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:
If ranchers can’t get it into their heads that a grazing permit is not a land title perhaps we should do away with the permits. They are using federal land that the BLM is obliged to manage and protect and it is the BLM, not ranchers who determine how many cattle, if any can use the land without degrading it. So don’t try to make this a stupid partisan issue.
The sheriff is the highest elected official in a county. He has more power than a governor if he wants to uphold the law. They are the last stronghold of civility in society.
The Bureau of Land Management is forgetting land agreements previously made with ranchers turning into evil landlords.
With you in Alabama
Bull$#%&!@*they can do what ever they want
You people that$#%&!@*about Bengazi what about the over 4000 Americans that died in Iraq for what we had no bussiness in Iraq there was no weapons of mass destruction only money for the oil nobody talks about that NOBODY
Let’s hope the Electoral college does there job and put someone other than trump in office
Federal government doesn’t have jurisdiction over state governments
BLM IS A TERRORISTS ORGANIZATION
They want land for internment camps out of site of JQ Public
It’s about damn time someone grew a set of balls way to go Utah