More comedy. Now the Northern Paiute tribe is telling the militiamen to get the hell off their sacred ancestral land.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...ge%2Fstory
The militiamen are demanding the government turn the land over to the "rightful owners."
“Don’t tell me any of these ranchers came across the Bering Strait,” the tribal chairwoman, Charlotte Rodrique, said
at a news conference Wednesday. “We were here first,” she added, “we’d like the public to acknowledge that.”
Jarvis Kennedy, a member of the tribal council, put his demand bluntly: “They just need to get the hell out of here.”
"Though the wildlife refuge is not part of the Burns Paiute reservation, tribe members consider it sacred ancestral land. The Paiute are guaranteed access to the refuge for activities important to their heritage — hunting, fishing, gathering reeds for basket weaving and precious seeds. The tribe is also working with the Bureau of Land Management to preserve its archaeological sites."
Here's what the government is NOT telling you about the Hammond Ranch
Hammond Ranch sitting on precious metal, mineral, uranium, deposits which the BLM desperately wants
Federal Government’s Modus operandi to seize Hammond Ranch and Bundy Ranch revealed
Update: The following article details in depth why the BLM targeted the Hammond family in the first place. This is a MUST read.
https://www.intellihub.com/hammond-ranch...blm-wants/
Quote:Here's what the government is NOT telling you about the Hammond Ranch
Hammond Ranch sitting on precious metal, mineral, uranium, deposits which the BLM desperately wants
Federal Government’s Modus operandi to seize Hammond Ranch and Bundy Ranch revealed
Update: The following article details in depth why the BLM targeted the Hammond family in the first place. This is a MUST read.
https://www.intellihub.com/hammond-ranch...blm-wants/
This is what I was trying say to somebody who supported the massive federal ownership in the West. So many tend to assume that the government is benign and has no selfish motives.
Yes, they are protecting the land and its resources from being extracted... right now. Until 100 years or however long from now, the government needs oil or other natural resources... at which point guess what happens?
Quote:This is what I was trying say to somebody who supported the massive federal ownership in the West. So many tend to assume that the government is benign and has no selfish motives.
Yes, they are protecting the land and its resources from being extracted... right now. Until 100 years or however long from now, the government needs oil or other natural resources... at which point guess what happens?
Yes, but isn't the government supposed to be us? So if the government owns the land outside some ranch in the west, you and I own that land. Not just the local rancher. He has no more rights to it than some guy living in New York City. Why would I cede my rights to that land to him just because he lives next to it? Put another way, why would the taxpayers give away land to private interests such as those local ranchers?
Quote:Yes, but isn't the government supposed to be us? So if the government owns the land outside some ranch in the west, you and I own that land. Not just the local rancher. He has no more rights to it than some guy living in New York City. Why would I cede my rights to that land to him just because he lives next to it? Put another way, why would the taxpayers give away land to private interests such as those local ranchers?
The problem I think is that at one time a citizen did own the land, but then later on became subject to federal takeover. It's actually just smart for the feds to do this. They are thinking long down the road while average Joe is just thinking about now.
I suppose preserving the land FOR NOW is more beneficial to future generations, but I wouldn't say that it's their right. It just so happens that the federal government has the power, therefore they have the ability to hold the land, and then later on give it to whom they wish (likely a corporation they're invested in).
Similarly, it wasn't our country's right to inhabit this country. It just so happened that we had the power and conquered it from the natives. The federal government didn't have the right to suddenly claim land due to an endangered species or some other nonsense, they did it because they could.
I don't get the big deal of cattle ranchers letting their herds graze on the land. Who is that hurting? Not a damn person. And it's feeding a family.
My grandparents owned a cattle ranch in Colorado on 750 acres. They were a family of 5. I don't know on average how many cattle they sold each year but the yearly income (that's how they were paid- once a year at selling time) was just enough to keep them in clothes, food and their home.
Now if there are other things going on, that's another story.
I'm convinced this has little to do with grazing land rights and is really about the rights to all that uranium.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/us/ore....html?_r=0
Ammon Bundy, along with several of his followers were arrested today after a shootout with police that left 1 person dead and another injured. I can't say that Bundy and his followers weren't taking a risk with this. All they had to do was just leave peacefully, and none of this would have happened.