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:
Steve Singfield how’s it going fool
Another case of the Federal Government were it doesn’t belong!
What I don’t get is where is there ever any damage from grazing cattle? Stick to topic people! If Joe blo on the east side of the mountain wants to have his cattle graze, and Jack blo on the west side of the mountain grazes his cattle, what the hell is wrong with that? If it has been done for years, what right has the government have to come in and deny the ranchers the right? Actually, it would benefit the government because charging a permit to the rancher to use the lands would pay US forestry salaries to protect the endangered species. Since when does cattle destroy land? Isn’t manure a fertilizer?
Why don’t you come to marshal co miss , then and tell the us forest Marshall’s somthing then they so bad they will write tickets for 4 wheeler on road miles from us forest claim it’s there road because it goes through the forest
I’m in. Let’s do it.
THats interesting, not too long ago a guy named Bundy and the deplorable vigilantes were going to stand up to the government. You all preach about the constitution and enforcing the law, but your heroes are those who want to break the law. YOu can’t have it both ways.
The Government shouldnt have the power to take land just to take if they can spend 5.000 on a hammer they can give 100.000 an arce fer our land If we want to sell to them CROOKEN SOBS
Good plan!
5 days . Snowflakes
There is no date on that article… isn’t this a 3 year old dead story?