Nev. landowners say they've begun razing wildlife refuge dam (Bundy comparisons)

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In a case that's drawing comparisons to the 2014 Bundy standoff, church camp owners in Nevada are tearing down an earthen dam on a national wildlife refuge because they think the water behind it belongs to them. @JenniferYachnin with the story:

eenews.net
Nev. landowners say they've begun razing wildlife refuge dam
Patch of Heaven owner Annette Fuentes said federal officials at the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge have threatened arrest but won't stop them. "They didn't want a Bundy situation," she said.
5:52 PM · Aug 5, 2022

https://www.eenews.net/articles/nev-landowners-say-theyve-begun-razing-wildlife-refuge-dam/

Fish and Wildlife Service officials failed Saturday to dissuade Nevada landowners from their planned demolition of an earthen dam at the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge but did not intervene to stop initial work.

Ministerio Roca Solida founder Victor Fuentes revealed Tuesday that he began dredging a channel across public lands adjacent to his 40-acre church camp, dubbed Patch of Heaven.

“I reclaimed my right. I didn’t do anything illegal Saturday,” Fuentes told radio host and anti-government activist Pete Santilli in an interview posted on YouTube.

Despite warnings from FWS that he faces arrest and prosecution, Fuentes said he plans to continue his work at the site, about 70 miles northwest of Las Vegas, in the coming days.

“We start to get our water back. We haven’t got it into the camp yet,” said Fuentes, who emigrated from Cuba in 1991. “But we have started. The following week I’m going to continue working to make the water available to us.”

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[msongs]

1. church...its our water let everyone else die of thirst nt

[roamer65]

2. Bulldoze the religious nut camp.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Borderlines don't recognize boundaries

[Irish_Dem]

4. People fighting over water will become common.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Reminds me of those cowboy movies where farmers feud with others for cutting off water.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Yep, and we have everyone shooting at each other too.

We are back to the old days.

[Solly Mack]

7. Stop him. It's that simple. Isn't he destroying federal land?

Well?

Does the federal government have any power over these anti-government types?

Well?

Act like it then.

Stop him.

Confiscate his land for repayment of damages caused. Arrest him and all others involved.

Fuck it.

They will get away with anything they are allowed to get away with.

Allowed.

And failure to stop them is telling them it's OK to destroy government property.

[Duppers]

8. ....👍

[maxrandb]

9. Yes! I argue that if a couple of Hellfire Missiles had turned the Bundy KKKlan into pink vapor

There never would have been a Donnie Dipshit presidency.

[Solly Mack]

10. I really don't get the light hand that is taken with the anti-government types.

Years of this shit has done nothing but embolden them. They've gotten worse and worse, and they do present a clear and present danger to everyone else.

[onethatcares]

11. he'll probably next step into

suing the federal government to maintain the channel he's creating into his "religious" camp.

Seems they all hate the government until they can take from it.

[AntivaxHunters]

12. Here is the whole thread unroll

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1555718386524467202.html