is it really about the tortoises?
Statement from Clive Bundy's daughter:
By SHIREE BUNDY COX:
I have had people ask me to explain my dad’s stance on this BLM fight.
Here it is in as simple of terms as I can explain it. There is so much to it, but here it is in a nut shell.
My great grandpa bought the rights to the Bunkerville
allotment back in 1887 around there. Then he sold them to my grandpa who
then turned them over to my dad in 1972.
These men bought and paid for their rights to the range and
also built waters, fences and roads to assure the survival of their
cattle, all with their own money, not with tax dollars.
These rights to the land use is called preemptive rights.
Some where down the line, to keep the cows from over
grazing, came the bureau of land management. They were supposed to
assist the ranchers in the management of their ranges while the ranchers
paid a yearly allotment which was to be use to pay the BLM wages and to
help with repairs and improvements of the ranches.
My dad did pay his grazing fees for years to the BLM until they were no longer using his fees to help him and to improve.
Instead they began using these money’s against the ranchers.
They bought all the rest of the ranchers in the area out with their own grazing fees.
When they offered to buy my dad out for a pittance he said no thanks and then fired them because they weren’t doing their job.
He quit paying the BLM, but tried giving his grazing fees to the county, which they turned down.
So my dad just went on running his ranch and making his own improvements with his own equipment and his own money, not taxes.
In essence the BLM was managing my dad out of business.
Well when buying him out didn’t work, they used the endangered species card.
You’ve already heard about the desert tortoise.
Well that didn’t work either, so then began the threats and
the court orders, which my dad has proven to be unlawful for all these
years.
Now they’re desperate.
It’s come down to buying the brand inspector off and threatening the County Sheriff.
Everything they’re doing at this point is illegal and totally against the constitution of the United States of America.
Now you may be saying,” how sad, but what does this have to do with me?” Well, I’ll tell you.
They will get rid of Cliven Bundy, the last man standing on
the Bunkerville allotment and then they will close all the roads so no
one can ever go on it again.
Next, it’s Utah’s turn. Mark my words, Utah is next.
Then there’s the issue of the cattle that are at this moment
being stolen. See even if dad hasn’t paid them, those cattle do belong
to him.
Regardless where they are they are my fathers property. His
herd has been part of that range for over a hundred years, long before
the BLM even existed.
Now the Feds think they can just come in and remove them and
sell them without a legal brand inspection or without my dad’s
signature on it.
They think they can take them over two boarders, which is
illegal, ask any trucker.
Then they plan to take them to the Richfield
Auction and sell them.
All with our tax money.
They have paid off the contract cowboys and the auction owner as well as the Nevada brand inspector with our tax dollars.
See how slick they are?
Well, this is it in a nut shell. Thanks”
H/T American Freedom Fighters
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