If something wasn't yours and then it was sold to someone else isn't it still not yours? What do you folks not understand about private = not yours?
The land was granted to the original owners under patent by the government. It was their exclusive private property. Most of that land was granted under the mining laws. The patents those miners earned gave them and their ancestors the right to treat that land as their own, including the right to sell it to anyone they wished under any terms they choose.
These land patents are private property in the highest form. What do you have against private property rights? I don't like a lot of the choices my neighbors make about their property, sometimes I think they are idiots. No matter what I think they have a right to do with their property what they want. I will defend their right to their private property even if they are idiots.
This is a nation based on the right to private property. Whenever you argue that your neighbor shouldn't be able to do what they want with their property you are arguing against the principles of a free Republic and for socialism. You are arguing for the right to tell your neighbor what he can and can not do with his property. That's the opposite of freedom.
I don't like the new TSF neighbors I think they are bad for the neighborhood. I may not have liked the folks that owned it before. I don't like the choices either one of them made. I have a right to say that. It's a free country. The more folks try to control what their neighbors do with their property the less free the country is.
The previous owner could have sold that land to anyone they wanted to - including you. They chose to sell to the TSF. You and I might not like that they sold to the TSF but that was the private property owners choice to make.
The TSF could mine those lands themselves now that they own them - just like the person who owned them before could mine them. The previous owner decided not to mine them, the current owners say they will not mine them. That is a decision for the owner of the property.
If the government had bought those lands they would still be closed to claiming. Lands purchased by the government are not public lands open to claiming. The government owning the land wouldn't have changed anything for miners either.
You couldn't prospect it before. You can't prospect it now. You couldn't claim it if the government had bought it.
Complain about the TSF if you want, I'll probably agree with you. I don't like this purchase any more than you do. I'm not going to be cheerleader for the TSF Sierra Club or anyone else involved in this. Complaining that land was
lost? It was never yours to begin with,
nothing was lost.
Sage Grouse don't have hardly any fat on them. It would probably take several dozen Sage Grouse to render enough fat to fry just one pair of frog legs. Luckily there are plenty of Sage Grouse.
You will
never catch me riding a moped 2cmorau. If you catch me riding a fat girl don't tell my wife.
good by america as our lands are stolen sic sic sic sic-John
never ending cavalcade a lies sic sic sic-John
