Bundyland - Two devout Mormon brothers have created a fantasy camp for commandos in Eastern Oregon.
This is great reporting from John Sepulvado of Oregon Public Broadcasting ( http://opb.org ) , who has been on the story well before it began to grab the attention of anybody else.
http://www.wweek.com/2016/01/13/bundyland/
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The takeover of the Malheur sanctuary by Bundy, his two brothers and a small posse of anti-government radicals has for nearly two weeks has captured the imagination, stoked the anxiety and even entered the Zeitgeist of much of America (no small thanks to late-night hosts like Stephen Colbert mocking the militants' request for snacks). The confrontation introduced the world to southeast Oregon's Harney County, a place where sagebrush and mesas are white with new winter snow.
At the center of this spotlight is a camp where about three dozen socially isolated men have taken up arms and bonded despite deep contradictions among themselves.
Even one day spent bivouacked with these militants reveals a sketch, if not a fully formed picture, of a group of people searching for meaning and eager for attention from the media they profess to hate. Their ideology, a mash-up of radical Mormonism and militaristic fantasy, is a distillation of the frustration of people who've been marginalized by a world in which they do not fit.
Now, they have created a place of their own. They call the occupation Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, and have renamed the refuge the "Harney County Resource Center." But the place might be more precisely described as Bundyland.
And they can't explain how they're going to get out.
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Sure am glad we're encouraging these people.
