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:
OFS
No idiot the only time the Gov. Was to own the land was prior to a territory becoming a state. Then the land was ceded to the state at the time of statehood. However the gov. Decided not to play by constitutional rules and made an end run around the constitution with the help of the supreme court.
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Tyler
That didn’t work out so well for the last group!!
Deputize me and i promise to not let u down i was a United States citizen taken advantage of of the U.S.government and their corruption consider me and i will donate all that i can to rise against their corruption and give funds to boot
Cassie Sanders citizens that turn their arms on the nation aren’t citizens anymore. I thought we settled that with the civil war. This is federal land. It our land. It’s my land. I don’t take to people that think they can use it like they own for for their personal gain. And when you exclude the true owner, it is theft. Sorry, but the constitutional argument put forth on this is not the law, and never was the law. And that has been settled for about a century and a quarter.
So which is it? We need to respect federal land in spite of dangers presented to municipal water sources, or we need to stand against the federal governments land grab?
BLM. Bureau of land management.
As a member of the public I hereby revoke permission for these ranchers to make a living using my land. It belongs to everyone. You all who want to turn that land over to the states I guess are fine with oil wells and gold mines in your national parks. The point of public lands is to have some land all can use, not the eventual result of all land being private property. Public lands (national parks, military bases, national forests, national seashores, national monuments) are good things, not some idiot conspiracy…..