The Dana Show By now you’re familiar with the standoff between the federal government, i.e. the Bureau of Land Management, and 67 year-old rancher Cliven Bundy. (If not, check the backstory and my radio interview with him here.) The BLM asserts their power through the expressed desire to protect the endangered desert tortoise, a tortoise so “endangered” that their population can no longer be contained by the refuge constructed for them so the government is closing it and euthanizing over a thousand tortoises. The tortoises, the excuse that BLM has given for violating claims to easements and running all but one lone rancher out of southern Nevada, is doing fine. In fact, the tortoise has lived in harmony with cattle in the Gold Butte, Clark County Nevada for over a hundred years, or as long as Cliven Bundy’s family has lived on the land as ranchers. In fact, the real threat to it is urbanization, not cattle.
A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher. They want his land. The tortoise wasn’t of concern when Harry Reid worked BLM to literally change the boundaries of the tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the development of his top donor, Harvey Whittemore. Whittemore was convicted of illegal campaign contributions to Senator Reid. Reid’s former senior adviser is now the head of BLM. 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. 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. If only Clive Bundy were a big Reid donor.
BLM has also tried to argue that the rules have changed, long after Bundy claims he secured rights and paid his dues to Clark County, Nevada. BLM says they supersede whatever agreement Bundy had prior; they demanded that he reduce his living, his thousand-some-odd head of cattle down to a tiny herd of 150. It’s easy for the government to grant itself powers of overreach, but it doesn’t make it right. Many bad things are done in the name of unjust laws. Just look at Obamacare. This heavy-handed tactic has run the other ranchers from the area and now Bundy is the last one. He’s the last one because he stood up to the federal government.
So why does BLM want to run Bundy off this land and is Reid connected?
I discussed this on “Kelly File” tonight, video via Jim Hoft.
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So that explains just one of the many reasons why Harry Reid, that old senile, Zionist bastard is still in power. Hang ’em!
I was surprised reid had not been mentioned before as he is a senator of that state. Now we know the rest of the story…
Well there you have it . I was wondering when that no good POS harry was going to come into the picture. We are going to need a lot more rope. This could be Harry’s final chapter. And the dirt shall get deeper.
That SOB Reid has been in power way too long. It’s time to kick out and arrest that old fart for treason.
Today it’s Bundy’s house, tomorrow it’s yours.
We’re all “on the list”. It’s the ever-growing list of people who will be attacked like this as soon as the cops or the government wants to take whatever they have.
Maybe they want your land, maybe your gold, or maybe your wife, but they’re definitely coming sooner or later because when this behavior is tolerated, you can rest assured it will be repeated, because the rewards are so great, and it’s probably a lot of fun for them too.
I hope these feds are blown to pieces. EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM… And you better hope so too, because it’s going to be YOUR house tomorrow.
Why would they ever stop robbing people if they always get away with it and can’t be punished? Are you expecting them to develop a conscience and decide to be good little federales tomorrow? Is that realistic? Obviously not.
They’re going to keep doing this all across the nation, as they’ve been doing it, because absolutely NO ONE is going to even try to stop them except We The People.
…”the real threat to it is urbanization, not cattle”.
True.. Human habitation has attracted large numbers of ravens to the area & ravens eat baby tortoises. And add to that the original predators like hawks, coyotes, eagles, owls, badgers, etc. and there you go. Cattle or no cattle.