The movement against the BLM and Forestry Service western lands takeover continues to build, with the aftermath of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge demonstration and the slaying of rancher LaVoy Finicum by federal agents serving as a rallying point for those who believe the federal government has grown too big and powerful, particularly in the western states. Don’t miss the video included later in the article.
The compliant media has circled the wagons to declare the demonstrators were radical, right-wing constitutionalists, as if the U.S. Constitution can be protected and promoted too much.
Somehow, those who dismiss the ranchers and their supporters in the western states can’t see that the government, which “owns” over 50 percent of the land in eleven western states, is much more interested in power and control, and much more committed to radical environmentalists than to farmers and ranchers trying to make a living on the land that, like as not, has been a family pursuit and way of life for generations.
To put a finer point on the issue, mere weeks after the Malheur protesters were arrested and the refuge cleared, President Obama declared three more parcels of land in California as federal land, with little or no future access granted to mere citizens of the state. And by parcels, I mean almost 2 million acres that are now set aside as an offering to the Sierra Club and their ilk, with no compensation offered to California for the taking.
Federal government supporters are painting protesters as lawless cowboys, ignoring the fact that the Constitution prohibits the federal government from owning more than a ten square mile plot in Washington D.C., and areas for forts and military installations that require state approval to acquire.
Watch as the Sheriff fights back in video on the next page:
great man they should all do that
Good for you sheriff put Bureau of Land management out of business. They are stealing peoples land. Case in point Hammonds and Bundys. Harry Reid and Clinton need to go with them. Get them all out. The peoples land should be protected. Government only has rights to 10 acres around DC
I cry b******t he is looking for his 5 minutes of fame or auditioning for trump these people are breaking laws on camera and in plain veiw and no one is doing a dam thing actions speek the truth anyone can talk
It just goes to show, if you give them a inch they take 5,000,000 acres, Blm has there hand in everything outdoors, I was checked 6 times this season alone, for my hunting permit, I’m 55 yrs old, I’ve been checked 2 times prior to this year, in all those yrs I’ve never seen so many agents out patrolling, what exactly is there next move?
Sounds like California has gotten Obama to help in land grab
we are with you utah.
Sheriff Joe didn’t talk about it HE ACTUALLY DID IT!!!!!!!!
Let’s hope Trump dissolves BLM bullies
The land belongs to the people of that state NOT THE FEDERAL GUVMINT!
Deputy Copic reporting for duty Sir