Roksmokar]
The BLM sells and leases land to private businesses, that's the function. You don't need a conspiracy theory to know that, it's public record. The BLM in my area contracts land for nuclear testing as they do for solar. Is that part of this Bundy conspiracy?
Theory fail.
So the BLM, a government agency funded by tax payer dollars, uses that same money they are paid by tax payers (the ranchers) to coherence ranchers and land owners (private citizens, non-governmental people's) into selling private property to the federal government. Then turns around and sells said land at a premium to corporations which pay for these elected officials campaigns and re-elections through campaign donations because these officials make the laws that affect said corporations. So essentially they extort citizens for their land and then turn a profit by selling to special interests (that often have financial ties to the lawmaker/official making the rules, often giving said lawmaker a job when they retire from public office.) Paying no mind to the local peoples who actually live in that area and have to live with these decisions and don't have a legal recourse that's ever going to win. Seems legit, I have no idea what those people could be pissed about.
So tell me again what today's BLM has to do with the Northwest Ordinance act of 1787 and George Washington?
"Congress made a further attempt to address the concerns of slave owners over runaway slaves in 1787 by passing the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The law appeared to outlaw slavery, which would have reduced the votes of slave states in Congress, but southern representatives were concerned with economic competition from potential slaveholders in the new territory, and the effects that would have on the prices of staple crops such as tobacco. They correctly predicted that slavery would be permitted south of the Ohio River under the Southwest Ordinance of 1790, and therefore did not view this as a threat to slavery. In terms of the actual law, it did not ban slavery in practice, and it continued almost until the start of the Civil War."
