A simple guide to why Bundy and his militants are wrong about the Constitution and public land

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RawStory

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07 Jan 2016 at 09:14 ET

The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a 187,757-acre haven for greater sandhill cranes and other native birds in eastern Oregon, is usually a pretty peaceful place. But its calm was shattered on Saturday, January 2 when Ammon Bundy and a group of armed men broke into and occupied a number of federal buildings on the refuge, vowing to fight should the government try to arrest them.

Their insurrectionary goal appears to be, simply put, to destroy the national system of public lands – our forests, parks and refuges – that was developed in the late 19th century to conserve these special landscapes and the critical natural resources they contain for all Americans.



“The best possible outcome,” trumpeted Bundy, son of Cliven Bundy, who began an armed standoff with law enforcement in Nevada in April 2014 over his continued failure to pay US$1 million in fees for grazing on public lands, is that “ranchers that have been kicked out of the area…will come back and reclaim their land, and the wildlife refuge will be shut down forever and the federal government will relinquish such control.”

Theirs was not a rebellion, Bundy declared. “What we’re doing is in accordance with the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land.”

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1. It's all about the Money

Papa Bundy owes the US government over one million dollars. All the bluster, rhetoric, prancing around with guns is a big smoke screen to get the attention away from the money the Bundy family owes the US. The idiots that have joined in the protest probably have a combined IQ of 65 if they can't figure out they are being used.