Analyst's note:  Battle of Bunkerville II: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will now declare 1.8 million acres an environmental protection zone.  The people of the great state of Nevada should throw the bums out ... that would be the BLM.

At Sheriff Mack’s Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association  (CSPOA) Press Conference on September 17, 2014, Stewart Rhodes, President of Oathkeepers, speaks at the Lamp of Liberty National Press Club sponsored by the CSPOA where he gave his “Sheepdog vs Sheepdog” speech while describing the tension at the Bundy Ranch earlier this year (April, 2014).  Powerful stuff. Enjoy!

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A federal land grab being imposed under the guise of environmental protection in Southern Nevada has been labeled an act of “deliberate retaliation” by Cliven Bundy, the rancher who was at the center of a standoff between BLM agents and armed militia groups earlier this year.

On Sunday, the Bundy family posted a Facebook entry which asserted that, “the federal government is mounting retaliations against the Bundy family and the Southern Nevada people,” after it was announced that the feds intended to designate around 1.8 million acres of land around their Gold Butte range as critical to the environment.

The initial dispute between Bundy and the feds, which culminated in an armed standoff between BLM agents and Bundy supporters back in April, centered around more than $1 million in grazing fees which authorities claimed Bundy owed stretching back two decades.