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:
Real sheriff
Hehe
Arrest members of the Bereau of Land Theft Management.
why would he arrest federal agents? that makes no sense
The federal government has several purposes..to protect our borders..to protect our Constitution and make sure individual states follow it..and they represent us to the world at large..in return they get to continue doing so..they are a separate entity to the states..this was set up this way to protect against slipping into a dictatorship..it is illegal for them to impose their will on or in any state in this union..the drug trade has given them certain legal rights because some types of illegal drugs have been smuggled through our borders
And this Mr Tierney..is the law..you can try to misconstrue the language of our written law or even the guidelines of our contract with the federals all that you want..you know this is so..you may not like it for whatever reason but you cannot change this fact by simply disagreement
Got some news for ya. The goverment can’t own land only a small bit of washing DC
Jerry Wood, please site the section of the Constitution that prohibits the Federal Government from owning land. Also, remember all the land you are speaking of was originally owned by foreign governments and were either purchased or won by the Federal Government. They all started as Federal Territories and did not become states until much later.
Go after the financiers
Nice to see a sheriff that is for the people