The gentleman who put this report together for KLAS-TV doesn't seem to understand that whatever rights Bundy may have do not originate with his date of birth or when the BLM was created. They originate, with water for instance, on the date his predecessors diverted the water and put it to beneficial use. Ranchers have a preference right to graze on federal land based on either control of water rights or ownership of private property near the federal land, called base property.
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.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Bundy's 'ancestral rights' come under scrutiny
...This land is unusually fertile and green for southern Nevada. Cliven
Bundy grows melons there. They are said to be the best in the state. His
cattle, until recently, roamed freely on land managed by the federal
Bureau of Land Management. Before the roundup that sparked protests,
confrontations and gunmen taking a bridge, Bundy explained his
"ancestral rights" to the I-Team. "I've lived my lifetime here. My
forefathers have been up and down the Virgin Valley here ever since
1877. All these rights that I claim, have been created through
pre-emptive rights and beneficial use of the forage and the water and
the access and range improvements," Bundy said. Clark County
property records show Cliven Bundy's parents moved from Bundyville,
Arizona and bought the 160 acre ranch in 1948 from Raoul and Ruth
Leavitt. Water rights were transferred too, but only to the ranch,
not the federally managed land surrounding it. Court records show Bundy
family cattle didn't start grazing on that land until 1954. The Bureau of Land Management was created 1946, the same year Cliven was born. "My
rights are before the BLM even existed, but my rights are created by
beneficial use. Beneficial use means we created the forage and the water
from the time the very first pioneers come here," Bundy said. Early
census records show Cliven's maternal grandmother, Christena Jensen,
was born in Nevada in 1901. One genealogical researcher says records
indicate Jensen helped settle Bunkerville some years later. One
word spreading through Bundy supporters and his armed guards is that
what the federal government is doing to Bundy is exactly what they did
to native Americans. "They are literally treating western United
States citizens, ranchers, rural folks like this- are the modern day
Indians. We're being driven off of our lands. We're being forced into
reservations known as cities," Justin Giles, an Oathkeeper from Alaska,
said. The local Paiute Indians were forced into reservations by
federal troops in 1875. Two years prior, the tribe was promised the same
land Cliven Bundy now grows his melons ,and until recently, grazed his
cattle. The I-Team's research team has come up with an in-depth look at the genealogy and property records that form the basis of Cliven Bundy's claim of ancestral rights on the ranch land...more
The gentleman who put this report together for KLAS-TV doesn't seem to understand that whatever rights Bundy may have do not originate with his date of birth or when the BLM was created. They originate, with water for instance, on the date his predecessors diverted the water and put it to beneficial use. Ranchers have a preference right to graze on federal land based on either control of water rights or ownership of private property near the federal land, called base property.
The gentleman who put this report together for KLAS-TV doesn't seem to understand that whatever rights Bundy may have do not originate with his date of birth or when the BLM was created. They originate, with water for instance, on the date his predecessors diverted the water and put it to beneficial use. Ranchers have a preference right to graze on federal land based on either control of water rights or ownership of private property near the federal land, called base property.
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Bundy is a criminal and belongs in jail.
Mr. Cliven Bundy is a racist and moocher. Read his remarks: “I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.
“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
This guy is an idiot. No wonder Stormfront, a neo-Nazi group supports him!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/us/politics/rancher-proudly-breaks-the-law-becoming-a-hero-in-the-west.html?smid=fb-share
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2014/04/14/cliven-bundy-has-no-claim-to-federal-land-and-grazing/
Enough said.
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