Sen. Harry Reid - Dem NV
While speaking at the 'Hashtags & Headlines' event, Reid called Bundy supporters:
"Nothing more than domestic terrorists" saying, "I repeat: what happened there was domestic terrorism."He accused the Bundy supporters of inciting violence claiming, "There were hundreds, hundreds of people from around the country that came there," adding, "They had sniper rifles in the freeway. They had weapons, automatic weapons. They had children lined up. They wanted to make sure they got hurt first ... What if others tried the same thing?"
These claims were made in reference to the standoff, reported on by us last week, in Clarke County, Nevada at the Bundy Ranch, in which the feds brought in over 200 armed agents with sniper teams to confiscate cattle, allegedly due to unpaid grazing fees. Perhaps Senator Reid had forgotten that the only violence that commenced during the standoff was when BLM agents tazed Bundy supporters, threw a 57-year-old woman recovering from cancer to the ground, and attempted to allow a dog to attack a pregnant woman.
The mischaracterization of the Bundy supporters as "domestic terrorists" is the continuation of a narrative that has been forwarded by the federal government for a number of years. First there is the MIAC report, which claimed that potential terrorists include people who own gold, Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, and even people who fly the U.S. flag. Then in 2012 there was a leaked Homeland Security study that claimed Americans who are "reverent of individual liberty," and "suspicious of centralized federal authority" are possible "extreme right-wing" terrorists.
Reid has promised that the BLM fight with the Bundy family is "not over." Perhaps his possible complicity in the BLM siege that has been reported extensively, questions of cronyism, as his longtime senior advisor Neil Kornze was confirmed by the Senate last Tuesday as the Director of the BLM, along with his involvement in the Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project, which is about 35 miles from the Bundy homestead in Bunkerville, Nevada, is causing him consternation.
Many news outlets have attempted to mitigate the situation by claiming the Chinese owned ENN solar deal, brokered by Reid's son Rory, was shelved, thus laying the issue to rest. This is disingenuous to the facts, as the BLM has attempted to cover up by deleting documents from its website that shed light on the agency's "Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone."
In a BLM press release on March 14, it was announced that "The BLM's current action builds on the Western Solar Energy Plan, a two-year planning effort conducted on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Energy to expand domestic energy production and spur development of solar energy on public lands in six western states," adding, "The Western Solar Energy Plan provides a blueprint for utility-scale solar energy permitting in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah by establishing Solar Energy Zones with access to existing or planned transmission, incentives for development within those Solar Energy Zones, and a process through which to consider additional Solar Energy Zones and solar projects." It goes on to state, "The Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone is the first of several pilot plans to be developed by the BLM."
Although the current Moapa Solar Project is 35 miles away, the BLM, acting under Sen. Reid's interests, want Bundy off the 600,000 acre Gold Butte area so they can use the land for future projects. As more facts come to light, it sounds less like the Bundy supporters are "domestic terrorists," and are much more readily described as concerned citizens waging a protest against a Senator's corrupt interests and crony capitalism.
Jay Syrmopoulos is a journalist and political analyst living in Winona, Minnesota. He received his Bachelors in Political Science from Winona State University and is currently pursuing a Masters in Global Affairs from the University of Denver. Jay is a liberty activist dedicated to exposing the facade of reality by shattering the left right paradigm.
Don't you just love the way the whole scene is turned upside down, inside-out in a succession of slithering moves and labeling?
Here's the picture:
A group of property owners has a huge tract of ranches farms, in joint ownership.
They decide to hire a manager and pay him wages to make sure that the tenants are kept safe, the land used for ranching and farming. All goes well, until, over time, the manager (unbeknownst to the joint owners) decides to impose fees and rules/regulations, claiming that the fees are necessary for management costs. One tenant, who has ranched for over 100 years as a family, properly using and taking care of the land, refuses to pay the manager's 'fees'. So, the manager brings in his gang, armed to the teeth, and attempts to bully the tenant off the land, destroying his infrastructure in the process.
Finally, a group of joint owners show up to defend their tenants. The manager's gang stomps off, vowing to wreck the tenant through courts.
Oddly, as things begin to settle down, an elected official sworn to uphold and defend the Rights of the Joint Owners turns on them, labeling them unpatriotic to their country. This official goes on to claim ownership of the land, inverting the Title and tossing fuel on the fire.
Title to the Bundy's Ranch, despite the unfounded claims of the official, is in the hands of 300+ million.
If anyone has claim, stake or homestead in that land, it would be the family that put the land to good and proper use.
The owners of public lands need no self-appointed Lord or King, and neither do they owe him anything beyond the salary he is legally entitled to. Ditto to the manager, who has no title nor right of forceful entry.
Neither the impostor King nor his appointed Lord has right to bear force of arms against either the tenant or the owners.
They both ceded that right when they took the oath of office, and their allegiance is not to themselves, but to those who elected them and pay them their due.
Harry Reid and the BLM work for us.