Decades-Old Lands Debate Flares Up in the West
NATHAN BROWN
5 hrs ago
The protest in Burns, Ore., started as .. support for Dwight and Steven Hammond, who were resentenced to five years in federal prison for setting fires on federal lands after first being sentenced to shorter terms. But the Hammonds disavowed the militants, and the occupiers focused their rhetoric on larger issues of land use ...
Some more right-wing Western lawmakers, including three from Idaho, visited Burns to meet with the occupiers ...
In Washington, D.C., several Western-state congressional Republicans, including Idahos Raul Labrador, have introduced bills to increase state control, although none of them have gotten close to passing.
... Of the presidential candidates, only Republican Ted Cruz has come out in favor of transferring large amounts of federal land to state control ...
http://magicvalley.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/decades-old-lands-debate-flares-up-in-the-west/article_4e8fa1f5-d10c-5168-b84c-fcd324e259f5.html
2naSalit
(87,012 posts)at one time I had hoped that these idiots and assholes would have died out by now. Just goes to show what a bad idea home schooling can turn out to be.
love_katz
(2,595 posts)I hate these scrum and their greedy desires. As Edward Abbey would've said, they are destroying the land, and more than that, they are doing "a permanent job of it". I will oppose such low-life lying thieving dirt bags to my very last breath on this beautiful Earth.
2naSalit
(87,012 posts)MO for a long time now, and I pay for it too. But I'd rather be fighting for the conservation of the natural world than submit to destroying it for the sake of someone else's bank acct.
love_katz
(2,595 posts)2naSalit
(87,012 posts)We need to overturn Citizens United. Carte Blanche for the thieves.