Obama Seizes 500,000 Acres of New Mexico Land for Drug Cartels and Goats

http://www.independentsentinel.com/obama-seizes-500000-acres-of-new-mexico-land-for-drug-cartels-and-goats/ ^ | May 21, 2014 | Sara Noble

[drypowder]

Republicans in Congress suggested he designate 50,000 acres to the park but Mr. Obama rejected that in favor of this enormous land grab along the Mexican border. It will be impossible to keep the drug cartels from using the land as a refuge and a portal for smugglers.

[Sacajaweau]

http://kabiza.com/kabiza-wilderness-safaris/blog/theodore-roosevelt-americas-first-conservation-president-wildife-massacre-safari-in-east-africa/

[hal ogen]

The FEDs are disgusting and anti-Free-American.

[Born to Conserve]

Nonesense. The land was federal, and it still is. Why do you confuse the issue? If you’re concerns are valid, then surely clear communication will support your opinion.

[blueplum]

ok, I was being a bit facetious, sorry. But what else does one call assignment of land without giving serious weight to local impact? What does one call revoking grazing, water and private property rights and closing off natural water sources, all on the smokescreen excuse of protecting a toad or random bird, while on the other hand opening up almost unhindered use of ten times as much land as originally proposed, roads included, to another sovereign country's criminal and migrant element who could give a hotdamn about "biospheres" and consider goats good eating regardless of sex or subspecies or season? Are these migrants going to stop to read "How to sustain a world biosphere" when they're setting up their shanty towns? Unlike ranchers, who are true stewarts of the land, the BLM has proven over and over it has grown incapable of effectively managing the flora and fauna they already have under stewardship, and what management they do institute is guided by political powers other than The People and other than the due process of the Federal government:

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a ... UNESCO biosphere reserve [ a UN reserve]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_Pipe_Cactus_National_Monument

“Private property rights literally disappear, not only in the officially designated area, but worse, in buffer zones OUTSIDE the designated area. Not only has the federal government been using these treaties and agreements to limit access to, and use of these lands to all Americans, but they also have used the UN designations to limit use of private property OUTSIDE the boundaries of the site.”

” ...in becoming party to these international land-use designations through Executive Branch action, the United States is indirectly agreeing to terms of international treaties, such as the Biodiversity Treaty - a UN treaty that has never been ratified by the United States Senate.”

” In other words, we have agreed to limit our right of sovereignty over these lands.”

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1968