U.S. Officials End Tense Standoff Between Nevada Rancher, Federal Government

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U.S. Officials End Tense Standoff Between Nevada Rancher, Federal Government

Apr. 12, 2014 1:47pm
Oliver Darcy

(http://www.theblaze.com/author/oliver-darcy/)A tense standoff between a local Nevada rancher and the federal government concluded Saturday, with U.S. officials citing public safety concerns as they ended a controversial week-long cattle roundup that drew nationwide attention.

“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,” Neil Kornze, director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, said in a statement.

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Rancher Derrel Spencer speaks during a rally in support of Cliven Bundy near Bunkerville Nev. Monday, April 7, 2014, 2014. The Bureau of Land Management has begun to round up what they call “trespass cattle” that rancher Cliven Bundy has been grazing in the Gold Butte area 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher)

Earlier this week, the decades-long battle escalated (http://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/) when protesters confronted federal agents attempting to roundup Cliven Bundy’s approximately 900 “trespass cattle.”

In one incident, captured on video, the rancher’s son was struck by a stun gun as his sister was pushed to the ground.

This is a developing news story. Updates will be added.

[Libertytree]

IOW's.....oh fuck we're in deep shit! We are going to get shot back at! We could die, fuck this! Let'em all go home and we'll take the property all at once later on.

[Cebu_4_2]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bundy+ranch&filters=hour&lclk=hour

[osoab]

They will be back in about a month.

[Serpo]

4/12/14 Jim's Rant For The Day. Felony Murder Rule.



What you are trying to grasp is called the Felony Murder Rule if you are trying to figure out why the BLM backed off in Nevada today. The rule states that if in the process of committing a felony, if anyone dies in connection with it, even from a heart attack, all perpetrators are guilty of murder. I have already shown you that PER SE, the BLM and Harry Reid were committing felonies (http://src-fla.us/index.php/news2e629). Therefore, if anyone died in the confrontation, government officials or not, they would be up against murder charges.



That is why they bailed, that and the fact that the entire world knows the truth about what was going on and it became apparent that there was no way they could win. I know that our legal system is now illegal. I know that they might have had a little help in getting out of the murder charges. But even in an illegal system, there are some things so basic to the human nature that there is no getting around it. And shooting the cowboy while stealing his cows has been ingrained in us since we were kids to be illegal. That is why they ran. They won't be back


http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/this-is-why-blm-ran.html

[Cebu_4_2]

Reuters spin on it:

U.S. agency ends Nevada cattle roundup, releases herd after stand-off

By Jennifer Dobner
BUNKERVILLE, Nevada Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:39pm EDT

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1 of 3. Protesters gather at the Bureau of Land Management's base camp, where the cattle that were seized from rancher Cliven Bundy are being held, near Bunkerville, Nevada April 12, 2014.
Credit: Reuters/Jim Urquhart



Remaining cattle released to Nevada rancher after armed standoff: witness (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/12/us-usa-ranchers-nevada-release-idUSBREA3B0M920140412)


(Reuters) - U.S. officials ended a stand-off with hundreds of armed protesters in the Nevada desert on Saturday, calling off the government's roundup of cattle it said were illegally grazing on federal land and giving about 300 animals back to the rancher who owned them.

The dispute less than 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas between rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had simmered for days. Bundy had stopped paying fees for grazing his cattle on the government land and officials said he had ignored court orders.

Anti-government groups, right-wing politicians and gun-rights activists camped around Bundy's ranch to support him.
The bureau had called in a team of armed rangers to Nevada to seize the 1,000 head of cattle on Saturday but backed down in the interests of safety.

"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 bureau's director, Neil Kornze, said in a statement.

The protesters, who at the height of the standoff numbered about 1,000, met the news with applause. Then they quickly advanced on the metal pens where the cattle confiscated earlier in the week were being held.
After consultations with the rancher and his family, the bureau ultimately decided to release the cattle it had rounded up, and the crowd began to disperse.

A number of Bundy's supporters, who included militia members from California, Idaho and other states, dressed in camouflage and carried rifles and sidearms. During the stand-off, some chanted "open that gate" and "free the people."
A man who identified himself as Scott, 43, said he had traveled from Idaho along with two fellow militia members to support Bundy.

"If we don't show up everywhere, there is no reason to show up anywhere," said the man, dressed in camouflage pants and a black flak jacket crouched behind a concrete highway barrier, holding an AR-15 rifle.
"I'm ready to pull the trigger if fired upon," Scott said.

Members of the Bundy family could be seen talking with bureau officials before the cattle were released.
"This is what I prayed for," said Margaret Houston, one of Bundy's sisters. "We are so proud of the American people for being here with us and standing with us."

Close to 300 cattle that had been seized were led through a wash under Interstate-15 and back onto land where Bundy's herds have grazed for decades.

LONG-SIMMERING ANGER

"We won the battle," said Ammon Bundy, one of the rancher's sons.
The dispute has tapped into long-simmering anger in Nevada and other big Western states, where vast tracts of land are owned and governed by federal agencies.

The dispute between Bundy and federal land managers began in 1993 when he stopped paying fees of about $1.35 per cow-calf pair to graze public lands that are also home to imperiled animals such as the Mojave Desert tortoise. The government also claims Bundy has ignored cancellation of his grazing leases and defied federal court orders to remove his cattle.

Hundreds of Bundy supporters, some heavily armed, had camped on the road leading to his ranch in a high desert spotted with sagebrush and mesquite trees. Some held signs reading "Americans united against government thugs," while others were calling the rally the "Battle of Bunkerville," a reference to a American Revolutionary War battle of Bunker Hill in Boston.

The large crowd at one point blocked all traffic on Interstate-15. Later, as lanes opened up, motorists honked to support the demonstrators and gave them a thumbs up sign.

Mike Adams, an Iraq War veteran from Salt Lake City, at one point stood below the freeway on sandy ground where government agents and armed demonstrators faced off across a gate.

Adams, who said he served as a tank machine gunner, said the tension reminded him of Iraq. "I started to think I might not walk away from this," he said.

In an interview prior the bureau's announcement, Bundy said he was impressed by the level of support he had received.
"I'm excited that we are really fighting for our freedom. We've been losing it for a long time," Bundy said.
(Writing by Scott Malone (http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=scott.malone&) and Alex Dobuzinskis (http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=alex.dobuzinskis&); Editing by David Gregorio (http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=david.gregorio&) and Lisa Shumaker (http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=lisa.shumaker&))

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http://www.wnd.com/files/2014/01/harry_reid_rubbing_eye.jpgSen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

NEW YORK – When Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy refused to take his cattle off land the federal government demanded for the habitat of an endangered desert tortoise, it focused the nation’s attention on an arena Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., may have preferred to be kept quiet.
An investigative report published last week by Infowars.com (http://www.infowars.com/breaking-sen-harry-reid-behind-blm-land-grab-of-bundy-ranch/) drew a connection between Senate Majority Leader Reid’s involvement with Chinese energy giant ENN, Chinese efforts to build massive solar facilities in the Nevada desert and the showdown between Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, or BLM.
It wasn’t the first report to notice curious dealings involving the Chinese and America’s top Democrats.
On Jan. 20, 2013, WND warned (http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/china-poised-to-play-debt-card-for-u-s-land/) Chinese government-backed economists were proposing a plan to allow Chinese corporations to set up “development zones” in the United States as part of a plan proposed by the Chinese government to convert into equity the more than $1 trillion in U.S. Treasury debt owned by the Chinese government.
The next day, Jan. 21, 2013, WND documented (http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/obama-lets-chinese-own-u-s-energy-resources/) the Obama administration had begun to allow China to acquire major ownership interests in oil and natural gas resources across the USA.
China grabs oil interests in USA
The first major intrusion of China in the U.S. oil and natural gas market can be traced to the Obama administration decision in October 2009 to allow state-owned Chinese energy giant China Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC, to purchase a multi-million dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields.
By allowing China to have equity interests in U.S. oil and natural gas production, the Obama administration reversed a policy of the Bush administration that in 2005 blocked China on grounds of national security concerns from a $18.4-billion dollar deal in which China planned to purchase California-based Unocal Corp.
China’s two, giant, state-owned oil companies acquiring oil and natural gas interests in the USA are CNOOC, 100-percent owned by the government of the People’s Republic of China, and Sinopec Group, the largest shareholder of Sinopac Corporation, an investment company owned by the government of the People’s Republic of China, incorporated in China in 1998, largely to acquire and operate oil and natural gas interests worldwide.
On March 6, 2012, the Wall Street Journal compiled (http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/03/06/chinas-footprint-in-us-oil-a-state-by-state-list/) a state-by-state list of the $17 billion in oil and natural gas equity interests CNOOC and Sinopec have acquired in the United States since 2010.


Colorado: CNOOC gained a one-third stake in 800,000 acres in northeast Colorado and southwest Wyoming in a $1.27-billion pact with Chesapeake Energy Corporation.
Louisiana: Sinopec has a one-third interest in 265,000 acres in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale after a broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.
Michigan: Sinopec gained a one-third interest in 350,000 acres in a larger $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.
Ohio: Sinopec acquired a one-third interest in Devon Energy’s 235,000 Utica Shale acres in a larger $2.5-billion deal.
Oklahoma: Sinopec has a one-third interest in 215,000 acres in a broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.
Texas: CNOOC acquired a one-third interest in Chesapeake Energy’s 600,000 acres in the Eagle Ford Shale in a $2.16-billion deal.
Wyoming: CNOOC has a one-third stake in northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming after a $1.27-billion pact with Chesapeake Energy. Sinopec gained a one-third interest in Devon Energy’s 320,000 acres as part of a larger $2.5-billion deal.

On March 6, 2012, in a separate story, the Wall Street Journal described (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204883304577223083067806776.html?m od=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories) that China’s strategy implemented since 2010 by Fu Chengyu, who has served as chairman of both CNOOC and Sinopec, involved the following components: “Seek minority states, play a passive role, and, in a nod to U.S. regulators, keep Chinese personnel at arm’s length from advanced U.S. technology.”
Harry Reid and Chinese solar investments in Nevada
On April 3, 3012, Bloomberg reported (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-03/solar-jobs-join-harry-reid-to-chinese-billionaire-in-price-drop.html) Chinese billionaire Wang Yusuo, one of China’s richest citizens and the founder of Chinese energy giant ENN Group, had teamed up with Senate Majority Leader Reid to win incentives including land 113 miles southeast of Las Vegas that ENN sought to buy for $4.5 million, less than one-eighth of the land’s $38.6 million assessed value.
Bloomberg reported ENN intended to create solar energy farms on the Nevada land, despite the nearly 50 percent plunge in solar panel prices globally in the previous 15 months that led to the bankruptcy of solar equipment maker Solyndra LLC, which had received approximately $535 million in U.S. government loan guarantees.
Bloomberg further documented ENN had contributed $40,650 individually and through its political action committee to Sen. Reid over the previous three election cycles.
Subsequently, on Sept. 4, 2012, Breitbart.com reported (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/Harry-Reid-s-Son-Representing-Chinese-Solar-Panel-Plant-In-5-Billion-Nevada-Deal) lawyer Rory Reid, the son of Sen. Reid, had been appointed the primary representative for ENN Energy Group, fronting the bid by the Chinese company to build a $5-billion solar panel plant on a 9,000-acre Clark County desert plot in Laughton, Nevada.
A Reuters report (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-usa-china-reid-solar-idUSBRE87U06D20120831) published on Aug. 31, 2012, documented that Reid was recruited by ENN during a 2011 trip he took to China with nine other U.S. senators, supposedly to invite Chinese investment in the United States.
The Senate group accompanying Reid on his 2011 trip to China included six other Democrats and three Republicans: Richard Shelby, R-Ala.; Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Mike Enzi, R-Wyo.; Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.; Johnny Isakson, R-Ga.; Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; and Michael Bennet, D-Colo.
“A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67-year-old rancher,” blogger Dana Loesch wrote last week (http://danaloeschradio.com/the-real-story-of-the-bundy-ranch/). “They want his land.”
Loesch pointed out that Reid has been accused by ranchers in Nevada of using the BLM to control Nevada land, over 84 percent of which is already owned by the federal government, and to pay back special interests, including his top donor, Harry Whittemore, who first urged Reid to have the habitat of the desert tortoise moved before he was convicted of violating federal election laws (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/former-nevada-powerbroker_n_3354281.html) by illegally funneling $150,000 to Reid’s 2007 reelection campaign.
Confirmed by a 71-28 Senate vote on April 9, BLM chief Neil Kornze served as a former senior adviser to Reid before he joined BLM in 2011, serving for the past year as the agency’s principal deputy director, according to a CBS local television news report broadcast in Carson City, Nevada.
In 2012, BLM and the U.S. Department of Energy published a “Final Pragmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States” (http://energy.gov/nepa/downloads/eis-0403-final-programmatic-environmental-impact-statement) that Inforwars.com charged established the basis for allowing the endangered desert tortoise to migrate habitats, paving the way to put solar energy development projects on acreage that includes public land at dispute in the Bundy standoff over grazing rights.
Loesch’s analysis of the BLM’s actions was echoed at the Moapa Valley Town board meeting last Wednesday when one of the local citizens rose to give a stirring defense of Cliven Bundy and issue a warning to the BLM.
“They can throw an army of men around there … with sniper rifles on people just like you are, men, women and children … out there, who believe they have a right to be there,” he said.
“Maybe you believe in some other place that you believe you can be. Someday they’re gonna throw that army of men around you. And then somehow they feel like they got the right … they can drop a damn tripod in the ground and set a sniper rifle on it, so if you cross a line, they can put a bullet in you. Who the hell is the man behind that trigger? I wanna know … which one of you guys gives that guy the authority to throw that rifle down? And when he does, which one of us is he going to shoot?”
“Good God, didn’t he grow up in this country? Are we gonna give it up? This is a helluva lot bigger than Clive Bundy.”
The audience erupted in applause as the man concluded his speech.
“And when Clive decides to go back in there after his cows, and they’ve got orders to shoot anyone who goes in there, I’m gonna be with him.”
Someone in the crowd piped up, “Carrying a gun I hope.”
“No, no,” he said, “because them son of a bitches will fire the next shot heard around the world … and we will fire the rest!”
The full speech can be viewed, below.


Earlier today, BLM announced it was terminating it’s operation at the Bunday ranch and would withdraw. (http://www.wnd.com/?p=737361)


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/reid-smelling-anything-but-rosy-in-ranch-fight/#T8reGV8AWBKLKXkd.99

[Hermie]

That corrupt sonofabitch Reid needs to be put on trial.
He and his son and his whore officials who go along with his traitorous plans.
Damn! I am sick of him and those like him.

[JohnQPublic]

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/last-moments-man-killed-police-red-rock-captured-video

[monty]

That corrupt sonofabitch Reid needs to be put on trial. He and his son and his whore officials who go along with his traitorous plans. Damn! I am sick of him and those like him.



Now is an ideal time to start a recall petition. His former aid Niel Kornze director of the BLM? Fits in nicely with Harry and sons back room land deals. Conflict of interest anyone?

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[Libertytree]

Yeah, a recall would be in order but that fucker, like most of the rest, need to be hauled in front of a "just" court, convicted and spend the rest of their lives in prison.

[monty]

Yeah, a recall would be in order but that fucker, like most of the rest, need to be hauled in front of a "just" court, convicted and spend the rest of their lives in prison.

You're right, my son said the same yesterday. He has no conscience.

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[Twisted Titan]

Where are all the billy badasses?

The tecked out shock troopers.

Oh thats right.....they start to spell mama in their knickers when people start showing up with guns.


If there wasnt a internet...this would have ended real badly for Bundy.

[JohnQPublic]

Remember Hillary's 2009 trip to China? What deals were made?

(http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clinton-presses-china-to-keep-buying-us-debt/12445)Hillary Clinton presses China to keep buying US debt (http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clinton-presses-china-to-keep-buying-us-debt/12445)

[mick silver]

just maybe this is the start of taking back whats are not theirs . i said before harry reid needs to be recalled i just hope this happens now

[monty]

just maybe this is the start of taking back whats are not theirs . i said before harry reid needs to be recalled i just hope this happens now

Tar and feathers would be too good for Harry Reid. A recall is a good starting point.

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