The standoff in Oregon between local rights advocates and the federal government regarding the ranchers who are being sent to prison over fires they set in 2006 to clear their land of brush and weeds is increasing in intensity.
Outside groups have made their way to the Malheur Wildlife Reserve and taken over the building (which was unoccupied). The government has responded by sending SOD-X Reserve/National Guard Special Operations troops, with the very clear potential for armed conflict.
This is once again a strong arm effort by the government to show that they own much of the land in Oregon (close to 50 of the entire land mass), and that locals such as ranchers must cow-tow to the government in Washington D.C.
There are serious issues here, and many Constitutional scholars indicate that the Federal government cannot, in fact, own land except for a section in the District of Columbia, plus some ports and seaways. But that may be a moot point when you have the U.S. military going against a rag-tag band of ranchers.
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The Bundys used women and children as shields at their ranch too. It seems to be a common tactic with them
Oath keepers president should shut up! He bailed on the stand off and is reaching for attention! Oath keepers from all over can see him for what he is, a f**e!!
The United States have used the National Guard to kill hundreds of civilians.
Those people died so your children werent made into slaves for Corporate Profit
They died so you could have a two day weekend
They died so you can have a 40 hour work week
They died so you can use a Democratic voice (through a Labor Union), to fight for better treatment from the Slave masters who employed you for pennies a day.
The United States represents only the Private Interest of the Wealthy.
When James Madison spoke of the Tyranny of the Majority, he meant the Non-landowners.
The People who Own the Country should run the Country.
The United States exists solely to protect Private Concentrations of Money and Power, which lead to corruption, as a Democracy is meant to represent everyone,
Not the Wealthy and Priveleged who can bribe and extort their way around the Laws that bind the rest of us
We have struggled as a People because the Wealthy of this Country have continued to exploit our Government to keep their own wealth and capital, and take the rest from us.
This is why the cut social spending.
So we have more taxes to give to the Military, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Wall Street etc.
Look at the Money making Bureau of the United States, the Federal Reserve.
It exists to give Wealthy people more money.
Not true in Maryland.
Hope it ends well. The BLM and EPA both need to be regulated. They do whatever they want
Stewart’s full of s**t
I believe Stewart is an government agent provocature
Every American owns all public lands even ranchers that lease it, but no American has a right to take control of it