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Dateline: Oregon \u2013 February 3, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n Lavoy Finnicum shot multiple times<\/p><\/div>\n Not only is the Federal Government waging a\u00a0procrastinated war on America’s ranchers. Dwight and Steven Hamond, Cliven, Carol, Ammon, and Ryan\u00a0Bundy, and Jeanette Finicum can all testify to that. Her\u00a0late husband\u00a0Robert LaVoy Finicum was recently shot dead in Oregon for objecting to the government’s unconstitutional land use polices. The Feds\u00a0are not just waging a war on ranchers. They are\u00a0waging a war of attrition against farmers in the West too…<\/p>\n Earl Blumenauer Oregon Congressman (Dem.)<\/p><\/div>\n With the help of America’s first LGBT Governor Kate Brown (Dem) and the entire Oregon Congressional delegation which consists of five Democrats and one\u00a0progressive Republican, the final steps have been taken to remove four operating dams on the Klamath River. Oregon\u2019s\u00a0two Democrat Senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are on board with the plan, and\u00a0the two Democrat Senators from California, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein\u00a0are also on board with the plan.\u00a0The four damns on the Klamath River\u00a0are Irongate, Copco 1, Copco 2, and John Boyle. They\u00a0have been providing a reliable source of water and electricity\u00a0to farmers as well as consumers in the Klamath River Basin for\u00a0over a century and they are all scheduled for the wrecking ball to save the salmon or the sucker fish I am not sure which.<\/p>\n The new motto of environmentalists has switched from save the Salmon to \u201csave Oregon\u2019s endangered Sucker Fish\u2026 If you have never heard of an Oregon\u00a0\u00a0Sucker Fish don’t worry. Not many people\u00a0outside of the environmental community have. It is a small fish that no one eats. The new motto of\u00a0Oregon’s environmentalists seems to be now, \u201cSave the Sucker Fish and put Oregon\u2019s farmers and ranchers out of business.\u201d<\/p>\n Oregon’s LGBT Governor (Dem.)<\/p><\/div>\n We will see how well that works out when farmers stop farming and ranchers stop ranching in the Klamath River Basin where for the last hundred years they have been providing hay for cows and food for Oregon\u2019s three million\u00a0residents. That includes way too many looney liberals like our current Governor Kate Brown. I know that many Portland area environmentalists think that their food just magically comes down from the sky and lands on their plates all sliced and ready to eat. Portland area environmentalists have worked\u00a0long and\u00a0hard to get those four dams on the Klamath River removed. It\u2019s a pity, but when the food on their plates starts costing\u00a0more than they can reasonably afford, and their friends and neighbors are having a hard time feeding their families too, maybe\u00a0when it is too late\u00a0they will begin to realize their mistake, but how can you expect a\u00a0Governor who doesn’t\u00a0really know what gender she\u00a0is to be able to make sound executive decisions which are good for all of Oregon’s three million residents?<\/p>\n Klamath River Dam Irongate<\/p><\/div>\n In the meantime the four dams are scheduled to be de-commissioned and removed without any debate in Congress according to the terms and conditions just worked out by the various\u00a0stakeholders and between the State and the Feds. This is the kind of nonsense we always get when liberals are in\u00a0charge of our state and\u00a0our country and when progressive Republicans\u00a0just go along to get along. All of these\u00a0dams should have been upgraded to include fish ladders where necessary to improve the Salmon runs no matter what the cost was. It makes no sense whatsoever to remove clean sources of energy and reliable sources of water.<\/p>\n Environmentalists think that removing these four damns on the Klamath River is a victory for Oregon just like the victory that occurred when the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was created by America’s first progressive President, Teddy Roosevelt in 1908. The refuge was recently the scene of a month long protest over ranching and grazing rights. Liberals think it\u2019s a victory anytime Republican Congressmen like Greg Walden and Democrat Presidents like Bill Clinton work together to facilitate their progressive agenda and that’s what basically\u00a0happened when they created the Steens Mountain Wilderness Area, but it really isn’t about a refuge for\u00a0birds or saving a small piece of America in its pristine condition. No, not by a long shot There is gold in “them thar hills”… Gold and millions of tons of valuable uranium ore. That whole part of Oregon used to be volcanically active and it is a veritable storehouse of valuable resources today. That is why the Federal Government wants the Hammond’s ranch. That is why they are waging a punishing campaign of intimidation against Dwight and Steven Hammond. That is why they were resentenced to five more years in jail, two years after they\u00a0finished serving\u00a0their original sentences for a crime that they shouldn’t even have been charged with more less convicted of . The Hammonds own the last six thousand acres of privately held\u00a0land in the Steeens Mountain Wilderness Area. Click here to view the Department of\u00a0Interior Bureau of Land Management Resource Map<\/a>\u00a0for Harney and Malheur Counties. (Click the map to enlarge it) The Hammond Ranch is located right in the middle of the map fifty miles south of Burns. It is\u00a0 part of the white area just east of Frenchglen and south of Diamond.<\/p>\n Klamath River Dam Copco1<\/p><\/div>\n Anytime progressive Republicans work together with liberal Democrats to\u00a0facilitate\u00a0a common goal, common sense is always a casualty of the negotiations. The creation of the Steens Mountain Wilderness area led to many Harney County ranchers failing and going out of business. That drove up the price of\u00a0beef\u00a0for everyone in Oregon.\u00a0 It led to the incarceration of two of Harney County\u2019s last remaining ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond. Shortly after that it resulted in the murder of Robert LaVoy Finicum by an Oregon State Police Officer whose name is being withheld. LaVoy Finicum was the father of eleven children\u00a0and the grandfather of twenty nine grandchildren and he was a leader in his church and a pillar of his community. He was \u00a0a rancher from northern Arizona who shall fondly be remembered by many loyal Americans for his courage and commitment.\u00a0After his death the progressive agenda led to the imprisonment of Ammon and Ryan Bundy and ten other protestors who\u00a0had been demonstrating against the Hammond\u2019s unjust incarceration.<\/p>\n The war on America’s ranchers and farmers continues, but the real suckers are not\u00a0a little Oregon sucker fish. The real suckers are all of the environmentalists who\u00a0believed that the creation of\u00a0 the Steens Mountain Wilderness Area was actually about preserving a little piece of Oregon for a Wilderness and that the removal of four dams on the Klamath River is about saving the environment for\u00a0a little fish.<\/p>\n THIS IS A LINK TO A NATIONAL PETITION TO RETURN CONTROL OF ALL FEDERAL LAND ADMINISTERED BY THE BLM TO THE STATES AND COUNTIES RESPECTIVELY OR TO THE PEOPLE. PLEASE SIGN IT AND SHARE IT. YOUR NAME WILL NOT BE PLACED ON A MAILING LIST. http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/congressional-petition-regarding-federal-lands<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Half of the land in Oregon is controlled by the Federal Government. If you live in Oregon and you would like to see the\u00a0control of Federal land returned to Oregon Counties and\u00a0to its people please sign this petition here at http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/oregons-federally-administered-lands\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"Lavoy](\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/burns-Oregon-photos-Lavoy-Finnicum-300x200.jpg\")
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