Post by Phil on Apr 15, 2014 13:18:53 GMT -5
Ranchers are under heavy surveillance from the federal government.
We just had a standoff in the news but it turns out that some other ranchers along the California, Arizona and New Mexico and West Texas are dealing with similar problems. That being the government is posting cameras on their land and even calling them and questing moves being made on their property by the ranch owners and their staff.
That's not to say that the ranchers aren't supposed to abide by the law I don't mean to suggest that, but what about freedom? Its 1 thing to catch someone doing something illegal with probable cause, a search warrant *which they don't need if there's probable cause* but setting up a sting is a much worse entrapment just about.
These ranchers have sometimes 10 square miles of land to operate and they have light fencing to keep their animals not only from escaping, being abducted, or the liability associated with having their animals get into traffic and get hit or just getting loose. Many of these fences are cut open by investigating federal agents.
I understand that some ranches do hire Mexicans to work the ranch and probably don't have them in the proper employee and owner proceedings they probably provide a home for them and feed them and only exchange a small amount of money and do not pay payroll taxes. But that's not what seems to be investigated here.
And by the way isn't this the 'Land of opportunity?' and a chance to seek a better life?
We need our ranchers and agricultural suppliers more than we need our taxes to pay more government agents to spy on the ranchers. That's my 2 cents for today. If there's probable cause that the rancher is breaking the law investigate that specific ranch.
We just had a standoff in the news but it turns out that some other ranchers along the California, Arizona and New Mexico and West Texas are dealing with similar problems. That being the government is posting cameras on their land and even calling them and questing moves being made on their property by the ranch owners and their staff.
That's not to say that the ranchers aren't supposed to abide by the law I don't mean to suggest that, but what about freedom? Its 1 thing to catch someone doing something illegal with probable cause, a search warrant *which they don't need if there's probable cause* but setting up a sting is a much worse entrapment just about.
These ranchers have sometimes 10 square miles of land to operate and they have light fencing to keep their animals not only from escaping, being abducted, or the liability associated with having their animals get into traffic and get hit or just getting loose. Many of these fences are cut open by investigating federal agents.
I understand that some ranches do hire Mexicans to work the ranch and probably don't have them in the proper employee and owner proceedings they probably provide a home for them and feed them and only exchange a small amount of money and do not pay payroll taxes. But that's not what seems to be investigated here.
And by the way isn't this the 'Land of opportunity?' and a chance to seek a better life?
We need our ranchers and agricultural suppliers more than we need our taxes to pay more government agents to spy on the ranchers. That's my 2 cents for today. If there's probable cause that the rancher is breaking the law investigate that specific ranch.
