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:
The BLM the Forestry department fall under the state department ! The deal with Putin to sell them uranium ! And China too
I see the federal alphabet Mafia liberal turds are working hard today. I can’t wait till Trump is president. you will see that liberal scum scatter under our refrigerator like cockroachs under a spotlight.
Communist backed blm.
A meme with no supporting evidence…..
Sandie Barton, Did you not see the first comment that Ive made. Or the message that on top of the meme. Then reply back?
The Hammonds lease their land from the BLM and did not contest the decision nor did they want any part of the malhuer occupation. But hey let’s get out our foil and make some hats
Somehow the rightful ‘owners’ of the land the Paiute tribe has had their rightful mm land cut down to a shadow of what the treaties call for. Not one treaty in the history of Native vs White people has been upheld
That why the FBI posed as militia and tried to infiltrate?
These guys are Fucking idiots.
Hell this whole corupt government