The U.S. Govt Vs. a Cattle Rancher: Wake up America. They are taking everything away from us.Melissa Melton Cliven Bundy, a 67-year-old rancher says his family has worked the 600,000-acre Gold Butte area since the late 1800s and that they were there well before the governments Land Management Bureau ever came along. A motion for summary judgment filed on behalf of the U.S. on July 9, 2013 reads: Bundy principally opposes the United States motion for summary judgment on the ground that this court lacks jurisdiction because the United States does not own the public lands in question. As this court previously ruled in United States v. Bundy, Case No. CV-S-98-531-JBR (RJJ) (D. Nev. Nov. 4, 1998), the public lands in Nevada are the property of the United States because the United States has held title to those public lands since 1848, when Mexico ceded the land to the United States. Now armed federal agents have shown up to enforce the ruling, closing down the public lands to seize Bundys cattle. Over 230 of 900 have been impounded so far. Last resort? Why exactly does the government say it needs to come to this? BLM spokeswoman Kirsten Cannon told reporters that the Bundys owe the government a total of $1.1 million, including $300,000 in back fees for using the land but estimates reveal that the taxpayer cost of the federal government impounding the ranchers cattle in response could top out at $3 million. The scene is being set for what a lot of people fear will become the next Ruby Ridge or Waco, Texas standoff. Bundy has said that 200 armed officers have been dispatched and are setting up shop on scene, watching his familys every step, and his wife has reported that government snipers are now patrolling their ranch. Bundy said, Theyve been bringing men in and equipment and setting up a compound. They got helicopters flying low. They got snipers around the ranch. Our access to public lands has been blocked, Fox News reported. Were not pointing guns at anyone but were sure getting a lot of guns pointed at us, Carol Bundy told Fox News. BLM spokewoman Cannon would neither confirm nor deny Carol Bundys sniper claim, but she did say that, There are law enforcement and other personnel in place as needed to ensure that the BLM and National Park Services employees and contractors are able to conduct the operation safely. This is a lot bigger deal than just my cows. Its a statement for freedom and liberty and the Constitution, Bundy told Fox News. Speaking of the Constitution, the government has also set up a so-called First Amendment Area in which to round up the people protesting this whole situation. Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval told CBS Las Vegas this is government intimidation and has called for the BLM to reconsider its approach, saying hes offended about the First Amendment Area most of all. On Sunday, Bundys son Dave was arrested and reportedly subjected to police brutality, for filming federal agents outside of this designated First Amendment Area on the now closed public lands. Cliven Bundys daughter, Bailey Bundy Logue, told KSL TV that the family was trying to exercise their First Amendment rights by documenting the governments seizure. He did not resist arrest, but they continued to beat him. They put him on the ground and were standing on his head and had a dozen officers on top of him and dogs. Then Bundy Logue said something that, if nothing else, should cause America to at least pause and think real hard about the state of our nation: The whole story unfolding here of a man fighting for the right to forage on so-called public land owned by the U.S. government harkens back to the common law rights that emerged from the Charter of the Forest document first issued in 1217, a lesser-known compact that complemented the Magna Carta. It was meant to offer economic protection for the commoners to use the royal forests for food and to graze animals. Prior to the charter, people could be put to death or dismembered for trespassing on royal lands. Apparently today, its martial law and property theft. (H/T Terri Lynn) Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared,and a co-creator of Truthstream Media. Wake the flock up! 