On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:30:30 AM UTC-7, Ray Keller wrote:
Arizona Official: Cliven Bundy's Acts Are Legal

NewsMax ^ | April 21, 2014 | Joe Battaglia



Posted on Monday, April 21, 2014 6:36:09 PM by 2ndDivisionVet



The Nevada cattle rancher at the center of a land dispute with the federal

government should not have to surrender his property, an Arizona official

says, because he has been acting within the boundaries of the law.



Barry Weller, vice chairman of the Apache County Board of Supervisors, told

J.D. Hayworth and John Bachman on "America's Forum" Monday on Newsmax TV that

he thinks Cliven Bundy was right in standing up to the Bureau of Land

Management, which sought to seize his ranch.



Bundy says his family has homesteaded since 1877 on the land, which the

federal government says belongs to the United States. As part of a

conservation effort to protect the endangered desert tortoise, the Bureau of

Land Management banned cattle grazing on the land in 1989. Bundy continued to

graze his cattle and refused to pay fines levied against him, calling the

federal policy a land grab.



The case is similar to another in Nevada, in which Wayne Hage won a

protracted battle with the federal government by successfully arguing that he

had the right to graze his cows within two miles of water sources he

developed.



"The Bundys and the Hages are standing on what's called their water rights

and their grazing rights," which, Weller said, "were pre-existing in

territorial times, long before the government took over and these states

became states and these water rights are mentioned, and any federal law or

policy act that comes thereafter is always stated, 'subject to pre-existing

rights.'



"So, when people say they're not legally doing what they're doing, they are.

They are doing what they're supposed to be doing: standing for their rights,"

Weller said.....







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Post some metalworking content, Keller you brain dead idiot.