The propaganda machine to take down rancher Cliven Bundy has been started. The feds must intend to take action soon.
“If you step over that line, there are consequences to those actions,” Sheriff Gillespie stated of Bundy. “And I believe they stepped over that line. No doubt about it. They need to be held accountable for it.”
BLM officials say they agree with the Nevada sheriff’s position.
The Bureau of Land Management states that Bundy owes over $1 million in fines for trespassing on federal property without a permit for over 20 years, but Bundy doesn’t acknowledge the federal government’s authority, stating that their family has used the land since the late 1800s.
The imminent arrest of Cliven Bundy is just the kind of event that has historically proven to spark revolution and civil war. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal recently stated, Americans are ready for a hostile takeover of the federal government…and many surmise that the government wants to provoke a civil war.
“There is an ongoing investigation and we are working diligently to ensure that those who broke the law are held accountable,” she said, declining to elaborate.
The FBI declined comment Saturday on its investigation. Bundy did not respond to a request for comment.
The Bureau of Land Management says Bundy owes over $1 million in fees and penalties for trespassing on federal property without a permit over 20 years. Bundy, whose ancestors settled in the area in the late 1800s, refuses to acknowledge federal authority on public lands.
A federal judge in Las Vegas first ordered Bundy in 1998 to remove “trespass cattle” from land the bureau declared a refuge for the endangered desert tortoise. Bureau officials obtained court orders last year allowing the roundup.
Boddington disputed Gillespie’s contention the agency mishandled the roundup of Bundy’s cattle 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
The bureau backed down during the showdown with Bundy and his armed supporters, citing safety concerns, and released some 380 Bundy cattle collected during a weeklong operation from a vast arid range half the size of the state of Delaware.
Gillespie blamed the bureau for escalating the conflict and ignoring his advice to delay the roundup after he had a confrontational meeting with Bundy’s children a few weeks before it began.
“I came back from that saying, ‘This is not the time to do this,’ ” the sheriff told the Review-Journal. “They said, ‘We do this all the time. We know what we’re doing. We hear what you’re saying, but we’re moving forward.'”
Tensions further escalated early in the roundup after a video showed one of Bundy’s sons being stunned with a Taser. The video drew militia members and others to Bundy’s ranch.
Bundy was not a hardened criminal, Gillespie told the newspaper. He was a rancher who stopped paying his fees, the sheriff said, and that was not worth risking violence.
But Boddington said the bureau planned and conducted the roundup in “full coordination” with Gillespie and his office.
“It is unfortunate that the sheriff is now attempting to rewrite the details of what occurred, including his claims that the BLM did not share accurate information,” she said. “The sheriff encouraged the operation and promised to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us as we enforced two recent federal court orders.”
your statement Heather Harrris is based on greed,your way of thinking is the problem,the gooberment should never control or own big bodies of land,its the peoples land and if he uses my portion which is way less than a penny,i dont care because who ever is eating his beef benefits from better raised cows,he sad he would pay the county but they wont accept it,if the county would then the local people would benefit twice,do the math with out greed
Leave him and his family alone!!!
Sad, the evil american government is acting so communist and attacking its own people for standing up for their individual rights… Though it was supposed to protect the constitution and rights…
Heather, he’s not “trespassing”. Do you have ANY idea how many thousands of acres there are out west that are used the same way? They’re uninhabited by people, many times due to terrain or location, but animals can graze there, so they roam. You’re telling me that every time a cow, a goat, a horse, whatever it is, steps foot on government owned land, the rancher should have to pay a fee? That’s absurd, no matter what. But what makes it even more ridiculous is that the federal government has no right to supersede the state of Nevada, and the states official position was that Bundy was see no from paying grazing fees because his family had used the land since the 1800’s, and he was grandfathered in. The Bundy family has been using that land since before grazing fees had ever been required. All of these minor details don’t really matter, however, because no matter how you personally feel about it, the federal government has ZERO right to step in and collect these fees. Bundy has tried to pay those fees to the STATE, but the BLM has told him they would go after him anyway. It’s all just a massive over reach of the Feds, and if allowed to continue, won’t stop with Bundy. It’s ALREADY happening, just look at cases involving the EPA claiming water rights. They say they have the rights to any water runoff, among other things, and so ANY piece of property, regardless of who owns it, that collects enough water during rain or watering of that ground will be subject
to a “temporary take over by the EPA” in order to “save water”. There’s a man in jail as we speak for collecting rain water in a barrel. I hope I don’t need to explain how moronic that is. The EPA collected around 90 million dollars in fines in 2009, to over 250 million in fines last year. That’s way too massive of an increase to be considered coincidence. It’s government abuse perpetrated by government agencies, who only answer to more government. Obama has essentially weaponized agencies like the EPA in order to grow the federal government and destroy the sovereignty of the states, which will render the people powerless to stop it.
ya and who is going to hold the fed accountable
let freedom ring
the blm is unconstitutional, as most agencies are. we need to shove the tenth amendment down this administrations throat, just like many states are doing. this government is out of control and congress refuses to protect the citizen’s. our government is using the epa and blm to go after ranchers and farmers. this is insane behavior. the average american is begining to see what this administration is doing and just how much our government fears and hates us. we must vote all incumbents out and set strick term limits to get rid of professional politictions who hate america and americans !!!!
Government needs to be held accountable for selling out American to private, international Corporations & allowing an incompetent, President, & a Benedict Arnold Administration for Treason to “We the People,” of the states… Pift …
for what…feeding his cattle
Be for real, this man did nothing, Harry Reid must ge held Accountable