| Friends,
PLEASE READ WHAT THIS FRIEND TO VIRGIN VALLEY WROTE, IT IS RIGHT ON.
To My Fellow Friends of Virgin Valley, This past Saturday while celebrating a year of freedom with several hundred people at the Bundy ranch, a wonderful lady gave me a flyer that I thought was almost comical. It was announcing that on April 14, 2015 the Mesquite City council and the BLM were having a little hush hush meeting about the Gold Butte area. The flyer itself, nor the fact that it was a hush hush meeting was not the comical part. The comical part is that both the BLM and the Mesquite City council have no more jurisdiction over the Gold Butte area than Russia or China. (Well knowing Harry Reid, maybe China has a little claim out there, if you know what I mean, wink wink.) Besides that, the Gold Butte area is nearly 60 miles outside the City of Mesquite's boundaries, and I hate to break the news to the BLM, but Gold Butte is part of the State of Nevada and for the past 150 years has not been a U.S. Territory. So neither the BLM nor the Mesquite City council have even the closest of jurisdiction over the area, yet somehow these two governments think that if they come together to talk, it will bring legitimacy to their claim on the land. Very laughable. I wonder if the Mesquite City council even realizes that if it was not for Cliven Bundy and others like him, the whole area would have been closed off tighter than a wine barrel over 25 years ago. Remember the "Back Country By Ways"? If the BLM would have gotten their way clear back then Gold Butte would be so regulated and locked up that no one would have desired to go out there. Because Cliven Bundy, Kieth Nay and others put up such a fight to keep the roads and the area open, Mesquite today receives some tourist benefits from the recreation of the area. None of that tourist money would have existed if the BLM would have gotten what they desired. Even today the BLM are playing the Mesquite City council by saying it was them that gave the city it's tourist economy boost, when in reality not even the citizens of Mesquite will be able to ride their ATV's off road if the BLM get their way. Just ask Pahrump, Nevada in Nye County, how negotiating with the BLM worked for them. Evidently they did not have a Cliven Bundy over there and now the whole area is locked up so tight that you do not need more than a two wheel drive air conditioned vehicle to explore it, you must stay on the main roads. If you own an ATV or any camping equipment you have to almost leave the county to use it. And if you get out and pop off a few shots, in many areas you could get a one way ticket to a federal jail. No wonder why the Gold Butte area is so popular to visit, it is one of the last places in the West that you can feel a bit of true freedom without being regulated or harassed to death by our federal government. Mesquiteites need to wake up and realize that what they have is freedom on their lands and if they give up those liberties they will be like the rest of the surrounding areas. All the people of the Bunkerville and Mesquite area need to unite and embrace the Bundy family in defending this land before it is too late, before they find out after it is gone, that this unlikely family was right. Natural law simply teaches us that in order to maintain rights one must CLAIM their right, USE their right, and be willing to DEFEND their right. If you are not willing to to do all three, you most certainly will lose them. Their is no arguments when it comes to natural law. So as loud as possible, lets make it clear that the Virgin Valley connected to the Gold Butte area belongs the people of the valley. We have been beneficially using and enjoying it ever since our forefathers established it in 1877, and we have no intention on giving up these rights to a federal bureaucracy that has no jurisdiction and is hard to even recognize as being anything close to a people's government. This land is your land, this land is my land, and I resist any effort in it being locked away and policed so that my children or myself can't use or enjoy it. A Happy Friend of Virgin Valley | 
