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:
Jeremy Henninger
Control the BLM or Utah will.
Control the BLM or Utah will.
Nope sheriff still higher than them
Hell yea u go boy
Well said sir..Respect.
The idea sounds like a proposal to establish and maintain “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State” which is the 2nd Amendment reason for “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” …. which is a right that “shall not be infringed”. Back in the days when the actual words of the Constitution were interpreted to mean something …
Thank you Chris Keller. That is a very good article and explanation by Mr. Natelson. It substantiates my viewpoint very well. The concept of the federal government legally owning land a muddy water at best. I personally cannot stand the tyranny of our federal government, I feel that it should sell the BLM properties at a NOMINAL PRICE to private interests. However when that does happen, one has to realize that that the folks who have been using and grazing that land for generations will not be the buyers. They simply do not have the financial resources and purchasing power. Thus, these same folks who are odds with the Feds now are still going to be unhappy and discontent with the outcome. Our federal government took by force these very same lands from their original owners who for centuries, not generations, lived on and made a living from that land. The Feds took and leased it to the families of the current malcontents at ridiculous low prices. So, after a century or a little more of making a profit by raising livestock on land that belongs to all Americans, they want the government to just give them this property, or at the very least, let them continue to use it however they want almost for free. My point is, while it is probably most certain that the ownership of these land by the federal government is most likely unconstitutional, it damn sure does not belong to the ranchers whose families have been profiting from using it for 100+ years. And, certainly have a problem with people of all races, religions, and walks of life threatening violence against law enforcement officials regardless of whether those officials represent a local, state, or federal government. Like many others faced by the citizens of our great nation today, this is not a simple issue. And, history proves that it is not one that can be won by the private citizens involved. Starting with the whiskey rebellion and continuing with the tariff crisis, the secession of the Confederate States, and finally the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, the United States government with its New England centered ideas has proven that it can put down and conquer any resistance, armed or otherwise, to its tyrannical forces I don’t like that any better than anyone else. My contention is that we have to stop being a society of special interests, and join forces to initiate positive change in our country and in our lives, and I feel that the first step in doing that is to shed our sense of entitlement! Thanks again for sharing the article on the constitution.
Afraid not!
BLM need to be totally done away with .