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:
The government had no business owning so much land.
Great idea
Yep. Pay tens of thousands of dollars to “buy” & own the land…. but if I don’t pay more every year on property taxes, they take my land.
We wouldn’t need property taxes if the stupid government would stop wasting their own money they do have.
“The government does NOT own the land.” … Nice sentiment, even if it’s only a delusion since that’s the way TPTB have made it.
Sorry but congress authorized the purchase of land by the government
I wanna badge
So are we gonna do something about it or just stand there and bleed?
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Only if that was true.
lol, with the incoming Trump presidency, I think a more likely scenario will be that private developers will show up and rather gruffly kick the local ranchers to the curb, tell them to get the hell off their lands, and then the next thing we know they’re torn apart for minerals, paved over for development, or in the hands of ruthless landlords who will jack up rents and restrict access. and they’ll say ‘but…but no one asked us!” and then they’ll get laughed at and mocked on twitter.
I’m not unsympathetic with some of those points. But don’t you think it’s odd that the federal govt owns half the land in the west? Can’t the people be entrusted with this land as they are in the rest of the country? I’m not suggesting getting rid of Yellowstone et al but there has to be some limits on federal seizure of land.
and then the liberals will do some sad “we TOLD you so-ing” and it’ll p**s the ranchers off to know that the liberals called that one from a mile away and then they’ll get all mad at the liberals rather than at the republicans and Trump’s cronies who F’ed them over because conservatives are pussies that way.