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:
This thing stinks of Reid/China and the mineral land grab!
Post your info tell your story stand up for what is right.
They better get it photographed and sent out on the net before they can hide it.
Incriminating documents on the fish and game? What a total joke! What was fish and game, blm up to this time? Only in Burns this stupidity goes on! I am for the ranchers but it just sounds dumb.
It is against the constitutional law for the federal government to own any land except the ten acres in DC where the white house is
Put it on billboards an on net.
Go ranchers
How do we know what they have done if they don’t get a trial? If you want to hold them, try and convict them. In your own country. That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if they are all assholes. There seems to be an abundance of assholes around these days.
So I’m not defending them or Obama or anyone else.
The ranchers got a trial and were convicted in your own court system. You want your president to override that?
Just trying to point out that that your meme makes no sense.
The government is only allowed to own ten acres in DC and some patches of territory. Return the land to the states. There are articles in the constitution that state this.
The Un is now in control of our Federal Parks. They want more don’t think?????