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:
How can the government own land, the American people are the government. They have a hidden agenda for what they are doing. What is in the ground there they so badly want to get? Double jeopardy is against the law, again the government is out of line.
I don’t feel he owes anything myself ….
Time to clean House. A thorough inventory.
Put it every where.
Go ranchers!
No need to try them again. They aren’t contesting the verdict. It was the sentence that the first judge imposed was deemed to be too light. Maybe it didn’t meet some kind of mandatory minimum.
Two million dollars only haha Sharpton owes a lot more than that try four million at the most.
I think this says it all.
Imagine the outcry if Obama interfered with a court ruling.
The prisoners he released by trading them for Bergdahl, had not been convicted of anything.
crisis actor