Pirate's Cove

The Biden admin decided they would be the lords of the people. The Trump admin wants to protect The People from the government. This opinion piece is written by Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture

Brooke Rollins: USDA Ends a Biden Administration Injustice

Fifth-generation ranchers Charles and Heather Maude make their living raising cattle and hogs on the wide plains of western South Dakota. Since 1907, Charles’s family has been on the land where they now farm thousands of acres.

Twenty-five acres of their property run alongside the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, administered by the U.S. Forest Service—unfortunately for the Maudes, with a poorly demarcated boundary between the national grasslands and their property.

The Maudes never worried much about it: In an informal agreement, the Forest Service allowed their cattle to graze, and they assumed in good faith that a process was under way to survey the land and establish clear boundaries.

Their good faith wasn’t matched by the federal government’s. Last year, the Biden administration’s Forest Service surveyed the boundary—without informing the Maudes of the outcomes or even the process—and then shortly thereafter accused them of “theft of government property.” For reasons unknown, the pitiless federal bureaucracy bent itself toward the destruction of a hardworking and upstanding family. That’s the bad news.

Well, of course they did. Government bureaucrats already like to throw their weight around: during the Biden admin they felt even more empowered, and thought no one would stop them

The good news is that while the Maudes had no immediate recourse for this roughshod treatment under the Biden administration, the Trump administration sees its role as representing rather than ruling Americans.

As agriculture secretary, I have a responsibility to enact the president’s will in policy and practice. And as an American entrusted with the stewardship of governance, I have a responsibility to defend my fellow Americans’ liberties.

Funny how Democrats say Trump is the Fascist, yet, it was Biden (and most Democrats) who actually tried to act as a ruling class, in direct opposition to the meaning of the Constitution

That’s why I am stepping in and ordering an end to the legal pursuit of the Maudes by the Forest Service and any other branch of USDA. The federal government has dropped all civil and criminal charges against the Maude family. I am also ordering that all USDA pursuits of other Americans in similar situations be immediately halted. Meanwhile, we are investigating how and why this wrongful persecution of an American ranching family ever occurred.

Bureaucratic unaccountability has been a byword in American politics, from lives ruined in the name of public health and lost wars to needless prosecutions and beyond.

Rollins has her work cut out, and I hope she succeeds. I also hope that the Maudes will be reimbursed for all the money they have wasted in fighting the feds.