04/21/2014
Bundy’s Rights, Stand for American Rights
The Bundy's are trying to stay in the cattle business, to preserve their way of life on the same lands their family ancestors have run cattle on for generations.
Let's say, your business produces 10,000 of your product per month. You go to renew your business license (BLM grazing permit renewal in Bundy's case) and they say pay your fees and by the way, you can only produce 1000 per month of your product (suspended AUMs in Bundy's case) with this new license, reason given, some politically correct (PC) excuse. You know this will bankrupt you, so you refuse to pay fees for a permit that restricts your business so severely. You know it is going to ruin your families way of life as well as your livelihood. Would you meekly close your business, tell your whole family and employees, sorry we have no means to make a living? Walk away, without a fight, after generations have worked to build what you are now a steward of for the future family generations?
Well, not Mr. Cliven Bundy and his wife Carol, they were not having any of that approach. So they are fighting back the best way they know how.
The current national cattle herd size is as low as it as been since the 1950s. This and drought are why grocery store beef prices are rising. These facts correlate with this story and this is why it affects everyone who eats beef.
“Over time there has been a gradual decrease in the amount of grazing that takes place on BLM-managed land, and that trend continues today,” the BLM reports. “Grazing use on public lands has declined from 18.2 million AUMs in 1954 to 7.9 million AUMs in 2013. These numbers (10.3 Million less cows) have literally forced cattle ranching families out of business, bankrupting many.
They (BLM, Forest Service, Park Service working in harmony) have many excuses (tortoises, sage grouse, fly catcher, spotted owl, wild horses, etc) to eliminate grazing on our public lands. Phony, politically driven agendas by environmental groups justifications to get the cows off the public lands, hiding behind sustainability and green energy agendas. They have powerful and wealthy supporters IE; Robert Redford. Money to buy lobbyist, who in many cases control some of our elected officials. http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/grazing.html
Check out the top ten billionaires saving the planet: Look at the names behind the movement
http://www.worth.com/index.php/component/content/article/4-live/926-top-10-billionaires-saving-the-planet They may be rich and even well intentioned, but they are wrong on this one. There are many other ways they are driving up food prices with this agenda, but that is a whole different story.
The Bundy's own at least eleven Vested Water Rights to Spring and Surface Water for Stockwatering, only two lay within section 14 on his 160 deeded acres. The balance of these Stockwatering Rights are located out on the public range land, but Bundy owns the water rights and this is normal and common. Vested Water Rights are the strongest form of ownership you can own in the State of Nevada. The BLM generally requires two things from lessees, a deeded base property, and water rights to care for the livestock. Bundy has them both, all properly filed and recorded in the public records.
Yet the Bundy’s have been arrested, beaten, tazed, their women thrown down, threatened and intimidated, their cattle stolen and killed. Their personal property has been destroyed, corrals ripped apart, water tanks and lines turn out. The land was damaged severely by the BLM trucks. During the BLM cattle roundup, they showed no respect for environmental impact, they ran over and crushed tortoise dens, plants, and everything else out there with literally no regard. These Western desert landscapes heal very slowly. The Bundy’s have been called criminals, freeloaders, domestic terrorists, basically radical nuts by The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. They have endured snipers on the hills above them with high powered rifles aimed at them, including their children.
Constitutionally both State and Federal, it appears the laws are against the Bundy's, but the laws were against Dr. King and the others standing up for Civil Rights.
Jim Crow laws were real and they were law, but we stood up and we changed them. Those standing against segregation found themselves on the wrong side of the law, like Mr. Bundy and his family. Did they call civil rights protesters Domestic Terrorists, a very, very serious allegation given 911 and the Patriot Act. The Bundy’s believe it is time to fix wrong laws, they are asking America to stand up, to stand with them and support this effort, just as Dr. Martin Luther King did in the sixties against wrong laws. As everyone knows that was a tough fight, Dr. King was assassinated over it. But in the end the laws were changed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_Laws
Harry Reid is correct about one thing, this is not over. The protesters were given corrals to stand in with posted signs “First Amendment Area“. We were told we would be arrested if we assembled outside these areas. Americans have had more than enough of this out of control government, corruption, and lies. We will not stand for the people we employ to point weapons at us, threatening or intimidating us. We don’t allow our children to lie to us, why would we allow our President to lie to us and get away with it? There is not a smidgen of alright in the many lies and we have had it. The election this fall shall bear the fruit of National unrest and distrust. We will not live in fear of our government. We will not give up our rights. We will not stand down either. We will go about this in a civil and legal manner, just as we did during these protests. We will take our country back using the system provided to us by our founding documents. We hereby give notice, this is not over by any means. It is our Constitutional and personal responsibility.
Can you see how and why this is bigger than the Bundy Family?
We vow to stand up for our children’s future, we will not remain silent nor cower from the fight to take America back from the tyrants.
We demand that our leaders understand and follow the Constitution.
We demand transparency and honesty.
We demand a balanced budget amendment.
We demand that our military be strong, and that our vets be fully funded and first.
We demand lower taxes at the expense of smaller government, we demand smaller, less intrusive Federal governance. We demand accountability.
We expect much more from our elected leaders. They must stand up and legislatively make many changes to our current bureaucracy, looking at every department, regulation, executive powers at every level, our government shall be rigorously frugal and simple.
We demand that States Rights be Instituted, that we control our children’s education at a local level. At every level that States can control, then make it so, including the ownership and control of all lands within each States Boundaries.
We demand that you follow the words of President Lincoln, “government of the people, by the people, for the people” not career politicians.
We want the government out of the private sector, that all private enterprise subsidies be curtailed.
We demand moral, straight work ethic and hard work from our leaders. Our elected leaders have a great deal of work to accomplish. We want dramatic change and we want it now.
We know Thomas Jefferson warned “to preserve our Independence, we must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. We demand government that is rigorously frugal and simple. We demand that the debt be paid down, we will not pass this on to our children.
We know that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”, we expect our leaders to know this and wholly support it.
We will work diligently to help inform every American, that they all shall become a more virtuous people. We will be voting.
Respectfully Submitted,
Chris W. Miller
