{"id":113037,"date":"2014-04-16T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=113037"},"modified":"2014-04-16T18:27:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T18:27:12","slug":"war-west-bundy-standoffs-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/war-west-bundy-standoffs-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"War on the West: Why More Bundy Standoffs Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William F. Jasper<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/constitution\/item\/18056-war-on-the-west-why-more-bundy-standoffs-are-coming\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The federal government\u2019s over-the-top police action against the Bundy family ranch is an ominous portent of more to come, as rogue agencies and their corporate\/NGO partners attempt to \u201ccleanse\u201d the West of ranchers, farmers, miners, loggers, and other determined property owners.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, April 12, the federal bureaucrats backed down. Faced with hundreds of men and women on horseback and on foot who were armed with firearms and video cameras \u2013 as well as local television broadcast stations and independent media streaming live video and radio feeds across America \u2013 the Obama administration called off the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s (BLM) operation to confiscate hundreds of cattle belonging to Cliven Bundy, the current patriarch of a respected pioneer family that has been ranching in Nevada\u2019s Clark County since the 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters from all across the United States had converged on the Bunkerville, Nevada, area in support of Bundy, who is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/constitution\/item\/18030-last-man-standing-nevada-ranch-family-in-fedgov-face-off\">\u201clast rancher standing\u201d in Clark County,<\/a>\u00a0due to a decades-long campaign by federal agencies and allied enviro-activists to drive all ranchers off of the range. After a tense standoff, orders came down from above for the surrounded and outnumbered federal agents to \u201cstand down\u201d and turn loose the Bundy cattle that had been corralled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/constitution\/item\/18056-war-on-the-west-why-more-bundy-standoffs-are-coming\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William F. Jasper The federal government\u2019s over-the-top police action against the Bundy family ranch is an ominous portent of more to come, as rogue agencies and their corporate\/NGO partners attempt to \u201ccleanse\u201d the West of ranchers, farmers, miners, loggers, and other determined property owners. On Saturday, April 12, the federal bureaucrats backed down. Faced with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-113037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}