Koch Bros caught funding Bundy land seizure movement [View all]

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Conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch signaled last week that they would be expanding their financial and organizational support for a coalition of anti-government activists and militants. It's been been disclosed that they are supporting right wing activists who are working to seize and sell America's national forests, monuments, and other public lands.The disclosure was made through emails sent by the American Lands Council and Koch-backed group Federalism in Action to their members.
Think Progress reports: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/11/3748602/koch-brothers-funding-bundy-agenda/

Though ClimateProgress has previously uncovered and reported on the dark money that the Kochs have provided for political efforts to seize and sell public lands, recent organizational changes reveal that the Koch network is providing direct support to the ringleader of the land grab movement, Utah state representative Ken Ivory, and has forged an alliance with groups and individuals who have militia ties and share extreme anti-government ideologies
The expanded window into the Koch network's support for the land transfer movement opened on February 3, 2016, when the American Lands Council (ALC) (a group whose goal is to pass state-level legislation demanding that the federal government turn over publicly owned national forests and other public lands) announced that Ivory would be stepping down as its president to join a South Carolina-based group called Federalism in Action (FIA).

The FIA is of an anti-government ideology, which hosts land seizure activists and militants. The funding his Koch-backed, with most of it dark and hard to trace.
Montana State Senator Jennifer Fielder is named as the group's CEO. She, too, is a leading figure in the land seizure movement.

Fielder's selection as ALC's CEO suggests that the group is tightening its ties with the violent anti-government elements of the land seizure movement that is represented by Cliven Bundy and his sons. Fielder's land seizure efforts and campaign for Montana State Senate, for example, were vocally supported by a Militia of Montana organization that is run by white supremacist John Trochmann. In a recent blog post Fielder also expressed her support for the Bundys and the Oregon militants by referring to them fondly as "cowboys" and "protesters" performing "an act of civil disobedience" and bringing "new light to the widespread problems of a distant federal bureaucracy in control of local land management decisions."

additional at http://www.alan.com/2016/02/12/koch-bros-caught-funding-bundy-land-seizure-movement/#