There has been a lot of talk lately, especially in my state of Montana, about H.R. 15o5–National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act. This piece of legislation has a lot of people spooked, and for good reason, but many I think don’t understand the real agenda behind it.
In a nutshell, this act authorizes that the “Secretary of Homeland Security shall have immediate access to any public land managed by the Federal Government (including land managed by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture) for purposes of conducting activities that assist in securing the border (including access to maintain and construct roads, construct a fence, use vehicles to patrol, and set up monitoring equipment). (Emphasis mine)
Most of those who are against this garbage are calling it a “land grab.” It is not! The Department of Homeland Security is a government agency. This act is to allow a federal government agency to have full and total access and control over federal lands. The government already owns this land so how can this be a government land grab? It can’t! They, the government, are not attempting to “grab” land, they have a much more sinister plan.
The Department of Homeland Security is taking over most all domestic enforcement for the federal government. This powerful bureaucracy has grown completely out of control, and is harming continuously the liberty of us all. What this legislation is designed to do in my opinion, is to transfer total power over federal lands from the federal government in general to it’s strongest enforcement agency. Not only that, but the power granted will be unlimited.
The language is clear, and it is ominous. DHS will be able to access anywhere, and even build any roads they desire to do so. They can fence all, whether it is to keep people in or out. They can use any vehicle to patrol. No restriction here, so this could include aircraft, tanks, drones, etc. And they can monitor anything! The real agenda then is not a land grab, but a rights grab.
For those who worship the constitution, this atrocity negates the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments of the Bill of Rights. This legislation is meant for one thing, and that is to allow the government’s most heinous agency of force to become even more tyrannical.
Those who oppose this should not attempt to simply change the language, but should demand that it be scrapped in its entirety. The next obvious step would be to force the federal government to return all its land to the states. At that point, those lands could over time be returned to the private sector where they belong! And finally, abolish the entire Department of Homeland Security!