The Bundy Ranch incident was not the first time westerners living the Western states stood up to federal unconstitutional authority. First a short recap ...
The sheriff of Clark County, Nevada did not stand up for the constitutional rights of Bundy and those who supported him. You can see pictures of physical abuse at the Bundy website.
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The other action of the
event at the standoff against the BLM agents was that the front ranks
of those siding with Bundy who moved forward at a slow and steady pace to get the BLM agents to
release his cattle, were on horseback and not armed; although people
in the farther ranks and along the flank at the hilltop, like the militia were - just in case the BLM agents opened fire. The best part is there
wasn't violent confrontation on either side; at least when the ranchers were in the process of releasing cattle. That was not so when law enforcement initially barricaded the roads and harassed protestors.
There is much that was untold by mainstream media, and FOX reporting was not much better.
People that just went
with mainstream political media reports fail to realize the whole
story behind the confrontation, some ignorantly angry against Bundy
for not paying the required fees. Just the fact that the federal
government causes prices of everything to go up, this should be an
example for them; and the reason why beef has climbed so steadily in
price per pound combined with a stubborn federal government who
refuses to refrain from foreign oil dependency and allow responsible
oil drilling in the United States. There is enough to supply the US
and still sell to other nations. The other problem is that the EPA
has taken four years in “studies” before approving a fourth oil
refinery needed for so long to meet demand. That will be part of the
story behind the Bundy Ranch Standoff against the federal government
that has become the tyrant that the Founder tried to avoid. Of
course, it all could have been avoided if constitutional law had been
enforced all the while.
The public was unaware that at the same
time the Bundy situation was occurring, 50 officials from nine Western states had gathered in Utah to discuss a state takeover of a
significant portion of federally owned land in the American West
region. Through the EPA, the federal government has hindered public
use of land in one way or another and even violated private property
rights, which is another key item addressed by the Founders. First
let's be clear – the federal government does not “own” any
land, because from the beginning each state (former colonies) had its
own government: governor and state legislation. Each state is
sovereign, but because they have been ratified into a union of
states, they MUST adhere to and enforce the articles and amendments
of the Constitution of the United States, put together by
representatives and senators from each state. Land in Wyoming belongs
to the state of Wyoming who is supposed to be in charge of it For the
People. The EPA, like the federal IRS, has become too powerful and
has thrown the Constitution into the wind.
Contrary to belief, constitutionalists
and conservatives want to keep the air and water clean, and try to
monitor and maintain natural resources through regulations based upon
common sense and true scientific analysis and procedures. The EPA has
become the strong arm of radical environmentalists who are as
hypocritical and devious as their political counterparts; they will
demonstrate and act violently towards anyone who is against their
agenda in the form of environmentalism – but they are organizations
who have accumulated wealth and a gathering of useful idiots.
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| Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir |
Theodore Roosevelt was the
president who pushed for national parks and sparked the interest in
states setting aside land for parks, for the benefit of the people
who could enjoy nature in its purity without encroachment of
civilization threatening it. He and others like him had good
intentions, but as time went by the federal government, because those
operating it like to spend and spend some more; found a way to bring
more money into the treasury. They began to lease public land for the
benefit of the federal government in several ways, like cattle
grazing, allowing oil companies to set up drill rigs, mining and
logging operations. The funds that went to the US Treasury was in
reality, money made on land that belonged to the individual states.
Federal lands cover about one-third of the United States. Those
operating our federal government have the belief and attitude that it
belongs to them, and not the People – the “public”.
In the case of Nevada, where the Bundy
Ranch is located, the Feds (BLM) “own” more than two-thirds of
the land in the state. According to the Department of Interior, there are almost 18,000 grazing
permits and leases. Recently, the federal government allowed the son
of Senator Harry Reid to swing a deal with a Chinese solar company to purchase some of that “public” land; instead of
leasing it at only one-third real estate value. This proves two
things: that as he has been involved/accused before, Senator Reid is abusing
the authority of his office – and it is easy to waste other
people's money. Worse, China, a known aggressor nation against United
States, is buying up as much real estate it can around the globe. To
lease real estate to a foreign entity is one thing, but the federal
government has no right, without congressional/people approval to
sell out to foreign nations and entities. The United States is a land
of the People and for the People, and made up of 50 sovereign states
who have agreed to abide by the Constitution of the United States and
its amendments. Which means that states like California, New York,
Illinois, et cetera, who do not abide by the Second Amendment are in
violation – and it is the responsibility of the federal government
via the US Supreme Court to say so and jack up those states. That
goes for other articles and amendments in the Constitution that state
governments violate. If they are part of the unification of states to
create a nation – they must all abide by those laws. Yet the
federal (central) government has no authority over land within a
particular state; other than that which is mentioned in
constitutional law.
Joan B., Illinois sent me this
GIF that is an animated map showing the growth of the US as states
were added from territories. It also shows expansion where the federal government commandeered land even when the territory became states.
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The same media that so fervently
spreads the Obama propaganda and helps to stymy the facts concerning
the myriad of scandals across his two terms (to date); is the same
media that doe not tell you that the federal war against Western
states has been going on for decades. Before I get into that, the
following video by Bill Whittle calls that political shuffling
“gaslighting”
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What the EPA is doing within the Obama
administration, to be fair, is nothing new, and has been going on for
decades, especially since Ronald Reagan left office. It came to a head concerning federal
government commandeering state lands from 20% to 80% depending upon
what state. It was a movement that came to be called the Sagebrush Rebellion.
Occurring in the 1970s and 1980s,
supporters of this movement wanted more state and local control
over these lands, if not outright transfer of federal lands to state
and local authorities and/or privatization.
It is the old fight between state and federal governments.
Ronald Reagan declared himself a
sagebrush rebel in an August
1980 campaign speech in Salt Lake City:
I happen to be one who cheers and supports the Sagebrush Rebellion. Count me in as a rebel.
The
struggle that Reagan faced with radical conservation organizations
continues today, the Bundy Ranch incident being only one that had
national coverage. GW Bush worked around restrictive laws instead of
reforming them or working with Congress to reform them. Just as he
ignored the movement to replace the income tax system. According to
the Wikipedia
entry:
Federal holding of public lands was originally an accident of history. Among the first pieces of legislation under the US Constitution was the Northwest Ordinance, which was designed to dispose of lands the federal government held after state claims were conceded in the Northwest Territories (now Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana). In order to encourage settlement of western lands, Congress passed the Morrell Act in 1862, granting parcels in 40-acre increments to homesteaders who could maintain a living on land for a period of time. Congress also made huge land grants to various railroads working to complete a transcontinental rail system. Much of these latter grants intentionally included mineral and timber-rich lands so that the railroads could get financing to build. Again, the hypothesis was that the railroads would sell off the land to get money. Ultimately, however, it turned out that much land west of the Missouri River was not ecologically suited for homesteading because of mountainous terrain, poor soils, lack of available water and other ecological barriers to significant settlement. By the early 20th century, the federal government held significant portions of most western states that had simply not been claimed for any use. Conservationists prevailed upon President Theodore Roosevelt to set aside lands for forest conservation and for special scientific or natural history interest. Much land still remained unclaimed even after such reserves were initially set up. The Department of the Interior held millions of acres in the western states (with Arizona and New Mexico joining the union by 1913). President Hoover proposed to deed the surface rights to the unappropriated lands to the states in 1932, but the states complained that the lands had been overgrazed and would, in other ways, impose a burden on, Great Depression, cash-strapped state budgets.
There
were stands against illegal federal ownership of state and local
lands before the Bundy incident, like on July 4th,
1994, when Dick Carver,
a Nye County commissioner plowed open a road that the National Forest
Service had declared closed as a statement supporting county
supremacy over the federal government. Carver and his supporters
had insisted that the federal government's “ownership” of 93% of
the land in Nye County was illegal.
William
Perry Pendley
is the President of Mountain States Legal Foundation and wrote a
paper and made a speech at a Hillsdale College event that thoroughly
explains how the federal government has commandeered land for its own
gain and sometimes to appease the extreme environmental movement
organizers. Mr. Pendley is the author of War on the West: Government Tyranny on America's Great Frontier
and Sagebrush Rebel: Reagan's Battle with Environmental Extremists and Why It Matters Today.
Pendley speech quotes, April 23, 2014):
… A typical way these policies get implemented is for environmental interest groups to sue a government agency under either the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and for the agency then to settle the lawsuit in the interest group's favor. Sometimes – as in a 2008 lawsuit filed against the U.S. Forest Service by three environmental groups for their complaints (in that case paying out nearly $20,000). Just last month, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed a lawsuit against the Interior Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over such “sue and settle” tactics following an ESA lawsuit by a group called Wild Earth Guardians that sought to restrict land use for agriculture, oil and gas drilling, wind farms, and other activities in a five-state area – Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Kansas – inhabited by the lesser prairie chicken. …Following a recent report by the Government Accountability Office on how NEPA is being used to delay projects on federal lands, Dan Kish of the Institute for Energy Research characterized NEPA's effect as “paralysis by analysis”, pointing out that “environmental impact statements, which were expected to take no more than 12 months 30 years ago, now take an estimated 4.6 years to complete”. … Since its passage in 1969, not a single new oil refinery has been built. … Today the Keystone XL Pipeline … is only the most publicized of the promising projects, in terms of both economic prosperity and national defense …
The
federal government is its own worse enemy, at least those that
operate it – OUR government.
The
senior administrator (Dr. Al Armendariz) of Region Six gave a good example of the political atmosphere
and agenda of the Obama organization back in 2009, when he cited the Roman Empire as the inspiration for his style of operation:
This
is the attitude of the Obama administration, where they are ruthless
to their own citizens while condescending to enemies of free people
like rogue nations and the Muslim Brotherhood; as well as invaders
that cross our southern border.
Only
the people united can stand up and deter and remove tyranny of this
and other natures. If the people allow themselves to only know what
the mainstream political media and what politicians say in the
federal government; disregarding constitutional law – it will
continue to progress (why the call themselves “progressives”)
further into socialism and statism until there is no turning back for
your children or your children's children will be turning in their
parents to the state because they are not complying with or loyal to
the great government in Washington, DC.
Freedom
is not always lost suddenly, it most often happens in increments.
Save the Republic
Be a responsible voter, insist upon objective media reporting or
ignore them, and spread the word that constitutional law is the land
of the land, home of the once free and hopefully still brave.
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