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PufPuf23

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August 12, 2023

Ammon Bundy should still be in prison for Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Cheered me up too.

Ammon Bundy should have been imprisoned for a long stay after past violence against the federal government but he has been treated far too leniently. Hope St. Luke Hospital manages to take everything he owns; horse, hat, cattle, ranch, 4-4, guns, etc. Impoverished in the present and for the rest of his days.

A strong message of maximum punishment and reparations is sole way to deal with this type of person; otherwise they are encouraged and infect others.

Refreshment of memory:

Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

On January 2, 2016, an armed group of far-right extremists[26] seized and occupied the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon,[27] and continued to occupy it until law enforcement made a final arrest on February 11, 2016.[28] Their leader was Ammon Bundy, who participated in the 2014 Bundy standoff at his father's Nevada ranch. Other members of the group were loosely affiliated with non-governmental militias and the sovereign citizen movement.

The organizers were seeking an opportunity to advance their view that the federal government is constitutionally required to turn over most of the federal public land they manage to the individual states, in particular land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), United States Forest Service (USFS), and other agencies.[29] In 2015, the militants believed they could do this by protesting the treatment of two area ranchers convicted of federal land arson, who they believed were wrongly convicted, even though the men in question, Dwight and Steven Dwight Hammond, father and son, did not want their assistance.[30] The occupation began when Bundy led an armed party to the refuge headquarters following a peaceful public rally in the nearby city of Burns.[31]

more at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge

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