The propaganda machine to take down rancher Cliven Bundy has been started. The feds must intend to take action soon.
“If you step over that line, there are consequences to those actions,” Sheriff Gillespie stated of Bundy. “And I believe they stepped over that line. No doubt about it. They need to be held accountable for it.”
BLM officials say they agree with the Nevada sheriff’s position.
The Bureau of Land Management states that Bundy owes over $1 million in fines for trespassing on federal property without a permit for over 20 years, but Bundy doesn’t acknowledge the federal government’s authority, stating that their family has used the land since the late 1800s.
The imminent arrest of Cliven Bundy is just the kind of event that has historically proven to spark revolution and civil war. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal recently stated, Americans are ready for a hostile takeover of the federal government…and many surmise that the government wants to provoke a civil war.
“There is an ongoing investigation and we are working diligently to ensure that those who broke the law are held accountable,” she said, declining to elaborate.
The FBI declined comment Saturday on its investigation. Bundy did not respond to a request for comment.
The Bureau of Land Management says Bundy owes over $1 million in fees and penalties for trespassing on federal property without a permit over 20 years. Bundy, whose ancestors settled in the area in the late 1800s, refuses to acknowledge federal authority on public lands.
A federal judge in Las Vegas first ordered Bundy in 1998 to remove “trespass cattle” from land the bureau declared a refuge for the endangered desert tortoise. Bureau officials obtained court orders last year allowing the roundup.
Boddington disputed Gillespie’s contention the agency mishandled the roundup of Bundy’s cattle 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
The bureau backed down during the showdown with Bundy and his armed supporters, citing safety concerns, and released some 380 Bundy cattle collected during a weeklong operation from a vast arid range half the size of the state of Delaware.
Gillespie blamed the bureau for escalating the conflict and ignoring his advice to delay the roundup after he had a confrontational meeting with Bundy’s children a few weeks before it began.
“I came back from that saying, ‘This is not the time to do this,’ ” the sheriff told the Review-Journal. “They said, ‘We do this all the time. We know what we’re doing. We hear what you’re saying, but we’re moving forward.'”
Tensions further escalated early in the roundup after a video showed one of Bundy’s sons being stunned with a Taser. The video drew militia members and others to Bundy’s ranch.
Bundy was not a hardened criminal, Gillespie told the newspaper. He was a rancher who stopped paying his fees, the sheriff said, and that was not worth risking violence.
But Boddington said the bureau planned and conducted the roundup in “full coordination” with Gillespie and his office.
“It is unfortunate that the sheriff is now attempting to rewrite the details of what occurred, including his claims that the BLM did not share accurate information,” she said. “The sheriff encouraged the operation and promised to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us as we enforced two recent federal court orders.”
IS THE SHERIFF TRYING TO MAKE SOME POINTS WITH ODOOLE NOW
Fixing Washington won’t come from Washington. Good, moral people with common sense and constitutional values are the only ones able to fi it. Remove the evil from Washington by voting them out! Get off your butts and become informed! Don’t vote for someone just because you did before! To hell with parties….they are what is ruining the country. Just because you’re of interested in politics doesn’t meant politics isn’t interested in consoling your very lives. Get involved!
that’s sounds good on paper, how about holding, holder, O, hillary, reid, pelosi and the rest of the tyrants accountable in the white house, I just heard some idiot woman democrat say we could not deport those children because of some law bush was responsbile for, rididculous, when has that ever stopped O before, he never enforces the law unless he sees and advantage to his agenda. PERioD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, US and it’s legal U.S. citizens and responsible tax payers still going down in flames because O refuses to obey the constitution that he swore to uphold at least a couple of times, I guess he had his fingers crossed, I can just see his mug smiling when he does, sickening at best.
F U ALL THAT THINK STEALING FREDOM IS OK!
But Obama is still in the white house !!!
DC wants us to shoot first so they can impose marshal law and Obama will not get kicked out of the white house. AMERICA DON’T give them the opportunity to do this ! Stay sharp and let the FED fire the first shot.
Idiot is upside down! Bundy was only protecting his Land!!
So Harry Greed is using the BLM to get Bundy’s ranch to procure property that is earmarked for a new highway thereby increasing the value 3-4 times. Now apparently he has the sheriff in his pocket to further his holdings. Talk about corrupt crooked and inept Senators—Harry Greed you top the list!
I think the government is the one who over stepped no. It is his lant Bundy, They,government just can’t leave the man alone It is his land, he paid the taxes on it and his forefathers fought for it.LEAVE THE MAN AND HIS LAND ALONE!!! dismantle the BLM
Feds were wrong, they need to held accountable! ????