Tuesday, 15 April 2014
The
federal government’s over-the-top police action against the Bundy family ranch
is an ominous portent of more to come, as rogue agencies and their
corporate/NGO partners attempt to “cleanse” the West of ranchers, farmers,
miners, loggers, and other determined property owners.
On
Saturday, April 12, the federal bureaucrats backed down. Faced with hundreds of
men and women on horseback and on foot who were armed with firearms and video
cameras — as well as local television broadcast stations and independent media
streaming live video and radio feeds across America — the Obama administration
called off the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) operation to confiscate
hundreds of cattle belonging to Cliven Bundy, the current patriarch of a
respected pioneer family that has been ranching in Nevada’s Clark County since
the 1800s.
Supporters
from all across the United States had converged on the Bunkerville, Nevada,
area in support of Bundy, who is the “last rancher standing” in Clark
County,
due to a decades-long campaign by federal agencies and allied enviro-activists
to drive all ranchers off of the range. After a tense standoff, orders came
down from above for the surrounded and outnumbered federal agents to “stand
down” and turn loose the Bundy cattle that had been corralled.....To Read More......
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