SID MILLER: Obamas BLM Actions in Texas Nevada Violate Constitution

Front runner for Ag Commissioner Race calls on Gov. Perry to be prepared on Red River Land Grab Texas Insider Report: STEPHENVILLE Texas Barack Obama may not understand the concept but our Founding Fathers understood that the entire United States of America is a constitutionally protected free speech zone" said Sid Miller former Chair of the Texas House Ag & Livestock Committee and now the frontrunner in the Republican race for Texas Agriculture Commissioner. Miller has called on Gov. Rick Perry to mobilize the Texas State Guard if necessary to prevent the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from seizing 90000 acres of land along a 116 mile stretch of the Red River.   Miller who has also chaired the Texas Houses Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee further warned Texans to remain vigilant against future BLM abuses by saying the Bureau of Land Managements decision to halt their forced removal of Cliven Bundys cattle in Nevada was only a temporary delay in the federal agencies attempt to violate the private property and water rights of Americana. Miller said that if the BLM attempts to use the same kind of tactics in Texas that they have used in Nevada to unlawfully seize privately held land that Texas Governor Rick Perry should mobilize the Texas State Guard to prevent them from doing so.

As Agriculture Commissioner I will go to war with these out-of-control federal agents and bureaucrats who have no regard for the United States Constitution or state and individual rights" Miller said. In the meantime I would urge Rick Perry to be prepared to activate the Texas State Guard in order to defend the State of Texas and her citizens from an abusive federal government.

Miller said that televised images of armed federal agents attempting a forced cattle round-up on a rural Nevada range have alarmed farmers ranchers and landowners as well ordinary citizens across the Southwest. Miller says the actions of the BLM are unlawful and have ignited a new range war this one between law-abiding citizens and their own federal government. In Nevada the roundup started last week after the BLM and National Park Service shut down an area half the size of Delaware to let cowhands using helicopters and vehicles gather about 900 cattle that officials say were trespassing. Cliven Bundy 67 and his large family cast their resistance to the roundup as a constitutional stand. He said he didnt recognize federal authority over state land. Although the BLM has announced they were backing down from what became a stand-off between Bundy and his supporters and heavily armed BLM agents the dispute has widened into a debate about states rights and federal land-use policy. The dispute that triggered the roundup dates to 1993 when the BLM cited concern for the federally protected tortoise. The agency later revoked Bundys grazing rights. Bundy claims ancestral rights to graze his cattle on lands his family settled in the 19th century. Miller says that BLM agents used excessive and unlawful force to exert their will and unnecessarily inflamed passions putting lives as well as private property and state rights at risk. Miller said that especially disturbing was the BLM efforts to restrict supporters of Bundy to so-called free speech zones." 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 didnt pay him one cent. Now Miller says that BLM is attempting to use Hendersons case as a precedent to seize land along a 116-mile stretch of the Red River. Theyre wanting to take the boundaries that the courts placed here and extend those east and west to the forks of the river north of Vernon and east to the 98th Meridian which is about 20 miles east of us" Henderson explained. The BLM clams this land never belonged to Texas. Miller says that both he and the Texas landowners who have lived and cared for that land for hundreds of years beg to differ. BLM plans on taking the land anyway. Property owners will be forced to spend money on lawsuits to keep what is theirs. For many that property has been in their family for generations and landowners not only have deeds to the property but they have also paid property taxes for over one hundred years according to Miller. About 90000 acres could be seized by BLM disappearing across a new state line. Miller said that the mission of the Texas State Guard (TXSG) is to provide mission-ready military forces to assist state and local authorities in times of state emergencies; to conduct homeland security and community service activities. They are not a part of the United States Armed Forces and are not subject to orders from the President.

What happened in Nevada this week could very well happen in Texas next week and our citizens and their property have a right to protection. If not we might as well as throw out our constitution and the concept of private property rights. We must always be vigilant against federal overreach. We must act now and we must act decisively" Miller (right with Gov. Rick Perry) concluded.