Stephanie
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How much land did Obama steal from us? this has gotten out of hand
SNIP:
For the federal government to demand more, and seize more, such as we are seeing regarding BLM land, is nothing less than tyranny.
BLM Tyranny
By Douglas V. Gibbs -- Bio and Archives April 3, 20
According to Article I, Section 8, aside from adding territory as spoils from war, the only way the federal government can own property is if they “purchase” it with the “consent” of the State legislature for the purpose of “needful buildings.” Much of the land west of the Mississippi River owned by the federal government was not obtained in either manner. As a result, the Bureau of Land Management unconstitutionally regulates/manages (or should I say “mismanages”) a massive portion of the United States.
Confrontations have emerged in Nevada and Oregon, of late, with the Bundy name attached to both situations. The iron grip by the federal government on these lands has led to limitations on land use, be it for grazing, farming, timber or other uses that in our short history as a country was not so much of a concern not very long ago.
According to Ken Ivory, a Republican state representative from Utah, the land belongs to the ranchers, and farmers, and ultimately to the citizens. “This land is your land,” he says, “and not the federal government’s.”
“It’s like having your hands on the lever of a modern-day Louisiana Purchase,” said Mr. Ivory, who founded the American Lands Council and until recently was its president. The Utah-based group encourages the federal government to give the land back to the States, and the people, and seeks to accomplish this “encouragement” through legislative and judicial means.
Ivory agrees with what folks like the Bundys are trying to accomplish, but he believes more can be accomplished through a more bureaucratic tactic.
In his home State of Utah, the local legislators have passed a law demanding that the federal government return federally controlled land to the state. The federal government has refused to comply, so now a $14 million lawsuit to claim 31.2 million federal acres of canyons, scrub desert and rolling mesas is in place.
ALL of it here:
BLM Tyranny
SNIP:
For the federal government to demand more, and seize more, such as we are seeing regarding BLM land, is nothing less than tyranny.
BLM Tyranny
By Douglas V. Gibbs -- Bio and Archives April 3, 20
Confrontations have emerged in Nevada and Oregon, of late, with the Bundy name attached to both situations. The iron grip by the federal government on these lands has led to limitations on land use, be it for grazing, farming, timber or other uses that in our short history as a country was not so much of a concern not very long ago.
According to Ken Ivory, a Republican state representative from Utah, the land belongs to the ranchers, and farmers, and ultimately to the citizens. “This land is your land,” he says, “and not the federal government’s.”
“It’s like having your hands on the lever of a modern-day Louisiana Purchase,” said Mr. Ivory, who founded the American Lands Council and until recently was its president. The Utah-based group encourages the federal government to give the land back to the States, and the people, and seeks to accomplish this “encouragement” through legislative and judicial means.
Ivory agrees with what folks like the Bundys are trying to accomplish, but he believes more can be accomplished through a more bureaucratic tactic.
In his home State of Utah, the local legislators have passed a law demanding that the federal government return federally controlled land to the state. The federal government has refused to comply, so now a $14 million lawsuit to claim 31.2 million federal acres of canyons, scrub desert and rolling mesas is in place.
ALL of it here:
BLM Tyranny
