Two good editorials on Malheur

[central scrutinizer]

http://registerguard.com/rg/opinion/33958145-78/this-land-is-our-land--all-of-ours.html.csp

http://registerguard.com/rg/opinion/33951168-78/rue-the-rebellion.html.csp

Excerpt from second one:

"What we’re doing is in accordance with the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land.”

Bundy could not be more wrong.

To understand why requires a basic understanding of the region’s complex and troubling history and the legal authority under which the federal land management agencies operate.

The first people to live off this land, after all, were the Paiute. For millennia, and thus long before settler-­colonists arrived in the region, the Paiute hunted, fished and gathered in this fertile, albeit arid, terrain.

Their remarkable ecological adaptability — historian Nancy Langston observes in “Where the Land and Water Meet,” the definitive study of the Malheur Basin — helped the colonists rationalize their post-Civil War eviction:

[handmade34]

1. K&R n/t

[DirkGently]

2. Two excellent pieces. n/t

[L. Coyote]

3. And now this, like father, like son:

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[L. Coyote]

4. This just in on Twitter, hilarious.

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And good photoshopping too.