A Pratt on Texas listener from the Oklahoma side of the Red River wrote to me in follow-up to my interview this week with GOP Texas Ag. Commissioner runoff candidate Sid Miller. Miller put out a press release warning of a huge Texas land grab along the Red River planned by the Federal Bureau of Land Management.
Our listener requested a map with section lines of the area in question from the Feds and says this is what was provided in return: “The area that has received media attention in the last week includes land south of the Red River from the 98th meridian (just west of Bryan, OK) westward to the North Fork of the Red River (Tillman-Jackson county line). The Environmental Impact Statement/ Resource Management Plan revision process that has just begun and will take at least four years will work towards answering where the land occurs and what management should be undertaken on those lands. This will include identification and delineation of the federal land ownership. At that time the map you are requesting can be provided….” — Mr. Laurence Levesque (BLM)
Our listener received this response from the BLM this week and believes that it says exactly what Sid Miller is warning government plans to do regarding Federal land ownership. “…what affects Texas will also affect Oklahoma. Please continue to speak for the landowners,” my listener wrote.
For too long Americans have been content to watch injustice from afar with the attitude that what’s happening elsewhere doesn’t affect them. That’s ridiculously and dangerously wrong. Bad precedent set anywhere allows for more abuse under the guise of conforming to the Rule of Law and Justice.
Feds seem to admit to work on Texas land grab
Robert Pratt
A Pratt on Texas listener from the Oklahoma side of the Red River wrote to me in follow-up to my interview this week with GOP Texas Ag. Commissioner runoff candidate Sid Miller. Miller put out a press release warning of a huge Texas land grab along the Red River planned by the Federal Bureau of Land Management.
Our listener requested a map with section lines of the area in question from the Feds and says this is what was provided in return: “The area that has received media attention in the last week includes land south of the Red River from the 98th meridian (just west of Bryan, OK) westward to the North Fork of the Red River (Tillman-Jackson county line). The Environmental Impact Statement/ Resource Management Plan revision process that has just begun and will take at least four years will work towards answering where the land occurs and what management should be undertaken on those lands. This will include identification and delineation of the federal land ownership. At that time the map you are requesting can be provided….” — Mr. Laurence Levesque (BLM)
Our listener received this response from the BLM this week and believes that it says exactly what Sid Miller is warning government plans to do regarding Federal land ownership. “…what affects Texas will also affect Oklahoma. Please continue to speak for the landowners,” my listener wrote.
For too long Americans have been content to watch injustice from afar with the attitude that what’s happening elsewhere doesn’t affect them. That’s ridiculously and dangerously wrong. Bad precedent set anywhere allows for more abuse under the guise of conforming to the Rule of Law and Justice.