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:
So prophetic. I said the same thing eight years ago but nobody listened.
Amen to that!!! ❤
Tim Peterson Police turn their guns on the citizenry every day. Thats what we do with criminals. People that want to use land they do not own free of charge are thieves and trespassers. In this case, I am one of the 330M who has been robbed. If you study your history, when the moonshiners in Western Pennsylvania decided they did not want to pay the whiskey tax, President Washington saddled up his horse and led the US Army personally. He marched out to convince them of their folly. This is the one and only time a sitting president actually donned the Army Uniform to lead troops in the field. So, was President Washington a tyrant? And lets not forget the biggest example of turning arms on people. The Civil War. Was Lincoln a tyrant? Your turn.
For those that stop where they think they are right, congress gave the president the right to buy land and it remains the property of the United states
Can you say B******T
This is probably just f**e news. The real story is in North Dakota. Pay no attention to this.
Much of the land was granted to RR then they sold it….js
Wasn’t California land it belongs to me and everyone living in the great USA . We are tired of subsidizing these people while they make millions off the American taxpayer. No ur not messing with a fed agent or you can do HARD time in a fed pen. Have a nice day.
Just for clarity, BLM here stands for Bureau of Land Management, not another recently self-named group with no connection to BLM/Forestry.
Fred Holnagel it’s very simple. We the people are sick and tired of the Washington politics. We need a change. We didn’t necessarily vote for Trump, we voted for a non politician.