From: Larry W
Date: April 11, 2014
To: Kirk
MacKenzie
Subject: Re: [DRA] Fwd: What about the
turtles?
Straight
from a rancher's mouth
Immediate
family friend of the Bundy's tells it all in a mail sent to Jimstonefreelance.com
This
is the jackpot of details you have never seen anywhere else, and if you did,
they originated here, spread it around, ARCHIVE AND POST! (please link back
to here when posting elsewhere
I
live in SW Utah. I grew up on a ranch less than 100 miles from the Bundy's
ranch. My father knows Cliven Bundy. I know Cliven's son Ryan. This is not a
hoax, it is an action of force by the BLM.
The
BLM was going to sell the cattle at one of the smallest cattle markets in Utah.
No cattle markets in Nevada would take the cattle without a properly signed
brand inspection (which the BLM cannot obtain without Cliven Bundy's signature).
The BLM paid the owner of the Utah cattle market $300,000 to do the sale ('R'
Livestock Connection in Monroe, Utah, owned by one Scott G. Robbins, according
to the Utah Business Entity Search). Utah Governor Herbert stepped in and forbid
them from bringing the cattle into Utah without the legally required health and
brand inspections (which again, require Bundy's signature) and that no feral
cattle are allowed to be imported at all (per Utah statute). Because Bundy
claims ownership over maybe 350-500 head of branded cattle, the other 500-700
estimated head of cattle would all be considered feral. BLM officially backed
off, but we suspect they are still secretly shipping them through Utah without
any permission to do so, to "private" buyers in Colorado. The contract cowboys
that the BLM hired to do the roundup are from Sampson Livestock in Meadow, Utah
(traitors one and all).
From
what I understand, Cliven Bundy owns both the Water Rights and Grazing Rights to
all of the land where his cattle run. If Bundy failed to use them, the Grazing
Rights would revert to the BLM and would be retired, while the Water Rights
would revert to the State of Nevada, likely to be sold to the highest bidder
(which would probably be a bidding war between mineral companies that are behind
this action with the BLM and the City of Las Vegas which is thirsty for water
and has had multiple attempts to buy water--through eminent domain from Utah
farmers and ranchers--from Utah, which were all blocked by the Utah Legislature
and Utah Governor Herbert). Chances are, the BLM has already filed a claim on
the water rights so that they can sell to the highest bidder (instead of the
state) and are trying to get the cattle off to show that Bundy cannot use the
water beneficially (much like what the US Forest Service and BLM both tried to
do to Wayne Hage).
Now,
for Cliven Bundy, he's not fighting this for his cattle or his own livelihood.
He recognizes that he will probably die before this fight is over. He has said
multiple times that he is fighting this to wake people up about the tyranny of
the Federal Government and also to help wake up the western states about getting
the rights to their own land back from the federal government, which has
repeatedly shut down ranchers and closed off land. (MO = 1st, get all the
ranchers, farmers, Native Americans, and foresters that use the land for
positive, sustainable production off of the land; 2nd, grab up all the
resources; 3rd, close off the lands to public access including camping, hiking,
horseback riding, hunting, fishing, boating, shooting, etc; 4th, sell off the
resources to the highest bidder regardless of what that will do to the land, the
local environment, or the economy; 5th, collect royalties on the resources in
perpetuity; 6th, reduce and eliminate all SLS and PILT payments to the states,
impoverishing them beyond belief.)
Anyway,
thanks for posting about this. It is important for us to be able to raise the
appropriate resistance.
Thank
you for sending your valuable insight. This contained the details we were all
missing.
From
this we can now firmly conclude:
1.
The BLM's actions are not only flatly illegal, they are unlawful, and not only
unlawful, they are so unlawful that it took bribing someone with a $300,000
payoff to get them to accept stolen cattle from a Government agency. I do not
think that could be topped ANYWHERE else in the world, other than with something
like a Mexican drug cartel.
So
we have a clear cut case of unlawful and prosecutable actions by the BLM in this
case.
2.
The real goal is to shut down public access to these lands. Obviously Cliven
Bundy was not a jerk, and he let people go back there to explore. I myself have
done a LOT of back country exploring, and noticed in the early 2000's that they
closed down all the back roads about a half mile before the destination they
used to go to to discourage people from exploring the wilderness. Rather than
drive the whole way, you had to get out and walk a considerable distance to
scenes such as Swazy's leap, Paul Bunyans Wood Pile, and practically anywhere
else you would want to go while out 4 Wheeling. And in the desert sun, that long
of a walk was usually tough to do. This resulted in these types of locations no
longer being visited, which effectively equaled a shut down.
3.
The motives are for profit. Rather than manage the lands responsibly, the BLM is
stealing it from it's rightful holders via corrupt actions and legal loop holes,
and selling it off to corporate interests. This is cold hard proof that America
is not a democracy, or more importantly a Republic, it is in fact a facist
dictatorship where corruption rules and rights, freedom and honor are
irrelevant.
The
BLM killed hundreds of desert tortoises on purpose
They
say they had to kill them because they did not have the funds to care for them.
Here are two really good solutions to that "problem." 1. Just take them out in
the desert and turn them loose. -OR- 2. They could have taken the three million
dollars they said the Bundy raid will cost them, CALLED OFF THE RAID, and SAVED
THE TURTLES with that three million. If they had three million to destroy Bundy,
they had it for the turtles as well but did not use it for that because tyranny
comes first.
Steeped
in arrogance and incompetence, once again a Federal agency fails to see the
obvious. Or perhaps they do see it but they could care less about nature and
instead operate as the enforcement arm of a band of high ranking
thugs.
We no longer have a republic, or a democracy, what we have is a HYPOCRISY................Pete
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