Split in land-grab movement could turn violent (Salt Lake Trib ed)
MAR 29, 2016
... it could be quite amusing to stand back and watch the absurd Utah land-grab movement fall to pieces in a dispute over who among them is more devoted to the myth of the county sheriff as the supreme law of the land. Until someone takes the dispute far too seriously, or too personally, and violence erupts ...
House Bill 276 was the effort of the land-grabbers in the Legislature, led by Rep. Mike Noel, to take seriously the objection that the state had no plan for what it might do with all that land in the (almost nonexistent) eventuality that such a transfer was either won in court or granted by Congress.
But now that the bill has passed and sits on Herbert's desk, there are cries that all the bill really would do is replace federal tyrants with state overlords and usurp the power of county sheriffs to be the supreme masters of their domain ...
Leaders of the movement to wrest federal land away from the feds may find that they have created a monster. It is up to them to get ahead of this silly — until it becomes violent — idea before it gets away from them altogether.
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/3714006-155/editorial-split-in-land-grab-movement-could
