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Interesting how Americans standing their ground and fighting back against an out of control government and their jackboot thuggery are violating the law.
Yet the Politicians with their L.E. thugs who lie, steal , cheat and abuse the American People everyday are law abiding ?
Perhaps it is time to teach these self aggrandized public servants what Americans are capable of and just who they truly work for!!
You are right about one thing Mr. Reid, this is definitely not Over........
~Desert Rose~
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War on the West: Why More Bundy Standoffs Are Coming
Written by William F. Jasper
The
federal government’s over-the-top police action against the Bundy
family ranch is an ominous portent of more to come, as rogue agencies
and their corporate/NGO partners attempt to “cleanse” the West of
ranchers, farmers, miners, loggers, and other determined property
owners.
On Saturday, April 12, the federal bureaucrats backed down. Faced with hundreds of men and women on horseback and on foot who were armed with firearms and video cameras — as well as local television broadcast stations and independent media streaming live video and radio feeds across America — the Obama administration called off the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) operation to confiscate hundreds of cattle belonging to Cliven Bundy, the current patriarch of a respected pioneer family that has been ranching in Nevada’s Clark County since the 1800s.
Supporters from all across the United States had converged on the Bunkerville, Nevada, area in support of Bundy, who is the
“last rancher standing” in Clark County, due to a decades-long campaign by federal agencies and allied enviro-activists to drive all ranchers off of the range. After a tense standoff, orders came down from above for the surrounded and outnumbered federal agents to “stand down” and turn loose the Bundy cattle that had been corralled.
On Saturday, before the resolution of the standoff, The New American talked to Richard Mack, the former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, and founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), as he headed from a meeting of public officials to a press conference at the Bundy Ranch. He was very grave and worried at the time that the situation could spin out of control, and that federal agents might open fire on citizens. He also expressed his exasperation at Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Clark County Sheriff Douglass Gillespie. “If Governor Sandoval and Sheriff Gillespie were doing the jobs they were elected to do, they would have stopped this from getting to a dangerous point,” Sheriff Mack said. “There are lots of things they could have done to defuse this situation, including telling the Feds to ‘stand down,’ and to assert their own jurisdiction and force the federal authorities to obey the law, including the Constitution and the laws of the state of Nevada,” he noted. “I have a very bad feeling about this,” he continued, adding that he hoped the tensions would be deescalated and a peaceful outcome negotiated.
Fortunately, most likely due to the national attention that the Bundy situation was receiving, federal officials backed off, the demonstrators and supporters remained peaceful, and a violent confrontation was averted. However, that does not end the affair. Members of the Bundy family and supporters, such as Sheriff Mack, expressed concerns that the evacuation of the federal police force might be a feint, and that there may be plans for them to return the following day, or as soon as the supporters and television crews had departed.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whose personal financial stake in the Bundy eviction has been called into question, let it be known that he wants to see the matter pursued.
“Well, it’s not over,” Reid told NBC’s Nevada affiliate KRNV on Monday, April 14. “We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over.”
Senator Reid, Nevada’s senior senator, is very incensed when the American people, i.e., ordinary citizens, “violate the law” — as he puts it — but he says nothing about the more serious violations of the laws and the Constitution by public officials, such as himself or the BLM officials.
This is the same federal BLM that Chief Judge Robert C. Jones of the Federal District Court of Nevada last year ruled had been engaged in a decades-long criminal “conspiracy” against the Wayne Hage family, fellow ranchers and friends of the Bundys. Among other things, Judge Jones accused the federal bureaucrats of racketeering under the federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations) statute, and accused them as well of extortion, mail fraud, and fraud, in an effort “to kill the business of Mr. Hage.” In fact, the government’s actions were so malicious, said the judge, as to “shock the conscience of the Court.” Judge Jones granted an injunction against the agencies and referred area BLM and Forest Service managers to the Justice Department for prosecution.
Has Attorney General Eric Holder prosecuted any federal officials for criminal activity and violation of the Hage family’s constitutionally protected rights? No. Has Sen. Harry Reid denounced this lawlessness and criminal activity by government officials and call upon President Obama and Attorney General Holder to protect the citizens of his state from the depredations of federal officials under their command? No.
Huge Federal Footprint: And a Boot on Every Neck
With attitudes such as those expressed above by Sen. Harry Reid, it is almost a certainty that the recently defused Bundy Ranch standoff will be replayed again — and in the not-too-distant future. And the outcome could be much less amicable for all concerned.
And this is but one of many incidents that can be expected, because the Bundy family are not the only victims in the federal crosshairs. The BLM, U.S. Forest Service (USFS), National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and other federal agencies own and/or control hundreds of millions of acres of the 12 western states. The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not as large a landlord as some of these bigger agencies, but it exercises enormous regulatory clout over both private and public lands, air, and water. And while the EPA’s draconian, arbitrary, and costly regulations affect the entire country, they fall especially hard on the states in the West, where the federal impact is already massive due to the outsized footprint of the federal agencies.
As
the accompanying map graphically demonstrates, there is a striking
difference between the federal government’s claim to physical real
estate in the states of East and the Midwest versus those of the West.
In Maine, for instance, federal agencies occupy only 1.1 percent of the
state’s land area; in New York it’s a mere 0.8 percent. The federal
government claims only 1.8 percent of Indiana, 1.6 percent of Alabama,
and 1.7 percent of Ohio. But in the Western states, the federal
footprint covers from nearly one-third to over four-fifths of the area
of the states.
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On Saturday, April 12, the federal bureaucrats backed down. Faced with hundreds of men and women on horseback and on foot who were armed with firearms and video cameras — as well as local television broadcast stations and independent media streaming live video and radio feeds across America — the Obama administration called off the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) operation to confiscate hundreds of cattle belonging to Cliven Bundy, the current patriarch of a respected pioneer family that has been ranching in Nevada’s Clark County since the 1800s.
Supporters from all across the United States had converged on the Bunkerville, Nevada, area in support of Bundy, who is the
“last rancher standing” in Clark County, due to a decades-long campaign by federal agencies and allied enviro-activists to drive all ranchers off of the range. After a tense standoff, orders came down from above for the surrounded and outnumbered federal agents to “stand down” and turn loose the Bundy cattle that had been corralled.
On Saturday, before the resolution of the standoff, The New American talked to Richard Mack, the former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, and founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), as he headed from a meeting of public officials to a press conference at the Bundy Ranch. He was very grave and worried at the time that the situation could spin out of control, and that federal agents might open fire on citizens. He also expressed his exasperation at Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Clark County Sheriff Douglass Gillespie. “If Governor Sandoval and Sheriff Gillespie were doing the jobs they were elected to do, they would have stopped this from getting to a dangerous point,” Sheriff Mack said. “There are lots of things they could have done to defuse this situation, including telling the Feds to ‘stand down,’ and to assert their own jurisdiction and force the federal authorities to obey the law, including the Constitution and the laws of the state of Nevada,” he noted. “I have a very bad feeling about this,” he continued, adding that he hoped the tensions would be deescalated and a peaceful outcome negotiated.
Fortunately, most likely due to the national attention that the Bundy situation was receiving, federal officials backed off, the demonstrators and supporters remained peaceful, and a violent confrontation was averted. However, that does not end the affair. Members of the Bundy family and supporters, such as Sheriff Mack, expressed concerns that the evacuation of the federal police force might be a feint, and that there may be plans for them to return the following day, or as soon as the supporters and television crews had departed.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whose personal financial stake in the Bundy eviction has been called into question, let it be known that he wants to see the matter pursued.
“Well, it’s not over,” Reid told NBC’s Nevada affiliate KRNV on Monday, April 14. “We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over.”
Senator Reid, Nevada’s senior senator, is very incensed when the American people, i.e., ordinary citizens, “violate the law” — as he puts it — but he says nothing about the more serious violations of the laws and the Constitution by public officials, such as himself or the BLM officials.
This is the same federal BLM that Chief Judge Robert C. Jones of the Federal District Court of Nevada last year ruled had been engaged in a decades-long criminal “conspiracy” against the Wayne Hage family, fellow ranchers and friends of the Bundys. Among other things, Judge Jones accused the federal bureaucrats of racketeering under the federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations) statute, and accused them as well of extortion, mail fraud, and fraud, in an effort “to kill the business of Mr. Hage.” In fact, the government’s actions were so malicious, said the judge, as to “shock the conscience of the Court.” Judge Jones granted an injunction against the agencies and referred area BLM and Forest Service managers to the Justice Department for prosecution.
Has Attorney General Eric Holder prosecuted any federal officials for criminal activity and violation of the Hage family’s constitutionally protected rights? No. Has Sen. Harry Reid denounced this lawlessness and criminal activity by government officials and call upon President Obama and Attorney General Holder to protect the citizens of his state from the depredations of federal officials under their command? No.
Huge Federal Footprint: And a Boot on Every Neck
With attitudes such as those expressed above by Sen. Harry Reid, it is almost a certainty that the recently defused Bundy Ranch standoff will be replayed again — and in the not-too-distant future. And the outcome could be much less amicable for all concerned.
And this is but one of many incidents that can be expected, because the Bundy family are not the only victims in the federal crosshairs. The BLM, U.S. Forest Service (USFS), National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and other federal agencies own and/or control hundreds of millions of acres of the 12 western states. The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not as large a landlord as some of these bigger agencies, but it exercises enormous regulatory clout over both private and public lands, air, and water. And while the EPA’s draconian, arbitrary, and costly regulations affect the entire country, they fall especially hard on the states in the West, where the federal impact is already massive due to the outsized footprint of the federal agencies.
As
the accompanying map graphically demonstrates, there is a striking
difference between the federal government’s claim to physical real
estate in the states of East and the Midwest versus those of the West.
In Maine, for instance, federal agencies occupy only 1.1 percent of the
state’s land area; in New York it’s a mere 0.8 percent. The federal
government claims only 1.8 percent of Indiana, 1.6 percent of Alabama,
and 1.7 percent of Ohio. But in the Western states, the federal
footprint covers from nearly one-third to over four-fifths of the area
of the states.Read More Here
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Former
Texas Rep. Ron Paul was on “Your World” this afternoon to discuss the
battle between a Nevada rancher and the federal government.
The federal government says Cliven Bundy owes $1 million in grazing fees, and authorities seized many of his cattle. Bundy then declared a “range war” on the government, prompting a standoff between Bundy’s supporters and the government. The government has since pulled back.
Paul said the government could come back with more force because it doesn’t give up power easily, citing the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians' compound in Waco, Texas. He said this issue poses the question of who should own the land.
Paul said Bundy has virtual ownership of the land because his family has been using it for so long.
“I think land should be in the states, and I think the states should sell it to the people,” he said. “You need the government out of it.”
Hear more of Paul’s thoughts in the video above.
Read more on the Nevada ranch standoff:
Feds Pull Back in Nevada Ranch Standoff
Nevada Rancher Renews Fight Against Big Gov: 'We're Standing Up for the Constitution'
The federal government says Cliven Bundy owes $1 million in grazing fees, and authorities seized many of his cattle. Bundy then declared a “range war” on the government, prompting a standoff between Bundy’s supporters and the government. The government has since pulled back.
Paul said the government could come back with more force because it doesn’t give up power easily, citing the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians' compound in Waco, Texas. He said this issue poses the question of who should own the land.
Paul said Bundy has virtual ownership of the land because his family has been using it for so long.
“I think land should be in the states, and I think the states should sell it to the people,” he said. “You need the government out of it.”
Hear more of Paul’s thoughts in the video above.
Read more on the Nevada ranch standoff:
Feds Pull Back in Nevada Ranch Standoff
Nevada Rancher Renews Fight Against Big Gov: 'We're Standing Up for the Constitution'
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Sheriff Mack travels with other CSPOA members to stand with Nevada rancher against the BLM
Many
of you have called or emailed regarding the storm brewing between
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the BLM. We all know how we feel about
the all-too-frequent bullying of individual citizens by various Feds
with their usurped, unconstitutional powers. It’s an epidemic that must
be stopped.Well, we want you to know we ARE doing something about it,
and thankfully this time we’re not alone. Sheriff Mack is leaving early
Saturday morning for an emergency trip to Bunkerville, Nevada, along
with other members of the CSPOA posse (hopefully that’s some of you!) to
stand vigil and find a peaceful resolution to this conflict (i.e., the
feds going home).
AND this late-breaking news as per Lyle Rapacki today:
State Senate President Andy Biggs and House of Reps Speaker Dave Livingston have both agreed that Arizona should be involved in supporting CSPOA and Oath Keepers in going to Bunkerville, NV to support the movement for freedom there with the Cliven Bundy family. State Senators Al Melvin, Chester Crandall, and Kelly Ward along with State Reps Brenda Barton, Bob Thorpe, Kelly Townsend and Warren Peterson are all planning to be at the Bundy ranch by Sunday morning. Furthermore, they all plan to attend the Press Conference Monday afternoon with the CSPOA and Oath Keepers along with the Bundys and other sheriffs and public officials from across the country.
AND this late-breaking news as per Lyle Rapacki today:
State Senate President Andy Biggs and House of Reps Speaker Dave Livingston have both agreed that Arizona should be involved in supporting CSPOA and Oath Keepers in going to Bunkerville, NV to support the movement for freedom there with the Cliven Bundy family. State Senators Al Melvin, Chester Crandall, and Kelly Ward along with State Reps Brenda Barton, Bob Thorpe, Kelly Townsend and Warren Peterson are all planning to be at the Bundy ranch by Sunday morning. Furthermore, they all plan to attend the Press Conference Monday afternoon with the CSPOA and Oath Keepers along with the Bundys and other sheriffs and public officials from across the country.
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We hope you understand how HUGE this is, that state senators and reps are supporting the CSPOA and the Oath Keepers! We are not alone!***
A
Delegation of state legislators, lead by Washington State
Representative Matt Shea, along with a delegation of current serving
Sheriffs, lead by Sheriff Richard Mack of the Constitutional Sheriffs
and Peace Officers Association, and military and police members of Oath
Keepers, are converging on the site of a stand-off between federal law
enforcement and Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy, to prevent bloodshed and to
stand in defense of hardworking rural Americans who are under assault
by a runaway federal government.
LAS VEGAS, NV, April 10, 2014
The
Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA.org), led
by retired Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack, and the Oath Keepers
organization (oathkeepers.org)
are assisting Washington State Representative Matt Shea in organizing a
delegation of current serving Western state legislators and Sheriffs to
travel to the site of a tense stand-off between Bunkerville, Nevada
rancher Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The
delegation is traveling to Nevada to support a coalition of current
serving Nevada legislators being organized by Nevada State Assemblywoman
Michele Fiore, of Las Vegas, to stand vigil at the Bundy ranch to
prevent Federal Government provocation of violence resulting in another
Ruby Ridge or Waco type incident. They also hope that their example of
oath-sworn public servants defending the rights of the people will
prompt Clark County, Nevada Sheriff Douglas Gillespie and Nevada
Governor Brian Sandoval to honor their oaths of office by taking real
action to defend the rights of the Bundy family, the rights of all
Nevadans, and the sovereignty of the State of Nevada.
Yesterday,
April 9, 2014, Nevada State Assemblywoman Michele Fiore served the
first watch in this vigil shortly after Cliven Bundy’s son, Ammon Bundy,
was tazered by BLM “Rangers” during a heated confrontation. [The video
of that confrontation can be seen with the full article on the Oath
Keepers web site, www.oathkeepers.org]:
The
courage and resolve displayed by Ammon Bundy and his relatives is
inspiring, and may well go down in history as a watershed moment – a
turning of the tide. But the above video also amply demonstrates the
heavy-handed behavior of the BLM that risks escalating an already
volatile situation into open bloodshed, that, once begun, may spiral out
of anyone’s control.
It
is necessary that current serving public servants step in-between the
protesters and the BLM, to protect the rights of the people and to
prevent violence against them by the militarized federal law enforcement
that are massing near the ranch to continue the forced confiscation
(theft) of Bundy’s cattle, while they also restrict all access to huge
tracts of public land, and attempt to restrict the free speech of
protesters with their absurd “First Amendment Area” (which the
protesters are ignoring, to their honor).
The
Oath Keepers organization, comprised of 40,000 current serving and
former military, police, and first responders, is also calling on its
members and all other patriotic Americans to join the vigil at the Bundy
ranch under the leadership of the current serving legislators and
sheriffs. The goal is to have at least one current serving state
legislator and at least one sheriff on the ground at all times until
this is over. And they will be backed by a large number of military and
police veterans, as well as dedicated patriotic Americans from all
walks of life, to interpose and defend the rights of the protesters and
to keep an eye on the actions of the BLM and any other federal law
enforcement present, to prevent a recurrence of the horrid abuses seen
at Ruby Ridge and Waco, and to hopefully pressure the Clark County
Sheriff and the Nevada Governor to step up and do their constitutional
duty.
Regardless,
please tell everyone you know to be praying for a peaceful resolution
to this situation and for the safety of the brave patriots headed there
and on the ground there right now.
Please read the entire press release
on the Oath Keepers web site, oathkeepers.org
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