January 13, 2016

'Every gun in house is loaded'

Terrorism...pure and simple.

It's a sad day when the Feds value their image over the safety of us citizens by letting this continue.


'Every gun in house is loaded' -- scare tactics rattle residents near Oregon occupation

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/residents_near_oregon_occupati.html

January 7, 2016

My distillation of why the Bundys get the kid glove treatment

Authoritarianism respects itself.

It's like looking in the mirror for law enforcement.
They look, believe, and act just like those they are suppose to be enforcing the law on.

That's my 2 cents.

January 7, 2016

Here's what happens when Native Americans defend their land

Here’s What Happened When These Unarmed Native American Sisters Defended Their Land from the Feds

Like the Bundys, the Dann sisters tried a standoff with the BLM. But it ended very differently.

The double standard in the media’s treatment of Ammon Bundy and his gang at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is shameful, but the case of the Dann sisters underlines even further the disparity in how non-white activists are treated.

Carrie and Mary Dann, two elderly Shoshone women who have defied seizure of their land, have been repeatedly roughed up and harassed by federal officials and mobs of white ranchers for refusing to cede their claim to land that was illegally stolen from them 30 years ago.

http://usuncut.com/resistance/dann-sisters-brutalized-by-blm-defending-land/

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January 7, 2016

Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West

It's what the Hammonds and Bundys do.
They are on welfare plus they destroy our public lands.

http://www.publiclandsranching.org/book.htm


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January 6, 2016

Where is the enforcement?

The Bundy Militia Raid on Burns: What the Media Left Out



Public lands are some of our most treasured lands in the nation. Opal Creek, Crater Lake, the Siuslaw National Forest here in Oregon to name just a few. The truth behind the Bundy influenced takeover of the Malheur refuge HQ should be exposed for what it is.

MORE:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/04/the-bundy-militia-raid-on-burns-what-the-media-left-out/

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Who will protect our environment?
I am fully aware of the "good old boy" network that exists between public employees and these type of private yahoos. Many are related by family.
I saw it in the Forest Service in rural Oregon where I worked for the CETA program doing trail maintenance in the early 1980's. It's a wink and a nod as logging interests violated environmental laws meant to protect watersheds.

January 6, 2016

When the law didn't come down forcefully on the Hammonds the first time

Nor the Bundy Ranch.

And when I say "the first time" I am talking about the Clinton Administration era (see link).

The sad thing is it has put BLM and other Federal agents lives at risk.
Many of these employees are trying to protect wetlands and endangered species.
Our government appears to be abandoning our public servants.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027503449

January 6, 2016

When you learn just how horrible these ranchers are...

...It's harder to laugh at them.

Shame on our Federal Government for not nipping this in the bud.

Showdown in the Malheur Marshes: the Origins of Rancher Terrorism in Burns, Oregon

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/05/showdown-in-the-malheur-marshes-the-origins-of-the-armed-occupation-in-burns-oregon/