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How long is this outrageous crap going to continue. They get a free pass from the Federal government. WTF is going on? Enough is enough IMO! This is just emboldening them to do more crap across the US. It needs to be stopped! Imagine OWS doing anything like this, or people of color. They would likely be imprisoned by now for federal offenses.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ore-militia-remove-cameras-pave-roads-wildlife-refuge-article-1.2499550
The militia group occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge has been paving new roads, scrapping fences and taking down security cameras on federal property.
In their latest anti-government display, the armed group scaled ladders Friday to disable surveillance cameras at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and blamed the FBI for installing them to survey the occupation.
The black cameras, previously attached to poles at the headquarters, were a symbol of "mass surveillance," militia spokesman LaVoy Finicum said at a media briefing Saturday, where he displayed a basket of the devices.
Their transformation of federal property has earned the ire of the Burns Paiute Tribe, whose leaders demanded criminal charges be brought against Ammon Bundy's group, fearing that priceless artifacts have been defaced and ancient burial grounds desecrated since their Jan. 2 takeover.
"We have no idea whether the militants have disturbed the Tribe's artifacts or gained access to otherwise confidential information," wrote tribe chairperson Charlotte Rodrique in a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regional director Robyn Thorson.
Initech
(100,063 posts)RKP5637
(67,104 posts)this Oregon standoff, something like that. ... but these perpetual shenanigans, it's amazing. Whatever, I hope it can be resolved without a lot of harm/deaths.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)Blame it on UFOs or chupacabras or Bigfoot.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)protect properties. No one was found. Scientists baffled. Trucks seen leaving, content unknown. Strange mystery. Large meteorite suspected.
MineralMan
(146,286 posts)They can't afford to pave a driveway. Buncha Bundy moochers.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)Takket
(21,560 posts)it takes some pretty heavy and specialized equipment to do that, which i doubt is just hanging around a wildlife refuge
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)around in a tool shed! Sounds more like they were just making well worn paths with some of the heavy equipment they found. I think they had a bulldozer.
jmowreader
(50,555 posts)It's too damn cold to pave road and they don't have the materials. They just cut a goat path between the barracks and the kitchen - because Hard Working Freedom Loving Patriots are too damn lazy to WALK to the cookhouse, apparently.