I've had several posts on my blogs in the recent past about the oppressive, storm-trooper style antics of government agents. Over the weekend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, FOX NEWS carried a special report about the BLM and other government agencies and their battles against Cliven Bundy and other ranchers in Eastern Nevada. That coverage prompted a storm trooper invasion of Bundy's ranch; the feds hired contract cowboys to start seizing Cliven Bundy's cattle, which have been grazing on public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The government officials brought a show of force that included dozens of armed agents in SUVs and helicopters.
Now Cliven's family has owned the ranch for many decades and had grazing rights on BLM land. At one point, the Bundy family was beseiged by several different government agencies who made it clear that they wanted all ranching to end in the area. One by one, Bundy's ranching neighbors gave up the battle. To make a long story short, Bundy's family eventually won a law case against the BLM and $14 million, which I do not believe has been paid as of yet.
Bundy's ranch adjoins BLM land, but there is no fence line to distinguish ownership, presumably because Bundy's family had grazing rights on the BLM land and it didn't make sense to fence it. Now, the BLM has arbitrarily said that Bundy can no longer graze on the land and, without building a fence, has proclaimed that any of Bundy's cattle found on BLM land will be seized. And they chose this weekend, the weekend of the FOX NEWS special to do so, with dozens of armed agents in SUVs and helicopters.
Don't you see this for what it really is... oppressive tyranny in America?
As long as we allow it to occur, without raising holy hell, I assure you it is going to get worse.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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