Public lands argument not rooted in fact

[struggle4progress]

Posted March 26, 2016 - 9:01pm
By PAUL LARSEN
SPECIAL TO THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

... the sellers of this fantasy in Southern Nevada have been the Bundys, who claim the federal government somehow took land away from the people of the state.

Prior to the Nevada presidential caucuses, Republican candidate Ted Cruz repeated this fairy tale, calling for public land in Nevada to be “returned” to Nevada. Other elected officials, in the state legislature and even in Congress, continue to echo these fairy tale narratives about the nature and origin of our public lands ...

The Bundys have repeatedly lost these arguments in court, but so have ranchers such as Clifford and Bertha Gardner, who challenged federal ownership of the Humboldt National Forest. Nye County and its “sagebrush Rebellion” also lost these very same arguments in court. These court cases all revolve around the same basic sets of simple facts, and all apply the same few laws. These facts do not support the Bundy fairy tale ...

... Nevada never owned the land prior to becoming a state. When Nevada become a state in 1865, the state’s constitution contained an express clause recognizing federal ownership of the land. This provision of the Nevada Constitution has been reviewed by courts, and has been universally deemed valid and binding ...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/public-lands-argument-not-rooted-fact

[2naSalit]

1. That's what we're up against and it is the same in most

western states. The same flavor of rubbish issues forth in arguments against the ESA, NEPA rules, the wolf reintroduction and everything wildlife related, they go for the emotive critique and manipulate ignorance and the fervor of faith to make their case... sans scientific evidence for any claim or misinterpreted snippets of some science that was questionable at best and hard-pressed to even qualify as science. Doesn't matter what it is, the talking heads have whipped them up into a tornado of stupid and violence as we are witnessing more of lately.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. And "reporters" refuse to rebut

the policians who say this crap. They are stenographers.