Re: 150 Militia Take Over Makhuer National Wildlife Preserve Headquarters
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Mel and David Bundy were both arrested sometime recently. I'm not sure of the day.
Briana Bundy, Mels wife tells about this on the Nebraska radio station KSDZ in Valentine. She says Mel was arrested in Joe Arpaios county in Arizona and he did nothing to stop it and that he claims to be a constitutional sheriff.
If you go to the page at this link http://www.ksdzfm.com/Archives.html
download the "Brianna Bundy Speaks to America" you can listen to her story of whats been going on with them and the FBI.
Re: 150 Militia Take Over Makhuer National Wildlife Preserve Headquarters
In this video if you'll scroll to the 13.00 minute mark there is a report on what Donald Trump had to say concerning the BLM in Nevada and across the the west. Sounds like he's well aware of what those bastards have been up to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFD5XbOwFnA
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...undy-standoff/
I’m an Oregon rancher. Here’s what you don’t understand about the Bundy standoff.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-ap...on2.jpg&w=1484Keith Nantz on his farm. (Courtesy of Mark Gibson/The Dalles Chronicle)
This week, the Ammon Bundy-led seizure of a federal wildlife refuge thrust Oregon’s ranchers into the spotlight. While I don’t agree with the occupiers’ tactics, I sympathize with their position. Being a rancher was always challenging. And it has become increasingly difficult under the Obama administration.
I grew up in a ranching community in northeast Oregon. Even as a kid, I knew I wanted to be a rancher. After eight years as a firefighter, I’d saved enough to start my own business. I wanted to work on the land, raising delicious, wholesome beef for our growing population.
For almost a decade, I’ve done just that. Most days, I’m up before the sun rises. I spend my mornings tending to my horses, dogs and livestock. In the winter, when it’s bitter cold, I’m outside with my cattle, making sure their water isn’t frozen and that they’re properly fed. In the summer, I often work 15-hour days, cultivating my crops and tending to the animals. In the afternoons, I’m in my office, reaching out to customers and handling the ranch’s business side. Over the course of a given day, I act as a vet, a mechanic, an agronomist and accountant.
I love the work, but it’s grueling. As a rancher, I’m always one bad year away from financial disaster. Every purchase I make — from new cows ($2,000 each) to a new piece of equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — is a major investment. And my ranch operates on very slim margins, so I have to be savvy to make ends meet.
Who are the Bundys?
Play Video1:47 (video at link) https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/01/08/im-an-oregon-rancher-heres-what-you-dont-understand-about-the-bundy-standoff/
Money isn’t the only challenge. Raising cattle requires a lot of land, much more than most ranchers can afford to own outright. I lease about a third of the space I use from private owners. But most ranchers aren’t so lucky. The federal government controls a huge amount of land in the west (more than 50 percent in some states, like Oregon), and many ranchers must lease that space to create a sustainable operation.
Utilizing federal land requires ranchers to follow an unfair, complicated and constantly evolving set of rules. For example, a federal government agency might decide that it wants to limit the number of days a rancher can graze their cattle to protect a certain endangered plant or animal species, or they might unilaterally decide that ranchers can’t use as much water as they need because of a fight over water rights. Or they might take over land that once belonged to the state or private individuals, imposing an entirely new set of restrictions.
[Not punishing the Bundys for the Nevada standoff led to the occupation in Oregon]
I saw this play out firsthand when the federal government considered listing the sage grouse, a chicken-like bird, as endangered. That regulation would have shrunk the amount of land where ranchers could graze cattle, putting many out of business and decimating the industry. To avoid this, ranchers like myself and local officials spent months meeting with federal officials looking for compromise. We ultimately found middle ground. But we already have an enormous workload in our daily lives. The pressure of having to drop everything to lobby against a rule (which happens more often than you’d think) is a tremendous burden.
Most of the time, those regulations are written by people with no agriculture experience, and little understanding of what it takes to produce our nation’s food. The agencies that control these lands can add burdensome regulations at any time. Often, they will begin aggressively enforcing them before ranchers have a chance to adjust.
This forces us to either find new grazing land, reduce the size of our herd or sell out completely. In rural communities, this can have a catastrophic effect on the local economy and environment. Ranching is a billion-dollar industry in Oregon. Overall, agriculture accounts for 15 percent of the state’s economic activity and 12 percent of the state’s employment. The income of a local farm generates double the money for the local economy as a supermarket’s income in the same area, according to the London-based New Economics Foundation.
The siege on our industry has only increased under the Obama administration. Officials are effectively regulating us out of business by enforcing a string of unprecedented environmental restrictions. In Malhuer county (next to Harney county, where the current standoff is taking place), the Obama administration is considering a measure that will turn 2.5 million acres of federal land into a “national monument,” a move that would severely restrict grazing. These restrictions would cause a huge economic downturn for those communities.
These decisions are being made by people who are four to five generations removed from food production. The rule-makers don’t quite understand our industry, and are being spurred on by extreme environmentalist groups asking for unreasonable policy changes.
It’s not that I don’t care what the environmental community wants. In every part of my business, I try to find a balance between economics, mother nature and our culture. I know that if we don’t treat our land properly, we will go out of business by our own hands. It is of utmost importance for us to be true conservationists if we want to continue producing the most nutritious and safest protein in the world.
But all too often, I’m not given the autonomy to do so. I’m given rules, not a conversation about how ranchers and government officials and environmentalists might be able to work together. That’s an approach that fails everyone.
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Lavoy's wife Jeanette speaks at a rally in Salt Lake City.
Re: 150 Militia Take Over Makhuer National Wildlife Preserve Headquarters
monty, those vids were disappeared
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monty, those vids were disappeared
They are playing for me. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...undy-standoff/
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"This video has been removed by the user." on both.
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Here's another video that's an hour and twenty minutes long but it was interesting from start to finish for me. A Burns area rancher and Chris Briles are interviewed and there are many things they talk about that I haven't heard in other videos. It's all straight talk from people who've dealt with the BLM and US Forest Service for years in the area. It's interesting all the way through.
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midnight rambler
"This video has been removed by the user." on both.
That is really strange, they still play for me.
