Entangled in a spat with the government over the practice of prescribed burning on their family ranch, the Hammond family has evidentially been labeled terrorists, and sentenced to five years in federal prison.
Prescribed burning is a preemptive move made to curtail the threat of forest fires. By thinning out the amount of vegetation on land in a controlled way, ranchers have been able to reduce the risk of serious, uncontrollable fires on their land.
While the Hammond Family has admitted to certain fires initially becoming larger than intended, all fires were privately put out, and no federal money was spent on the endeavors.
Regardless, they were still arrested.
The government’s actions here are not without precedent. Truth and Action has previously reported that the Bundy family, who own land adjacent to none other than Harry Reid, have been the subject to severe federal harassment. Other ranches have similarly complained of constant, federal oversight and harassment as well.
The Bundy family have had enough, and penned an open letter detailing the injustice of the Hammond family that you can read on the next page:
Obamika
Help is on the way…
This is who Obama thinks are the terrorist.
…breathin up all the whiteman’s air
The key to this story is that the land they were setting on fire did not belong to them.
I’m sorry but the land they were firing was their land Mr. Ignorant. They accidentally had a fire spread to land that was not theirs, which they quickly handled and put out. 11 years after the fact is when the federal government gets them, and calls them terrorists for God’s sake! If folks don’t realize the federal overstep that is going on in this country there is a problem. People are giving power to the feds that is just not theirs to wield. This is either through ignorance of what and who the feds are supposed to be, or they are complacent with the feds. People have forgotten real history and bought into the spoon fed Federal version of history.
I hate OsamaObama!
complete BS
Welcome to Mercia
So few voices of reason among a mountain of ignorance.