For all Senator Harry Reid’s criticisms of the wealthy, it looks like he may have his finger in a very big pie in Nevada: selling rights to land he doesn’t own to Chinese solar power concerns.
The Bureau of Land Management, whose Director was Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) former senior adviser, has purged documents from its web site stating that the agency wants Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle off of the land his family has worked for over 140 years in order to make way for solar panel power stations.Corrupt Democratic Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) working with the Chinese gov’t to take land from hard-working Americans.
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.”
“Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle,” the document states.
Another BLM report entitled Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone (BLM Technical Note 444) reveals that Bundy’s land in question is within the “Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone and surrounding area” which is part of a broad U.S. Department of Energy program for “Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States” on land “managed” by BLM.
To learn more of this despicable abuse of power, read the full report on Infowars. But remember this next time and every time you hear Harry Reid speak.
Source: Infowars
If Mr. Bundy would’ve paid the lease that he signed and paid his taxes that he was 20 years behind on, he wouldn’t have these problems. Just for the record, I don’t really care for Sen. Reid.
You reckon !!!
throw the $#%&!@* out of offce he talks ike he still has a dick in his throat
they want it to develop. has nothing to do with turtles and Reid will make a bundle, the crooked old bastard
Yes. Bundy is in the wrong here. He clearly has not kept up his side of the deal with the government. I’m no supporter of the crooked Harry Reid at all, but facts are facts, and if Bundy had honored his contract with the BLM, he wouldn’t be having these problems now. I don’t agree with the heavy handedness of the BLM either. They have handled this foolishly. What I’m afraid of is that with all these people coming to support Bundy, something is going to set off a gun battle or something like that and people are going to die. People should just stay away and let the Bundys and the BLM settle this on their own. Wait until there’s a battle where you will be supporting someone who is in the right.
what goes around comes around
It is all about money for Harry Reid and his son. Jail the SOB.
WHAT A CROOK
The BLM insists “Mr. Bundy has… failed to comply with multiple court orders to remove his cattle from the federal lands and to end the illegal trespass.”
It is the BLM, not Cliven Bundy, who is in violation of the law and the Constitution, specifically Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution.
The clause, known as the Enclave Clause, authorizes Congress to purchase, own and control land in a state under specific and limited conditions, namely “for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings,” and not, as the feds now insist, to protect an endangered tortoise.
The Founders were opposed to providing a centralized federal government with unlimited authority to purchase and, as is routinely the case today, seize state and private land.
During the federal convention debates in September, 1787, Elbridge Gerry, who later went on to serve as vice president under James Madison, contended federal purchase of land “might be made use of to enslave any particular State by buying up its territory, and that the strongholds proposed would be a means of awing the State into an undue obedience.”
In order to make certain the federal government did not abuse the Enclave Clause, the words “Consent of the Legislature of the State” were added.
Madison, Jefferson and the Founders were primarily interested in limited government and the diffusion of federal authority over the states for the protection of individual liberty. In 1992, the Supreme Court issued an opinion on the framers’ reasoning behind the state consent requirement (New York v. U.S):
“The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals. State sovereignty is not just an end in itself: rather, federalism secures to citizens the liberties that derive from the diffusion of sovereign power.” (Emphasis added.)
Madison knew unlimited federal power inevitably results in unbridled tyranny. “I venture to declare it as my opinion that, were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America,” he wrote.
Despite the desire of the founders and the originating principles of the nation, conceived as a constitutional republic, the federal government has repeatedly and habitually exacted dictatorial authority in Nevada and throughout much of the West.
“The United States government owns and has broad authority to regulate federal lands in Nevada,” the BLM arrogantly insists. “In response to challenges of federal ownership of the lands in Nevada, the 9th circuit held that the federal government owned all federal lands in Nevada, and that those lands did not pass to the state upon statehood.”
This is in direct conflict with Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution.
Cliven Bundy’s struggle with the BLM in Nevada is exactly the situation Madison and the founders tried to prevent. The federal government does not have the constitutional authority to own land, beyond what is stipulated in the Enclave Clause, and its seizure of land, under the obviously fallacious pretense of protecting a tortoise, is a serious violation of the Constitution.
Excellent post. Lincoln was one of the first to blatantly violate the Constitution and a bloody Civil War was fought over States’ Rights, not slavery. The Act of 1871 precipitated the Incorporation of the United States government (not the constitutional government under the united States of America Constitution) which can have jurisdiction over the 14 sq.miles of the District of Columbia only, which is now a City-State. These “Executive Branch” thugs are out of their jurisdiction/country and the Sheriff of Clark County rightly and Constitutionally ordered the thugs to stand down.
If I was as old and senile as this fool is, money would mean nothing to me, YOU CANNOT TAKE IT WITH YOU!!!