Rancher +Militia vs BLM,trouble on the range.(OT)

Timeid TopRope wrote:
Pathetic whitey with their pathetic false sense of manufactured outrage.

HELENA, Mont. — Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Tuesday to prevent two miners and their armed supporters from blocking access to public land and threatening government officials over a dispute with the U.S. Forest Service in western Montana.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Helena also seeks a declaration that miners George Kornec and Phil Nappo illegally opened a road, cut down trees, built a garage and denied the public the right to access the White Hope mine near Lincoln.

Prosecutors and the Forest Service want U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell to declare the miners are acting illegally because they don't have surface land rights to their mining claims. Prosecutors also want an order requiring the miners to pay to fix the damage to public land and for the miners and their armed supporters to stop interfering with public access.

The road leading to the mining claim belongs to the Forest Service and is open to the public for non-motorized use, the lawsuit said. Members of the public may not interfere with mining operations, but they may access the land and the road, it said.

"Currently the gate is closed with no trespassing signs posted and the public and Forest Service are being refused entry by armed persons," the lawsuit said.

The legal action has the potential to escalate what has been a peaceful, if uneasy, standoff between government officials and more than 20 armed members of constitutionalist groups who showed up in Lincoln, Montana, last week. The members of the Oath Keepers, 3% of Idaho and the Pacific Patriot Network said the miners had requested their presence as a buffer against the Forest Service.

Maybe if our government wasn't so busy trying to regulate the Middle East and many other places in the world, they'd have time and budget to control their own U.S. government land within the U.S.