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Posted on 04/13/2014 2:17:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
The Bureau of Land Management vowed Saturday that it would continue its legal fight to remove illegal cattle from a rural Nevada range after ending a tense weeklong standoff with a rancher and his supporters.
"After 20 years and multiple court orders to remove the trespass cattle, [rancher Cliven] Bundy owes the American taxpayers in excess of $1 million. The BLM will continue to work to resolve the matter administratively and judicially," a statement from the bureau said. "We ask that all parties in the area remain peaceful and law-abiding as the Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service work to end the operation in an orderly manner."
The BLM also announced that it was wrapping up its month-long operation to seize the 900 cattle roaming on federally owned land approximately 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas and would release the 400 head of Bundy's cattle it had already seized "in order to avoid violence and help restore order."
"Based on information about conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public," the statement read.," the statement read.
Bureau officials had dismantled designated protest areas supporting Bundy, who they say refuses to comply with the "same laws that 16,000 public land ranchers do every year."
A group of about 1,000 supporting Bundy cheered and sang "The Star Spangled Banner" when BLM made its announcement.
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I would pay a lot for a ticket to see harry mess himself. Proceeds should go to the Bundy fund.
Little Neil, described by his classmates as charismatic, could end up taking a long walk off of a short pier career wise... I would hope. ‘course he can just work for daddy in the gold mine.
It’s true he was technically violating the law, but the law is an ass.
Is it wrong to disobey illegitimate administrative rulings based on bad science intended to a achieve a predetermined policy goal based on ideology?
His non-cooperation with the BLM has it’s history in the Sagebrush Rebellion of the nineties when the BLM and USFS was fully taken over by the environmentals who saw the election of Bill Clinton as their chance to conform public lands policy to their earth mother Gaia belief system.
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It seems to me that Bundy now has abundant grounds to file a suit of his own. He has lost before but the issue was his action toward the BLM, non payment of fees.
He now has grounds for a suit to settle the basic issue....does BLM own the land and have the legal right to enforce grazing rights
I sure hope you're correct. Otherwise the feds will bankrupt him with legal fees.
Sorry, but IMHO unless the Constitution is amended, it states EXACTLY what the Fed. Gov’t has control...and 80% of the West isn’t one of ‘em.
We have all seen what kind of ‘stewards’ Fedzilla comes down to: out-of-control controlled burns, Super Fund sites (what once was good is now bad = taxpayer $$), porous Southern border (one of the FEW numerated powers, and they can’t get this ONE right)...
Your argument was lost when Jefferson bought Louisiana. I don’t think that anyone is seriously considering giving it back to the French.
Do a quick search on "homestead act" and you'll see about seven or eight Congressional actions.
>> The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ended homesteading; by that time, federal government policy had shifted to retaining control of western public lands. <<
This action needs to be declared unConstitutional and thrown in the trash. Homesteading needs to resume or outright sale of the lands...TO US CITIZENS.
I suppose anyone with any sense is out squatting on federal land right now. Nothing like getting free stuff.
Show me the law that says the federal government owns that land.
The federal government can lease public land, and can manage public land, and can hold public land in trust. But it does not OWN public land.
You are something much worse than ignorant.
If the government wants to go the eminent domain route, they’d have to pay Bundy. Instead, they want what he has for free. See the difference?
I gave a feeling that there are a great many (conservative) attorneys who would be ecstatic to take on this case pro bono, simply for the positive publicity it’ll give the firm.
Being the archetypal “Good Guy” in a high profile case such as this will win a great many friends - and a great many new clients.
Well, that is exactly what the BLM claims they were doing, leasing the forage rights and managing them. I think Bundy is technically not in legal compliance, but the BLM is ethically and morally in the wrong because their management of the disputed allotments has been ideology based rather than fact and science based. And their management style is as always high handed authoritarian bureaucrapese that Americans are tired of. When the law becomes illegitimate in its methods and purposes, the citizens rebel.
You may be right.
I’ve never been to law school and I’m not up to speed on the relevant cases.
However, I do think he’s going to have loads of hot lawyers on his side now, ready and willing to take on this case for the publicity alone (win OR lose), and that’ll certainly improve his chances.
“Show me the law that says the federal government owns that land.”
Will you have another?
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/crsreports/crsdocuments/RL34267_12032007.pdf
That early video part was entertaining if not disgusting to watch. Somebody has to be regreting sending out the cityboy brownshirts with their dogs. It didn’t occur to the resident dumbass that all cowboys have dogs also, usually more than one. And a good cow dog is hell on coyotes. While I love german shepards those would have been no match for a couple of PO’d cowdogs who would have seen the shepards as coyotes most likely. That whole deal would have turned into a real rodeo if just a couple of cowdogs had showed up.
Speaking of dumbasses I noticed that the chick who runs the local BLM stayed under her desk until all the cows were turned loose. Looked like she was letting a BLM cityprick be the front guy so’s she could stay clean with the local folks——typical gummint “spread-the-blame” tactic.
I don’t know the details, but if he is illegally running cows on government land I personally do not care. The government lets illegal aliens flood into this country, gives them special treatment, taxpayer funded handouts that would stun people if they knew half what they get. Illegals damage the environment, have a big impact on wildlife on public lands every single day and the same government and non-government people that are “concerned” about cattle and turtles says nothing about the damage illegals do. The government says they cannot stop illegals from coming in, says we have to give them handouts, etc.
When this same government goes after a rancher that is not causing near the issues or costing near the money shows a real interest in stopping illegals then I might begin to have a concern about whether or not people are grazing cattle illegally on government land.
The politicians we have in charge now do not follow the law- they instead change it as we go along without even taking the proper steps to do it, flaunt it, bend it to suit them. What the issue really is here is many people have lost all respect for the politicians/government and are tired of having their freedoms taken away and seeing force used in ways that are not what this country is supposed to represent.
The first confrontation the government rent-a-cops and this ranching family was over the top. Can you imagine the outcry if anyone representing this government confronted a group of illegals in the same manner? You will never see that for sure.
The real lesson here is how many people are fed up with the government for so many different reasons. Early on someone said this was bigger than Bundy. They were so right.
Imagine the outcry from liberals if the government met the cartel smugglers with the same attitude and force they went after Bundy with? We all know that would never happen. Special treatment for special groups, people are getting tired of giving up freedom and having illegals welcomed with open arms and unending handouts.
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