By Rick Wells

While the eyes of the nation are focused upon the rural Nevada town of Bunkerville and the Bundy Ranch, another significant land grab is underway in the other half of the country. While less physically confrontational at present, government oppression is none the less at the root of a dispute on the border between Oklahoma and Texas. It’s an on-going process, following the migration of the Red River, which the feds define differently dependent upon their their “needs.”

Tommy Henderson lost a lawsuit thirty years ago and with it 140 acres of his ranchland. The BLM victory resulted in the Oklahoma/Texas border being redrawn a mile to the south of where it had previously been.

Henderson received nothing in exchange for his land. Not one cent, and the BLM is back for more. This time they’ve got their eyes on roughly 90,000 acres. And they are employing similar tactics to what won for them in the eighties.

BLM seeks to use the previous lawsuit as precedent in their attempt to steal land along a 116 mile stretch of the Red River. The natural migration of the Red River is at the heart of the dispute and the opportunity being seized upon by the Feds.

BLM is making a claim that the land never belonged to Texas, which the landowners vehemently dispute.

Tommy Henderson explains the absurdity of the BLM claims. He asks, “How can BLM come in and say ‘Hey, this isn’t yours’ even though it was patented from the state, you’ve always paid taxes on it, our family’s paid taxes for over a hundred years on this place. We’ve got a deed to it, but yet they walked in and said it wasn’t ours.”

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3 Responses to “Were there jury trials or was it one judge, who could have been compromised and blackmailed by something in his NSA and FBI files or receiving some consideration?”

1. Sandy Beach
   April 12th, 2014 @ 9:59 am

   It appears that BLM had nothing to do with this dispute between Oklahoma and Texas.

   https://usgovinfo.about.com/library/news/aa073100a.htm

   https://www.texastribune.org/2013/10/25/texas-and-oklahoma-may-redraw-border-again/

   https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2013/11/01/why-texas-might-try-to-redraw-its-border-and-how-it-might-start-another-water-fight/

2. Sandy Beach
   April 12th, 2014 @ 11:08 am

   More info about the State (not Federal land)
   Texas-Oklahoma Boundary Changes : Landowner Suits Stirring Red River ‘Border War’ February 25, 1985
   Tom Henderson, whose ranch is less than a mile from the James place. Henderson’s family bought the land in 1905 and it has been sold from one family member to another through the years. Henderson bought it in 1979 for $300,000. He says that Oklahomans have laid claim to about 700 acres, one-third of his property.
   February 25, 1985
   https://articles.latimes.com/1985-02-25/news/mn-33605_1_langford-family

   Drawing the Line
   ONCE AND FOR ALL, WHERE IS THE BORDER BETWEEN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA? January 1997
   Henderson is one of many landowners caught up in the politics of where to draw the line between Texas and Oklahoma. He’s also one of six people appointed in the summer of 1995 by Governor George W. Bush to a state commission charged with finally determining a permanent workable location of the boundary, which has been in dispute ever since the 1821 Treaty of Amity, Settlements and Limits set the Red River’s south bank as the divider between U.S. lands acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase and Spanish possessions in North America. If the Texas commission and a similar one in Oklahoma can reach an agreement, they’ll send a proposal to their respective legislatures early this year. For Texas, the clock is ticking, because the 1997 legislative session is the only opportunity to settle the issue before its commission’s term expires in 1998. And while both states hope to reach a compromise that won’t result in gains or losses of land, millions of dollars in livestock grazing rights, hunting and fishing licenses, and property taxes are at stake—though exactly how many millions is an open question. “No one can identify where the boundary is, so it’s a hard thing to quantify,” says Marshall land lawyer Bill Abney, the chairman of the Texas commission.
   https://www.texasmonthly.com/content/drawing-line

   Much more information at my links.

3. bill davis
   April 12th, 2014 @ 12:03 pm

   Since I don’t have any pertinent information on who did what ? the question I have is who ? is laundering the goodies aka $.

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