Guess who’s funding the Bundys’ crazy land-grab movement? The Koch brothers

[KamaAina]

Surprise, surprise! </gomer-pyle>

http://grist.org/living/guess-whos-funding-the-bundys-crazy-land-grab-movement-the-koch-brothers/

But as reporters pack up and locals try to get back to normal, questions remain. Is this just be beginning of a larger rebellion against the federal government? And would such a rebellion have any powerful backers? To that last question, we may have an answer: the Koch brothers.

ThinkProgress reports:
The political network of the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch signaled last week that it is expanding its financial and organizational support for a coalition of anti-government activists and militants who are working to seize and sell America’s national forests, monuments, and other public lands....

In early February, it was announced that Ivory would be stepping down as head of the American Lands Council and joining the South Carolina–based group Federalism in Action — specifically, its “Free the Lands” project, a collaboration between the American Lands Council Foundation and Federalism in Action. And that’s where the Koch money comes in: Federalism in Action is a member of the State Policy Network, a Koch brother–funded network of more than 50 right-wing think tanks and libertarian groups focusing on state policy.

Despite the fact that the push to transfer federal lands to state control is a fringe movement, deeply unpopular with most Americans — including those in Western states — Koch money could make it move to the mainstream as politicians court their vast donations. As ThinkProgress points out, last week, Ted Cruz promised to be “vigorously committed to transferring as much federal land as humanly possible back to the states.” In other words, Cruz wants that Koch money — no matter the consequences for those lands, the national interest, or the rest of us.

[ebayfool]

1. How old are these beasts? Scalia old?

Any chance they will be heading to that big bank in the sky before they co-opt the entire country?

Just damn!

[KamaAina]

4. Charles Koch is 80. David is 75.

I wonder where the $$$ will go once they, as Rush the OxyMoron says, "assume room temperature".

[think]

2. A great way for the Koch Brothers to get more land with minerals, oil, & timber on it. /nt

[Initech]

3. Hey there's franchise opportunities available!

Just find some abandoned remote federal lands near you, set up shop, forget crucial items like snacks and working toilets. Post a few videos online about how you swore an oath to the Constitution, and bring lots of guns and ammo. The feds will leave you alone while the media frenzy begins. Boom! That sweet, sweet Koch cash will start rolling in!

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. These idiots think that they are going to get that land

Land that belongs to all of us become huge no-trespassing zones.

After it is transferred to the states, it gets sold in multi-million acre lots to billionaires who will then sub-divide sell at huge profit or leased at much higher rates. The more scenic portions become mega private resorts (ranches for "tax purposes&quot for the ultra-wealthy and their business friends, upper-tier Congressional servants and certain Supreme Court Justices.

The militia imbeciles end up as share-croppers and ranch-hands.

[PoiBoy]

6. Another artice of interest..

I hope...

http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/02/oregon-takeover-update-plot-thickens/