Several of you have asked exactly what we are wanting to do with the donations we are getting for this Oathkeepers radio project. Here is a page that shows the radios and explains a bit about how they are set up.
http://www.lincolncountywatch.org/Oathkeepers/vanpics.html
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Thursday, May 15, 2014
These "No Knock" raids need to stop. This isn't Nazi Germany.
No Knock Raid Results in Multiple Cops Shot - One Killed
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/05/no-knock-raid-results-multiple-cops-shot-one-killed/#JXArXIfWAA4OgQL2.99
A lot of people — innocent people — and their pets have wound up dead during no knock raids in recent years in this country.
A no knock raid is when officers can serve a warrant on a house without notifying the residents first. At all. Period. Without ringing the doorbell, calling first, a knock, nothing. Police typically do it in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning, too, when people are more likely to be asleep. The majority of these raids aren't even for violent crimes or imminent threats to life and limb, but drug crimes.
So a lot of people tend to die. It’s a pretty stupid way to enforce laws.
We live in a country where the citizenry are armed. If it’s the middle of the night and you hear someone busting through your front door, and if you exercise your 2nd Amendment rights by owning a firearm, your first reaction is going to be to draw that firearm to protect yourself and your family.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/05/no-knock-raid-results-multiple-cops-shot-one-killed/#JXArXIfWAA4OgQL2.99
Monday, May 12, 2014
Nevada ranchers fight feds for survival in changing times
EUREKA
Cliven Bundy might be Nevada’s most well-known rancher now, but he’s not the only one trying to eke out a living on dry, inhospitable rangeland.
Ranching on federal public lands is diminishing, and remaining ranchers in Nevada and throughout the West have become a hardy breed of survivors in changing times. Like the generations of ranchers before them, they deal with disease in cattle, swings in beef prices and drought.
In the past couple of decades, their work and way of life have faced growing threats: increased red tape from the federal government, reductions to their herd sizes and resistance from federal officials who fret about lawsuits from powerful environmentalist groups.
The numbers are telling. Nevada has 797 grazing allotments for ranching on 43 million acres of public lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM has given 2 million animal-unit months, or AUMs, to Nevada ranchers. One AUM allows a head of cattle, or a cow and its calf, to graze for one month on public lands.
Read this entire article here:
The whole story of the Diamond Bar Ranch tyranny by the US Forest Service.
I couldn't finish reading this article. If this doesn't make your blood boil there is something radically wrong with your conscience.
VIDEO AGENDA 21 – Nightmare on the Diamond Bar Ranch
VIDEO
AGENDA 21 - Nightmare on the Diamond Bar Ranch
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/video-agenda-21-nightmare-on-the-diamond-bar-ranch/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/video-agenda-21-nightmare-on-the-diamond-bar-ranch/
On Sunday, May 11, 2014 10:49 PM, Paul
Stramer at Eurekadsl.net wrote:
‘We Kill People Based On Metadata’
Supporters of the National Security Agency inevitably defend its sweeping collection of phone and Internet records on the ground that it is only collecting so-called “metadata”—who you call, when you call, how long you talk. Since this does not include the actual content of the communications, the threat to privacy is said to be negligible. That argument is profoundly misleading.
Of course knowing the content of a call can be crucial to establishing a particular threat. But metadata alone can provide an extremely detailed picture of a person’s most intimate associations and interests, and it’s actually much easier as a technological matter to search huge amounts of metadata than to listen to millions of phone calls. As NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker has said, “metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment “absolutely correct,” and raised him one, asserting, “We kill people based on metadata.”
Read more at http://libertycrier.com/kill-people-based-metadata/#yCxOcm5pMQwRlYoz.99
Amateur radio more Space Age than Digital Age gaining popularity
There’s something almost majestic about the array of electronic equipment displayed in what once was a bedroom of Jerry Sobel’s home and what now resembles the radio shack of a movie-screen submarine.
On a set of double wooden shelves is a receiver from the ’50s, two transceivers, and an amplifier Sobel built from a kit during the ’70s. There’s a snaky gooseneck microphone and a desk microphone. And, there’s a handheld FM device that looks like a walkie-talkie a kid might play with but which can do things a kid’s walkie-talkie can only dream of.
But it’s the strange assemblage of characters — K0MBB — affixed to a speaker and on the wall that explains what all of this cool stuff is about. It’s the amateur radio call sign of Sobel, president of the Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club (www.LVRAC.org) and practitioner of a not-so-retro electronic art that’s more popular than ever.
Read the rest of the article here:
Sunday, May 11, 2014
FEDS SEIZE FAMILY'S RANCH
When Kit Laney answered a knock on his door Saturday, law enforcement officers from the U.S. Forest Service handed him a piece of paper announcing his Diamond Bar Ranch in southwest New Mexico would be shut down Wednesday and his 300 head of cattle grazing there would be removed – one way or the other.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2004/02/23192/#PQM8OvY1WpFjF02o.99
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2004/02/23192/#PQM8OvY1WpFjF02o.99
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Answering the confusion about the Bundy ranch militia infighting garbage.
From Paul Stramer in Montana,
I have worked closely with Stewart Rhodes for a
long time now. I can't even Imagine him as anything but what his actions toward
the Bundy family have indicated he is. He is CERTAINLY NOT a provocateur as the
so called Ryan Payne says. I know his family, and the people around his family
and I would trust them with my life any time..
He donated $12,500 in a check directly to the Bundy
family to help with the expenses and logistics associated with the camp and
guard details. He donated a full case of Baofeng radios for the camp and guards.
He bought very specialized FLIR (forward looking Infrared radar) vision worth
almost $10,000 for 3 units, and donated one to the camp militia (Jerry) and
another was stolen along with the chargers for all three. We patrolled the AO
for a 30 mile radius all night for 5 nights in a row after the drone threat. He
set up a WiFi at the ranch for everyone to use. These were all made possible by
members of Oathkeepers donating many thousands of dollars for this travesty the
BLM caused in Nevada.
I was there. We set up a system of radio
communications and kept it running for almost a week, and would do it again if
the Bundy family would just wake up to who their real friends are, The
Oathkeepers, and tell this "Ryan Payne"? or "Jim Messina" or whoever he is to
hit the road and not come back. Just the communications part of this mission was
worth a bunch to the Bundy family not only as a deterrent, but for their actual
safety day and night, and cost the Oathkeepers thousands of
dollars.
I hate the infighting as much as anyone, but I will
not tolerate being called a traitor or coward or deserter for not spending
every minute of the day sitting around a camp in a tent and trying to sort out
who is lying. I KNOW what I saw, and what I saw was Oathkeepers members staying
up all night on patrol to make sure that the Bundy ranch was a safe place, and
to get them early warning if things went south. I personally spent a week of my
life getting ready and performing this mission and I can tell you if it wasn't
for the national Oathkeepers organization making it possible for me to be there
I would not have been able to come to Nevada at all. I am really glad that I was
able to bring Sheriff Peyman to the Bundy ranch, and for being able to meet and
spend a couple of hours with Cliven and his family, and I am grateful for
having met this great Sheriff with a backbone made of stainless steel, and for
being able to spend almost the whole day with him. Some of the people I met at
the ranch were very loving and kind, and some (not the Bundys) were as cold as ice when they
found out I was the communications person for Oathkeepers.
That's just tough, because I don't get intimidated.
I treat everyone kindly and at face value. If they were there for the same
reasons I was, that's great, but if they were there for their own ego, or to
blow their own horn like this Ryan Payne, if that is his real name, then God
bless them, because He is the only one who can.
I hope and pray every day that the people who
started this backbiting crap get exposed and have a change of heart. Mr. Pain
should get a strong dose of humility, and realize he is NOTHING along side of
our creator. He said and did everything that an agent provocateur would do to
drive a wedge between the people at the ranch and the Oathkeepers. That didn't
do anybody any good at all except perhaps the government. Regardless of what
anybody thinks about their high and mighty military career, and military
discipline, the ranch camp was NOT a military operation. It was NOT
conducted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, period. Those
were private citizens and residents who were free to come and go as they darn
well pleased. There was NO authority present to "command" anybody to do anything
at all. Everything was completely voluntary, and even if they volunteered to
abide by some kind of temporary order, what was Ryan Payne going to do as
punishment if they decided to leave, walk up and execute them for desertion???
What a blow hard, egotistical maniac. What a self centered idiot. What a foul
mouthed provocateur.
The best thing he could do for his country now is
just cease and desist and disappear from the scene, or any other scene, but that
won't happen, will it? He will keep on making himself the supreme "commander" of
every incident he can find.
If you want to go to a real patriotic website don't
visit this stupid Operation Mutual Aid website. In the first place the Mutual
Aid terminology is a police term for frequencies used for inter agency
communications at any incident. It's a mainstream police term. Where did they
get this name? I surmise that someone who is still in such an organization
suggested it, or someone who is under cover in one of the militias. This is
why we should be following Dr. Edwin Vieira's outline for the lawful unorganized
militia of the several states, as outlined in his long book on CD rom entitled
"The Sword and Sovereignty" instead of having every Tom, Dick and Ryan forming
up some kind of ad hoc group and calling it a militia. IT'S NOT a lawful militia
unless it's done right. Where does the lawful militia get it's power? From the
popular elections of both the Sheriff and the Governor of a State. Read the
book. I bet you can't refute it.
The real patriotic website that scares the hell out
of the leftists is www.oathkeepers.org,
and that is why the left will try to infiltrate these militias and try to use
them against the Oathkeepers. Between the Oathkeepers and the CSPOA there is a
real threat to the criminal enterprise that has hijacked the federal government,
and they know it full well. They will stop at NOTHING to
destroy those organizations, and they will spare no expense. I wonder how many
of the so called militia at the camp in Nevada were actually on the payroll of
the feds? Think about it.
Paul Stramer KC7MEZ Lawfully exercising my
right to communicate.
Donations will be used strictly for the communications project and are not tax deductible.
My time is voluntary and the funds go to purchase radio gear or power products and related equipment only.
At your service,
Paul Stramer KC7MEZ 800 889 2839 pstramer@eurekadsl.net Look up my ham station on http://www.qrz.com/db/KC7MEZ
Friday, May 9, 2014
Breaking Alert - Who is this person called Ryan Payne?
I can't believe that nobody caught
this.
Who is the person at the ranch that calls himself
Ryan Payne????
Look at this video on YouTube where this person is
interviewed as Ryan Payne, who is supposedly the head of the militia at the
Bundy ranch.
And then at the interview where he uses foul
language and calls the Oathkeepers traitors/deserters, and not only that, he
accuses Stewart of being an agent provocateur.
It's been my experience that liars accuse others of
what they themselves are guilty, for lack of a better imagination, or because
that is what they are most familiar with. They telegraph their innermost secrets
and don't even know it.
Look at the website for their "Operation Mutual
Aid" which this person claims he is part of.
On this link here is what you will
find.
On the top row on the right side this man is
pictured and the name under the picture is NOT Ryan Payne, but Jim
Messina
Which is it? It says he is 44 years old and from
the United States, while other so called members are listing their city and
state. What's the deal with that?
It's the same guy who claims he is from southwest
Montana, but lists his name as Jim Messina, not Ryan Payne on his
website!
Sorry if you see this Mr. Payne or Mr.Messina
whatever your name is, and attempt to pull the page, know that I have copied it
and have the page on my hard drive, and have also archived it
elsewhere.
I encourage anyone who sees this email to do
likewise.
This person does and says the things an agent of a
government that is really very afraid of the Oathkeepers
organization would say. He can't really win an argument against the
Oathkeepers mission or their 10 orders they won't obey, so he does the very same
thing the leftists do. He demonizes the opposition because that's all he has. He
inflames the patriots against each other, and he demonizes the only national
organization that educates the active duty military members about their duty to
their oath and to their country, which education can actually stop the leftists
like Harry Reid right in his tracks.
SO WHO IS THE REAL AGENT PROVOCATEUR? The
Bundy family needs to realize who their real friends are, the
Oathkeepers.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Communications at the Bundy ranch and future hot spots
Hi Everyone,
I have returned from the Bundy ranch, and am working on the ongoing project
of setting up emergency radio communications systems for rapid deployment in
situations like the Bundy family found themselves, following their stand against
government tyranny.
I spent the best part of a week working for the safety of everyone at the
ranch after being asked to go to Nevada by Stewart Rhodes. Stewart and
the Oathkeepers organization made it possible, and I will work with them any
time.
I am not disappointed at all with what we did on
this first excursion to Nevada, considering the short 2 days we had to
prepare.
My Dodge Minivan already had a scanner and a dual
band FM 2 meter and 70cm radio and I had another just like it with me, that I
set up at a local motel in a room that had good position that we could talk to
the ranch, which was only 9 miles away. I added a CB so I could get information
from the truckers on the way down, before I left home. I had also installed a
dual band radio in Stewart's rented SUV and he was able to put that vehicle into
the patrol rotation later using ham frequencies.
I had gone to the ranch on Friday shortly after I
arrived, riding with another one of our crew, and gathered up those with Ham
licenses, which turned out to be only two people on the whole site. One of them
is a good friend from Kalispell and he agreed to be the anchor on site with a
split band operation and a dual band antenna that I had with me. We picked a
location to set up that antenna and I told him I would be back the next day to
do it.
That night we got the drone strike threat and an
hour later my tech class ham friend showed up at the motel and said he was going
on patrol.
We had been told to start up a night patrol with
constant radio contact to patrol within about 25 miles in either direction from
the ranch for the safety of everybody on site, and for advanced warning to get
any info about what we saw out to the ranch and also out of the area however we
could before any communications blackout could be put into effect. Using the
dual band radios we were actually able to talk up to about 50 miles away at
times depending on terrain.
I set up an antenna and dual band radio at the
motel room and used a long term storage pack to run that radio so it couldn't be
shut down by turning off the electric power in the room. That radio was easily
able to talk to our patrols because it's output was around 70 watts, and we used
one 65 watt mobile, a dual band 50 watt mobile, and some dual band handhelds
with external antennas to do a once per hour radio check to make sure everyone
was alright and still patrolling. We did this from Friday night through Tuesday
night, all night long from about 9 PM until about 5 AM each night. During the
day I used an HF rig I had borrowed from WR7DW and a vertical antenna on my van
to contact W4SVS in Florida, and WR7DW , and also K7BIR in Montana and several
times we were able to all be on the same frequency simultaneously to maintain a
signal path.
On HF during the day we used 14.345 on 20 meters,
and later in the night we would switch to 80 at 3.838 . We could vary the
frequency as needed to get around interference, and the whole system worked
quite well considering. We were able to maintain contact at all times and the
patrol operators had some short range encrypted units to use between each other
if they had to stop and should they get separated by a few hundred feet. These
worked out to over a mile very well.
To see the whole band plan we are using see this
document.
Here is our local band plan for the Eureka and
Kalispell area.
Our obvious big deficit was having enough
people with at least a tech class license to go on patrol, and we could
have done a much better job if we could have had a few more high power mobile
dual band radios for the vehicle, but I stayed with a Kenwood TM281 65 watt unit
because they are low cost, have pretty good power, and it's what I could get on
short notice, and the biggest reason is that it's so efficient that most any
cigarette lighter socket will allow full power operation at 65 watts. We used
magnet mount dual band antennas so we could switch the radios from vehicle to
vehicle quickly to increase our transparency to the public. We even equipped
our handheld dual band radios with magnet mount external antennas and increased
their range dramatically.
So much for what we did. Now for what we
could do given a little time and some money for
preparations.
The ideal situation would be to have a
communications crew, all with ham licenses, which could be composed of mostly
tech class guys, along with at least two or three guys with General or Extra
class licenses. These guys would travel with several comm units consisting of
one or two mobile vans with all band capabilities, and a few vehicles with
patrol FM capabilities. With a little more prep, we could set up a mobile
command center in a travel trailer that could be pulled by any big pickup with a
2 " ball hitch to a site within about 10 or so miles of the center of action,
and set up in a matter of a couple of hours. This trailer would have all band
HF, VHF, UHF and digital capabilities including wireless internet to encrypted
internet pier 2 pier secure data and chat, and digital HF single side
band digital com on the ham bands.
Ideally we could use a bumper pull 24 or 26 foot
travel trailer with rear bedroom and a front dinette. The front dinette could be
converted to permanent ham shack and the rear bedroom could be used by an off
duty general or extra class ham for sleep so we could run a triple rotating
shift 24/7.
This trailer would be comm HQ and a place where
vehicle radios and handheld radios would be put in rotation for patrols,
(checked in and checked out) and could be located off site in some higher
location if possible. It would have the capability of talking nation wide and
world wide. This could serve as the communications hub for any operation around
which we could run one or two vans with like capabilities using various spots on
higher ground to back up these long range comms, and to relay from patrols to
the trailer if the need arises. The trailer should have back up power including
solar panels and a generator and storage batteries to be able to run the trailer
and the radio gear during any power outage for extended periods. With the right
planing we could equip this trailer with a big power amp, and a crank up tower
that could swing a 3 element beam. While in Nevada I was able to talk repeatedly
to Florida and Montana with only 100 watts and a vertical antenna, but 500 or
1000 watts would guarantee very solid HF communications almost regardless of
band conditions. We can just switch bands and crank up the power to get the job
done as needed. The beam antenna would amplify both incoming and outgoing
signals for maximum range and effectiveness.
I have already talked to my Extra class buddies
here in Eureka, and I am sure if we had some kind of trailer to work with we
could set this up in a couple of weeks or three, assuming we had about 10 grand
to put into the radio and power part of the project. While in Nevada my whole
station was solar powered.
If you have any ideas to add to this feel free to
jump in. We would like to finish our preparations with the comm van first and
then pick up a few more radios for other vehicles for FM dual band
operation.
If anyone reading this has any questions please
feel free. None of this is set in stone, and any time you get a bunch of ham
radio guys in a room together you are going to have lots of good ideas floating
around.
If you would like to contribute to just the radio communications part of
this project you can send donations to my PayPal account at the following email
address:
pstramer@eurekadsl.net
Please make a note in the box as Radio Project
For Checks, make them out to:
SLC Distributing
PO Box 116
Eureka MT 59917 put Radio Project in the memo line
or you can call us with your credit or debit card at 800 889 2839
Two more things.
1. In over 30 years of patriot activity I have NEVER asked
outright for any kind of donation for my own projects or anything else for that
matter, but this is very important, and the safety of the patriots at these
kinds of activities may well depend more on communications than
anything.
You will probably never hear of me asking for money again after
this project is completed, but we can and will get this job done one way or
another, and depending on what the rogue government does this project could be
ongoing for a long time.
2. Everything we did and will do is and was perfectly lawful and
according to FCC regulations for Ham Radio in safety and emergency
communications protocol and will be kept that way regardless of what other
patriots do with their radios. We will NOT give agents of government any excuses
to persecute us for trying to help people who are literally in the crosshairs of
tyrannical government agents.
Donations will be used strictly for the communications project and are not
tax deductible.
My time is voluntary and the funds go to purchase radio gear or power
products and related equipment only.
At your service,
Paul Stramer KC7MEZ 800 889 2839 pstramer@eurekadsl.net Look up my
ham station on http://www.qrz.com/db/KC7MEZ
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
The Bundy Ranch takeover is just the tip of a very large Iceberg
IS THE U.S. BEING COLONIZED BY RED CHINA?
by Tom DeWeese
May 25, 2014
NewsWithViews.com
May 25, 2014
NewsWithViews.com
For the past few decades the Communist regime of China has been driving toward world supremacy, both economically and militarily. The regime’s main target has been, and is, the United States of America. China’s plan to grab power has been clever and unprecedented, seeking victory without firing a shot, reducing its targets to mere frogs in a boiling pot.
Pundits and politicians alike, when excusing their strategic dealings with China, are quick to remind their audiences that today’s China is a “centuries old civilization” rich in tradition and ancient religious discipline. A Confucian civilization that is still upset over wrongdoings during the European colonization period.
Such a view is wrong. The China we are confronted with today is nothing like that pre-nineteenth century nation. Since the reign of Mao Tse-tung began in 1949, Communist China, much to the dismay, torture, and death of its own citizens, has been governed by tyrannical thugs, thirsty to expand their dictatorial regime and unrelenting in their hatred of Western Civilization and the United States.
Monday, May 5, 2014
The Systematic Elimination of Private Property especially in the West
Interview with a New Mexico rancher at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada.
http://northwestlibertynews.com/News/tabid/771/ID/1573/The-Systematic-Elimination-of-Private-Property.aspx
Range Magazine article on Sheriffs vs. BLM
Cops are everywhere. These days in America, everybody seems to have a badge. But by common law at least a thousand years old, only the sheriff has elected authority over local law enforcement. The “MAN,” in some cases a woman, is still the bottom line on “legal” in some 3,000 jurisdictions of the United States.
Even after the British in about the 17th century let go of the system of a “reeve” in every “shire,” it remained an essential element of English Common Law, mentioned nine times in the freedom-founding document of the Magna Carta alone and still generally acknowledged as the lynchpin of the American justice system. Next to the King himself, the “shire reeve” was the realm’s most powerful authority, not only in matters of law enforcement and tax collection, but in raising the “hue and cry” to rally the residents against a general threat, including that from another monarch.
Robin Hood might recognize the ticket book as tax collection on a country highway, and most common country drunks can testify after any weekend to the effectiveness of a night in “gaol.” Less recognized these days, however, is the sort of formal hueing and crying that pits a number of western sheriffs and their constituents against what they see as expanding authority of the federal government into local matters. In many a shire, the reeve has about had it with the feds.
“They despise me,” Eureka County, Nev., Sheriff Ken Jones says of his federal counterparts in the law enforcement division of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. “I think they draw straws just to see who gets the dreaded duty of giving me a phone call.”
Read the entire article here:
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Pushback starting from the Bureau of LandGrabs' Bundy Family Ranch episode!
This is so much bigger than just the Bundy family and their cattle. This is about Freedom from Tyranny by an out of control Federal monster that will gorge itself on land and power every chance it gets until We the People stop it.
Sent: Saturday,
May 03, 2014 9:12 AM
To:
Subject: Plan toLiberate Western Lands
and Evict Fed + Legislator Mtg. Utah
To:
Subject: Plan to
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/57836973-90/utah-federal-lands-states.html.csp
(Photo: Western Lawmakers meeting for Debate on Public Lands
Take-over)
Wednesday, 23 April 2014 16:00
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/18114-lawmakers-unveil-plan-to-liberate-western-lands-and-evict-feds
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/18114-lawmakers-unveil-plan-to-liberate-western-lands-and-evict-feds
Lawmakers Unveil Plan to Liberate Western Lands and Evict Feds
Written by Alex
Newman
With the now-infamous
federal abuses against the Bundy ranching family and its
supporters in Nevada helping to awaken a sleeping giant,
liberty-minded elected officials from Western states are coming together with
citizens to take action in defense of the Constitution and the West. Their
mission: to wrest control over the vast expanses of land and wealth in the
region that are unconstitutionally claimed by the Washington, D.C.-based
political and bureaucratic classes. Now, a new alliance of lawmakers and
citizens has a concrete plan to make those goals a
reality.
As The New American
reported this week, more than 50
elected officials from nine Western states met on April 18 at the Utah Capitol
for the Legislative Summit on the Transfer for Public Lands.
Among them were state House speakers, state senators, a U.S.
One of the lawmakers who participated, Washington State Rep. Matt
Shea, a liberty-minded Republican who also stood with the Bundy family, says that
lawmakers from Western states are determined to protect the Constitution and
their constituents. “Legislators from across the West are saying enough is
enough,” Rep. Shea told The New
American after the summit in Salt Lake City
To do that, last week, another alliance of lawmakers, citizens,
businessman, ranchers, sheriffs, officials, and more came together and created
the Coalition of Western
States United Against Tyranny, or COWS for short.
Already, the network has seen phenomenal growth, with more than 25 lawmakers
joining up by April 22, Rep. Shea explained. “COWS has grown massively in just
one week and legislators from all over the West are jumping on board,” he said,
adding that he was “absolutely” optimistic about their prospects for
success.
COWS advocates a five-step process to evict the self-styled federal landlords from the
Western United States , Rep. Shea
explained. In the short term, county governments should draw up management
plans for the land in coordination with state and
federal agencies. Already, federal law requires
that U.S.
In the longer term, federally (mis)managed lands should be
transferred over to state authorities, “because government closest to the people
is best,” Rep. Shea continued. “The federal government cannot possibly know how
best to manage land in the thousands of different locales like the people of
those areas could,” the popular Republican lawmaker explained, echoing the
sentiments of countless other policymakers and activists who say the federal
government needs to be stripped of its vast, unconstitutional land
holdings.
“Clearly,” Shea says, “the people of Western states would do a better
job managing those lands.” In fact, among the most common complaints on the
issue in the West is the fact that the feds have done
a terrible job maintaining the land they purport to
own — especially when compared with the areas
managed by state and local governments, or even private citizens. The COWS
lawmakers said an excellent,
proven process for transferring federally managed lands into state
control has been laid out by the American Lands Council and
others.
Then there is the issue of keeping promises. As the Western
territories were officially becoming states, like in the East, the federal
government agreed to eventually transfer those lands. However, as with so many
other promises made by the D.C.-based political class, so far, it has not been
fulfilled. “The enabling acts of the Western
States make it clear the federal government was meant to be a steward only until
such time that the states could manage,” Rep. Shea
explained.
The state of Utah Utah Utah joined the Union,
threatening a lawsuit if Washington , D.C.
Perhaps the most important issue at play in the whole land issue,
though, is the U.S. Constitution. “Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
spells out what types of property the federal government can ‘own’,” Rep. Shea
continued, pointing out that, outside of a few limited exceptions, it is not
constitutional for Washington, D.C., to own or control land — much less half of
the Western United States, and as much as 85 percent of some states such as
Nevada.
Rep. Shea also pointed to The
Federalist, No. 45, which (he notes) “makes clear the intent” of
America
Eventually, also in the long term, some of the land wrested from the
federal government should be sold off to private parties “as required in the
enabling acts of most of the states,” Rep. Shea continued. Indeed, numerous
lawmakers and analysts say at least some of that land should be privatized,
allowing the Western states to boost their economy and tax base while extending
private-property rights to a broader area and a potentially greater number of
individuals. Exactly how much land should be kept in the hands of state and
local authorities could be decided going forward.
The economic and environmental benefits, though, would be
significant. “It would have a massive positive impact putting that land back into productive use
for both the economy and the tax base,” Rep. Shea explained, again echoing the
recently expressed concerns of dozens of powerful lawmakers and countless
Western-state citizens, with some estimates suggesting that there is around $150
trillion in mineral wealth alone. “In fact, in the enabling act that brought
Washington State into the Union ,
the proceeds from a portion of the sale of that land must go to specifically
funding education.”
Finally, the fifth step in the process would be to disarm federal bureaucrats — a demand
that is growing increasingly urgent after the federal terror unleashed by
heavily armed Bureau of Land Management officials against the Bundy family and
friends in Nevada America
With the public increasingly galvanized against federal abuses and
lawlessness after the Bundy ranch fiasco, now is a perfect time for state
governments and the American people to put the U.S. government back in its
constitutional cage where it belongs — and where it cannot send in heavily armed storm troopers to terrorize ranchers
and protesters over alleged unpaid “fees” or tortoises. The
alternative is more and more
Bundy ranch-style paramilitary disasters, along with eventual tyranny. With optimistic Western
lawmakers making strong and popular moves to protect liberty and evict the feds,
though, liberty-minded Americans have good reason to be optimistic as
well.
Alex Newman is a correspondent for The New American, covering economics, education, environment, politics, and more. He
can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
Bundy Ranch after action report by Stewart Rhodes and others who were there!
The following Advisory is also online at Oath Keepers' national
website. Please comment there:
http://youtu.be/4HkSAewoESg
Here
is more info from Stewart Rhodes and company on the rift between the alleged
"leaders" of the militia down at the Bundy Ranch. This debriefing focuses on
just a few men who would sabotage Oath Keepers' mission at the Bundy Ranch. It
explains some sequences and some activities which you've not heard about
before.
Please understand that Oath Keepers has great faith in the majority
of good men and women in the militias represented at the Ranch. We just have
problems with people who want to stir up trouble, for such people are most often
what we call "Agents Provocateur".
We are not accusing anyone of being an agent
provocateur, but we are definitely identifying certain
actions and statements by questionable men as being exactly
the sort of activity an agent provocateur would
display. It is just a few, and we think that the greater majority
of militiamen and militiawomen serving there are tops. To you we say: You have
our support and our gratitude for your sacrifice for the Bundy Ranch mission.
Well done. However, Oath Keepers suggests that you do question your leadership
to be sure they are who and what they claim to be. We would especially encourage
people to look into any claims about any specialty service in the military that
any of the current leaders might claim.
Mike
Vanderboegh posted this video at his Sipsey Street Irregulars website. Mike
accompanied the posting of this video with a well-informed and therefore
informative article of his own. Mike was there and gave a great speech. He also
kept a close eye on unseen trends in behavior patterns and cultural earmarks.
This is not his first rodeo. He sums up with an excellent and generously written
article of his own. We would like to invite you to also read Mike's take on the
Bundy Ranch excitement.
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Oath Keepers Bundy Ranch
Debrief
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But
note please - this debriefing session with five Oath Keepers is important, but
this only covers one aspect of our work at the Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville,
Nevada.
Oath
Keepers marches on, and our reports will continue to dispel the psy-op rumors
about our work at the ranch.
View
this video to find many answers to questions currently flying about the
Internet. Try to help people learn the truth by sending this to your lists.
Thanks!
Salute!
Elias Alias, editor
The share-link for the Debriefing video
above on Oath Keepers YouTube channel:
Monday, April 28, 2014
Bundy Ranch and the new rules of engagement
Mike Adams
(NaturalNews) In the aftermath of round one of the Bundy Ranch armed siege by the U.S. government, I have decided to offer the federal government an intelligent analysis of the new rules of engagement. People like Daniel P. Love, Special Agent in Charge of BLM Region 3, desperately need to review and learn these rules. Other federal agents also need to understand the tectonic shift of power that has just taken place and how it will impact their operations from here forward. ......
America’s newest hero: Meet the real Cliven Bundy
Posted from Mesquite Nevada near the Bundy Ranch
I thought you should be able to get some information about the Bundy family that you won't get from the liestream media.
http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/04/americas-newest-hero-meet-the-real-cliven-bundy/#eUvtWtKliiuWdwcW.01
I have been to the Bundy ranch and on Saturday had dinner with Cliven Bundy. He is not much different than some of the ranchers I know in Montana. Independent, and all about God, family and country. I wasn't there more than about 2 hours, but you should have been there when a black American conservative who is running for office in Las Vegas told Cliven that There are NO racists left in America, and yet we are all racists. I didn't get his name, but he had some great advice about this racist thing. He said it wasn't about Rosa Parks sitting in the front of the bus, but it WAS about Rosa Parks sitting anywhere she darn well wanted to in that bus. THAT FREEDOM is what this is all about. It's about tyranny of the rich and powerful against the little guy that only wants to be left alone to live and work and raise his family in peace. And that should be ALL of us.
Watch the video and read the article above and you will understand what I am saying.
I am here for the duration, and don't know how long that will be so will try to keep you up to date.
I have been to the Bundy ranch and on Saturday had dinner with Cliven Bundy. He is not much different than some of the ranchers I know in Montana. Independent, and all about God, family and country. I wasn't there more than about 2 hours, but you should have been there when a black American conservative who is running for office in Las Vegas told Cliven that There are NO racists left in America, and yet we are all racists. I didn't get his name, but he had some great advice about this racist thing. He said it wasn't about Rosa Parks sitting in the front of the bus, but it WAS about Rosa Parks sitting anywhere she darn well wanted to in that bus. THAT FREEDOM is what this is all about. It's about tyranny of the rich and powerful against the little guy that only wants to be left alone to live and work and raise his family in peace. And that should be ALL of us.
Watch the video and read the article above and you will understand what I am saying.
I am here for the duration, and don't know how long that will be so will try to keep you up to date.
Bundy Responds to NYT Race Hoax, As Media Attempt to Divert Away From BLM Crimes
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Oklahoma militia members join fight with feds
http://www.teaparty.org/oklahoma-militia-members-join-fight-feds-40049/
Sunday, April 20, 2014
All Hat and no Cattle
Sunday, April 20, 2014
"They know we're coming." With piss-poor operational security, Feds flood the zone at Las Vegas hotels in massive display of gambling prowess.
"They know, Chuck, they know. They know we're coming." -- ATF undercover agent Robert Rodriguez to raid commander Chuck Sarabyn, 28 February 1993, one hour before the raid on the Branch Davidians.
I know that the Bundys are not going away, and neither are the volunteers. Unless the federal government has decided to kill them all and initiate the next American civil war, this is all just your tax dollars at work in a massive display of gambling prowess.
That potential conflict, as I have explained many times would be suicidal, both personally for Harry Reid and and for his mandarin class. And as long as even one closet Oath Keeper or Three Percenter in the federal ranks remains -- and there are many -- the feds know that there is no military option that cannot be compromised. So Emperor Harry can go on muttering about how "soon the rebellion will be crushed," and the storm troopers can continue to dip their wicks in the soft envelopments of Vegas hookers, but it is all hat and no cattle, as they say out here. They may be fooling themselves, but they do not fool the hardy band of determined patriots dug in along the banks of the Virgin River.
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