Posted on 04/21/2014 12:43:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
OKLAHOMA - A dispute over land in Nevada between rancher Cliven Bundy and the Federal Government began decades ago.
Bundy says his family’s cattle have grazed on the land without interference since 1870.
The Bureau of Land Management says Bundy hadn’t paid his grazing fees since 1993, owing the government more than 1 million dollars.
The B.L.M. says Bundy was allowing his cattle to graze illegally, which triggered a forced round-up of about 400 of Bundy’s cattle just last week. The cows were later released.
Organizers with the Oklahoma Militia say they have members in Nevada who say Bundy’s cattle were unlawfully rounded up by the B.L.M.
Militia member Scott Shaw comments on the round-up “evidently in America we don’t actually own the property anymore, if you ever did.”
The round-up sparked an armed standoff, but it wasn’t the Bundy family who owns the cattle, it was militia members from across the nation going up against the B.L.M.
Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe weighed in on the matter “You’ve got a bunch of people there trying to take the law into their own hands and they shouldn’t be doing that and the bureau of land management is not government-owned, its publicly owned, there’s a big difference there. I blame both sides.”
Here in Oklahoma, militia members say they have nearly 50,000 volunteers. Members say they are taking Bundy’s side and fear this governmental practice could spread to the Sooner State.
Scott Shaw says with all of the recent constitutional infringements by the Federal Government, the Oklahoma volunteer militia is ready to take up arms if needed. “It’s up to the feds, the balls in their court! You can do this legally or if you want to try to do a land grab violently, you can do that, were going to resist you!”
Shaw says they haven’t had to defend Oklahoma from the Feds yet, but says its beginning to become a concern.
“Just look around the country they are doing it everywhere. If they can do it in Nevada, they can do it in Colorado, Texas. I mean what’s to stop them from coming to Oklahoma? The only thing to stop them is we the people.”
“The only thing to stop them is we the people.”
He is correct. Congress sure as hell isn’t doing anything.
Obama needs Marshall Law before the November election date when the democrats get snuffed.
It’s no accident Harry Reid started this.
Explain please about the Reid comment.
Since congress won’t do anything, it is up to the people.
We’ll have a better outcome if we send our agents, the states, to calmly sit down together in an amendment convention work out a plan to restore our freedoms.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3146700/posts
Some speculate that Reid is behind the long-term running off of the ranchers to build up his own holdings. See above thread regarding property owned near the Bundy ranch held by Reid Bunkerville LLC.
And/or Reid’s inflammatory statement calling the Bundy’s and their supporters “Domestic Terrorists”.
Reid’s personal and political gain.
Two birds, one stone.
Very courageous, Senator. /s
brave men
I support Bundy too:I wish i had the time to join them ,
I agree. It needs to happen soon. It is encouraging that several of the western states are meeting to resolve the insane federal land ownership situation there.
I caught that too.
Obama needs Marshall Law before the November election date when the democrats get snuffed.
It’s no accident Harry Reid started this.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Agreed, in spades.
and the bureau of land management is not government-owned, its publicly owned, there’s a big difference there. I blame both sides.” ....Explain that to me,please Why is a ‘publicly owned’ entity collecting millions for a “Goverment” entity?
Wow, he took a huge political risk with that one.
Inhofe is flat out wrong. There is never any justification for the regime to seize private property. Yet we turn a blind eye when it happens (drug dealers, tax delinquents, etc.)because those are “bad guys”. It may be true, but it is NOT the regime’s place to do so before a judge and jury of a man’s peers decide.
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist....”
Cuz the irs can’t count any higher...
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