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:
Thank you!!! :-):-)
This is exactly what they need to do.
Looks like I need a transfer to Utah
I like the way that guy thinks.
I got news for you Mr. Sheriff. The lands you speak of belong to the American people. The problem has been wanna-be ranchers that are all hat, no land! You want to graze your cattle or rent canoes on public lands, then split your profits with the people who actually own it. Just because your descendants have been getting rich off the backs of the public don’t mean its right, or ever was. Stick that in your hatband.
Matt Dolloff
Lets do it. Let me know where the swearing in will take place and I’ll find a way to be there.
im in.
GO for it son, GREAT IDEA. I VOLUNTEER.
God protect this Sheriff.
Good patriot. Great American.