
town 70 miles northeast of Las Vegas, near Nevada’s borders with Arizona and
Utah. According to coverage one is likely to see from the Establishment media,
the show of force is necessary to remove Cliven Bundy’s cattle from “public
lands” where they are, allegedly, damaging the “fragile” habitat of the
protected desert tortoise. That is the story that is being dispensed by the BLM
and retailed in most media accounts.
Cliven Bundy (shown) and his family, friends and neighbors,
as well as some legal scholars, tell a different story. According to Bundy,
whose family has been ranching in the area since the 1800s, the BLM’s armed
invasion and occupation of Nevada has nothing to do with protecting the tortoise
and everything to do with running him off the land, as it has already done to
all of the other ranchers in Clark County. He notes that more than 50 other
ranchers have been bankrupted, intimidated, and forced to give up their land and
legal property rights. He is, he points out, “the last man standing”; and now
that generations of ranching families have been driven out, federal officials
have dropped the pretense that it is all about saving the “endangered” tortoise
and have actually been killing the reptiles by the hundreds.
Yes, that is true; as reported by the
liberal Huffington
Post and other
media outlets last year, the BLM began “euthanizing” the tortoises, claiming the
agency did not have sufficient funds in its budget to manage the habitat. How
then, critics point out, can the BLM justify the $1 million or more that it will
spend rounding up the Bundy family’s cattle. And if the tortoise habitat is so
precious and sensitive that the sparse cattle population — which had co-existed
with the turtles for generations — had to be removed, why has the BLM been
selling the former ranch land to developers?
The World is Watching
On a closer examination, the case against Cliven
Bundy is not the open-and-shut case the federal government, the media, and the
environmental activist groups, such as the Center for Biological Diversity, make
it out to be. As California State University criminology professor Jason Kissner
pointed out in a column for American
Thinker yesterday, it is the Obama administration’s BLM and Attorney General Eric
Holder that are engaged in “brazen lawlessness.” Federal officials are
exploiting the fact that few Americans understand the legal complexities of the
“split estate,” “prior appropriation doctrine,” and other principles governing
water rights, grazing rights, and other land use/property rights on “public” and
private lands, that are different in the arid West than in other parts of the
country.
The current battle between the Bundys and the Feds is
a replay of the decades-long confrontation between various federal agencies and
the late Wayne Hage, the Nevada rancher/liberty activist/scholar who won
multiple court victories and landmark decisions against federal overreach. In
an interview with The
New American in 2002, Hage explained the important legal
distinctions that govern property rights in the West, particularly as they apply
to so-called public lands.
For years, the Hage family had been subjected to threats,
intimidation, and fines, and — like the Bundys — had their cattle illegally
confiscated by federal agents. And, as with the Bundys, the Hages were portrayed
by the Feds and their compliant media shills as scofflaws and environmental
criminals who deserved to be thrown into the slammer. Last year, as we
reported, a federal court
once again vindicated the Hages, although by that time Wayne Hage and his wife,
former Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth-Hage, had both passed away six years earlier.
Chief Judge Robert C. Jones of the Federal District Court
of Nevada issued a blistering decision that charged officials of the BLM and
other agencies with malicious and criminal conduct, and actually engaging in a
decades-long “conspiracy” against the Hages.
Judge Jones said he found that “the government and the
agents of the government in that locale, sometime in the ’70s and ’80s, entered
into a conspiracy, a literal, intentional conspiracy, to deprive the Hages of
not only their permit grazing rights, for whatever reason, but also to deprive
them of their vested property rights under the takings clause, and I find that
that’s a sufficient basis to hold that there is irreparable harm if I don’t ...
Restrain the government from continuing in that conduct.”
"In the present case,” declared Judge Jones, “the
Government's actions over the past two decades shock the conscience of the
Court."
The findings of Judge Jones in the Hage case should be
borne in mind as tensions mount in Clark County, where the actions of the BLM
are shocking the conscience of the entire nation. Thanks to hundreds of the
Bundy family’s friends, neighbors, and relatives who are posting videos of the
federal “occupation” on social media, as well as the widespread attention being
focused on this case by independent media, the actions of the BLM and the Obama
administration cannot remain hidden behind the barricades, road blocks, and
armed agents.
The angry face-offs between the federal agents and outraged
residents and supporters evoke images of the deadly confrontations at Ruby
Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 and Waco, Texas in 1993.
Over the past week, federal agents were filmed using tasers
against 39-year-old Ammon Bundy, one of Cliven’s sons, setting their K-9 unit
dogs on other supporters, and manhandling others, including tackling one of
Cliven Bundy’s sisters. Another of Bundy’s sons, Dave Bundy, was arrested and
cited for “failing to disperse” and “resisting arrest.” He was reportedly held
overnight and released the next day.
(The article continues after the two videos below.)
Cliven Bundy may be the last rancher standing in Nevada’s
Clark County, but he and his family are not standing alone; patriots from across
the country are rallying to their support. Many are being spurred to do so by
the disturbing videos that have gone viral.
“Watching that video last night created a visceral reaction
in me,” Arizona state Representative Kelly Townsend, a tea party Republican,
told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“It sounds dramatic, but it reminded me of Tiananmen Square. I don’t recognize
my country at this point.”
Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R-Las Vegas) called the
footage “horrifying.”
“I’m highly offended by the feds coming in as aggressively
as they have,” Fiore said in an interview with the Review-Journal.
Sheriff Richard Mack, who heads the Constitutional Sheriffs
and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), along with military and police members
of Oath Keepers, as well as elected legislators from the states of Nevada,
Arizona, Utah, and Washington, are headed to Clark County to stand with the
Bundy family. With the growing presence of supporters and the increasing media
attention this is causing, hopefully there will be less chance of federal police
agencies escalating this standoff into another deadly “Waco” tragedy.
Photo:
Cliven Bundy
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God will not hold us guiltless.
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