Many of you are probably aware that there is a major confrontation going on in the southern Nevada between a long time rancher family headed by Cliven Bundy, and the Federal government’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The core issue is that the BLM is trying to take over the Bundy ranch, claiming that the family has not paid the necessary and legal Federal grazing range fees for about twenty years, owing the government and American taxpayer about a million in back fees. To accomplish this action, the BLM has sent an estimated 200 agents with snipers and helicopters to reign in this supposed lawlessness, confiscate Bundy’s cattle, and force his eviction.
Bundy claims that he is being hassled by an oppressive Federal government that seeks to illegally steal his ranch that has been in the family since the 1870s, long before the BLM came into existence. He claims that he has tried to pay the fees to the local and state government, government entities that he recognizes as the legal and rightful caretakers of the Nevada range but that his efforts to pay fees have been refused.
The situation is made more dangerous be the fact that this issue has struck a chord with Americans across the country, a civilian being bullied by an oppressive government for no reason. Additionally, there are numerous news stories being published that this has nothing to do with the Bundys not paying their Federal range fees, that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his lobbyist son, Rory Reid, are behind the latest power move in order to free up this rancher’s land and range for a solar energy investment of Chinese investors.
These are the same Chinese investors that allegedly had previously and illegally contributed to Harry Reid’s election campaigns. The fact that the Bundy conflict has been gong on for years and years and it is only now that the Federal government is trying to force him off of his land, adds a little credence to this theory.
As you can see, a really big mess, a mess that could turn real ugly real fast in that the many Americans coming from across the country to support the Bundy family are coming with legally owned firearms. Combine their firearms with the firearms and recently used tasers of BLM agents in a hot Nevada desert, where tempers have been flaring, and you have a powder keg for violence. Let us hope that calmer heads and rationale thought prevail before anyone gets hurt.
Now, one could make the case that Bundy is violating Federal law, he readily admits that he has not paid the mandatory range fees. As such, he should either be prosecuted for disobeying the law or work within the system to have those laws and fees changed.
However, the Federal government and the Obama administration, the overall leader of the BLM would be on shaky legal and moral ground trying to prosecute Bundy. Why? This administration and this President have been the largest law breakers and purveyor of illegal acts in the history of Presidential administrations.
It would be incredibly hypocritical to try and prosecute Bundy by an administration that has flagrantly ignored the Constitution, existing Federal laws, the separation of powers within our structure of government, and judicial rulings. When elected officials ignore the rule of law, it is not surprising that private citizens feel no obligation to follow the letter or spirit of the law.
That is the quandary that the Obama administration has created. By ignoring the rule of law in this country so many times, it sets the stage for the rule of law being disrespected by everyone else in the country. Those in the BLM and the administration need to review their following egregious violations of the Constitution and existing laws and then honestly ask themselves if they have the moral authority to hassle and evict a single Nevada rancher, especially if it is for personal enrichment of a leading member of Congress and his family:
1)President Obama unilaterally involved the United States in a major and expensive military action against the country of Libya, without the approval of Congress, violating the War Powers Act and Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.
2) Obama refused to fire James Clapper, a high ranking member of the President’s national security team, after Clapper blatantly lied to Congress about how much electronic information the National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting on every American citizen, becoming an accessory after the fact in Clapper's lying to Congress.
3) Obama signed the latest NDAA legislation which allows for the indefinite detention of American citizens, without trial, who the government considers terrorist suspects until the vague “end of hostilities,” which violates the habeas corpus protection of American citizens under Article I Section 9 of the Constitution.
4) Obama signed off on the assassination of American citizens in foreign lands, negating the rights, and lives of at least four American citizens, violating their right “to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” the Fourth Amendment, and the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution.
5) The Obama administration has repeatedly denied members of our armed forces to their right to personally celebrate, follow, and take comfort in their personal Christian religion and faith, violating the First Amendment to the Constitution.
6) The Obama administration’s deployment of the Fast and Furious gun running operation to supply weapons to violent Mexican drug cartels has violated any number of laws including the illegal shipment of weapons to criminal organizations, violations of international treaties regarding illegal gun smuggling, abetting the violence of those cartels who used Fast and Furious weapons to kill innocent Mexican civilians and a U.S. border agent, Brian Terry, and denying Congressional investigators access to pertinent Fast and Furious executive branch documents needed to investigate the alleged transgressions.
6) The Obama administration has unilaterally, illegally, and un-Constitutionally changed numerous aspects of the Obama Care legislation including delaying the small business insurance program (SHOP),unilaterally delaying the legislation’s employer mandates, unilaterally declaring that Obama Care enrollees in states using only the Federal health care exchange, i.e. those states that did not set up their own Obama Care exchange, would also be eligible for Obama Care subsidies, unilaterally decreeing that personal insurance policies that insurance companies had to legally terminate as a result of Obama Care could indeed stay in effect, unilaterally deciding, without Congressional approval, to change out many more tenets and deadlines of the Obama Care legislation, etc. all acts that violated Article II, Sections 3 and 4 of the Constitution.
7) His administration has hassled, spied on, harassed, and threatened a multitude of journalists including, but not limited to, Bob Woodward, Lanny Davis, Fox News employees James Rosen and Mike Levine, Sheryl Atkinson, Audrey Hudson (whose home was ransacked by Department of homeland Security armed personnel who confiscated her journalistic files despite serving a court order that was restricted to only looking for guns), Associated Press reporters, and others, violating their First Amendment rights.
8) When the Egyptian military staged an coup and overturned a democratically elected government, Obama refused to cut off aid to that military ruling junta as required by U.S. law, violating Article II, Sections 3 and 4 of the Constitution.
9) The Obama administration illegally allowed lucrative taxpayer funded financial credits to Congressional members and their staffs to pay for Obama Care policies in violation of the Obama Care legislation and violating Article II, Sections 3 and 4 of the Constitution.
10) His Obama Care legislation forced individuals, companies, and charities to violate their own religious beliefs relative to contraception and birth control, violating those citizens’ and organizations’ First Amendment rights.
11) He illegally made government appointments to high level government positions while the Senate was still in session, violating Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution.
12) The Obama administration ignored the ruling of a Federal judge in Louisiana regarding the administration’s illegal moratorium on Gulf oil drilling, resulting in the following stinging rebuke from the judge:
“Each step the government took following the court’s imposition of a preliminary injunction showcases its defiance, Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the re-imposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium, and in light of the national importance of this case, provide this court with clear and convincing evidence of the government’s contempt.”
13) The Obama administration’s unparalleled invasion of citizens’ privacy via the warrantless and groundless interception and storage of just about every citizens’ electronic and other communications via the National Security agency and other government entities is a gross violation and insult to every citizens’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
14) He unilaterally decided not to enforce the DOMA law, without Congressional approval, violating Article II, Sections 3 and 4 of the Constitution.
15) Obama illegally violated immigration laws by forbidding the deportation of illegal aliens and ignoring other tenets of existing immigration law, without the approval of Congress, violating Article II, Sections 3 and 4 of the Constitution.
16) His administration illegally used the IRS to harass and minimize the impact and activities of conservative and other contrary political action organizations, violating those citizens’ First Amendment rights.
17) Obama illegally created a “shadow government” by establishing a so-call “czar” system in order to bypass the Constitutionally required Congressional approvals of high ranking government positions, violating Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution.
18) His administration violated existing laws by failing to produce a Federal budget proposal on time in four of the first five years of this administration, violating Article II, Sections 3 and 4 of the Constitution.
19) The Obama administration illegally demanded monetary kickbacks (often exuberant kickbacks) from American organizations requesting government documents under the Freedom of Information Act, (FOIA), requests that by law have to be provided for free or for a very small processing cost, violating Article II, Sections 3 and 4 of the Constitution.
20) His administration demanded that the Ford Motor company stop showing a Ford television commercial that mentioned that its competitors, General Motors and Chrysler, had received Federal bailout money, a violation of the company’s First Amendment rights.
21) The Obama administration coldly ignored the request for military help, help that was readily available, when the U.S. Benghazi consulate and nearby adjacent annex were under siege by terrorists, a siege that endangered the lives of about 24 American citizens and resulted in the unnecessary death of four of those brave citizens violating their pursuit of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
22) His administration illegally used resources of the Federal government to inhibit and harass companies (e.g. Gibson Guitar, Boeing’s planned move of jobs to South Carolina, etc.) whose political agenda did not line up with the President’s political agenda, abusing the power of his office and the executive branch for political gain, violating Section 2, Articles 3 and 4 of the Constitution.
23) The Obama administration intentionally violated the WARN act by telling companies to not announce layoffs that were in compliance with the WARN Act prior to the 2012 Presidential election, promising to pay any WARN Act fines in the future with taxpayer money those companies may incur as a result of violating the WARN Act, as requested by the Obama administration.
24) His administration violated the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 by illegally allowing able bodied welfare recipients not to fulfill the weekly work requirements of that legislation.
Numerous violations of the Constitution, numerous instances of ignoring or changing components of existing Federal law, ignoring judicial rulings, assassinating and detaining Americans without due process. An incredibly lawless, treasonous, and un-Constitutional Presidential administration.
So why should a Nevada rancher, whose family has been working the same for well over a hundred years, who has tried to pay the necessary fees but just to a different part of the government structure, and who may be being hassled just to benefit foreign investors and domestic politicians, obey any Federal law? Certainly obeying the law does not apply to this President, today’s Washington political class, or this Presidential administration. So why should it apply to a Nevada rancher…or a Florida teacher…or a Wall Street investor…or a California surfer?
