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Exactly. This has been going on for years. But time cannot sanction such theft.

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Completely agree! Hope the voters remember this got under full steam under the Clintons. We have been to the Grand Canyon, before and after the designation. Before, it was a natural at your own pace enjoyment, now it is herd mentality and control. We were at Glacier Natl. Park, MT as they were just getting ready to put up signs with the designation. The thought of a bunch of commies taking over our beautiful lands makes me sick.

The equal footing doctrine suggests that Constitutionally the Feds are in the wrong by holding such land.

I don't think any land should be a UN heritage site. We are not citizens of the U.N. The U.N. should have no control real or implied over U.S. territory.

The feds only "own" such lands by virtue of possessing the biggest guns. There is no Constitutional authority for such "ownership" - Art I Sec 8 provides for post roads, post offices, arsenals and other 'needful buildings'; Art IV, Sec 3 gives Congress authority over 'Territory or other Property belonging to the United States' - but such territory or other property historically becomes part of the State formed from those lands.

I think it is past time these states take control of their lands. The Feds. only turn it over to the UN, or allow politicians access. Do we really need more of our US land declared UN Heritage Sites, with access limited? Do we really need hundreds of acres of buffer zone via taken private property for these sites. It's past time to stop this nonsense..

No part of the Constitution is sacrosanct to the Obama regime. It has been trashed, smashed, squeezed and expanded in order to suit their agendas. As far as those in power in Washington is concerned, the document might not as well exist. So far, almost every article and especially the 1st 10 amendments have either been distorted or discarded.

This is what needs to happen. The Federal government easily owns more than half the lands of the Western states.

Speaking of Harry Reid, anyone think he might show up at one of these meetings?

A friend of mine, a Vietnam Marine, just purchased a Fully Automatic CO2 powered rifle of some sort. I think it shoots BB's. That might be considered a low power machine gun.

The feds control the lands at present. Does anyone have the facts on ownership?

I have one -- it's a SuperSoaker!

She. Reid said, "automatic weapons" the reporter ramped it up to "high power machine guns". lol what would a low power machine gun be, I wonder.

He's repeating, uncritically, what Senator Reid said about "automatic weapons."

The fact that they're even discussing it has to make him quake. He's trying to make a rancher out to be the antichrist or something in the hopes the State won't turn against him. blecht! I hope it turns into more than just talks. It needs to be stopped and should have been stopped a looooong time ago. State land should be run by the States. What's the point of having States?

Of course the reporter said this... good anti-gun pro-leftist propoganda sure to sell ad time to other leftist liberal corporations.

I have 2 thoughts on this... one, do you really think the dotgov would *allow* the states to take over what they consider to be their soverign property? And two, what would ol' Harry Reid say about diminishing his empirical stake in Nevada? After all, all that Federal land there (and everywhere else) he considers as his. And NV, being mostly Federal land, well... Pretty easy to connect the dots when they glow so brilliantly...

People who live in rural areas are far more able to manage those areas!

YES!!!!!

Tenth Amendment need to be taken seriously. The fedgov overreach has overflowed into a global takeover of American soil for foreign interests. The parasites called politicians, not all but too many to be health for this nation, need to be reminded of who they work for.

Yes. It's way past time for this meeting also.