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Title: Obama Seized Enough Land and Water in 8 Years to Cover Texas Three Times
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URL Source: http://www.mrctv.org/blog/obama-seizes-land-3x-size-texas-8-years
Published: Jan 5, 2017
Author: Brittany M. Hughes
Post Date: 2017-01-05 11:55:04 by Ada
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Views: 162
Comments: 5
Last week, in one of his final moves out of the Oval Office, Obama executively designated more than 1.5 million acres of land as national monuments, preserving their untouched façade while closing them to human expansion, development, energy use, ranching or state or local jurisdiction. In a move ignored by the liberal media last week, Obama unilaterally seized more than 1.3 million acres from Utah to establish the Bears Ears Monument, preserving it at the behest of conservationist groups and Native American tribes who claimed the land was sacred. Utah’s state legislature, however, opposed the unilateral land grab across party lines, with many speculating that Obama’s move is the latest in an attempt to limit efforts from incoming President Donald Trump to expand domestic energy production. Obama also claimed 300,000 acres in Clark County, Nevada, as the Gold Butte National Monument, effectively closing the area off to future development for uranium mining, oil drilling or natural gas production. While it's certainly nothing new, Obama's habit of unilaterally confiscating land has ramped up heading into the final stretch of his presidency. In the eight years he’s been in office, President Obama has seized more than 553 million acres of land and water (roughly 865,000 square miles) and placed it under federal ownership and control – enough square mileage to cover the entire state of Texas more than three times over. In fact, the self-aggrandizing conservationist-in-chief has placed more land and coastal areas under federal control than any other president in history, shutting off millions of miles of land to energy production or human settlement, along with shifting it outside the scope of local and state jurisdictions. Just this past summer, Obama bragged about executively creating the nation’s largest marine preserve off the coast of Hawaii, conveniently omitting that the move took a $10 million chunk out of the local fishing industry. Wielding the Antiquities Act of 1906, Obama has seized vast swaths of land and water for the federal government a total of 29 times, claiming more than 260 million acres as federally-protected spaces in 2016 alone (including a more than 100-million-acre plot in Alaska that amounts to the size of New Mexico). In fact, of the 154 times the Antiquities Act has been used by a president to seize land over the past 110 years, President Obama’s executive land grabs together make up about 20 percent. Thanks to executive actions by Obama and presidents like him, more than 80 percent of the state of Nevada and about 65 percent of Utah is now owned by the federal government, according to the National Public Radio. ✖
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Wake the frell up sheeple. Berry did not seize any land. It was public land that he put off limit to activities on that land. Every president has done it.
In fact, of the 154 times the Antiquities Act has been used by a president to seize land over the past 110 years, President Obama’s executive land grabs together make up about 20 percent. Thanks to executive actions by Obama and presidents like him, more than 80 percent of the state of Nevada and about 65 percent of Utah is now owned by the federal government, according to the National Public Radio. The Antiquities Act of 1906 isn't a license for politicos to override the Constitution by their misconstruances of it and whatnot. Enclave Clause - TheCarolinaCowboy Article I, Section 8, Clause 17, the Enclave Clause, is plainly a grant of sovereign authority—indeed, exclusive sovereign authority—over the District of Columbia and other federal enclaves acquired with the consent of the state in which they are located. The Property Clause, Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2 does not enumerate a power for the federal government to buy or seize property, it says, “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….” Puerto Rico is a territory, but the government does not have the powers to dispose of any property there other than their military bases. Remember the Isla de Vieques? I do, spent many days there training as a young Marine, the government was forced to give it back to Puerto Rico. How is this thing in Oregon is no different? If the government does not have the right to take and control the property from the territory Puerto Rico, what gives it this right in the wildlife reserve in the remote desert outback of southeast Oregon? Or in any of the globes and globes of land the government is putting off limit to its citizens, We the People. Krisanne Hall Reminds Us How The Republic Was Designed. Hall is a Constitutional Attorney, educator, speaker, author. She has a website here. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
[U.S. Senator] Ben Sasse [R-Nebraska] at CPAC - Our founding moment is truly extraordinary. - YouTube [30 seconds] “Our founding moment is truly extraordinary. Our founders were making a claim about human dignity. Our founders were saying that everybody, everywhere—not just those who have been blessed to be born in this place—but everybody, everywhere is ordained with natural rights. Everyone everywhere is created in the image of God with natural rights, and government is just our shared project to secure those rights.” The American Founders understood that throughout almost all of history, almost everyone had been wrong about the nature of government. We believe that our rights come from nature, and government is just our shared project to secure those rights. And so we the people give the government enumerated powers. We don't ever wait for the government to give us any rights. We claim those by nature. In our constitutional system, the government is limited & the people's rights are limitless. Happy Constitution Day! ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
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#2. To: Ada (#0)
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Wielding the Antiquities Act of 1906, Obama has seized vast swaths of land and water for the federal government a total of 29 times, claiming more than 260 million acres as federally-protected spaces in 2016 alone (including a more than 100-million-acre plot in Alaska that amounts to the size of New Mexico).
US Government’s Land Grab
What's Really Going on in Oregon! Taking Back the Narrative ! KrisAnne Hall - YouTube [9 mins.]
This video lays out the agenda of those doing their utmost to implement UN Agenda 21’s Sustained Development plans for America.
Wildlands Project; Where You Can't Live in America After Agenda 21 NWO Takeover - YouTube [6.75 mins.]
#3. To: GreyLmist, Ada (#2)
#4. To: All (#2)
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[R-NE, U.S. Senator] Ben Sasse: What Everyone Got Wrong About the Nature of Government - YouTube [1.5 mins.]
[R-NE, U.S. Senator] Ben Sasse: Happy Constitution Day! - YouTube [2.25 mins.]
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