The Bundy family purchased all of that land back in 1887, and lived on and maintained it continuously since. Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution, known as the Enclave Clause, limits Federal Ownership of land only to land underneath Federal Buildings and military facilities. Back in the 1930s, the BLM simply confiscated most of the Bundy land, a violation not only of the Enclave Clause but of the Fifth Amendment, which states that the government cannot take private property without just compensation, and of the Homestead Act, which says the land belongs to those who live on it and maintain it. The BLM then charged the Bundy family grazing fees to graze their cattle on what had been their land.
Then in 1993, the BLM changed the deal, demanding the grazing fees but severely restricting the number of cattle the Bundys could graze on the land, officially to protect that turtle. But we know that was a ruse, as the BLM itself has been killing those same turtles due to lack of conservation funding. It was at that point that Cliven Bundy took the case to court, where it has languished for decades.
The severe restrictions on cattle grazing would have driven the Bundys out of business and forced them off of their ranch, which appears to be the real agenda here, as all of the Bundy neighbors have already been driven off of their ranches by BLM "tinkering" and Bundy is the last one left.
There are several motives at work here.
First there is the BLM itself, which wants to lease out fracking contracts and not share the money with the land's rightful owners.
There is also gold on that land and Glencore Xstrata, the company founded by financier Marc Rich (who was strangely pardoned by President Bill Clinton before he went to trial for illegal financial dealings), is already in negotiations for the mining rights, not with the Bundy family. but with the cash-strapped US Government.
One of Harry Reid's top (illegal) donors, Harry Whittemore, has plans to commercially develop that land, and the US Government has already announced a new exit from the nearby highway to serve that project.
And yet another finger in the Bundy's stolen pie is Rory Reid, Harry Reid's son, who is representing ENN Energy Group to obtain some of that land for a solar power project.
And this guy thinks it is all about turtles?!?
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