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Posted on 03/02/2015 5:06:09 PM PST by george76
According to findings from The Tombstone Marshal’s Office (TMO), a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officer was mistaken for a man impersonating an officer..
On January 28th, while traveling east on Charleston Road, a sixteen year old driver reported to the Tombstone Marshal’s Office that she observed a male driver in a white truck look at her as he passed and then turned around and begin travelling eastbound behind her before pulling her over with emergency lights flashing on the dashboard.
The female advised that she pulled to the side road and the male exited his vehicle and approached her passenger side window with a handgun in his hand and held near his leg. She then stated that the man was not wearing a uniform and did not identify himself.
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BLM Officers are federal officers and therefore have full authority to pull over anyone, cite and arrest people. If you are cited by a BLM or any other federal officer, your citation goes to the US District Court in Tucson.
This incident is now concluded and was simply a mistake.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetombstonenews.com ...
She was right.
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She was right. THe officer should definitely identify himself. An imposter with bad intentions would behave exactly as described.
Utah to feds: Stop enforcing our laws.
Federal officers and rangers have no right to enforce driving and other common laws on national forest, federal range lands and national parks, the Utah Attorney General’s Office asserts.
The state is defending an effort to limit the police powers of federal officers in the latest flashpoint between Utah and U.S. government officials. The debate has often centered on control or development of federal lands, but it is now extending to police activities by federal officers.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765631779/Utah-to-feds-Stop-enforcing-our-laws.html?pg=all
A BLM officer pretty much is impersonating a law officer. This is another level of government beuarocracy that should be outright eliminated. Along with about 40% of the other Federal Departments.
Multiple rural county sheriffs from Utah testified .. in favor of HB155, sponsored by Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, which proposes to limit BLM rangers and forest protection officers from exercising police power over state and local laws
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2992879/posts
That's what they do, isn't it?
BLM is just a jumped up forest ranger.
These creeps are all over the mountains.
Used to be you would see forest rangers in little green uniforms in little green pickups, and they were there to be helpful with camping tips, directions, weather warnings, etc.
Now they grind around in big 3/4 ton pickups with light bars and sirens...and the dumbass undertrained overpumped jockos inside the vehicles carry shotguns, sidearms, clubs and mace.
I was up fishing one day and spotted a dead goose in a beaver pond area...for weeks I had been seeing a goose and his mate there, suggesting a nearby nest.
Well this goose was floating dead, and when the muscleboys showed up in their big pickup I told them I had passed this spot an hour or so before and hadn’t seen the dead goose.
They were jawing and conferring and they were trying to diagnose the goose with a pair of binoculars. I said, “You guys have fishing waders?”
No. No. They both agreed no.
“I have a couple pairs you want to use mine?”
Conferring, jawing, no, no.
“Do you want ME to go out there and bring it back?”
Conferring, muttering, shrugging. No that shouldn’t be necessary.
“Well I guess the investigation is over then. Good luck.”
Shoot, boys, leave the kevlar behind for a day and throw in some boots and waders...important brainstorming there, some serious gumshoe work going on...what a clusterfork.
BLM and other feral agency thugs were out of control at Bundy Ranch, then elsewhere with Pete and Lynn Tomera , and others..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3184569/posts
It was only recently that BLM officers gunned a man down on the highway near Las Vegas. He was unarmed; I don’t remember anyone making a big stink about it though.
I’m looking for the politician who is prepared to defund BLM or at the very least cut it up and hand it off to the states for them to do as they like, either fund or dismantle.
Cowboy Express/Grass March arrives in Washington, D.C. = October 16, 2014 .
The Cowboy Express/Grass March riders carried with them various petitions arguing against government over-regulation of federal lands. The ranching families of Tomera and Filippini in Battle Mountain are protesting the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to temporarily close grazing on areas of the Argenta Allotment ..
Elko County Commissioner Grant Gerber, who spearheaded the march, said the group rode down Constitution Avenue to a staging area near the Capitol building... At the Capitol, the Cowboy Express/Grass March met with representatives from five congressional offices and two senate offices, Gerber said. U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, also attended.
Along the journey across the country, several counties in western Kansas provided documents related to land restrictions prompted by the lesser prairie chicken population. The bird issue in Kansas is similar to the sage grouse ..
“Our government is shutting everybody down,” Pete Tomera said, and he’s worried the government will eventually shut down farms and ranches.
Pete Tomera was also angry about the decisions of Doug Furtado, the BLM Battle Mountain District manager. Pete Tomera said Furtado is costing the area millions by requiring animal forage shortages.
“It’s not just the Tomeras and Filippinis … he’s hurting everyone in the Battle Mountain district,” Pete Tomera said.
LOL
“The Tombstone Marshal’s Office”
I read that and the first thing that popped into my mind was Wyatt Earp.
The entire allotment is about 56 percent privately owned. . the BLM ordered grazing closures .
Instead of battling the decision in court, Grant Gerber suggested the effected families alert representatives in power, and along the way, the populous at large.
The ride, dubbed the Grass March, was modeled after Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March. Gerber and his son rode from Elko to Carson City to draw attention to the situation while calling for the Battle Mountain BLM district manager’s ouster.
Gerber organized another horse ride across the country. The Grass March/Cowboy Express began in September from Bodega Bay, California, and covered more than 2,800 miles before riders reached Washington, D.C., with satchels of petitions calling for relief from the federal government in various land disagreements.
In was on this ride that Gerber hit his head in a horse fall. He completed the journey but died in a hospital following surgery
I would like to see BLM lands at the very least returned to the states... but my greatest wish would be to see those lands privatized with lease-holders having first bid on the lands they currently lease. The rest should be sold off, maybe by lottery, to private citizens, US citizens.
Aside from office buildings and military bases, there is no reason for the federal government to control vast swaths of land. BLM should be disbanded. Maybe the field agents could be transferred to Border Patrol.
Agreed.
The Dingy Harry types want to steal the senior water rights from hard working ranchers.
Dan Love and his pals should be sent someplace like the southern border.
Arizona and all the western states should get on board with Utah in shutting down the feds from enforcing state and local laws, let them assist if requested to by county sheriff’s and/or state police.
Okay, that made me laugh. You have a way with words.
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