Feds Steal Ranchers Cattle in Armed Helicopter Raids: Feds attempt to rub out Family Farmers
In the latest attempt to rub out the family farm, the Federal Government is targeting a rancher in Nevada by sending in armed agents, armored vehicles and low-lying helicopters to steal the ranchers cattle.
Cliven Bundy, who has been fighting the federal government’s attempts to shut him down for the last 20 years, is in a bitter battle that just took a turn for the worse. Over the weekend, armed federal agents from the Bureau of Land Management stormed Bundy’s land, stealing over 500 of the rancher’s cattle.
The government claims the cattle were illegally grazing on government land; but Bundy, who has been a rancher all his life, says he’s been doing it this way for decades. In fact, his cattle are grazing on the same land that his father and father’s father used to raise their cattle.
The trouble started in 1993 when Bundy refused to pay the feds for the right to allow his cattle to graze on land that he claims has been in his family since the 1880s. His family actually owned the land before the Bureau of Land Management ever even came into existence; so how the federal government can now claim they own the land is a bit puzzling.
“We own this land,” he said, not the feds. He said he is willing to pay grazing fees but only to Clark County, not BLM.“Years ago, I used to have 52 neighboring ranchers,” he said. “I’m the last man standing. How come? Because BLM regulated these people off the land and out of business.”
So why now?
According to the feds, this is all about protecting the desert tortoise. Yep, apparently protecting a turtle is now reason enough to storm a man’s property and illegally steal his cattle.
Just before the round-up began, Bundy claims armed federal agents surrounded his 150-acre ranch.
“They’ve been bringing men in and equipment and setting up a compound,” Bundy told FoxNews.com Monday. “They got helicopters flying low. They got snipers around the ranch. Our access to public lands has been blocked.”
Federal Government Raiding Bundy’s Farm Stealing His Cattle
Bundy says he’s extremely fearful that the federal government is trying to turn this into another Ruby Ridge or Waco situation. The BLM has closed public lands in Clark County while they work on a plan to round up the “trespassing” cattle. Only marked vehicles are being allowed into the area and “free speech zones” have been set up several miles from the ranch in an attempt to corral protestors who have made their way into the area.
“I’ve tried to fight this thing legally, and I’ve tried to fight it politically,” Bundy said. “We’ve got one more fight. We the people haven’t fought yet.”
This is video shot by the family who claims the BLM assaulted and hauled off one of Bundy’s sons for filming them steal his dad’s cattle.
“He was there to do some filming when about 11 federal agents pulled up and arrested him,” Bundy told Las Vegas News 3. “They said he was outside of the First Amendment area and they took him down. We don’t know where he is now.”
He the admits that access to PUBLIC lands gas been blocked and grazes his cattle on public lands without paying the grazing fees, he is therefore breaking the law.
His cattle are graing on land that does not beling to him and the government siezes them, NOT steals them, he therefore gets what he deserves gor breaking the law.
Show a deec that says the land is yours and you win your case fail to fo that and you lose.
Pay your fees to graze on BLM land and you wont have your cattle seized, dont pay and you are breaking the law.
He admits in the article that the land IS public (BLM) land, therefore it isn’t his anymore.
Maybe his family once used or even owned the land but they don’t any longer.
He thinks he can get away with free-grazing on public land, sorry charlie, no freebies here.
For the record, libs, ANYONE born in this hemisphere, in North, central or South America is a “native American”, not a few self-proclaimed people with aboriginal blood.
Hes willing to pay a yearly fee to the county but the federal gov was already paid. There is something seriously wrong here. Our southern border is hemorrhaging ILLEGAL aliens and the feds are worrying about bleeding more money out of this guy. Seriously? ! This is messed up!
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So where have they gotten the right to enforce law? They Go by CFR’s which are codes, mere violations, not laws! I have been watching this story and it is funny because the county sheriff, which has supreme lawful authority in a county,says he can not do anything, Hmmmm? The sheriff needs to tell the BLM where they stand and get them out/ off of this guys back. This would however take a sheriff who takes his oath to the Constitution and to the people he serves serious!
What is ANTI-AMERICAN? Treason.