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:
Shut up you dumb f**k
Time for the States to take back the management of THEIR land.
The feds owned the land to begin with and gave land to become those states. Some land needs to be protected. If they can’t make a living doing what they are doing then they need to do something else just like everyone else and stop blaming others for things not working out.
A lot of these lands need to be turned over to the states for their management and benefit.
Pretty certain you don’t wanna go there. Ask former the LASD Sheriff and Undersheriff how fucking with the Feds worked for them
For the uninformed, “BLM” refers to the “Bureau of Land Management”, not “Black Lives Matter”; although it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference!
Laura Estep
Yes, 10 th Amendment, if not given in the Constitution, reserved for States, County, Citizens !
States need to take out lands back, local control.
In the words of President Bush “you’re either with us or against us.” It seems our government needs to figure out what side it’s on.