Family Near Area 51 Fights Back After Government Tries To Confiscate PropertyBy Carey Wedler The Groom Mine has been in the Sheahan family since 1889 and has been passed down through several generations. However, co-owners Joe Sheahan, Dan Sheahan, and Barbara Sheahan-Manning told local CBS Las Vegas affiliate 8 News Now that since the 1950s when the military built the base and started conducting U-2 spy plane tests there the government has attempted to seize their land, resorting to sordid tactics in their efforts. The family alleges that the Air Force went so far as to bomb their property, saying they believe an ore processing mill was destroyed in 1954 when an errant bomb or dropped wing tank blew it up. Their grandparents went to the poorhouse trying to win their case of the mill that was destroyed by the Air Force, said Sheahan-Manning. We have some evidence they absolutely were the culprits in that, and it was never addressed. News Now reported that [t]he Sheahans say their buildings have been strafed and bombed by military jets over the past six decades. The family also says their land was showered by radioactive fallout from numerous above-ground nuclear weapons tests. According to the Sheahans, the military harassed them in other ways, as well. They have driven away prospective business partners and told them, If you buy the place or try to operate, we are going to condemn it, and youre going lose your money, Dan Sheahan claims. In recent decades, the government cordoned off large portions of the area, manning them with armed guards. They held people at gunpoint. They withdrew 89,000 acres of land, surrounded our property and made us an island, Joe Sheahan said. Sheahan-Manning stated that she has been illegally searched and that for years, the government has forced members of the family to go through checkpoints to access their own property. It seems like machine guns solve anything on the property out there. Thats not the American way, Dan Sheahan said. We want em to know what they have done over the last 60 years to our family is not acceptable, he also commented, saying they did not want to go public but felt they had no other choice. The Air Force recently offered the family $5.2 million for their 400 acres of land, but the Sheahans say the offer doesnt come close to compensating them for the rich resources in the mine or the generations of memories the family has made there. Either give us our property, leave us alone, or pay us what you owe us, Joe Sheahan said. Further, as Sheahan-Manning said, The truth is you can get more of a view of whats going on on that base through Google Earth and pictures that are out there all over the Internet. Nevertheless, Colonel Thomas Dempsey, commander of the Nevada Test and Training Range Wing, stressed the importance of the land for conducting training and tests, saying the sites infrastructure directly supports range activities that cannot be replicated elsewhere. He cited national security concerns and protecting the environment as reasons to move forward with the confiscation. The Air Force has worked hard to be a responsible neighbor by actively working with the landowners and local neighbors to ensure our evolving missions and communities grew in a compatible, mutually beneficial manner, Dempsey said. But in this case, the Air Force has exhausted all reasonable options to reach a settlement with the landowners. The family says it understands the need for national security, but argues the treatment they have endured is still unacceptable. If their allegations of harassment are true, the Air Forces actions have hardly been reasonable or mutually beneficial. The Sheahans expressed hope that their elected representatives will step in to help remedy the situation, but until then, they harbor serious apprehensions about the governments decades-long siege on their land. Is it okay to bomb your citizens, hold em at gunpoint and then just to add insult to injury just steal their property? Joe Sheahan asked. What the American people have got to realize is if they can do this to us, they can do it to each and every one of them, Dan Sheahan warned. The family has rejected the Air Forces offer and may face the governments invocation of eminent domain on September 10, when the offer officially expires. In 2013, the CIA admitted that Area 51 existed, but claimed it was used primarily for Cold War-era surveillance programs. In June, a NASA administrator said alien life likely exists, but it is not being kept at Area 51. Even so, theories persist that alien autopsies were conducted on the premises and similar activities still transpire there and the Air Forces relentless, desperate attempts to kick the Sheahan family off of their land does little to quell suspicions. Regardless of whether or not extraterrestrial life actually exists at Area 51 is ultimately at least in the Sheahans case irrelevant. That the United States military is aggressively targeting private citizens with threats, harassment, and violence is currently a more pressing, dangerous revelation than the potential presence of alien life. Image Credit Carey Wedler writes for theAntiMedia.org. Anti-Media Radio airs weeknights at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. If you spot a typo, email edits@theantimedia.org. Carey Wedler joined Anti-Media as an independent journalist in September of 2014. Her topics of interest include the police and warfare states, the Drug War, the relevance of history to current problems and solutions, and positive developments that drive humanity forward. Living at her place of birth, she currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Learn more about Wedler here! Have a quality time with your family while making an extra income trading at the comfort of your own home. Learn how to trade. Google Superior Trading System. Why did they wait this long to go public? They need a big name civil rights lawyer for this lots of media attention. How about the folks who showed up for the Bundy Ranch siege? 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Two additional questions to the two already asked; [3] What does Colonel Thomas Dempsey and chums remind you of? [4] With Colonel Thomas Dempsey and chums in charge, what could possibly go wrong? Id take the deal and consider myself lucky to still be alive. Me too. You can not fight these monsters from the federal govt. They win 98% of the time in their courts, and dictate to the juries on what to think. They may have already been poisoned from the radiation. They can never sell it to an outsider. Take the money and RUN. The Sheahans should be paid for all damages and losses by deduction from the wages of all Air Force Officers including the Secretary of the Air Force proportional to their income. The object being fairness and instruction. Publicity is the way to go the US govt seems very corrupt in their dealings. its the same way in Indiana locally. All the various boards and corrupt officials on the councils wont allow some of us to sell our properties and move out of this God forsaken state, area. If you complain or try to get media attention on various issues they just attack by any means or special interest groups they can. Have your insurance dropped for no reason, inspections, then forcing you to put on new roofs even though the older was okay before. Then the thugs are allowed to do whatever. College towns being the worse if youre not part of the lefty crowds and cliques. West Central Indiana seems to be shut off from the rest of the nation when it comes to media or activist attention. A white guy was run over and killed here by a elite cliques member and news employee and we were, again, the enemy and terrorist for wanting it aired on the news and investigated instead of like many other things.. swept under the carpet. And trying to get any news or happenings out is nearly impossible or it takes so much time everyone who can be witnesses or un-afraid of the corrupt creeps are long gone or have died. We havent lived in the real America for a very long long time. We all, especially us older folks, know what happens to good people fighting corruption or daring to Rock the Boat when it comes to corrupt businesses, ruined college towns, politicians or what they call now as whistle blowing. Here they can snuff you out and no-one would be the wiser, or unless close, not even care. The Sheahans expressed hope that their elected representatives will step in to help remedy the situation lol dont hold your breathe 