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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hobbes" data-source="post: 2480717" data-attributes="member: 3371">Bundy said his family has been working the land in Clark County since before Nevada was granted statehood. He said that the federal government has no right to own land that rests within a sovereign state based on the constitution.Its really about our constitutional rights and statehood, he said. And whether this area known as the state of Nevada is owned by the United States government or is owned by the sovereign state of Nevada.Despite Bundys claim that the federal government has no right to charge fees to land that is owned by the state of Nevada, BLM Public Affairs Specialist said that the U.S. government unequivocally owns public lands, and that Bundy is subject to two federal court orders to remove his cattle from said lands.She said that Bundy is in violation of both orders, and that he left the BLM no choice, but to confiscate the estimated 908 head of cattle.The United States government owns and has broad authority to regulate federal lands in Nevada, Cannon said. In response to challenges of federal ownership of the lands in Nevada, the 9th circuit held that the federal government owned all federal lands in Nevada, and that those lands did not pass to the state upon statehood.<a href="http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/24908037/article-Heated-Cattle-Debates-Spikes-The-Question--Who-Really-Owns-The-Land-?instance=more_local_news1" target="_blank">http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/24908037/article-Heated-Cattle-Debates-Spikes-The-Question--Who-Really-Owns-The-Land-?instance=more_local_news1</a>Almost sounds like a sovereign citizens like claim to me.</blockquote>

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