Dissolve the BLM (Bureau of Land Management).
Dissolve the BLM (Bureau of Land Management).
The Bureau of Land Management has become an overpowering, corrupt branch of government who acts as though they are above the law.
Over the last 10 years, I have studied BLM corruption, and have heard story after story, case after case, seen document after document demonstrating BLM's intimidation tactics, underhanded methods to devastate farms, families, and personal properties.
The following facts are just a few of the atrocities committed by the BLM on law abiding American citizens, and examples of their power overreach. WE MUST DISSOLVE THE BLM.
1. BLM owns land. According to a Congressional Research Service report, in 2010 the federal government owned 47.7 percent of the land in California, 42.3 percent in Arizona, 61.3 percent in Alaska, 61.7 percent in Idaho, 81.1 percent in Nevada, 53 percent in Oregon and 66.5 percent in Utah. The BLM owns over 80 percent of all federal government land.
"The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land. All of it is being held unconstitutionally and all of it should be returned to the private property owners from which it was taken or to the states in which it exists, period," Judge Napolitano.
"once a territory becomes a state, the (federal government) must surrender all claims to the land."
Framers of our U.S. Constitution did not intend, nor contemplate, that the federal government would become the gargantuan landlord it now is. According to the Constitution, our law of the land, “The Congress shall have Power ... over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dockYards, and other needful Buildings.”
The meaning is clear: The federal government was (and is) allowed to have a 10-mile square (100 square miles) for a seat of government. Property for “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals,” etc., for national defense purposes, could be purchased from the states — so long as the state legislatures consented to said purchases. However, they are but the largest of the federal landlords, not the only ones. The BLM controls nearly 250 million acres. The USFS “owns” more than 193 million acres. Then there’s the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 89.1 million acres; the National Park Service, 84 million acres; Bureau of Reclamation, 7.1 million acres. In addition, the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers claim regulatory jurisdiction over the water, air, and land of virtually the entire country, with an especially heavy and disproportionate boot print on the rural areas of the 12 western states, where almost all of the federal “public lands” are located.
2. Illegal, Immoral, Terrorist Behavior.
Definition of "Terrorist" is "a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."
The Hammond family in Diamond, Oregon appears to be being persecuted by the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service and the US Attorney in Eugene, Oregon.
This case represents what we believe is an extreme abuse of Federal Government power. The Federal agency officials (BLM) and (Fish and Wildlife Service) are going after the Hammonds on a pretext of arson, in a vendetta and payback for the Hammonds fighting back against the BLM and FWS to protect their water rights in the 90’s. The agencies also appear to be deliberately trying to intimidate other ranchers so they will not speak out.
BLM killed prize bulls and cut holes in water tanks and destroyed fences during the Bundy Ranch Bunkerville standoff in Clark County, Nevada. Federal agency’s treatment of residents at the Bundy Ranch included tasering, beating, wrongful arrest, threatening residents with attack dogs, and mobilizing a federal paramilitary force whose barrels were trained on US citizens, all in all, spending at least $3 million of taxpayer money in an effort to sell stolen cattle over state lines in Utah and California. A legal argument has also been made that the US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is now guilty of racketeering under the federal RIC statute (Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations).
BLM involved with the aggravation and built up frustration that led to the Oregon Standoff and the Murder by State Police and FBI of land owner Lavoy Finicum.
BLM claiming to farmers that livestock they imported was infected, test results were positive for a virus, and confiscated hundreds of livestock from family owned farm.
BLM claiming to land owner their dead was "No Good" and cut their property by over 600 acres.
BLM caught on video starting fires to intimidate land owners, resulting in the death and injury to dozens of livestock.
BLM claiming land was seized to protect an endangered Turtle, evidence found that they instead had killed hundreds of turtles.
BLM rounding up 50,000 wild mustangs horses, claiming they would sell or auction them off, thousands had been sold to glue factories, other horses were shot and buried by large tractors.
Witnesses found a large area were dozens of cows were buried by large tractor that were seized from nearby farmers.
3. Claiming Land Owners must lease water rights. This is illegal.
Private rights in federal lands were recognized in an 1866 water law. It says, "… whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same."
That Act was passed a long time ago, but every federal land law since then contains a clause with language similar to, "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair any vested right in existence on the effective date of this Act."
Most ranchers don’t know that and federal agencies exploit their ignorance with harassment that runs them off the land. Actually, understanding vested rights is not too hard – they’re absolute rights not subject to cancellation – but proving up those rights by assembling your chain of title and other technicalities and then making the government protect them is very hard.
4. BLM carrying weapons and behaving in a militarized tactical manner.
It is absolutely INSANE for a LAND MANAGEMENT department to carry weapons. Their job is to protect wildlife,
environment and natural habitat. This does not require any military training or the use of weapons.
These are just a few things, I can go on and on.
We must entirely shut down the BLM.
If the government is so set on preserving land and wildlife, the Forestry Service and Park Rangers can continue their role.
Firma la petizioneFirma la petizioneThe Bureau of Land Management has become an overpowering, corrupt branch of government who acts as though they are above the law.
Over the last 10 years, I have studied BLM corruption, and have heard story after story, case after case, seen document after document demonstrating BLM's intimidation tactics, underhanded methods to devastate farms, families, and personal properties.
The following facts are just a few of the atrocities committed by the BLM on law abiding American citizens, and examples of their power overreach. WE MUST DISSOLVE THE BLM.
1. BLM owns land. According to a Congressional Research Service report, in 2010 the federal government owned 47.7 percent of the land in California, 42.3 percent in Arizona, 61.3 percent in Alaska, 61.7 percent in Idaho, 81.1 percent in Nevada, 53 percent in Oregon and 66.5 percent in Utah. The BLM owns over 80 percent of all federal government land.
"The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land. All of it is being held unconstitutionally and all of it should be returned to the private property owners from which it was taken or to the states in which it exists, period," Judge Napolitano.
"once a territory becomes a state, the (federal government) must surrender all claims to the land."
Framers of our U.S. Constitution did not intend, nor contemplate, that the federal government would become the gargantuan landlord it now is. According to the Constitution, our law of the land, “The Congress shall have Power ... over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dockYards, and other needful Buildings.”
The meaning is clear: The federal government was (and is) allowed to have a 10-mile square (100 square miles) for a seat of government. Property for “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals,” etc., for national defense purposes, could be purchased from the states — so long as the state legislatures consented to said purchases. However, they are but the largest of the federal landlords, not the only ones. The BLM controls nearly 250 million acres. The USFS “owns” more than 193 million acres. Then there’s the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 89.1 million acres; the National Park Service, 84 million acres; Bureau of Reclamation, 7.1 million acres. In addition, the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers claim regulatory jurisdiction over the water, air, and land of virtually the entire country, with an especially heavy and disproportionate boot print on the rural areas of the 12 western states, where almost all of the federal “public lands” are located.
2. Illegal, Immoral, Terrorist Behavior.
Definition of "Terrorist" is "a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."
The Hammond family in Diamond, Oregon appears to be being persecuted by the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service and the US Attorney in Eugene, Oregon.
This case represents what we believe is an extreme abuse of Federal Government power. The Federal agency officials (BLM) and (Fish and Wildlife Service) are going after the Hammonds on a pretext of arson, in a vendetta and payback for the Hammonds fighting back against the BLM and FWS to protect their water rights in the 90’s. The agencies also appear to be deliberately trying to intimidate other ranchers so they will not speak out.
BLM killed prize bulls and cut holes in water tanks and destroyed fences during the Bundy Ranch Bunkerville standoff in Clark County, Nevada. Federal agency’s treatment of residents at the Bundy Ranch included tasering, beating, wrongful arrest, threatening residents with attack dogs, and mobilizing a federal paramilitary force whose barrels were trained on US citizens, all in all, spending at least $3 million of taxpayer money in an effort to sell stolen cattle over state lines in Utah and California. A legal argument has also been made that the US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is now guilty of racketeering under the federal RIC statute (Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations).
BLM involved with the aggravation and built up frustration that led to the Oregon Standoff and the Murder by State Police and FBI of land owner Lavoy Finicum.
BLM claiming to farmers that livestock they imported was infected, test results were positive for a virus, and confiscated hundreds of livestock from family owned farm.
BLM claiming to land owner their dead was "No Good" and cut their property by over 600 acres.
BLM caught on video starting fires to intimidate land owners, resulting in the death and injury to dozens of livestock.
BLM claiming land was seized to protect an endangered Turtle, evidence found that they instead had killed hundreds of turtles.
BLM rounding up 50,000 wild mustangs horses, claiming they would sell or auction them off, thousands had been sold to glue factories, other horses were shot and buried by large tractors.
Witnesses found a large area were dozens of cows were buried by large tractor that were seized from nearby farmers.
3. Claiming Land Owners must lease water rights. This is illegal.
Private rights in federal lands were recognized in an 1866 water law. It says, "… whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same."
That Act was passed a long time ago, but every federal land law since then contains a clause with language similar to, "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair any vested right in existence on the effective date of this Act."
Most ranchers don’t know that and federal agencies exploit their ignorance with harassment that runs them off the land. Actually, understanding vested rights is not too hard – they’re absolute rights not subject to cancellation – but proving up those rights by assembling your chain of title and other technicalities and then making the government protect them is very hard.
4. BLM carrying weapons and behaving in a militarized tactical manner.
It is absolutely INSANE for a LAND MANAGEMENT department to carry weapons. Their job is to protect wildlife,
environment and natural habitat. This does not require any military training or the use of weapons.
These are just a few things, I can go on and on.
We must entirely shut down the BLM.
If the government is so set on preserving land and wildlife, the Forestry Service and Park Rangers can continue their role.
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