CRM114

Is there a buyer? This Bundy fool isn't looking to buy any land. He's looking to exploit free land for personal gain.

Why would you build a garage without a permit? That's just being a douche. Permits are in place for the safety of the property owner and neighbors. That's all I need is some yahoo erecting structures without inspections near my family.

wendersfan

The best response I ever saw to someone who opposes building permits and design guidelines was on a local messageboard a few years ago. Some guy was going on and on about how people should be able to build whatever they want, anywhere, and got a response stating the hope that someone buys the house next to him and then erects in their front yard a 60' pink penis that shoots flaming gasoline out of the tip.

BKenn01

I just happen to believe the Govt has to much power and abuses it on a regular basis.

Supermallet

I also believe that the government has too much power, but you have to learn how to pick your battles.

Sean O'Hara

Yes it does. That doesn't mean this bozo has a point in this particular case.

grundle

More examples of the government going way overboard in response to this trespassing farmer:


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...anch-standoff/

Feds accused of leaving trail of wreckage after Nevada ranch standoff

April 16, 2014

The federal agency that backed down over the weekend in a tense standoff with a Nevada rancher is being accused of leaving a trail of wreckage behind.

Fox News toured the damage -- allegedly caused by the Bureau of Land Management -- which included holes in water tanks and destroyed water lines and fences. According to family friends, the bureau's hired "cowboys" also killed two prize bulls.

"They had total control of this land for one week, and look at the destruction they did in one week," said Corey Houston, friend of rancher Cliven Bundy and his family. "So why would you trust somebody like that? And how does that show that they're a better steward?"

The BLM and other law enforcement officials backed down on Saturday in their effort to seize Bundy's cattle, after hundreds of protesters, some armed, arrived to show support for the Bundy family. In the end, BLM officials left the scene amid concerns about safety, and no shots were fired.

The dispute between the feds and the Bundy family has been going on for years; they say he owes more than $1.1 million in unpaid grazing fees -- and long ago revoked his grazing rights over concern for a federally protected tortoise. They sent officials to round up his livestock following a pair of federal court orders last year giving the U.S. government the authority to impound the cattle.

The feds, though, are being accused of taking the court orders way too far.

On a Friday night conference call, BLM officials told reporters that "illegal structures" on Bundy's ranch -- water tanks, water lines and corrals -- had to be removed to "restore" the land to its natural state and prevent the rancher from restarting his illegal cattle operation.

However, the court order used to justify the operation appears only to give the agency the authority to "seize and impound" Bundy's cattle.

"Nowhere in the court order that I saw does it say that they can destroy infrastructure, destroy corrals, tanks ... desert environment, shoot cattle," Houston said.

Bundy's friends say the BLM wranglers told them the bulls were shot because they were dangerous and could gore their horses. One bull was shot five times.

But Houston said the pen holding the bull wasn't even bent. "It's not like the bull was smashing this pen and trying tackle people or anything," he said. "The pen is sitting here. It hasn't moved. No damage whatsoever. Where was the danger with that bull?"

Plus he said BLM vehicles appear to have crushed a tortoise burrow near the damaged water tank. "How's that conservation?" he asked.

The BLM has not yet responded to a request for comment on these allegations.

Bundy has refused to pay the grazing fees or remove his cattle, and doesn't even acknowledge the federal government's authority to assess or collect damages.

The bureau has said if Bundy wasn't willing to pay, then they would sell his cattle.

However, there was a problem with that plan -- few in Nevada would touch Bundy's cattle for fear of being blacklisted.

"The sale yards are very nervous about taking what in the past has been basically stolen cattle from the federal government," Nevada Agriculture Commissioner Ramona Morrison said.

Documents show the BLM paid a Utah cattle wrangler $966,000 to collect Bundy's cattle and a Utah auctioneer to sell them. However, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert refused to let Bundy cattle cross state lines, saying in a letter: "As Governor of Utah, I urgently request that a herd of cattle seized by the Bureau of Land Management from Mr. Cliven Bundy of Bunkerville, Nevada, not be sent to Utah. There are serious concerns about human safety and animal health and well-being, if these animals are shipped to and sold in Utah."

That letter was sent three days before the BLM round-up, which is why the cattle were still being held Saturday in temporary pens just a few miles from Bundy's ranch. Morrison says BLM was sitting on cattle because it had no way to get rid of them -- setting up a potential tragedy as orphaned calves were not getting any milk and feed costs were about to skyrocket.

The showdown is far from over. The BLM says it will "continue to work to resolve the matter administratively and judicially," though Bundy still doesn't recognize federal authority over the federal lands that he continues to use in violation of a court order. The federal judge who issued that decision says Bundy's claims "are without merit."

That order from October 2013 says Bundy owes $200 per day per head for every day he fails to move his cattle. That amounts to roughly $640 million in damages owed to the federal government for illegally grazing his cattle.

Hokeyboy

TRANSLATION: The Federal Government has WAY too much power... unless MY guy is in charge. Then send the Feds in to investigate all dissenters.

Because if a black guy was scamming welfare for 20 years and the Feds cracked down on him, I'm sure InfoWars would be screaming bloody murder.

Hokeyboy

I would like to point out that American Indians *despise* being called "Native Americans".

Supermallet

What terminology do they prefer?

inri222

And to grease hands because they sure ain't free.

BearFan

No, not our wonderful government .. they are a major force of good in our society. Go Government!

Supermallet

How about "Firstlanders"? I'm going to make that a thing.

Hokeyboy

If not the tribal name, then simply "American Indians" will do nicely. They generally loathe "Native American" as a feelgood phrase originated by palefaces

crazyronin

That damn Joe Mondragon. Who does he think he is stealing water to irrigate his beanfield....

Wait, what?

ps. Hokeyboy Johnson is right!

Supermallet

But there is an actual subcontinent of India. Goddamit.

Ky-Fi

Yes, they generally use the term "Indian". I grew up near a Mohawk reservation, and played minor hockey and lacrosse against a team with Mohawk kids when I was growing up. Not to get into any cultural stereotypes, but unlike the white kids, I don't think I ever saw a Mohawk kid cry if he got hurt.

JasonF

I knew one Blortorp growing up and he liked to be called a Blorptorp, so based on my experience, I'm going to extrapolate and say all of you calling him and people like him "Native Americans" or "American Indians" are racist fucks.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aihmterms.html

Hokeyboy

Not for nothing but man I love the term "wampum".

DVD Polizei

The Mohawk kids were probably drunk.

Not to get into stereotypes, of course.

NotThatGuy

Obama would have Drone'd him....since that is how he rolls.

classicman2

I am a Democrat - not a Socialist Democrat such as yourself.

yoshimi

Looks like the conservative politicians that were so supportive of him are starting to distance themselves.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5204821.html

JasonF

Cliven Bundy, reminiscing this weekend on that one time he drove past a housing project in New York City:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...acist-remarks/

Hokeyboy

But... but you mean while he was surrounded by all those armed white militia dudes from Montana, there may have been a racist or two in the pack?

Rockmjd23

Yeah he will lose tons of supporters now...



lol no