Who Are Oregon’s Wildlife Sanctuary Occupiers And What Do They Want?
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Who Are Oregon’s Wildlife Sanctuary Occupiers And What Do They Want?
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Why yes, we are mocking his abuse at the hands of a tyrannical federal government.
Bundy Family, Sovereign Citizen Loons Have Special Constitution That Says They Can Steal All Our Sh*t
Now that the news is infected with Bundys again, let’s take a few minutes to bring you up to speed on some basics of this latest Armed Militia Patriot Idiocy Outbreak, in which an unknown number of morons with guns and pocket copies of the Constitution have taken over the offices of a federal wildlife preserve, of all damned things. Who are these people? Why are they in Oregon? What do they hope to accomplish? And when will Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore say something incredibly stupid about it on TV? (Answer to last one: What, you mean she hasn’t yet?)
The militia dudes broke into and occupied the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, about 30 miles away from Burns, Oregon, in the high desert eastern part of the state. They claim to have a generator and food, and say they intend to keep the occupation going “for years,” because now they have taken the wildlife refuge from the tyrannical hands of the Federal Government and returned it to We The People. Meaning, of course, They The Heavily Armed Morons. The building was closed for the weekend, and no federal employees were on the property. Since it’s not really their property, it’s more than one step up in seriousness from the old George Carlin bit: “A man has barricaded himself inside his house. However, he is not armed and no one is paying any attention to him.”
What Great Principle Is At Stake Here?
The militia dudes say they’ve taken over the wildlife refuge to protest the conviction and prison sentence of local ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr., 73, and his son Steven Hammond, 46, who were convicted of arson on federal land and, after appealing, are set to report to prison Monday to serve a five-year sentence. The Hammonds’ attorney, W. Alan Schroeder, wrote to Harney County Sheriff David Ward to clarify that the supposed beneficiaries of the takeover want nothing to do with the men playing Freedom Fighter at the refuge: “Neither Ammon Bundy nor anyone within his group/organization speak for the Hammond Family,” Schroeder wrote. He also told the AP last week the Hammonds intend to report to prison Monday as ordered: “We gave our word that’s what we would do, and we intend to act on it[.]” Not even with the great big militia standing by to keep them free.
What’s This Crap Really About?
The Bundy boys — Ammon, Ryan, and Mel — appear to have glommed onto the Hammond case as an excuse to push their bizarre idea that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t allow the Federal Government to own land, and the wildlife preserve really belongs to the ranchers and loggers of the area, because the land just does, okay? This argument is probably really hilarious to members of the Northern Paiute tribe, to whom the land originally belonged before they were forced to accept a token landholding of 760 acres near Burns.
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