Here we go again..... Armed Militia Mobilizing to Take on Feds’ Land Grab… Issue This Warning Shot

[ghostsinthemachine]

To Obama...


The Sugar Pine Mining owners have been mining their land for a century but now the federal Bureau of Land Management is trying to take over. In response, an armed militia group known as The Oath Keepers are stepping in to defend the miners.

Oregon-based Sugar Pine Mining faced an April 25 deadline to get their equipment off the land. However, with the Oath Keepers help, they intend to fight the BLM.


http://conservativetribune.com/armed-militia-mobilizing/

[Fred Sanders]

1. Trashing.

[blm]

2. Rand2016 camp: The left does this, too.

Yeah - there's no difference and it's hypocritical to condemn the RW activists who do this when there are so many on the left who do the same.

Yeah - there are some weasels here at DU who think they can get us to believe that.

[Oilwellian]

3. From TPM

A dispute between the Bureau of Land Management and gold miners in Southwestern Oregon drew immediate comparisons to the 2014 standoff at Cliven Bundy's Nevada ranch as word of the fresh conflict wound its way through the blogosphere this week.

Many of the ingredients were the same: a disagreement over property rights, a remote locale and a band of armed activists committed to protecting the land owner's rights under the Constitution.

There's one key difference, though. In interviews with TPM and local news outlets, the players involved in the mining dispute have been adamant about preventing the situation in Oregon from escalating the way the standoff in Bunkerville, Nevada did. Despite their best intentions, the allure of an armed conflict with federal agents has still proved irresistible to self-styled militia members who flocked to the area from across the country to stir up trouble.

At issue is a disagreement over how to interpret records of the mines' ownership, a spokesman for the BLM's Medford district office told TPM in a phone interview.

Jim Whittington said it boils down to there being two different types of rights to the land: mining rights and surface rights. He said the two men involved in the dispute own the mining rights to the land, but not the surface rights. The BLM's records, Whittington said, show that the surface rights at the Sugar Pine Mine were ceded to the agency in 1961 by the party that owned the claim at that time. He said the BLM in March served the Sugar Pine Mine with two letters saying as much.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/sugar-pine-mine-oregon-blm

[Old Codger]

4. BUT

The owners have asked them to stay away and not interfere...

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/04/grants_pass_man_locked_in_gold.html

[Dwayne Hicks]

5. These people are terrorists.

I really wish the BLM would grow a backbone and shoot back.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Some Idiot who thinks they are an Expert in Federal Land Rights must have been or is advising

these people. The Underlying agreements on our Nevada Claim allows us rights to Surface Placer Mining and not Load Mining. In saying that,we have to comply with all use laws and agreements,if we screw up,the BLM can pull our Claim and fine us for misuse or illegal use of the land. This sounds like a couple of Guys that got some so called advise from a Tea Party Nut Job and now it is coming back to bite them in the ass.

[Rex]

7. Oath Keepers lol. That's like calling capitalism, reaganomics.

These idiots wouldn't know the U.S. Constitution, even if it bit them on the ass! Their oath is to Saint Reagan!

[ohnoyoudidnt]

8. The assholes at the Cliven Bundy ranch

should have been put in their place. The lack of action seems to have emboldened militias.