From: Last Man Standing
BY:
A two-decades-old battle between a Nevada rancher and the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) has resulted in officials armed with machine guns
surrounding the ranch and forcibly removing the owner’s cattle,
according to the rancher’s family.
Cliven Bundy, the last rancher in Clark County, Nev., has been fighting a “one-man range war” since
1993, when he decided to take a stand against the agency, refusing to
pay fees for the right to graze on a ranch run by his family for
centuries.
After years of court battles, the BLM secured a federal court order
to have Bundy’s “trespass cattle” forcibly removed with heavy artillery,
the family said.
“The battle’s been going on for 20 years,” Bundy told theWashington Free Beacon. “What’s
happened the last two weeks, the United States government, the bureaus
are getting this army together and they’re going to get their job done
and they’re going to prove two things. They’re going to prove they can
do it, and they’re gonna prove that they have unlimited power, and that
they control the policing power over this public land. That’s what
they’re trying to prove.” MORE
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