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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Images of a forced cattle roundup on a rural Nevada range sent ripples through the West on Friday, prompting elected officials in several states to weigh in, militia members to mobilize and federal land managers to reshape elements of the operation.

Bureau of Land Management officials dismantled designated protest areas Thursday and Nevada's governor urged calm as the fight over rancher Cliven Bundy's cattle widened into a debate about states' rights and federal land-use policy.

The dispute that triggered the roundup dates to 1993, when the BLM cited concern for the federally protected tortoise. The agency later revoked Bundy's grazing rights.

Bundy claims ancestral rights to graze his cattle on lands his Mormon family settled in the 19th century. He stopped paying grazing fees and disregarded several court orders to remove his animals.
Ripples of Nevada range showdown spreading in West

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Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s decades-long battle against the federal government over grazing rights has heated to the point where militia groups have joined in and taken up spots against the feds who’ve circled his land — and talk is, they’re not afraid to open fire.

A spokesman for the one of the militia groups said as much to local 8 News Now: I’m not “afraid to shoot,” he said.

Margaret Houston, Mr. Bundy’s sister and a cancer survivor, said at a town hall gathering this week that the situation “was like a war zone” and that she felt “like I was not in the United States,” The Daily Mail reported.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal described it this way: “Serious bloodshed was narrowly avoided,” in a story about how dogs were unleashed on a woman who was pregnant while the rancher’s son was hit with a taser.

On Tuesday, armed Bureau of Land Management agents stormed Mr. Bundy’s property, escalating a court dispute that’s wound for two decades over the rancher’s refusal to pay for grazing fees.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

OP's link works fine for me.

The link I quoted works fine for you, eh? Well that's really quite amazing, because it directs to:

http://http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/11/militias-head-nevada-ranchers-standoff-feds-were-n/#ixzz2ycwT0T7P

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

OP's link works fine for me.

The link I quoted works fine for you, eh? Well that's really quite amazing, because it directs to:

http://http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/11/militias-head-nevada-ranchers-standoff-feds-were-n/#ixzz2ycwT0T7P

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ORIGINAL: Yachtie

I've also read that Harry Reid (D-NV) is supportive of a foreign business, Chinese I think, developing a wind farm on that property, along with there being minerals and other valuables business wants to get its hands on.

Information is slowly coming out that its about more than what's being reported. There are supposedly deals in the backroom worth millions, if not billions, and Bundy is standing in the way.

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ORIGINAL: Yachtie

Bundy has supposedly paid all fees due under state law. The problem, as I understand it, is that BLM came in and changed the agreement, adding its own fees which Bundy objects to. Involves turtles, or something about them. I've heard reports that the turtles are doing fine and even that there are so many they are being destroyed.

I've also read that Harry Reid (D-NV) is supportive of a foreign business, Chinese I think, developing a wind farm on that property, along with there being minerals and other valuables business wants to get its hands on.

Information is slowly coming out that its about more than what's being reported. There are supposedly deals in the backroom worth millions, if not billions, and Bundy is standing in the way.

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For more information see here, here, and here.

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ORIGINAL: Yachtie

Bundy has supposedly paid all fees due under state law. The problem, as I understand it, is that BLM came in and changed the agreement, adding its own fees which Bundy objects to. Involves turtles, or something about them. I've heard reports that the turtles are doing fine and even that there are so many they are being destroyed.

I've also read that Harry Reid (D-NV) is supportive of a foreign business, Chinese I think, developing a wind farm on that property, along with there being minerals and other valuables business wants to get its hands on.

Information is slowly coming out that its about more than what's being reported. There are supposedly deals in the backroom worth millions, if not billions, and Bundy is standing in the way.

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For more information see here, here, and here.

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The fight involves a 600,000-acre area under BLM control called Gold Butte, near the Utah border. The vast and rugged land is the habitat of the protected desert tortoise, and the land has been off-limits for cattle since 1998. Five years before that, when grazing was legal, Bundy stopped paying federal fees for the right.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

FYI, infowars, and the other sites you are claiming as sources are nothing more than conspiracy websites, and if you think Alex Jones knows anything you are sadly mistaken, every one of his theories have been debunked, destroyed, and proved to be nothing more than nonsense being spouted by a sensationalist trying to make a buck off ultra conservative paranoia.

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Notice what Bundy's position is; the State of Nevada owns the lands pursuant to their NRS 321.596 et al statutes (Nevada Public Lands Ownership Act) enacted by Nevada back in the late 1970's. All the western public lands states adopted this law back when it was called the “Sagebrush Rebellion”. The main component of this law (Public Lands Ownership) has yet to be adjudicated by the courts or by the US Supreme Court. This matter came to the forefront once in the court process and the then Nevada Attorney General filed away this issue by stipulating that the feds owned the public lands in Nevada. The court basically said it had no other choice but to rule in favor of the Feds. (US vs Nye County). Bundy is following Nevada Law and holds that the 18 year old adverse decision against him that the BLM et al is using does not apply to him because he is not grazing on federal property. The State of Nevada has an obligation to enforce its own law on this matter. Therefore Bundy is not in contempt of any court order since he is not operating on federal property.
Bundy paid grazing fees to the rightful Landlord (Clark County-NV) back in the '90's and then they returned that payment to Bundy. I know this first hand because I was there when that happened. Bundy still has the county check and he never intended to steal anything and stands ready to pay the rightful Landlord today just like he did back in the '90's (enhancement added)


Evidently there is a dispute here, jlf1961's assertion being contested. State law versus Nev. Atty. Gen stipulation. Did he have the power to do that?

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I am all for state's rights