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BLM to attempt to seize private land in Texas/Okla

Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:43 am
Posted by cokebottleag
I’m a Santos Republican
Member since Aug 2011
24028 posts
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:43 am
Cliffs: The BLM wants to use the excuse of a dispute in the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma to seize private property.

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“In Texas,” Miller says, “the BLM is attempting a repeat of an action taken over 30 years ago along the Red River when Tommy Henderson lost a federal lawsuit. The Bureau of Land Management took 140 acres of his property and didn’t pay him one cent.”
Miller referred to a 1986 case where the BLM attempted to seize some of Henderson’s land. Henderson sued the BLM and lost 140 acres that had been in his family for generations. Now the BLM is looking at using the prior case as a precedent to claim an additional 90,000 acres.


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Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) represents the ranchers in this region of north Texas. According to Thornberry’s legislative analysts, the issue of the ownership of this land dates back to the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. When the BLM made the claim on Henderson’s land, their position was that Texas never had the authority to deed the land to private parties and therefore it would fall under federal control.


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Should the militias that assisted Bundy assist the ranchers here? Per the Constitution, it is actually illegal for the feds to own land except:
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To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings
Posted by heartbreakTiger
grinding for my grinders
Member since Jan 2008
138974 posts
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:46 am to
I expect Texas to put up a fight while Oklahoma cowers in the corner.
Posted by davesdawgs
Georgia - Class of '75
Member since Oct 2008
20307 posts
Posted on 4/22/14 at 12:26 pm to
Another Obama power grab?
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
91176 posts
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:16 pm to
This is worse than the Nevada deal. This is taking privately owned land from people who pay property tax on it. There will be a fight if they try to do this.

The border dispute is a govt problem and needs to be settled without taking private land. Once settled if land previously deeded by texas is deemed on the Oklahoma side then Ok should be required to issue a deed on that property at no expense to the owner.

The land owners are not in violation of any laws and do not deserve to lose their property
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