Nevada....surprised this has not been posted yet.

[Trinity]

A 20-year dispute between a Nevada rancher and federal rangers over illegal cattle grazing erupted into an Old West-style showdown on the open range this week, even prompting self-proclaimed members of militia groups from across the country to join the rancher in fighting what they say is U.S. "tyranny."
What began as a legal fight between longtime rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has escalated as Bundy kept his cattle on the federal land, and the government has responded by beginning roundups of the livestock.
A confrontation teetered on violence Wednesday when Bundy family members and dozens of supporters angrily confronted a group of rangers holding Tasers and barking dogs on leashes near Bunkerville, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Federal officials say a police dog was kicked and officers were assaulted.

Bundy family members say they were thrown to the ground or jolted with a Taser.
In the end, the rangers got into their white SUVs and drove away, a YouTube video of the incident showed.
"Get out of our state!" the cheering protesters yelled at the rangers as they departed in several vehicles. "BLM go away! BLM go away!" they added, referring to the Bureau of Land Management.
The entire incident is now under investigation, Amy Lueders, the bureau's director in Nevada, said Thursday.
To some, the 67-year-old Bundy is a hero who hails from a long family of ranchers stretching back to the Wild West.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/us/nev...ttle-showdown/


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...-cliven-bundy/




and then there's this.............


Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s decades-long battle against the federal government over grazing rights has heated to the point where militia groups have joined in and taken up spots against the feds who’ve circled his land — and talk is, they’re not afraid to open fire.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...#ixzz2yavF4GVR

[Trinity]

and there is this too.....


Update: Word on the street from sources close to the militia movement is that up to 5,000 armed militia members will be arriving in Bunkerville, Nevada sometime today. (See full report below)

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-new...evada_04102014

[NightTrain]

That would truly be awesome if a great show of support for Bundy manifested in the form of the appearance of armed Militia from around the country.

BLM and the Parks Service has greatly overstepped their authority in recent years, and they've done some jack-booted thuggery here in Alaska as well recently.

This could be the start of something great that's been a long time coming.

[Nukeman]

That would truly be awesome if a great show of support for Bundy manifested in the form of the appearance of armed Militia from around the country.

BLM and the Parks Service has greatly overstepped their authority in recent years, and they've done some jack-booted thuggery here in Alaska as well recently.

This could be the start of something great that's been a long time coming.

You have forgotten to include the EPA in there as well. they make the rules that these guys follow.... It is all a land grab and an attempt to take away more of our rights. I still point at Agenda 21. Some may call it "tin-foil-hat" but everything points to this process with what our govt is doing......

I do hope they get the numbers that have been stated. That would be a VERY large message to the govt........

[NightTrain]

Yep. The EPA has been a loose cannon for quite a while now, as well.

[fj1200]

What exactly are his grazing rights on public lands?

[namvet]

their using the power of Eminent Domain to get rid of him.


BOMBSHELL: Is Sen. Harry Reid Behind the BLM Land Grab of the Bundy Ranch?

link

[NightTrain]

Nice link, Namvet!

The BLM’s official reason for encircling the Bundy family with sniper teams and helicopters was to protect the endangered desert tortoise, which the agency has previously been killing in mass due to “budget constraints.”


“A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher; they want his land,” journalist Dana Loesch wrote. “The tortoise wasn’t of concern when [U.S. Senator] Harry Reid worked with BLM to literally change the boundaries of the tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the development of his top donor, Harvey Whittemore.”


“Reid is accused of using the new BLM chief as a puppet to control Nevada land (already over 84% of which is owned by the federal government) and pay back special interests,” she added. “BLM has proven that they’ve a situational concern for the desert tortoise as they’ve had no problem waiving their rules concerning wind or solar power development. Clearly these developments have vastly affected a tortoise habitat more than a century-old, quasi-homesteading grazing area.”

[NightTrain]

Excellent! Fox picked up the militias headed to Nevada. Sounds like there's quite a few of groups on the road.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/11...le-with-feds/#

[Trinity]

Found these too.....

[namvet]

wonder what the state of NEV thinks of scary harry now???

[NightTrain]

wonder what the state of NEV thinks of scary harry now???

The Mob's codename for Reid is "Mr. Clean Face". Look that up on google and you'll quickly see how crooked the bastard is and how he's been on the take for many many years now.

[Gaffer]

Here's the reason for the fed land grab. Nevadans should start impeachment proceedings again this scum right away.

http://grapevinexus.wordpress.com/20...f-bundy-ranch/

BLM attempted cover-up of Sen. Reid/Chinese govt takeover of ranch for solar farm

Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
April 11, 2014

The Bureau of Land Management, whose Acting Deputy Director was Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) former senior adviser, has purged documents from its web site stating that the agency wants Nevada rancher Clive Bundy’s cattle off of the land his family has worked for over 140 years in order to make way for solar panel power stations.

Deleted from BLM.gov but reposted for prosperity by the Free Republic, the BLM document entitled “Cattle Trespass Impacts” directly states that Bundy’s cattle “impacts” solar development, more specifically the construction of “utility-scale solar power generation facilities” on “public lands.”

“Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle,” the document states.

Another BLM report entitled Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone (BLM Technical Note 444) reveals that Bundy’s land in question is within the “Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone and surrounding area” which is part of a broad U.S. Department of Energy program for “Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States” on land “managed” by BLM.

“In 2012, the BLM and the U.S. Department of Energy published the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States,” the report reads. “The Final Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement assessed the impact of utility-scale solar energy development on public lands in the six southwestern states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.”

Why am I not surprised by this news?

[NightTrain]

Here's a description of what's happened in the words of Bundy's daughter:

Shiree Bundy Cox
I have had people ask me to explain my dad's stance on this BLM fight. Here it is in as simple of terms as I can explain it. There is so much [more] to it, but here it is in a nut shell. My great grandpa bought the rights to the Bunkerville allotment back in 1887, around there. Then he sold them to my grandpa who then turned them over to my dad in 1972. These men bought and paid for their rights to the range and also built waters, fences and roads to assure the survival of their cattle, all with their own money, not with tax dollars. These rights to the land use are called preemptive rights.


Some where down the line, to keep the cows from over grazing, came the bureau of land management. They were supposed to assist the ranchers in the management of their ranges, while the ranchers paid a yearly allotment, which was to be used to pay the BLM wages and to help with repairs and improvements of the ranches. My dad did pay his grazing fees for years to the BLM, until they were no longer using his fees to help him and to improve. Instead, they began using these money's against the ranchers. They bought all the rest of the ranchers in the area out, with their own grazing fees. When they offered to buy my dad out for a pittance, he said no thanks and then fired them because they weren't doing their job. He quit paying the BLM but tried giving his grazing fees to the county, which they turned down. So my dad just went on running his ranch and making his own improvements with his own equipment and his own money, not taxes.


In essence, the BLM was managing my dad out of business. Well, when buying him out didn't work, they used the endangered species card. You've already heard about the desert tortoise. Well that didn't work either, so then began the threats and the court orders, which my dad has proven to be unlawful for all these years. Now they're desperate. It's come down to buying the brand inspector off and threatening the County Sheriff. Everything they're doing at this point is illegal and totally against the constitution of the United States of America.


Now you may be saying,"how sad, but what does this have to do with me?" Well, I'll tell you. They will get rid of Cliven Bundy, the last man standing on the Bunkerville allotment and then they will close all the roads so no one can ever go on it again. Next, it's Utah's turn. Mark my words, Utah is next.


Then there's the issue of the cattle that are at this moment being stolen. See, even if dad hasn't paid them, those cattle do belong to him. Regardless where they are, they are my fathers property. His herd has been part of that range for over a hundred years, long before the BLM even existed. Now the Feds think they can just come in and remove them and sell them without a legal brand inspection or without my dad's signature on it. They think they can take them over two boarders, which is illegal, ask any trucker. Then they plan to take them to the Richfeild Auction and sell them. All with our tax money. They have paid off the contract cowboys and the auction owner, as well as the Nevada brand inspector with our tax dollars. See how slick they are?
Well, this is it in a nut shell. Thanks
April 10 2014

[logroller]

I hope the attention this is getting will lead to a revamp of NEPA rules regarding the unsustainable practice of habitat conservation plans, but at the crux of this case is a guy who is trespassing. The land owner is the USA, not the Bundy family. The constitution expressly grants the federal government the authority to make rules on federally-owned lands; they have done so. There's no law, state or federal that supports his claim to use the land in violation of the rules set forth by the managing agency. You don't like the rules, work to get them changed; but if you unrepentantly break the rules, thumbing your nose at the lawful owner's authority, don't be too pissy when you get punished.