Oregon standoff: Occupiers recruit ranchers to stop paying grazing fees

[muriel_volestrangler]

BURNS — Members of the armed standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife refuge said Monday that they've recruited ranchers to stop paying the federal government for the right to run cattle on public land.

The occupation organizers are planning a "signing ceremony" Friday where ranchers will sign documents renouncing their obligation to pay fees tied to the federal grazing allotments, said spokesman LaVoy Finicum.

Two ranchers – one from Oregon and one from New Mexico – have agreed to sign the papers and "I hope they bring a couple more in tow," Finicum said.

The documents will be sent to the U.S. solicitor general, he said.

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/oregon_standoff_occupiers_recr.html#incart_story_package

Finicum goes on to lie "it's not about ranching". Yes, of course it is - he wants Free Stuff, as a rancher, like the ability to control the land owned by the USA. He thinks he should get what is owned by the federal authorities. He think there should be nothing at all owned by any federal authority.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. Can we call the occupation 'Wounded Fee' or is that just tacky?

nt

[PADemD]

2. Duzy

[Baitball Blogger]

3. And those ranchers will become co-conspirators.

Or, the Feds can wait until they infect everyone and then REALLY turn this into a WACO situation.

[phantom power]

6. Agreed, I fail to see how this is "avoiding escalation." It escalates every day they're free.

[NV Whino]

4. What these idiots are failing to recognize is...

None of them could afford to own the vast amounts of land that the federal government charges them pennys to use.

[jeff47]

5. Good thing we never went after them after the Bundy standoff!! (nt)