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:
Comunism and socialism are complete opposites you idiot,that whole statement you made is now void because of the fact that you don’t even know the difference between the two.I hope you enjoy SOCIAL security when you come of age,I hope you enjoy snow plows, police,fire departments and hospitals.those are all paid for by tax dollars which is socialist.
I don’t know where you are getting these ideas but they are not factual. Try the Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment. This notion on what lands, buildings, etc. can be under Federal control is a modern contrivance and, despite all of the spinning, cannot be historically justified.
Do that I’ll be in Utah getting deputized
Still waiting to see the Texas Sheriff stance on this
That is why when the Christians took control of Jerusalem they massacred the entire city’s population and when Saladin took it back he let everyone leave and guaranteed their safety…the crusades.
Kurt Williams
Marisa Tark
Jeffianne Huntsman
what a bunch of inbreds
All our county sheriffs already wrote Obamas stating they would protect local citizens from the Feds trying to come take our guns