The movement against the BLM and Forestry Service western lands takeover continues to build, with the aftermath of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge demonstration and the slaying of rancher LaVoy Finicum by federal agents serving as a rallying point for those who believe the federal government has grown too big and powerful, particularly in the western states. Don’t miss the video included later in the article.
The compliant media has circled the wagons to declare the demonstrators were radical, right-wing constitutionalists, as if the U.S. Constitution can be protected and promoted too much.
Somehow, those who dismiss the ranchers and their supporters in the western states can’t see that the government, which “owns” over 50 percent of the land in eleven western states, is much more interested in power and control, and much more committed to radical environmentalists than to farmers and ranchers trying to make a living on the land that, like as not, has been a family pursuit and way of life for generations.
To put a finer point on the issue, mere weeks after the Malheur protesters were arrested and the refuge cleared, President Obama declared three more parcels of land in California as federal land, with little or no future access granted to mere citizens of the state. And by parcels, I mean almost 2 million acres that are now set aside as an offering to the Sierra Club and their ilk, with no compensation offered to California for the taking.
Federal government supporters are painting protesters as lawless cowboys, ignoring the fact that the Constitution prohibits the federal government from owning more than a ten square mile plot in Washington D.C., and areas for forts and military installations that require state approval to acquire.
Watch as the Sheriff fights back in video on the next page:
Eminent domain violates an individual’s natural right to his or her property. You can’t argue someone doesn’t own their own property. The majority does not have authority over the rights of an individual.
Anyone that wears a hat like that I cannot take serious
Thank you sheriff for demonstrating how much of an Idiot you are. I hope this whole thing blows up in your face. As to all the ranchers crying foul about the big bad government. Guess what that land belongs to all americans to enjoy not just for you to have your cattle destroy it. You are all a bunch of hypocrites. I am sure not a single rancher turned away all their farming and ranching subsidies from the feds but yet want the feds to hand over all the land so only they can use it…i dont think so. Besides once all the federal land is gone where else are you going to get all your under priced grazing leases????
THANK YOU SHERIFF! God bless your soul!
Chris Godwin
Change you operating procedures by adapting and using the land the why science has determined it needs to be used in order to be sustainable for future generations or fail. The environment dieing and protecting buisness as usual is not an option. This Sheriff is a fucking idiot.
Can he have deputies in Texas?
I’ll join your possy and getter done.
It will be like cowboys and crooks all over again. Skin that Chuck wagon boy, you gonna do something or just stand there and blood. We have a new shireff in town.
Yes, now somebody standing up for the rights of the American people.