This is a very small victory. But the larger picture remains largely negative. Ranchers are still having their cattle and horses being confiscated, along with their land. People who had lived in their ancestral lands for more than a hundred years are getting evicted. The individual ranchers are being destroyed by the large corporations, with active support from the politicians and the judiciary.
What I find weird is.. Nobody is producing more land (except China) so surely it would be very simple to determine who owns what. You definitely need wildlife reserves and these farmers cannot take government land just because no one has challenged them on it in the past. By allowing them to take over nature reserves it's basically a big f*ck you to everyone else in the country who has paid towards it.
Actually, anybody can take Government land. But most people don't know how. So it won't be easy in the beginning as people find out... just like it wasn't easy for the Bundys and their friends to win this case. They went about it the wrong way, so they made it much harder on themselves.
Anyway, here's how to take Government land.
1. Find a chunk of Government land you want. In these beginnings, make it a piece of land that is remote-ish, so that you have time to settle in before a ranger finds you. Make it small enough so that you can oversee the whole thing easily, or, for a larger chunk, have several people.
2. Mark off the land with fence and identification poles. Do it better than if it were a mining claim. Take photos. Perhaps make a general recording with the State recording office, not the land office.
3. If nobody bothers you for 7 years, the land is yours legally. But if a ranger comes, or the BLM ( Bureau of Land Management) bothers you, sue him in YOUR common law court in the nearby Federal District Court.
4. You might have several suits against him, if he harms you. But your main one is a CLAIM SUIT IN NOTICE FORM FILED RIGHT INSIDE THE GOVERNMENT'S SUIT AGAINST YOU (rather than making a motion inside their suit), where they are suing you for trespassing on Federal land.
5. Your main suit is a jury trial where you require one point, basically. This point is something to the effect, "Let the man or woman I have injured step forward and show his injury, with evidence and witnesses, so that I can pay him for his injury." Since you have injured nobody, nobody will step forward. The Government can't step forward because it is just paperwork.
6. If you asked for damages in your claim suit, damages based on the hardship they inflicted on you, you just might come out of it with extra money. The jury rules, of course. But if you are shrewd enough, you should be able to talk them into voting your way by showing them (covertly) how they can get a chunk of land for themselves, and how jury nullification works regarding laws.
7. You may have additional lawsuits against various agents for harming you. Be sure to never harm them.
8. One way you might handle the agents who approach you is:
a) When they order you off your land, ask them for the order in writing, but film them in case they don't give it to you in writing.
b) Then announce to them that the fee for their order is (whatever amount $$$ you deem reasonable for your land and making you move off it) -
http://www.unkommonlaw.co.uk/. Do they want to continue?
c) Then go if they say "go."
d) Charge them and take them to court for refusing to pay. Use the same idea in different claim form as in 4 above.
None of this will be easy, because common law is just starting to be used to put down a rebellious Government. We should have done it long ago.
Government's ownership and use of land is NOT in the Constitution or Bill of Rights. Government simply makes believe they own the land. How do they own it? By some Government man or woman saying that they own it. You have the right to speak just as they do, and even more right because man/woman trumps Government in common law, and common law trumps legal law. It's in the Preamble and Amendments 6, 7, 9, and 10... and elsewhere.
EDIT: The common law spoken about is NOT the legal definition of common law. The legal definition is legal common law. The common law talked about in this post is the common law that is in force among people (not Government) today, and always has been, even before Government was set up. The jury decides this common law, but it is in force among all the people when there is no need for the jury.
