Oregon Occupation Turns Into Bundy Family Feud

[niyad]

Oregon Occupation Turns Into Bundy Family Feud


Rancher (and taker) Cliven Bundy stands along the road near his ranch after speaking with media Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, in Bunkerville, Nev.


The occupation of a federal building in Oregon has turned into a family feud, pitting Ammon Bundy against his father, Cliven.

The leader of the armed militia occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Ammon Bundy, has been arrested and he’s publicly calling for the remaining militants to leave. A statement purportedly from Ammon Bundy has been posted to his lawyer’s website:
We will have more to say later but right now I am asking the federal government to allow the people at the refuge to go home without being prosecuted.
To those remaining at the refuge, I love you. Let us take this fight from here. Please stand down. Go home and hug your families. This fight is ours for now in the courts. Please go home.

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Back in Nevada, however, Cliven Bundy is encouraging those remaining at the ranch to keep fighting. “We are going to have to fight this battle over and over if we give up right today,” the elder Bundy told KSNV.

Cliven Bundy led a standoff with federal officials in 2014 over unpaid grazing fees. Law enforcement elected to stand down in order to avoid bloodshed. The grazing fees, now in excess of $1 million, have still not been paid.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/28/3743953/militia-cliven-ammon-bundy/

[flamingdem]

1. Ya see Ammo

Daddy doesn't care about your freedumb, from prison that is.

[niyad]

2. well, old cliven does have 12 other offspring, and 60 grand offspring to worry about.

[joeybee12]

3. Having such garbage as a father almost makes me feel sorry for Ammon

Almost

[niyad]

4. agreed.

[joeybee12]

5. It's a Greek tragedy that sort of writes itself...nt

[niyad]

6. and, sadly, the rest of us are the audience.

[KittyWampus]

8. I think DU'ers are the Chorus.

[MagickMuffin]

7. Stay Put! as he says from the comfort and safety of his ranch and outta harms way!

Encouragement from a distance, since he isn't involved in the "battle" or fighting.

Calling all women and children, stat!!!

[vinny9698]

11. Typical GOP chicken hawks ready to go to war

While they themselves and their families stay home, then screw them when they come home by cutting VA benefits.
The whole reason they had the GI Bill after WWII, was that they were afraid of riots if the troops came back and were put in soup lines from which most had come before the war. They witnessed the Bonus Riots after WWI and had worries so many coming back home, trained for combat and leadership would lead an insurrection.

[Oneironaut]

16. And then shame any returning soldier with PTSD

by questioning their devotion to their country and pretending to know more about being a soldier than they do.

"I was there. I was a war correspondent." - Paraphrase of what Bill O'Reilly said once.

[niyad]

15. exactly

[Denzil_DC]

9. "Keep fighting"? Last I looked, they were smoking, boozing, babbling and going "Wow!" at the stars.

I approve. More of that, less of the likes of Bundy.

[Vinca]

10. His ranch ought to be our ranch . . . seized for failure to pay grazing fees.

[niyad]

13. over a million owing right now. I would say it is ours. or, more specifically, whichever

indigenous nation it belonged to first.

[lindysalsagal]

12. THEY'RE called THERAPISTS! GET ONE!!!!

Damn, I'm so sick of these neanderthals using public airways to process their family issues!!

Get a clue, assholes: We don't care about your unresolved family disfunction!!!

[niyad]

14. welll, he does have a dozen more kids--lots of therapy!!