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Kudos go out to Representative Ryan Zinke for his calling out of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management about the potential “change-of-use” permit in regards to the 3.5 million acres the APR wants for their free-ranging bison

If you read the article by Heather Swift in last weeks Courier (Zinke Challenges BLM, DOI on Bison 3/16/16) you will have noticed that both department heads said they didn’t know of any such proposal in the works. Yikes!! If that’s true then I would suggest firing Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and BLM Director Neil Kornze on the spot. Some sort of penalty or other punishment should be forthcoming for, 1) not being aware of impending proposals of this magnitude, 2) lying about not knowing about being aware of the impending proposals of this magnitude and 3) thinking we’re stupid enough that we wouldn’t catch you lying about not knowing about … etc. We’re not.

How could you both NOT know that the government you both work for and the departments you both manage are about to make it ok for the “bison people” to change the usage definition of three and a half million acres of Montana land to suit George Soros and those of his ilk and depth of pocket book?

Swift also wrote “Director Kornze thanked Zinke for ‘educating’ him on the issue.” Was Kornze’s “thank you” tongue in cheek or condescending? You make the call.

If it is true that neither knew of the situation then their underlings need to be axed (that’s “axed” as in canned, fired, let go, not “axed” as in questioned) for keeping this very important information from going up the chain of command to the bosses.

It’s the issue of not being able to trust government officials, NOT the matter of whether or not we want the bison here that has me steamed. Seems that “if you can’t trust the government who can you trust” is a phrase not well taken these days what with Watergate, Iran/Contra, Benghazi, Whitewater-gate, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Kuwait, read my lips “no new taxes,” the six billion dollar “short-fall” from the State Department, the lost or erased tapes, the e-mails and a myriad other offenses those in government have committed and mostly without retribution or punishment.

Keep up the good work, Zinke and Daines. That’s it for now, folks. Thanks for listening.

 

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