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The 4-17-14 Penny Press Penny Press Nevada, USA Volume 11 Number 32 APRIL 17, 2014 THE PENNY PRESS,APRIL 17, 2014 PAGE 2 www.pennypressnv.com The Penny Press is published weekly by Penny Credits: Far West Radio LLC All Contents © Penny Press 2014 Publisher and Editor: Contributing Editors: Fred Weinberg Floyd Brown Al Thomas Letters to the Editor are encouraged. They should be Press emailed to: [email protected] No unsigned or Logotype Doug French Chuck Muth unverifiable letters will be printed. Pointedlymad John Getter Pat Choate licensed from: 775-461-1515 eFax: 201-304-0355 Rich Gast Tom Mitchell Penny Press NEVADA USA 16 PAGES VOLUME 11 NUMBER 32 APRIL 17, 2014 Nevada Is An Old Whore By BYRON BERGERON did a fantastic job and deserve a property. But as I stated above his property, no livelihood without Contributing Editor great deal of credit for their effort. not all rights are equal. Grazing violating BLM restrictions and Moreover, I would not have some rights were never recognized nor owes the government 1.1 million Growing up in rural Nevada of the information I need to write established as a legal property right in fines and fees. At least he got his I used to hear old timers use this this piece had it not been for their in the United States. They can be cows back for the time being. phrase. It was kind of vulgar and diligence. extinguished by the BLM pursuant Bundy probably decided to let I never gave it much thought. But Not all rights are created equal. to the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act. his cattle graze on BLM, without A grazing right, nor a water right is Consequently, in 1993, with the grazing permits, as he had no a constitutional right. Water rights swipe of a pen the government took options. Fines were accruing at Commentary were acquired when the Homestead Bundy’s grazing rights and ordered $200 dollars a day per head. The Act urged folks to go west to that he reduce his heard from 900 government only needed to wait populate our western border. to only 150 head of cattle using until the fines and fees accrued to the older and more cynical I get, I They were property rights earned the endangered species act and the 1.1 million, a number that exceeded think I know what they meant. If when folks put water resources to desert tortoise as the reason and the value of his cattle and the value you pay for it and you have enough “beneficial use” and yes even today without compensation. He needed of the land to seize his property. political clout she will do just about they run with the land unless stated the property right to graze cattle This strategy is not new. It anything you ask. otherwise in a deed. When you on federal land to make is ranch was proven successful throughout I have read a lot about rancher lose a water right originating on economically viable. The value of western American history by cattle Cliven Bundy lately and it seems federal land adjacent to the ranch his ranch plummeted.. As Dana barons. They used gun hands to cut to me that nobody has gotten it you privately own in fee simple, it Loesch put it, this was plain and off natural resources like the water quite right. That being said Logan greatly reduces your property value. simple a land grab. A land grab feeding small ranches destroying Churchwell and Brandon Darby In fact, it destroys it. You own that that is not over. Mr. Bundy still has the economic viability of the ranch at Brightbart are an exception, right separate and apart from your no grazing rights, no way to sell in order to later buy it on the cheap Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly RON KNECHT PAGE 5 Voice Of Nevada FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Penny Wisdom DOUG FRENCH PAGE 7 Inside: A.F. BRANCO PAGE 9 We can’t have an American Bundy Range War people that violate the law FLOYD BROWN PAGE 10 and then just walk away MATT BARBER PAGE 11 Like 1963 Alabama from it. So it’s not over. CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14 —Harry Reid See Editorial Page 6 THE PENNY PRESS,APRIL 17, 2014 PAGE 4 Reid, Bundy Ranch Connection Bit of A Stretch, But... Continued from page 3 and expanding their empire. Their gun hands wore masks rode horses in people whose priority is the desert tortoise, the sage grouse, the moapa the dark to destroy fences and irrigation ditches. Today’s unwitting gun dace, the spotted owl or some obscure salamander somewhere out west. hands show up with police dogs, pickup trucks, heavily armed with the Maybe this is the motivation behind reducing the Bunkerville allotment. letters BLM stamped on their chest. That fanaticism even explains the hypocrisy of allowing the feral horse, When the United States was formed, the eastern states owned all the a grazer that presents the same environmental hazard as a cow, to land within their borders and ceded small amounts of land to the federal promulgate while demonizing the cow that is also a grazer. government. Western land was first acquired by the United States via But there is evidence suggesting wrongdoing. And it should not the Louisiana Purchase and some other acquisition with Spain, I can’t be simply dismissed. It’s no secret that Harvey Whittemore and Harry remember the name. The United States then ceded a small percentage of the Reid are friends. It is no secret that in 1998 Reid and then Senator lands to the states within their borders reserving ownership of 84 percent Ensign co-sponsored legislation that re classified federal lands removing of the land within Nevada’s borders. Some say this is unconstitutional, I restrictions on the sale of some federal lands. It is no secret that am not one of them. This is not a state’s rights issue. Whittemore later acquired approximately 10,000 acres of those lands via a If Bundy lived with a scenic river running through his backyard land swap in order to build the Coyote Springs Resort only 53 miles from and Senator Newlands decided to take and divert all his water rights to the Bundy family ranch. It is no secret that local ranchers opposed this. let’s say Fallon, Nevada destroying a cutthroat spawn in order to grow Whittimore was later required to pay for those lands. It is also no secret cantelope melons in the desert, reducing the Truckee River to a mere that the development was opposed by the EPA because of none other than trickle. The government would have had to pay him for his water rights that pesky desert tortoise. In the end the EPA, lawsuits and other obstacles and the decrease in his property value. disappeared and Mr. Whittemore was allowed to proceed with his resort. Every article I read is short on solutions. Here is one. Whether the law An estimated 30 billion dollar resort that originally was to span 43,000 recognizes it or not this is an unconstitutional taking. In lawyer speak it acres, including 160,000 homes, 12 golf courses that most certainly would is called eminent domain or inverse condemnation. The government must have done more damage to the habitat of the desert tortoise than 750 cows. meet constitutional requirements to confiscate your property including Reid and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a paying you for it. But, Bundy cannot seek this remedy. His ownership Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm of grazing rights is not recognized by law. Congress should remedy and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert. O.K. I agree this quickly. Treat grazing rights like water rights. The government it’s a bit of a stretch to believe they want the Bunkerville allotment for this should not be able to destroy the value of your land and extinguish your purpose especially when Senator Reid can simply re classify federal land. livelihood leaving you with nothing. Making them choose between their But this after all Nevada and you know what they say about Nevada, “she fat government pensions and their belief in saving the desert tortoise is the is an old whore. only way to slow their roll. What isn’t a stretch is that Harry Reid knows midterms are approaching The Brietbart column concluded it is a stretch that Harry Reid is and made a phone call to Neil Kornze and postponed the seizure until after or was involved. I tend to agree. It is certainly possible that this is all the election. about environmental fanaticism. Maybe the BLM is being headed by Mr. Bergeron is a defense attorney in Reno. www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,APRIL 17, 2014 PAGE 5 Commentary: Ron Knecht was about 8 percent in 1900.) The despite poor policies of Presidents spiral; if it tries to back off, it may Progressivism’s spending ratio is widely used as Bush 41 and Clinton. precipitate another crash and big the measure of government in our Later, extremely loose monetary recession. grim legacy for lives and businesses; other graphs and credit policies of Alan Greenspan But wait, there’s more! We now are available that show extreme and Ben Bernanke, acting much have the slowing population growth increases also in taxes, regulation, at the behest of Congress, also that progressives have long desired. nation’s future deficits and debt. helped drive household, financial- It will increasingly cause Social The empirical economic sector and non-financial business Security, Medicare, Medicaid I’m writing this on Tax Day.
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