Bundy Ranch Stand Off - The Next Waco?

And so it may be. The Feds have the equal opportunity to take it to court. Looks to me as tho' both sides are simply engaging in a game of "mine's bigger than yours." That needs ending before the safeties are taken off.

 

Backhoes being used to bury cattle the Feds are killing?
Just a few years ago, the theft of cattle would have been meet with deadly force. Take a mans cattle and you take his livelihood. It can lead to deadly consequences.

 

This really depends on the State Statute, under which the local Sheriff gets his Authority. If that Statute sets up a Federal Constitutional Sheriff, for each County, in the State, Then that Sheriff IS the Ultimate, and Superior Law Enforcement Officer in that County, as noted by SCOTUS Decisions, and Precedent. Not all States choose to setup their Law Enforcement in this way. One MUST go look at the State Statute, and then at the Precedents, in State Law, to determine exactly what the case is, in THIS situation.

As a NOTE.... Here in Alaska, ALL Law Enforcement is created by State Statute, and the ONLY Elected Law Enforcement Officer is the Governor of the State. He holds ALL the Law Enforcement Powers in his Office, and delegates those Powers, by Statute, to his Commissioner of Public Safety, who is Appointed, and confirmed by the State Senate. All State Troopers, by Statute, work for the Commissioner of Public Safety, and their Police Powers, come thru Him. City and Borough Law Enforcement are ALL subject to the Commissioner of Public Safety, and his Policies, by Statute. ALL LEOs in Alaska, MUST conform to the State Training and Policies as laid out in State Statute.

So, up here, if the FEDs piss off the Governor, (which the BLM, and EPA, did last Fall, up in Chicken, AK) the Governor can direct his Law Enforcement Forces, to Arrest, Ignore, Provide , Stop, or Refuse to backup, ANY Federal Enforcement Action, except that of a US Marshal. Our Governor, in the stated confrontation, told the FEDs, that if they EVER held such a Raid, AGAIN, He would direct his State Troopers to Detain, and Arrest, the FEDs, on the spot, and he told his Commissioner of Public Safety, that He was to monitor, ALL Requests for Assistance by Federal Regulators in the future, and get approval from HIM, Directly, before rendering ANY Assistance, to such Federal Operations. He was one "Ticked Off" Governor..... ......

 

Fox news today -
Nevada officials blast feds over treatment of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy | Fox News

 

That fire power is already there , always has been.

 

But you have to do it in a no BS atmosphere. Get the goons out of there, quit killing cattle, and negotiate a settlement. Too many places where government seems to be trying to create a SHTF situation.

 

Bundy, has been fighting the federal government’s attempts to shut him down for the last 20 years, is in a bitter battle that just took a turn for the worse.
.The trouble started in 1993 when Bundy refused to pay the feds for the right to allow his cattle to graze on land that he claims has been in his family since the 1880s. His family actually owned the land before the Bureau of Land Management ever even came into existence; so how the federal government can now claim they own the land is a bit puzzling.

“We own this land,” he said, not the feds. He said he is willing to pay grazing fees but only to Clark County, not BLM.

“Years ago, I used to have 52 neighboring ranchers,” he said. “I’m the last man standing. How come? Because BLM regulated these people off the land and out of business.”