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:
James Madison made article 4 clear. It does not grant the federal government land ownership. The federal government is always going to interpret laws to their liking not “interpretation”. We can look no further then the founders to find the meanings and they said article 4 does not allow the Supreme court to make nor interpret law.
Some people have a pair and are not a drain to society.
And if I’m not mistaken that’s what they did in Ferguson, only difference is these guys aren’t burning businesses and stealing everything they can get there hands on other than work boots.
Yeehawdists.
Hahahaha! Ray Marie Burson, you are even funnier! No Bundy’s owned any land in that part of Nevada until the late 1940’s. County records don’t lie. The Bundy’s do. Grazing fees are not illegal. Their neighbors all pay their grazing fees.
Here you go, Ray Marie Burson. Read it and weep. Glad I could do your homework for you. Hahahaha!! You so funny.
What that they’ve known the raising of beef is accountable for more waste and pollution than any other activity on the planet? Unsustainably at it’s core.
Jordan Peck, youtube has got you on full constitutional expert status.
,I take it since none you legal experts have made mention of “[N]or shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb” that doesn’t matter anymore, or the fact that if some government “agency” just decided to throw them back in jail, it would also be a substantiative due process violation,.
Yup spoken like a person entitled. Immediately you go toward race. Rather than socio-economic classification. Like farmers don’t get huge subsidies? Race aside, this form of activism would never been tolerated at this level under prior administrations. I’m not against it entirely, just noting a change in how we handle domestic terrorism and treason.