The stand-off in Oregon between the Federal government and Ammon Bundy and his fellow ranchers does not seem to be winding down. Bundy and his loosely connected organization came to Burns, Oregon about two weeks ago in support of Steven and Dwight Hammond, local ranchers who were accused of arson some years ago. The charges were filed because the Hammonds cleared some of their ranch by burning the underbrush and overgrowth, but the fire spread to surrounding Federal land. The Hammonds were able to extinguish the blaze without help, and in fact, both the Hammonds ranch and the Federal land are said to be more productive and healthier from the clearing, but the government seems intent on making a show of who is in charge.
The charge of arson, which in and of itself seems like a huge miscarriage of justice, in that it carries a mandatory sentence of 5 years in prison. A judge who tried the case thought so too and said that it would be improper and unfair to send them to prison for 5 years each, so he sentenced the Hammonds to less than a year in jail, which they completed some time ago. However, a judge or government agency seeking to show ranchers everywhere just who is in charge has demanded that the Hammonds serve the full five years, and the father and son left for prison last week.
Ammon Bundy claims new documents expose government abuse, page 2:
Why does the BLM manage lands and make ranchers have grazing contracts? Because before they did ranchers would routinely over graze land destroying the local ecology.. then move the cattle to a different area over grazing there.. repeating this process untill they ran in to each other and got in to shoot outs over who had the right to graze on X plot of land… the ranchers were incapable of managing the land responsibly and resorted to violence against each other… thus the government had to step in..
f**k the BLM and this$#%&!@*COWBOY if anybody gets the land give some back to the native Americans !!!!!
May these nutjobs rot in Federal prison, it will be more freebies for them from the US taxpayers.
Hey Sam, you have been wildly misinformed. President Obama was a Constitutional Law Professor, write him a letterf and ask him his opinion on this.
Vanilla ISIS is a bunch of shitbirds, what more do I need to know?
meanwhile everyone here bitching about the cattle ranchers will go home tonight and enjoy a nice steak dinner…..
the government bought the land to fix it for these idiot ranchers who destroyed it in 1886, then allowed them to keep using it while the tax payers paid for it. Then they kept setting fire to it and poaching on it. So they lost their privileges this is their tantrum. They are nothing more then failed ranchers who think they are entitled to$#%&!@*because their family has exploited nature so long.
u r an IDIOT
Good man your education is not education you cannot undo history nor can you rewrite history’s past by changing the facts Through regret and getting even with the past that is no longer relevent