Cliven Bundy is not trying to commit atrocities against the people of the state of Nevada.

Cliven Bundy is not a threat to neighboring states.

Cliven Bundy is not some 3^rd world dictator gassing and killing those who don’t agree with him and…

Cliven Bundy poses no threat to the desert tortoises that live alongside his cattle.

BUT…

By Saturday morning, April 12^th, 2014…The FAA…a government agency working in cahoots with the BLM, another government agency, had declared the air space above the Bundy Ranch to be…

A NO FLY ZONE!!!

Yes, this is happening even as you read this article in what used to be the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America.

While we rather doubt anyone straying into the no fly zone will be shot down, do we know that for sure? After all, the Bundy Ranch IS surrounded by hundreds of heavily armed federal agents. There are snipers on the hilltops surrounding Cliven Bundy and his family. Protesters have been met with force. Women have been knocked to the ground. K-9 unites have been threatening protesters for days now.

One of Mr. Bundy’s sons was arrested last week for the horrible crime of taking pictures of the snipers. Another was tased by federal agents last Friday.

Right here in what USED to be a free country.

The federal government has set up restrictive “free speech zones” away from the Bundy Ranch itself. Those wishing to express themselves under the now defunct 1^st Amendment must do so from the confines of a corral or they face arrest.

So, what is it that this regime doesn’t want its citizens to see from the land or the air?

This.

This is an aerial photo taken just before the no fly zone was put in place and what it shows is the federal government compound…the forward operating base that this regime has set up at the Bundy Ranch to take the Bundy family’s property and ability to make a living away from them.

The regime doesn’t want you to see the berms they have built at the forward operating base. They don’t want anyone seeing the corrals where they are holding the Bundy family’s cattle. They don’t want prying eyes to see that, in the middle of what the BLM claims to be land designated for the preservation of desert tortoises, they have scraped acres clean, displacing more tortoises that a herd of cattle could dream of displacing just so that heavily armed federal agents can take what doesn’t belong to them.

All of this to protect a bunch of tortoises?

Give me a break.

The BLM used to pay a tortoise sanctuary in the area a million dollars a year to save the things and now, they say they no longer have the money for that project and, the BLM is euthanizing more than 1000 of the tortoises that were at that sanctuary.

Several years ago, in a state commandeered by Harry Reid, the BLM shrank their protective boundaries so that a friend of Reid’s could build a housing development.

This isn’t about tortoises at all and we all know it.

This is about running off the last rancher in Clark County as the BLM has systematically done with all the rest.

Two decades ago, Cliven Bundy stopped paying the BLM’s blackmail fees when it became apparent that the federal government was no longer working with the area ranchers but, against them and he, Cliven Bundy, wanted no part of it.

Here is how Shiree Bundy explains it:

“My great grandpa bought the rights to the Bunkerville allotment back in 1887 around there. Then he sold them to my grandpa who then turned them over to my dad in 1972.”

“These men bought and paid for their rights to the range and also built waters, fences and roads to assure the survival of their cattle, all with their own money, not with tax dollars. These rights to the land use is called preemptive rights.”

Along comes the Bureau of Land Management, a federal government entity to keep the land from being overgrazed because, as we all know, people who have been in the cattle business since 1877 have no respect for the land and, without the oversight of the federal government, will allow their livestock to destroy the land and put themselves out of business.

In order to be graciously allowed to maintain the land and produce cattle as they had done since the end of the Civil War, the Bundy family paid the federal government to ride herd on them but, when Cliven Bundy saw the BLM using his protection money and the protection money of others in the area to run them out of the cattle business, Mr. Bundy stopped paying. He went to court. Local and federal court and surprise of all surprises, the ruling went against him.

Here’s something that a no fly zone can’t hide from we the people.

Nearly 85% of the state of Nevada is owned by the federal government.

You got that? Nearly 85% of the entire land mass of the sovereign state of Nevada is OWNED by the federal government so, ask yourselves, what is it about the land where the Bundy family’s cattle roam is so damned important to the federal government?

The most accurate way to ask the question is: “What is it about that land that the federal government wants and what is it they they don’t want anyone to have?

First, it’s what is ON the land.

High grade weapons ore.

While this regime is cutting the military back six ways from Sunday they are arming up every federal agency in sight. 2 billion rounds of ammo. Guns. Armored vehicles. You name it and the federal government wants that ore to produce even more. In fact, I’m willing to bet those berms in the forward operating base are chock full of it.

The answer to what it is they don’t want anyone to have access to is in regard to what is UNDER that ground.

Natural gas and today’s technology could well extract it via fracking.

Desert tortoises my ass.

And what of the Bundy cattle being held on the regime’s forward operating base?

Amid reports from the Bundy family that some of their cattle have already been killed by the feds, the BLM claims they are simply preparing to “take them to auction.”

Let’s suspend the words of private citizens for a moment and take the word of the regime that the cattle will be sold. What then?

According to the heavily armed federal agency, the Bundy’s owe them something to the tune of a million dollars in back fees. According to Cliven Bundy, the tune is but a ditty in the amount of about $300,000.00.

Here’s how it breaks out according to Cliven Bundy:

“The “federal grazing fee” is $1.35 per “Animal Unit Month,” or the amount of forage needed per animal, each month.”

 Since Cliven Bundy is using the BLM’s own fee figures in his calculations, pardon me if I take HIS word over that of a regime well known for fuzzy, common core math.

If the feds are successful in rounding up Bundy’s cattle and, if they are successful in selling them off, you can bet your bottom dollar they will get just enough, probably less that what they claim Bundy owes them and the rancher will then be broke, with no further way to earn a living on his land.

Can you think of a better way to make Cliven Bundy getty up and get the hell off of that land then by removing his livelihood FROM the land?

Yesterday, Bundy refused to comply with a court order to vacate the premises after the roundup of nearly 400 of his 900 head of cattle was halted but, nearly 1000 militia Patriots then refused to leave until every hoof was put back from where it was taken.

And where, pray tell, IS Harry Reid in all of this?

He’s in it way up passed his squinting lying eyes.

Reid’s former senior adviser is the head of the BLM and the BLM just pulled from their website information regarding the Bundy Ranch sitting smack in the way of a proposed solar utility company!!

Here’s part of that information the BLM and Harry Reid didn’t want you to see:

In the offenses listed above, committed by Bundy cattle, not one example of bovine on tortoise violence but, there was someone who wasn’t watching where they were driving…a Garbage man (who was probably wearing a bright orange jumpsuit) was chased by a bull…some village that can raise other people’s children but can’t raise a fence around their own garden and…a golf course? In the middle of a TORTOISE refuge???

Seriously.

Reid and his son Rory are deeply involved in a $5 BILLION dollar deal to allow a CHINESE firm…ENN… to build a solar power plant in the Nevada desert on public land.

According to Reuters journalist, Marcus Stearn, “His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.”

And where exactly is the Bundy Ranch?

In Clark County.

And, for what sort of price have all the area ranchers been bought out amid federal pressure by the BLM???

Pennies on the dollar.

Are you getting the picture now?

Here’s the breakdown nobody at the BLM or in the Obama regime, and certainly Harry Reid doesn’t want you to know.

So far, the BLM has spent about $3 million of your taxpayer dollars to round up 400 head of beef. That’s $7500.00 per head.

The BLM says Cliven Bundy owes them $1 million dollars.

So far, we see a net loss of $2 million dollars.

At auction, beef are bringing about $140 dollars per 100 pounds on the hoof.

For an average weight of 800 pounds per head, that works out to $1120.00 per head at auction.

That means, at best, the BLM has spent 3 million of your dollars in an ill-fated attempt to recoup what THEY claim to be a $1 million dollar debt and would have walked away with just $448,000.00 had the BLM and the federal government not been out manned and out gunned in the Nevada desert.

Yesterday, the BLM agreed to release the cattle they were trying to steal and clear off the land that Mr. Bundy clains is rightfully owned by the state of Nevada and not the federal government. They’re packing up their 200 armed agents, their trucks, their sniper rifles, their earth moving equipment…Their corrals AND their damned “FREE SPEECH ZONES” and pulling out.

And why was the regime there to begin with?

High grade minerals used to manufacture everything from weapons to computers?

To keep anyone from fracking energy which might lower the price of natural gas?

To protect Harry and Rory Reid’s proposed Chinese solar power company land grab?

Or for a bunch of damned tortoises?

They said it was for the tortoises.

Tortoises???

They ain’t nothin’ but slow movin’ chickens on the half shell.

Craig Andresen

The National Patriot

Weekend Edition 4/12/2014