BLM walked out of the arena because patriots converged on the scene ensuring their campaign against a single rancher would now be conducted in front of live cameras
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In the most intense publicly-fought battle against Big Government since the election of Barack Hussein Obama, it’s We the People 1, Bureau of Land Management boss Obama, 0.
With their 200 snipers, helicopters, SUVs, snarling dogs and tasers, the fast-talking, high-handed BLM has retreated from the arena.
There are some who would say outright that the BLM cut and run, hightailing it off of Cliven Bundy’s ranch, and some would be right.
One thing to set the dogs on protesters and taser one or two when your government bosses are backing you up. Quite another when hundreds of folk are driving from hours away to be there for a harassed rancher and his family.
With agencies like the IRS and NSA in their faces and pockets, Americans are finally mad and aren’t going to take it anymore.
Dozens of their letters to this news site and others prove that they don’t care if it’s about the Desert Tortoise, the Delta Smelt, the Spotted Owl, the Prairie Grouse, or even the Obama-claimed flatulence of cows. They just want Big Government to stop driving landowners, ranchers and farmers off their land.
The radical environmentalists the BLM, EPA and others have thrown in with can knock themselves out over their Starbuck lattés with the mainstream media for all they care.
“The Bureau of Land Management announced Saturday that it has concluded its mission to remove illegal cattle from a rural Nevada range after a tense week-long standoff with a rancher and militia supporters. (Fox News, April 12, 2014)
“Based on information about conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public,” the statement read.
Guess they mean members of the public not harassed by police dogs or tasers.
To BLM it’s the “cattle gather”. To rancher Bundy and his supporters it’s cattle rustling by “the gubmint”.
Their official statement is straight out of Government Propaganda 101. Suddenly BLM, with its shameful reputation of riding roughshod over ranchers hen there are no cameras and LiveStreams around, are concerned about the safety of “members of the public”.
“Bureau officials had dismantled designated protest areas supporting rancher Cliven Bundy, who they say refuses to comply with the “same laws that 16,000 public land ranchers do every year.” (Fox News)
A statement that leaves them wide open, for Clive Bundy isn’t the only rancher who’s their target.
For certain, Bundy isn’t the only rancher who was harassed by the overbearing BLM. Its agents went after Wally Klump, imprisoning him for a year at age 70. Then there’s their harassment campaign against Wayne Hage, who never got to spend a penny of the $4.22 million awarded to him by the federal courts.
Bundy refuses to comply “with the same laws that 16,000 public land ranchers do every year”? Hard to believe in the Math of BLM when the regime that pays it continues to lie about the “millions” signed up for ObamaCare.
Notice how easily they bandy that this is all about American taxpayers to whom Bundy owes “in excess of $1 million”.
In typical government fashion, they likely spent in excess of $2 million trying to collect whatever amount he really owes.
“After 20 years and multiple court orders to remove the trespass cattle, Mr. Bundy owes the American taxpayers in excess of $1 million. The BLM will continue to work to resolve the matter administratively and judicially,” the statement said. “We ask that all parties in the area remain peaceful and law-abiding as the Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service work to end the operation in an orderly manner.”
Those who turned out in support of Rancher Bundy are not asking that all parties in the area remain peaceful and law-abiding, they are DEMANDING it.
According to FoxNews, a group of about 1,000 supporting Bundy cheered and sang “The Star Spangled Banner” when BLM made its announcement.
Patriots, unlike agents of the government, still remember the words to the National Anthem.
Their high-falutin’ words on today’s released statement notwithstanding, BLM walked out of the arena because patriots converged on the scene ensuring their campaign against a single rancher would now be conducted in front of live cameras.
In their own words: “Based on information about conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public.”
If BLM was right—as they claimed to be all along—then there would have been no need for Saturday’s hasty retreat.
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| Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and Glenn Beck. Judi can be emailed at: |
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