The standoff at the Malheur wildlife refuge in Oregon has officially ended, with the last four holdouts turning themselves in on Thursday. The protest started when agents took two ranchers in to serve a five year sentence for arson. The charge was tremendous overreach and a true breach of justice, since the ranchers had already served an abbreviated sentence determined by the first judge, and the charge of “arson” stemmed from the ranchers burning underbrush on their own ranch which then crossed onto federal land. The ranchers put the blaze out with no outside help, and the burned land is now more productive than ever. But the federal government, and the complicit environmental groups, are determined to control the western states and as much of the land as possible.
In fact, despite established law stating that the federal government can “own” no more than 10 square miles of property in the Washington D.C. area, the feds have laid claim to 51% of the total land mass of 11 western states. The illegal and unfair taking of more than half of the West compares poorly with the East which is relatively free of federal government ownership. For example, just 0.7% of New York is owned by the federal government.
However, the feds were embarrassed and humiliated by the ranchers who dared to protest the monumental overreach of the government, and they were determined to make an example of the them. That was accomplished when they laid in wait for the leaders of the protest when they drove to a meeting in another town. The agents forced the vehicle of one of the leaders off the road into a snowbank, waited for him to emerge from his truck, and then gunned him down in a case of cold blooded murder. But apparently their blood lust is not yet satiated.
Another victim for the feds, page 2:
lmao the revolution moved its HQ to the jail on a one way ticket to nowhere but federal prison. Plan b…..
Government. At its finest??????? ok I’ve got some jungle land in Az.I’ll sell you here
Mark Mattson YOUR BLIND TROLL!
AMERICANS, BETTER VOTE TRUMP OR SHARIA LAW FULL ON NEXT STOP?
He is now in the hands of obummers minions. I doubt we will ever see him alive again. I’m afraid that the only fixfor this isto rid ourselves of these traitors by any and all means.
The federal government conspires to steal their land and he is the one charged it should be Clinton and Obama
FBI , LOCAL AND OTHER LAW AGENCIES HAVE RAIDED HIS HOME, STOLEN HIS LIVE STOCK , BURNED HIS GRAZING FIELDS , BURNED HIS CATTLE WHILE ALIVE , THREATEN HIS FAMILY MEMBERS AND NOW ARE ARRESTING HIM ON UNLAWFUL AND FALSE CHARGES. ASK YOURSELF—WHO ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS IN THIS SITUATION ?
Yeah, all the wild conspiracy theories in the world don’t negate the facts.
Owing over $1 Million in fees and fines ought to be enough, even without the obstruction, conspiracy, and sedition charges.
Another poor widdle millionaire getting his just desserts.
Draw down on Federal law enforcement and try to skip out on over a million bucks in fines and fees; yeah we should just ignore that.
Right. The Federal Government has absolute no rights to land purchased from foreign governments during the 19th Century.
Pretty sure the Supreme Court decides the legality of that over a Century ago. Before Congress paid for it.
But go ahead and tell us why your opinion trumps multiple branches of government.