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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 7:25 AM
Subject: REVOLUTION
From: "Dallas O Tohill" <dallast12@home.com>
I know most do not know or believe there is a revolution on going is this
nation. There is. It will turn violent as the people turn against the
federal police state. As I have followed many of these different events
since Waco and the OKC bombing, we are now seeing the state police, county
sheriffs, and local police joining the people. We are all intelligent, when
you see this, what is next? Dallas
BLM Rustlers have stolen Ben Colvin & Jack Vogt cattle in NV Janine Hansen,
Thu Aug 2
I'M NOT A TRESPASSER ON MY OWN RANCH
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=5970
Thursday August 2 1:36 PM ET
Cattle Seizing Spurs Protests
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=5986
By SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press Writer
FALLON, Nev. (AP) - A battle over cattle grazing in Nevada's high desert
is pitting lawman against lawman.
When federal officers seized the herds of two local ranchers from
government land last week, only a stern warning from the U.S. attorney
stopped a pair of county sheriffs from blocking the roundup.
Now, dozens of ranchers and states-rights activists are holding protests
at the livestock yard where the captured cattle are being kept, a
sheriff is pressing a legal offensive against future seizures and local
authorities are complaining that heavy-handed federal rules are
threatening a traditional way of life in the West.
``They intimidate and hope they can get away with it,'' said Lt. Tony
Philips of the Nye County sheriff's office.
The dispute is the latest feud between local and federal law enforcement
as New West range wars create alliances and enemies John Wayne never
would have dreamed of. Recent examples:
- San Bernardino County, Calif., Sheriff Gary Penrod canceled an
agreement that gave U.S. Bureau of Land Management (news - web sites)
officers the ability to enforce state laws on federal land. County
ranchers are chafing at grazing restrictions imposed to protect the
threatened desert tortoise. Penrod said he didn't want to be associated
with ``law enforcement personnel who may be precipitating violent range
disputes.''
-The sheriff in Sevier County, Utah, has allowed ranchers to take back
cattle that were seized by the BLM after ranchers refused to take them
off drought-denuded range in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument. Sheriff Phil Barney said he wanted to avoid a ``Waco
situation'' last November.
-In Klamath Falls, Ore., Sheriff Tim Evinger has mediated a tense
dispute between farmers and the Bureau of Reclamation, which cut off
irrigation water because of shortages brought on by drought and
complicated by environmental rules.
-Last year, residents in northeast Nevada defied a different federal
agency, the Forest Service, by taking shovels to rebuild a washed-out
stretch of road in Elko County. The Forest Service had ruled that
construction would threaten the bull trout. After months of
confrontation, uneasy negotiations on a compromise are under way.
In Fallon, BLM officials are holding nearly 200 cattle owned by Ben
Colvin and John Vogt, saying they owe a combined $370,000 in fees and
fines for grazing without permits since 1995. The agency said the
ranchers are overgrazing tens of thousands of acres in Nye and Esmeralda
counties, 150 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Nevada, with its vast expanses of desert and wind-swept range, is 87
percent owned by the federal government.
It was the birthplace of the Sagebrush Rebellion against federal land
policy in the 1980s, and the Elko road dispute has energized a new round
of anti-Washington activism. Ranchers and their increasingly vocal
supporters see themselves as victims of rules that put environmental
concerns above people.
``I don't think they have the right to take my cattle,'' said Colvin,
63, whose family has been in the ranching business since 1860. ``They
may have the power but they don't have the right.''
Bob Abbey, the BLM's state director, said the impoundment of cattle was
a last resort after more than five years of failed negotiations with the
ranchers.
``They are the ones creating the battles,'' Abbey said. ``They have
drawn a line in the sand. They have made a point of refusing to comply
with the rules and regulations governing public land use.''
Esmeralda County Sheriff Kenneth Elgan planned to issue citations to the
federal officials, according to District Attorney Patricia Cafferata,
who said she opposed the plan.
Nye County Sheriff Wade Lieseke planned to go farther, said Philips, the
lieutenant. ``He had actually ordered me to get my people and go out and
stop it,'' Philips said.
Federal prosecutors, however, got wind of the sheriffs' plans.
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Acting U.S. Attorney
Howard Zlotnick in Las Vegas wrote to the Esmeralda County sheriff that
``potential violations of federal law would arise if anyone interfered
with BLM employees lawfully engaged in their assigned duties.''
Letters went to other jurisdictions as well. Deputy Nevada Attorney
General Wayne Howell also said he contacted prosecutors in Esmeralda and
Nye counties to assure them the BLM had the legal authority to seize the
cattle without first obtaining a court order.
The locals backed off, partly for fear of prosecution.
``I didn't want to end up at Club Fed,'' Philips said.
The sheriffs have plenty of support from protesters who turned out to
back the ranchers. One sign at an auction-lot protest read, ``The
sheriff is the only elected law enforcement official in the USA.''
``They don't have a right to tell our local sheriff what he can and
can't do,'' said Janine Hansen of Sparks, a member of the anti-federal
Nevada Committee for Full Statehood.
Philips said the Nye County sheriff's department is now seeking guidance
from a federal court on whether the BLM seizures are proper.
``If it turns out they are not meeting due process,'' he said, ``they'll
never round up any cattle around here again without a court order.''
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On the Web:
Shovel brigade: http://www.jarbidgeshovelbrigade.com
Nevada BLM: http://www.nv.blm.gov
Earlier Stories
Fed Criticizes Cattle Owners (August 2)
Fed Criticizes Cattle Owners (August 2)
Group Protests on Ranchers' Behalf (July 31)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010802/us/cattle_rebellion_4.html
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