BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF:  CLIVEN BUNDY'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM CONTINUES IN FREEDOM TODAY

"I'm not done fighting by any means"

Cliven Bundy speaks as a free man at the federal courthouse in Las Vegas 1/8/2018

Today Cliven Bundy will be outside the office of Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo challenging him and other officials to back his stance that led to the Bunkerville Standoff of April 2014.

Bundy says that state and local officials should back his right to graze cattle, use water and pay fees to Clark County instead of the federal government.

Cliven Bundy says the governor of Nevada along with Clark County, Nevada officials aided and abetted the federal government's violations of his family's rights.

Bundy is holding a news conference outside the sheriff's office at 1pm Las Vegas time.

Cliven Bundy Arrives Home At Bundy Ranch 1/8/2018

The consistent message in Nevada at Bunkerville and during the Oregon Standoff from the Bundys has been about state and local governments asserting authority over the land to stop oppressive federal policies that have impoverished rural areas by destroying farming, ranching and other businesses.

Harney County, Oregon's ranchers and logging industry were gutted by federal policies started 50 to 60 years ago.   During the Oregon protest in Harney County it was reported that over 40 percent of the county's workforce is now government employees (many of whom participate in the land control program).

The Bundy Ranch stands alone in Clark County, Nevada after more than 50 of Cliven Bundy's neighbors were driven out of ranching by the Bureau of Land Management 25 years ago on the premise that the desert tortoise was endangered.

Part of the hidden evidence in the Bunkerville case was a BLM document stating that Cliven Bundy's cattle caused no harm to the desert tortoise.

On January 26, 2016 the federal ambush that killed LaVoy Finicum, injured Ryan Bundy and resulted in felony arrests of people who were found not guilty of felonies later that year came as the occupants of the two vehicles were on route to Grant County, Oregon.

They were to be part of a rally there to help organize the people of Grant County to take back their land from federal control.