13 Gripping Images of Armed Americans Who Were Ready to Defend #BundyRanch

Filming Cops
4/21/2014

NEVADA — As the Bundy Ranch stand-off between Americans and functionaries of the State unfolded last week, we all saw the reports of armed supporters from several surrounding areas heading to the ranch.

According to some reports, up to 5,000 militia members were en route just hours before the federal officers stood down and left the scene.

Luckily, bloodshed was avoided.

Many units of armed supporters had already arrived, however.

What follows are images that have been floating around online, capturing what it looked like on the ground.

Many of the supporters were veterans with previous experience in effective security provision.

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Related:   Bundy Family Posts Photo Of Dead Cow Euthanized By BLM

…Nevada Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore previously told Breitbart News on Friday about the practices she has heard the Bureau of Land Management has engaged in when confiscating livestock from ranchers.

“I have literally gotten e-mails from ranchers across Nevada telling me that the BLM does the same practices when they are herding horses. The foals are getting killed. Horses are getting killed. It’s really horrible and cruel. I don’t know any other term than cruel,” she said. The GOP Assemblywoman called BLM’s actions a “felony” and in a recent tweet below, she said:

#BLM massacre. This isn’t how you herd cattle #BundyRanch pic.twitter.com/rlpKYb3e3d

— Michele Fiore (@VoteFiore) April 20, 2014

 
Read the whole thing.

 
PETA Hits BLM Over Mass Cattle Grave

…“These animals shouldn’t be killed either by the government, or by the rancher who plans to send the cows off to slaughter. The best thing anyone can do to stop the suffering of animals is to go vegan,” PETA’s Senior Vice President Lisa Lange said in a written statement to Breitbart News…

 
BLM Eyes 90,000 Acres of Texas Land

After the recent Bundy Ranch episode by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Texans are becoming more concerned about the BLM’s focus on 90,000 acres along a 116 mile stretch of the Texas/Oklahoma boundary. The BLM is reviewing the possible federal takeover and ownership of privately-held lands which have been deeded property for generations of Texas landowners…

 
#BiggerThanBundy: Western states working to regain control of federal land (video)

…In an effort to take a stand against the control, more than 50 leaders from nine Western states met for the first time over the weekend to talk about their common goal of reacquiring the resource-rich land from the federal government. Utah state representative Ken Ivory (R-West Jordan) organized the Legislative Summit on the Transfer for Public Lands, and he joined Glenn on radio this morning to discuss what he hopes to accomplish…

 
Be Warned: We’re Closer to a Civil War in the West than You Think. For years, the West has been boiling – and Cliven Bundy is just the thermometer in the pot.

…The rural West is fed-up. We are tired of being treated like the nation’s petting zoo, tourist destination, and ecological petri dish by eastern elites, left coast Cannabis consumers, agitated animal rights activists, and the assorted high priests of the High Church of Environmentalism…

Feds Draw Criticism For Selling Wyoming Horses For Slaughter

According to the BLM, the Wyoming horses weren’t officially wild and protected by the Wild-Free Roaming Horses and Burro Act

Not “officially wild”?

On Facebook, Dinesh D’Souza posted a photo essay, “Do these people look like domestic terrorists to you?”

 
The full sized image and eight other photos are at Facebook.com/DSouza