Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Friday, April 10, 2015
One year later, authorities mum as Bundy celebrates
Rogue rancher Cliven Bundy and his family are inviting some of their
patriot movement pals to a three-day party this weekend to celebrate the
anniversary of their standoff with the federal government. Starting
today, the Liberty Celebration outside Bunkerville, 80 miles north of
Las Vegas, will feature live music, cowboy poetry and speeches from the
Bundys’ sovereign-state supporters. Meanwhile, almost nothing is
being said by those who found themselves on the other side of the
standoff that ended one year ago Sunday, when the Bureau of Land
Management hastily canceled its roundup and let Bundy retrieve his
impounded cattle. Since then, BLM officials in Nevada and
Washington, D.C., have repeatedly declined to answer specific questions
about what happened last year and what could happen next. The agency
responded to inquiries this week with the following statement: “The
Bureau of Land Management remains resolute in addressing issues involved
in efforts to gather Mr. Bundy’s cattle last year and we are pursuing the matter through the legal system. Our primary goal remains, as it was a year ago, to resolve this matter safely and according to the rule of the law.” Both the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice declined to comment, as did Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo. Shayne
Sampson, owner of the Utah company hired by the BLM to round up Bundy’s
cows last year, didn’t want to talk, either. Reached for comment
Wednesday, Sampson said he wasn’t allowed to say anything. Then he
offered a clarification: It wasn’t that he couldn’t comment, he just
didn’t want to. In advance of this weekend’s event at the Bundy
ranch, the National Park Service sent a reminder to its employees at
Lake Mead National Recreation Area to be on their toes. Jessica Kershaw,
spokeswoman for the Department of Interior, called the internal
communication “a prudent and routine step taken to raise situational
awareness when additional activity is expected on or near public lands
or waters.”...more
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There are many similarities between the tactics of Cliven Bundy and the tactics of Mahatma Ghandi.
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