I-Team: Bundy's 'ancestral rights' come under scrutiny (It seems that his claims are all lies) [View all]

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I-Team: Bundy's 'ancestral rights' come under scrutiny


One of our local news stations, the local CBS affiliate, is known for it's investigative journalism and has won many awards for it. So they decided to check out everyone's favorite traitor and his claims, and what they found was interesting.... It seems that all of his claims are apparently lies. He claims that his family has been using the land since the 1870s, from which his erroneous claims derive. His family actually bought the ranch in 1948, provably, and didn't get cattle until the 1950s. And they bought the water rights to their own property but no grazing rights to the Federal land. Imagine that. And kudos to channel 8, KLAS tv, for doing some good journalism. So good to see these days. I wonder if this will finally make the derps squatting in my state fantasizing about violence finally slink homeward?

Posted: Apr 21, 2014 2:25 PM PDT
Updated: Apr 21, 2014 5:56 PM PDT
By Nathan Baca, Investigative Reporter

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"I've lived my lifetime here. My forefathers have been up and down the Virgin Valley here ever since 1877. All these rights that I claim, have been created through pre-emptive rights and beneficial use of the forage and the water and the access and range improvements," Bundy said.

Clark County property records show Cliven Bundy's parents moved from Bundyville, Arizona and bought the 160 acre ranch in 1948 from Raoul and Ruth Leavitt.

Water rights were transferred too, but only to the ranch, not the federally managed land surrounding it. Court records show Bundy family cattle didn't start grazing on that land until 1954.

The Bureau of Land Management was created 1946, the same year Cliven was born.

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MUCH MORE:
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/25301551/bundys-ancestral-rights-come-under-scrutiny
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/21/1293671/-Breaking-news-on-Bundy-Ranch

AND HERE TOO:

An abbreviated look at rancher Cliven Bundy's family history
Posted: Apr 21, 2014 3:36 PM PDT
Updated: Apr 21, 2014 6:47 PM PDT
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/25302186/an-abbreviated-look-at-rancher-cliven-bundys-family-history

UPDATED TO ADD:

I had written a reporter at KLAS -8newsnow
questioning why the station wasn't doing more to expose Bundy's lies and my concern about the militias. We shared several emails, this was his last one.
For his safety, I omitted his name and initials.

From: (reporter)
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 12:31 PM
To: Me
Subject: Re: need info

I got to work today and talked to my bosses, and I think the misinformation has reached the point where we have no choice but to respond to it. In one sense, we don't like doing this because it encourages more crapola. If the nutballs know that they can get TV time by creating false rumors on the internet, it is an invitation to trouble for my profession. That said, there are exceptions to every rule, and in this instance, we have reached a tipping point where the misinformation being spread has overwhelmed the facts.

In other words, you were right from the beginning, and we are going to jump into this with both feet over the next few days, but without trying to further enrage the heavily armed fringe groups for whom no amount of factual info will make one bit of difference.
It's a fine line.

Thanks for reaching out to me

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1293671/53216524#c117