Posted on 04/15/2014 10:47:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
RENO, Nev. (CBS Las Vegas/AP) — A Nevada rancher said Monday he’s trying to determine if federal agents damaged his cattle when the animals were rounded up then released in a showdown with angry protesters over a decades-long dispute about rangeland rights.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze said the agency backed off to avoid a potentially violent situation over the weekend.
However, he vowed to go to court to collect more than $1 million in back grazing fees he says Cliven Bundy owes for trespassing on federal lands since the 1990s.
Bundy, whose family has operated a ranch since the 1870s southwest of Mesquite a few miles from the Utah line, does not recognize federal authority on the land that he insists belongs to Nevada.
On Saturday, the bureau released about 400 head of cattle it had seized from Bundy. The operation had been expected to take a month to collect as many as 900 cattle.
The animals were freed after armed militia members joined hundreds of states’ rights protesters at corrals outside Mesquite. Bundy said they were united in defense of their constitutional rights.
“They have faith in the Constitution,” he told KDWN-AM in Las Vegas on Monday. “The founding fathers didn’t create a government like this.”
Bundy told KLAS-TV that American citizens helped get his cattle back.
“There is no deal here. The citizens of America and Clark County went and took their cattle. There was no negotiations. They took these cattle. They are in possession of these cattle and I expect them to come home soon,” Bundy told KLAS.
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Those people get paid no matter what they are doing. Fuel for a 100 vehicles running air conditioners well, different matter I guess.
It would have been a good time for the protesters to have some drones. Videos of helicopters running calves to death would have put this corrupt administration on its heels.
How much money have Obama & Michelle spent on their global VACATIONS???
Much more than what they claim Bundy owes.
Franklin and the Founding Fathers saw the danger of an unfettered bureacracy which is what we have today. Until we cut the size of govt by at least 50% this will not change.
Now somebody name one possible candidate for President in 2016 who can bring himself to name even one unecessary govt agency that he could bear to shutter. As far as I know not one of them can.
Spring calves were also separated from their mothers.
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