Republican Lawmakers Helped Orchestrate The Bundy Standoff, Wanted War With Feds (AUDIO)
These Republican politicians should be in jail right next to the Bundys.
As it turns out, there is more to the armed standoff that took place at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. And Americans should be outraged.
According to Oregon Public Radio (OPB) several Republican lawmakers, including Nevada state Rep. Michele Fiore, Oregon state Rep. Dallas Heard, Idaho state Rep. Judy Boyle, Washington state Rep. Matt Shea and others, knew Ammon and Ryan Bundy were planning to illegally lead an armed takeover of federal property in Oregon before it happened, and they chose not to warn law enforcement.
Fiore, Shea, and other GOP lawmakers are part of a group known as the Coalition of Western States which seeks to force the federal government to surrender federally protected lands to the states.
Greenlee County, Arizona, Commissioner Robert Corbell, who went to Nevada to support Cliven Bundy’s standoff with the Bureau of Land Management in 2014, admitted to OPB that after being a largely ignored group after that confrontation ended, the Coalition of Western States caught wind of another standoff that would be going down in Oregon and kept quite about it so that their group could get more attention for their illegal cause.
Corbell told OPB that coalition leadership knew Ammon Bundy planned to take over U.S. government property in Harney County before it happened, but were unsure which federal outpost it would be.We knew he was going to do something,” Corbell said.
COWS believes it is unconstitutional for the federal government to own land even though the Constitution specifically gives the federal government the power to own and regulate lands through what is known as the Property Clause.
Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2 states:
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
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