Obama Confiscates Enough Land to Cover Texas Three Times


With only a couple weeks to extract as much from the country as he can before Donald Trump becomes president, Obama has embarked on a land confiscation spree that has resulted in the transfer of over 1.3 million acres of land from the state of Utah to federals hands. The move has helped secure Obama’s record as the president who added more land to government control than any other, having acquired enough over the course of his administration to cover Texas three times over:

“Just this past summer, Obama bragged about executively creating the nation’s largest marine preserve off the coast of Hawaii, conveniently omitting that the move took a $10 million chunk out of the local fishing industry.

Wielding the Antiquities Act of 1906, Obama has seized vast swaths of land and water for the federal government a total of 29 times, claiming more than 260 million acres as federally-protected spaces in 2016 alone (including a more than 100-million-acre plot in Alaska that amounts to the size of New Mexico).

In fact, of the 154 times the Antiquities Act has been used by a president to seize land over the past 110 years, President Obama’s executive land grabs together make up about 20 percent.”

These ‘national monuments’ are nothing more than a means to circumvent the law. The federal government cannot legally own land outside of DC, as the constitutional lawyer in the video below so fervently points out:

 

 

Source: MRCTV



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