Friday, April 11, 2014

Cliven Bundy

  The standoff is still going on at the Bundy Ranch in Clark County, Nevada.  The Bureau of Land Management is still trying to round up Cliven Bundy’s cattle and exclude him from land his family has grazed on for 150 years.
Bundy is the last rancher in Clark County.
Finally some Republicans are coming to his aid.
From the SacBee:
 A Republican U.S. senator added his voice Wednesday to critics of a federal cattle roundup fought by a Nevada rancher who claims longstanding grazing rights on remote public rangeland about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas
Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said he told new U.S. Bureau of Land Management chief Neil Kornze in Washington, D.C., that law-abiding Nevadans shouldn't be penalized by an "overreaching" agency.
Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval pointed earlier to what he called "an atmosphere of intimidation," resulting from the roundup and said he believed constitutional rights were being trampled.
Heller said he heard from local officials, residents and the Nevada Cattlemen's Association and remained "extremely concerned about the size of this closure and disruptions with access to roads, water and electrical infrastructure."
This is a story about a powerful government that is out of control.
As mentioned in a blog earlier on Tea Party Nation, the Federal Government own 81% of the land in Nevada.  Why does the Federal Government need that much land?
The answer is, it doesn’t.
The Federal Government should be forced to put most of that land up for sale to American citizens. 
Meanwhile Americans continue to protest the government, which is trying to keep the protests in a so-called “First Amendment Zone.”
That is the problem with this government.
It believes Americans only have the rights it chooses to grant them.

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