The Federal government does not like to be challenged, and it has the resources and the power to make citizens yield, and does so when it cannot win the argument. If you have been following the conflict in Oregon recently between ranchers and the Federal government, you will know that the government, which owns over 50% of the land in eleven western states, is willing to jail you for unintended trespass of undeveloped, unoccupied land.
Two ranchers who did some brush clearing of their own ranch, but inadvertently burned some of the adjoining federal land, are now in prison for a long stay, based on a charge of arson. It is worth pointing out that the fire they started was put out by the ranchers without outside help, and the land itself is actually now healthier and more productive due to the reduction of brush and overgrowth. But the government wants to make sure that everyone understands they are in charge and they have the power.
A small group of ranchers, led by Ammon Bundy, are occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in protest of the unjust sentence and the overbearing government position. Fortunately, no violence has developed, but Bundy and his group have vowed to stay until the two ranchers in question are freed. But the government still wants to make a strong point, and they have enlisted a judge to help them.
Huge fine threatened, page 2:
Then the state should have too re-imburse all the people for occuping the country they stole !!
then everyone who protests and destroys out to pay also
Angel they set a back fire to protect other land. Saving more land from being burned.
That’s the same thing all fire departments use to stop lands from burning. They did a favor to many for stopping the wild fire.
This is because they are EXPOSING much more than the BLMs corruption
Organs kind of a weird place isn’t this the same place they find a Christian bakery hundred and $140,000 without a judges OK
We all know that the Federal land grab and ponzy scemes including this BS fine are not long for this Nation. When your opponent screams the loudest is just before he gives in.
What a bunch of c**p! Al Sharpton and other cronies of the POTUS will never have to pay their back taxes nor will they ever see a day in prison for their crimes. However, Bill Ammon and the others……you know where they will be going……because he and his friends are white and trying to live free and make a living.
Don’t pay them c**p this is our land not theirs rivers not theirs
Angel Toro I disagree, we the people have a constitutional right to redress our grievances to our government. If the means by which that is done is not destructive it is morally proper. Occupying an empty federal park building harms no one. They aren’t trashing the place, al a the Ferguson and Baltimare folks, and the worst thing you can say is that they maybe, have inconvenienced a camper or two (but they haven’t. There is no moral equivalency to your argument.
Lol, Baltimore is not the south