Obama executive order legalizes ongoing BLM land grabs

[devil21]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_E8E9sJTT4

Link with a lot more info:
http://investmentwatchblog.com/obama-signs-executive-order-bypasses-congress-and-legalizes-all-blm-land-grabs/

(also see: Agenda 21 national maps)

[phill4paul]

Federal public land transfers get a Congressional boost
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and a majority of her colleagues signal support for the pro-transfer movement.

Over the last few years, a movement in Western states to "take back" federal lands has been gaining funding and followers. As we reported last October, eight states have considered the idea of late, but none so seriously as Utah. In 2012, Utah passed a law demanding 20 million acres of federal land, and the legislature has since allocated taxpayer money to studying the issue and devising a winning legal strategy. But even as excitement spread among some right-wing county commissions and state legislatures, most lawyers and observers agreed: There was no winning legal strategy. The federal government is under no obligation to transfer public lands over to the states.

But there might be another way to achieve the same goal: Go through Congress, instead of the courts.

Last week, the U.S. Senate passed a budget amendment sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, supporting the idea of selling, transferring or trading federal lands to the states. The measure is purely symbolic. It doesn't cover any specific parcels or give Congress any kind of new authority to chuck federal holdings. Proposals still have to make it past the House, Senate and the White House to go through. But the amendment is a "signal" that considering such bills is a priority of the Congress, says Robert Dillon, communications director for Murkowski's energy committee.

Jessica Goad, a policy advocate at the Center for Western Priorities, which opposes the state land-transfer movement, believes Murkowski was "testing the waters" with the amendment, attempting to gauge how her colleagues might vote on land transfer bills in the future. Such bills are likely in the pipeline. E&E Daily reported earlier this month that Michael Swenson, a D.C.-based lobbyist for the American Lands Council, the Utah-based group leading the states' movement, is educating "lawmakers on the benefits of relinquishing federal lands to the states." Swenson told E&E that he "expects federal legislation to be introduced by fall."

https://www.hcn.org/articles/western-states-trying-to-take-back-federal-lands-get-a-boost-from-the-u-s-senate

[ZENemy]

hell yea, being ruled by words on paper is awesome.

[Slave Mentality]

hell yea, being ruled by words on paper is awesome.

Dudes in robes even!

[idiom]

hell yea, being ruled by words on paper is awesome.

You may note the words on paper tend to come after you got ruled by the dudes with guns and no paper.

[Zippyjuan]

I don't see any such executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders

[devil21]

I don't see any such executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders

Y U NO READ LINK, ONLY HEADLINE?


Obama is to sign an executive order, bypass Congress, and do a massive BLM land grab.

Republican Congressman of Utah says he has the BLM documents to prove it. They were initially leaked, and he says there are more coming.