Saturday, June 21, 2014

Should We Expropriate Nevada's Statehood?




How can Nevada be considered a state when the federal government owns 80% it?  The answer is it can’t.  What’s even more astonishing is the history of how this territory got its statehood.  It was a fraud!  Nevada didn’t qualify!  It was done for political purposes!  The law in 1864 required a population of 60,000 for a territory to become a state.  Nevada only had about 40,000. On top of that, Nevada made a deal with the devil.  Martin Armstrong of Precious Metals wrote the following:

The votes at the end of the day demonstrate that they never needed Nevada. Nonetheless, within the provisions of the Statehood Act of March 21, 1864 that brought Nevada into the voting fold, we see the source of the problem today. This Statehood Act retained the ownership of the land as a territory for the federal government. In return for the Statehood that was really against the law, the new state surrendered any right, title, or claim to the unappropriated public lands lying within Nevada. Moreover, this cannot be altered without the consent of the Feds. Hence, the people of Nevada cannot claim any land whatsoever because politicians needed Nevada for the 1864 election but did not want to hand-over anything in return. This was a typical political one-sided deal.

How ironic is it that the U.S. Senate should be run by a man whose entire career has been devoted to expanding federal power by any means possible?  That’s how Nevada was created, and that’s why the rule of law means nothing to people like Harry Reid.

Mr. Armstrong goes into detail on why the federal government has no claims to public lands in Nevada.  You can read his article by clicking the link below. 

 However, I believe it would be poetic justice to expropriate statehood from Nevada and kick Senator Harry Reid out of Washington D.C.  Nothing would give me more pleasure than a footprint on his backside.




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