Video: Feds Taser Nevada Rancher’s Son During Tense Clash

The Blaze ^ | April 10, 2014 | Becket Adams

[Former Proud Canadian]

The standoff between a Nevada rancher and the U.S. government escalated Wednesday when protesters confronted federal agents tasked with the chore of rounding up approximately 900 “trespass cattle.”

The confrontation, captured on video, resulted in one protester, the rancher’s son, being hit with a stun gun while another, the rancher’s daughter, was pushed to the ground. One woman said federal officials struck her with their vehicle.

[1_Rain_Drop]

From my understanding, there was an agreement between the rancher and BLM. For a fee, BLM was to maintain the fences and some other stuffs on the rancher’s property. BLM kept their part of the agreement till they didn’t. Thus the rancher stopped paying the fee. BLM broke their part of the agreement first.

If ever there is a problem between the government and a landowner, always side with the landowner. ALWAYS.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

"trespass cattle

Doing the grazing that American cattle won't do?

[Hardslab]

Yet obumga can muster an army to deport (or just kill) the tresspassing cattle, yet cant send already captured aliens home just have to let em go.

[Psalm 144]

One day there will be a spark and rebellion will break out against the state. This is probably not it because of the isolated location and the ambiguity over the legal right to the acreage, but police state tactics are going to cause general rebellion at some point.

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I pretty much agree with you, but this could be the spark despite its remoteness and lack of cover. If the fedcoats mass here to ‘neutralize’ this man, his family and his friends, it means they stripped resources from other places.

As Ulysses S. Grant once said “Our cat has the longer tail”.

[grumpygresh]

I wonder if rubber vests or suits would work against tasers?
What to bring to the protest.
Gas mask, helmet, rubber vest, Kevlar vest, vests with spikes?

[Mark17]

Good points. Ruby Ridge and Waco were isolated sites also.

This has the potential to be another Ruby Ridge. Thes people were really pissed. I hate these dang alphabet agencies.

[Bulwyf]

I found that extremely disturbing, those uniforms are not Americans.

[GBA]

Is this the country Michelle is proud of? I’m not.

[agrarianlady]

It was federal property. Yes, the feds chose some turtle over ranchers. And now everything’s out of control.

The fees were 1.35 per head per month or something like that.

Obviously, it’s federal land, and there has to be a system for ensuring that the proper amount of cattle are grazed, etc. This rancher has a point that the feds are being too draconian. 20 years ago he lost — I think that this will not end well and I pray no one gets hurt. I do prefer the courts and the press for resolving these issues.

There’s more to the story. Not all cattle ranchers are on his side.

[Scoutmaster]

No. There are many, many other issues, but Cliven Bundy is the one who quit paying the grazing fees in 1993 after the BLM limited the number of cattle he could run on the old Bunkerton allotment.

The BLM may have quit billing Bundy for grazing fees in 1998, when it declared the old Bunkerton allotment a no-graze area, but I’ve seen nothing definitive regarding that. However, the damages sought by the BLM suggest it is seeking rent since 1993.

[Scoutmaster]

Cliven Bundy's family has owned a 150-acre ranch near Bunkerton since 1878.

At issue is where his family has owned or gained ownership of grazing rights to hundreds of thousands of additional acres of land.

Among other theories asserted by Mr. Bundy in his legal pleadings:

• the land to which BLM claims ownership is public land, not federal land;
• the public land belongs to the State of Nevada;
• federal ownership of this type land is not among the enumerated types of land that the federal government may own pursuant to the U.S. Constitution;
• the Bundy family has prescriptive rights to the land because of the history of use and improvements made to the property by the Bundy family;
• the Equal Footing Doctrine of the Constitution prevents the federal government from asserting title to the land because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Pollard's Lessee v. Hagan, 44 U.S. (3 How.) 212, (1845) that the shores of and land beneath navigable waters were reserved to the states, and were not granted by the Constitution to the federal government;
• that the Disclaimer Clause of the Nevada Constitution, forever disclaiming right and title of public lands to the United States, is illegal and unconstitutional; and
• that the action to remove him is not because of trespass, but because of the presence of an endangered species.

[Scoutmaster]

I think his family has been paying grazing fees for 50 years and he stopped.

59 years.

In 1934, the federal Taylor Grazing Act was enacted, providing for regulation of regulation of grazing on public lands, including the requirement of a grazing contract and payment of grazing fees.

The constitutionality of that Act can be legitimately questioned.

However, when the Act became law, the Bundy family signed a grazing contract and began paying grazing fees.

Cliven Bundy stopped paying grazing fees in 1993, after the BLM limited the number of cattle he could graze on the old Bunkerton allotment because of the presence of desert tortoises, a species the Fish & Wildlife Service declared an Endangered Species.

[Scoutmaster]

So as "incentive" to get ranchers to stop grazing there they started charging a fee. This rancher told them to bugger off.

It wasn't an incentive to get ranchers to stop grazing there. The government started charging a fee there in 1934, and the Bundy family paid it until 1993. The grazing contracts have a ten-year term. In 1993, the BLM changed the contract terms to severely limit the number of cattle Cliven Bundy could graze on the Bunkerton allotment because of the presence of . . . desert tortoises.

That's when Clive Bunkerton ceased paying a grazing fee.

After years of federal judges listening to arguments made about federal laws and regulations by federal lawyers representing federal agencies, the federal judge gave a federal agency permission to remove Cliven Bundy's cattle if he didn't do so in 45 days.

[ThunderSleeps]

Thanks for the info. The story is finally starting to come out with more and more details.