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:
Send in the national guard get these thugs out
Bruce Goodman, I am in Texas and we won against them! Go Texas!!!
Carl says, “There is no limit to the kind of lies the pro-terrorists will tell to support their cause of hate, fear and paranoia.”
Carl says, “Bruce, don’t confuse the wingnuts with facts when their minds are made up”.
Okay…I read it. What’s the “incriminating” part? Is it this?:
“Bundy now claims to have found documents in the refuge that show how the government has discriminated against local ranchers who use federal land for cattle grazing. They also traveled to a nearby ranch and tore down some fencing erected by the government that was keeping that rancher there from being able to graze his cattle on federal land.”
If so…what’s new? Is it “news” that ranchers can’t graze their cattle anywhere they see fit?
Why hasn’t the government taken the rebel scum out with a drone strike? over 5,000 occupy wall street protesters were arrested, gassed, beat, when they were protesting and they weren’t threatening to kill anyone.
SHOW IT TO AMERICA
I think my family has paid their dues to this country as most a retired military including my husband and daughter. And has far as keeping it in trust for the people explain the 28k acres worth to a Chinese rich man.
What Horse-s**t
” Yes & the bias media is not about to inform the public, what those documents say ” !