BLM'S HORRIBLE RECORD AGAINST AMERICA

SPECIAL POST

In the days since the BLM's belligerent attack on Cliven Bundy's ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, I've pointed out several other instances of BLM overreach... an overreach that appears from every aspect to be fascist and un-American.  But, it's not just the old-time settlers who have faced the wrath of the BLM,  they've also gone after Native Americans...people whose rights to the land precede the very arrival of the white man on this continent, rights fought for and secured by treaty  with the Federal Government which has not hesitated to abrogate those treaties whenever big money entered the picture.

I remember back in the 1940's when uranium was discovered on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.  Up to that time, the government had stepped in and leased Navajo coal-mining rights, compensating the tribe virtually nothing and banking the meager profits which they negotiated "in trust" for the Navajos.  Of course, that money later disappeared and the accounting for it was "lost."  Navajos and other tribes settled missing trust funds for pennies on the dollar in what, after years of legal wrangling, became known as the Ramah Settlement.

The Navajos went to my father, who was Director of Education on the Navajo and Hopi reservations at the time, and told him that the government wanted to negotiate their uranium mining leases for them.   He asked them what their opinion was of their coal mining leases and, after he got an earful, he suggested they hire their own attorney and negotiate their own leases.  That move by the Navajos really pissed off the Department of Interior and the issue ended up before the Supreme Court which ruled that yes, the damned Indians could negotiate their own leases.   

Had they known what dangers uranium dust posed for their people, I think the Navajos would have rejected the mining on their lands.  The government would have gone ahead anyway and more profits would have disappeared leaving the Navajos still poor and sick with radiation poisoning.  At least, by negotiating their own leases the tribe secured better profits for themselves with which to lift its people out of the desperate poverty the government wanted to perpetuate on them. 

But, I digress.  Take a look at this brief story and the included video: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/04/19/video-dann-sisters-battle-save-their-cattle-stark-contrast-clive-bundy-154521

Check out these links:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/22/nevada-rancher-former-indian-chief-range-war-with-blm-predates-cliven-bundy/

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/04/21/The-Eyes-of-the-BLM-are-on-Texas

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/another-nevada-rancher-targeted-for-ruin-by-the-blm-storm-troopers/

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/17588942-cruel-or-necessary-the-true-cost-of-wild-horse-roundups?lite

http://www.newswithviews.com/Emord/jonathan347.htm 

The BLM is the epitome of government-gone-wrong.  We need to do something about it. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.