What land in private or state ownership is the government “grabbing?”
Be specific.
Utah is still reeling from the politically motivated creation of a 1.9 million acre monument in the Escalante Grand Staircase by President Clinton in 1996. And Obama is getting ready to grab another 10 million acres for some BS monument before he leaves office.
Try to keep up Sherm. :-)
Using words like grab, seized, stole make good copy but of course no land was grabbed, seized, or stolen.
They are complaining because they don't like the way the federal govt is managing the lands that the federal govt owns. For example: the land in Utah was re-designated with a higher level of protection, and it could no longer be mined for coal. If land gets designated as wilderness, monument, park, etc that land receives more protection.
This misconcept flows from the notion that when govt imposes land use restrictions on private land, it is considered to be a "partial taking". The second part of the misconception is the confusion between land rights and property rights. If the govt re-designates land and won't let me mine the coal, they haven't violated my property rights because I didn't own the land, but they have infringed on my rental rights. Of course all landlords impose use restrictions on the renters.
The Bundy ranch, several of his neighbors, thousands of acres in south Florida for the everglades, the list is virtually endless.