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1. Sandy Beach
   April 10th, 2014 @ 11:41 am

   This was reported at The Blaze.
   The fight began when Bundy stopped paying the Bureau of Land Management’s grazing fees in 1993, arguing in court filings that he had no obligation to pay the agency because his Mormon ancestors had worked the land decades before the agency was formed.

   Bundy claims he owes roughly $300,000 in back fees, but the federal government says it’s more than that.

   “That number, the $300,00, that was a number estimated through Sept. 11, 2011,” Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Kirsten Cannon said in a phone call with reporters Monday. “Since then, the estimated amount owed by him – so including the $300,000 – totals $1.1 million.”

   In addition, the cost of removing the rancher’s cattle from the public land will cost taxpayers roughly $3 million, according to initial estimates.

   The land was finally declared off-limits for cattle in 1998 and became a designated habitat for the federally protected desert tortoise. That same year, a judge ordered Bundy to remove his cattle. He refused to comply.

   https://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/08/armed-fed-agents-and-snipers-the-decades-long-battle-between-the-govt-and-a-nevada-rancher-that-has-finally-reached-breaking-point/

   It is not his land. He did not honor his agreement with the government. I think he is stealing from the citizens and taxpayers.

2. Starlight
   April 10th, 2014 @ 1:39 pm

   This is on RedFlagNews.com

   Endangered tortoise used as justification to assault Nevada rancher’s property rights.

   Image: 700 – 840 endangered tortoises face BLM euthanization “because that’s the sensible thing to do.”

   (by Adam Salazar, Infowars.com) — Months before the heated contention between the Bureau of Land Management and Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy, purportedly over protecting an endangered species of desert tortoise, the BLM was euthanizing the tortoises in droves.

   On Saturday, the BLM, with the help of helicopters, low-flying aircraft and hired cowboys, began rounding up Bundy’s cattle, and forbade him from interfering with the operation, as Bundy announced he was prepared to weather a full-on assault.

   “My forefathers have been up and down the Virgin Valley ever since 1877. All these rights I claim have been created through pre-emptive rights and beneficial use of the forage and water. I have been here longer. My rights are before the BLM even existed,” Bundy said.

   The BLM says they’re moving in, not to encroach on the man’s property rights, but because Bundy didn’t pay “grazing fees,” which the Bureau has imposed on land developers “who disturb tortoise habitat on public land,” according to the Associated Press.

   Throughout the housing boom in the 2000s, the Bureau was earning enough to fund the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center (DTCC) in southern Las Vegas, a habitat “created in 1991 to house wild desert tortoises removed from the path of development and to use those tortoises to aid recovery of the species.” Its operating budget was about $1 million per year.

   But the recession that followed dwindled the number of developers, and in turn funds for the DTCC.

   So, facing the prospect of shutting their doors, the DTCC began releasing healthier turtles into the wild, and euthanizing some of the sick ones.

   From the AP, August 25, 2013:

   Back at the conservation center, a large refrigerator labeled “carcass freezer” hummed in the desert sun as scientists examined the facility’s 1,400 inhabitants to find those hearty enough to release into the wild. Officials expect to euthanize more than half the animals in the coming months in preparation for closure at the end of 2014.

   “It’s the lesser of two evils, but it’s still evil,” Roy Averill-Murray, tortoise recovery coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service desert, told the AP.

   Averill-Murray estimated 50 to 60 percent of the facility’s 1,400 tortoises were stricken with disease and could not be housed near healthy tortoises. Others were “too feeble to survive,” according to the AP, and could not be adopted out.

   “The ones that don’t get better and that are sick and suffering will probably be euthanized because that’s the sensible thing to do,” Allyson Walsh, associate director for the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research, said.

   News that the tortoises were going to be set free or killed spurred people around the world to contact the refuge in attempts to adopt death row tortoises, and donations began flowing in hopes to keep the DTCC afloat, but the BLM estimated it wouldn’t be enough to sustain it overall.

   “Although it’s wonderful that people want to give money, it won’t change the outcome for the Desert Conservation Center,” BLM Communications Chief Erica Haspiel-Szlosek stated. “There just isn’t money to keep it going, nor is it really the best use of conservation funds.”

   The tortoises’ average 100-year life span also doesn’t exactly make them the most ideal pets.

   Despite the imminent closing of the DTCC’s doors due to lack of funding, the BLM has gone on to round up about 234 of rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle at gunpoint claiming they’re helping protect the tortoise and also claiming he owes them over $1 million in grazing fees.

   At the same time, seizing and impounding all 908 of Bundy’s cattle would cost the government an estimated$3 million, a figure that would keep the DTCC thriving for another three years.

   Interestingly, the BLM is also facing a lawsuit from various environmental groups suing on the grounds that the bureau “has failed to track the effects of a wide range of human activities in the California desert on the tortoise..”

   All of this illustrates how the BLM’s dispute with Mr. Bundy has nothing to do with saving or protecting tortoises (most of which were given to the facility by people who owned them as pets, and which the BLM is either killing or releasing into the wild – animals raised in captivity don’t usually fare well in the wild) as they claim, and everything to do with making an example out of Mr. Bundy for having the gall to stand up for his property, bullying him into submission by brute force.
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3. Davey Crockett
   April 10th, 2014 @ 2:00 pm

   Did the rancher ever have a deed to the property?

   And why did the govt just arbitrarily start to take over the land?

4. John
   April 10th, 2014 @ 4:50 pm

   This is what it’s about,

   https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/energy/oilgas-search-fracking-comes-nevada

5. John
   April 10th, 2014 @ 4:51 pm

   It never was the turtle.

6. Sandy Beach
   April 10th, 2014 @ 6:25 pm

   John’s link relates to fracking near Elko, Nevada. That is located at the NORTH East part of the state.
   The situation with Bundy is northeast Clark County, Nev. That is in the SOUTH East part of the state.

   Elko, Nevada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elko,_Nevada

   Clark County, Nevada
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_County,_Nevada

7. Davey Crockett
   April 11th, 2014 @ 4:30 pm

   This post by John is very believable…and it does fit the pattern that the NWO govt thinks it can just push and shove!

   I say: BET ME!

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9. courage
   April 11th, 2014 @ 11:00 pm

   https://www.emilyspoems-celticnotionsandpotions.com/2014/04/why-bundy-is-holding-out-shiree-bundy.html

   Friday, 11 April 2014

   WHY BUNDY IS HOLDING OUT – Shiree BUNDY Cox gives her Dad’s side of the story
   Reblogged thanks to Jean: 2012: What’s the Real Truth?
   From : [link to https://www.facebook.com (secure)]
   Mike Combs 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 are called preemptive rights.

   Somewhere 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 repaires 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 they’re 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 iendangered species card. You’ve already heard about the desert tortis. 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 their desperate.

   It’s come down to buying the brand inspector off and threatening the County Sheriff. Everything their 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 of where they are ,they are my father’s property. His herd has been part of that range for over a hundred years, long before the BLM even exsisted. 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 borders, which is illegal — ask any trucker. Then they plan to take them to the Richfeild Aucion 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

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