by David J. D'Addabbo. Obama and his global agenda allies are using the media as a propaganda machine to create the Illusion that stricter gun control will somehow protect the people. This is of course a lie proven over and over again by unarmed citizens getting slaughtered! Governments are unlawfully regulating away all of our rights, under color of ... MORE
Showing posts with label land grab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label land grab. Show all posts
Why Are Angry Ranchers Being Called Terrorists?
by Frank Furedi. It wasn’t long before pundits played the terrorist card in relation to the standoff between a group of ranchers and the US federal government at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. In the Guardian, Wajahat Ali objected to the description of the ranchers as ‘militiamen’ rather than ‘terrorists’. ‘If the Oregon militiamen were Muslim ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: 2 Ranchers, 2 Fires, Too Long Behind Bars
The injustice of mandatory minimums. The occupation of
buildings at Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by a group of
armed and disgruntled ranchers has brought national attention to a case
that illustrates the injustices wrought by mandatory minimum sentences.
The men who took over the buildings on January 2, led by Nevada ... MORE
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ranchers,
rebellion
Jack Healy and Kirk Johnson: This Land Is Your Land
The folly of federal land management. Ken Ivory, a Republican state representative from Utah, has been roaming the West with an alluring pitch to cattle ranchers, farmers and conservatives upset with how Washington controls the wide-open public spaces out here: This land is your land, he says, and not the federal government’s. Mr. Ivory, ... MORE
Absurdly Harsh Penalties Sparked Oregon Rancher Protest
by Jacob Sullum. As Ed Krayewski noted yesterday, the armed men who are occupying an office building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon broke off from a demonstration protesting the sentences received by two ranchers, 73-year-old Dwight Hammond and his 46-year-old son Steven, who in 2001 and 2006 set fires on their own ... MORE
Obama's Massive Land Grab Has Alaska Furious
by Michael Bastasch. 'We will fight back' President Obama announced Sunday that his administration plans to lock up the oil-rich 1.5 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain and offshore areas in Alaska from oil and gas exploration. Obama is asking Congress to designate 12 million acres of ANWR as a “wilderness” to keep it off-limits to ... MORE
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fossil fuels,
government,
land grab,
Obama,
oil,
politics,
power
Western States Want Feds to Surrender “Federal” Land
by Alex Newman. Elected officials from across the American West, from top lawmakers to county commissioners, held a historic gathering in Utah in recent days to discuss how Western states could wrest control of the almost 50 percent of land in the region currently claimed by the federal government. Aside from constitutional concerns — with ... MORE
Leaked Memo Uncovers Obama Administration Land Grab
by Shawn Martini. Senator Jim DeMint took to the pages of the Washington Post this morning to raise the alarm about a planned, 10 million acre Western land grab by the Obama administration. A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana ... MORE
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