The BLM is considering taking advantage of an obscure legal dispute to confiscate 90,000 acres of privately owned land on the Texas-Oklahoma border
Fascists: The BLM is considering taking advantage of an obscure legal dispute to confiscate 90,000 acres of privately owned land on the Texas-Oklahoma border.
The last thing a just government would want to do is to steal land from the citizens. The legal issues need to be settled, but that is not the way to do it.
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Fascists: The BLM is considering taking advantage of an obscure legal dispute to confiscate 90,000 acres of privately owned land on the Texas-Oklahoma border.
The last thing a just government would want to do is to steal land from the citizens. The legal issues need to be settled, but that is not the way to do it.
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Every February I run a fund-raising drive during my birthday month. This year I celebrate my 72nd birthday, and hope and plan to continue writing and posting on Behind the Black for as long as I am able.
I hope my readers will support this effort. As I did in my November fund-raising drive, I am offering autographed copies of my books for large donations. Donate $250 and you can have a choice of the hardback of either Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 or Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space. Donate $200 and you can get an autographed paperback copy of either.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
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The Oklahoma Militia is 50,000 strong and recently have claimed ” we will resist you! ”
The sign of things to come! Lets hope BLM is wise more than Greedy!
One of the most troubling things to come from the standoff was Harry Reid’s use of the word “terrorist”. He is learning from Assad and Putin. Call your detractors terrorists and then you can justify the use of force to shut them down. I live in Jersey. I am a moderate but believe in our right to arm ourselves and protect our land from federal overreach. Just wondering if, by Harry’s definition, I am a terrorist too. I have a couple of music videos that are somewhat critical of the current administration. Does that get me on a watch list? Crazy times. Gil.
The BLM, and in general the feds, already controls the vast bulk of all territory west of the Mississippi. What the hell is fueling this new hunger for land? Greens wanting human activities excluded from it? A dislike of ranchers and miners specifically? What?
The 2005 Supreme Court decision for Kelo v City of New London effectively took away all right to private property. The government can take away anyone’s land via eminent domain for any reason whatsoever. In the cases directly affected Kelo, the city sued the plaintiffs who lost for back rent (dating the original date of the property confiscation).
Several states have since passed legislation to counteract this, but how effective it will be is still to be determined. Such legislation won’t apply to the federal government. Local/state entities can challenge such laws in court.
I would love to say I’m an optimist, and that Americans will use the power of the vote to elect legislatures who will move us back towards a limited government. Unfortunately, I see both Democrats and Republicans as being not interested in the constitutional limitations on government. They are only interested in growing government and getting their personal share of the wealth.
RE:” Unfortunately, I see both Democrats and Republicans as being not interested in the constitutional limitations on government. They are only interested in growing government and getting their personal share of the wealth.”
One of the same arguments made by the brown shirts in Berlin, circa 1939…
We all know waht a happy tale that turned out to be…
Of course, the operative term is “a JUST government”… hrm..
I’m of the opinion that, where the rubber meets the road, there hasn’t been a “JUST” government. Just say’in.