FBI Monitoring Armed Standoff in Oregon National Wildlife Refuge

[eveofrevolution]

The FBI has taken the lead in monitoring an armed standoff in Oregon where a group of militia members, along with some members of the family of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, are occupying a building on federal land at a national wildlife refuge.

The FBI is "working with the Harney County Sheriff's Office, Oregon State Police and other local and

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[stess]

I posted about this on my fb and then deleted it seconds later because I remembered people are awful and I don't care to know what they have to say. I need to do a fb culling. :/

I hope this ends peacefully, with these guys in jail.

[tilmon]

Now that the Bundy terrorist family have holed themselves up in Oregon, it's a good time for the federal government to go back to Nevada, round up those cattle for sale, and bulldoze the Bundy operation.

[hey_kayla_jay]

Nah the dad isn't really involved in this, it's just the son and a bunch of whiney hicks.

I kinda wonder if the son has just been watching and waiting for an excuse to do something like this ever since the cattle standoff bullshit.

[kenziekinz09]

This white male terrorism needs to be stopped.

[silver_apples]

I hope they all get arrested, charged, convicted, and lose their gun licenses.

It's not being mentioned much--probably because the militia are making this about land rights--but there is a genuine problem with minimum sentencing here. The Hammonds already served time for arson, but the judge gave them less than the minimum (stating that the minimum was too much). That verdict was overturned, so the Hammonds are now required to serve the rest of the sentence.

But why focus on unjust and disproportionate sentencing laws when you can whine that the land should be yours to burn?

[cindyanne1]

Sometimes eminent domain sucks. There's no doubt about it. We've had a few farm fields split in two by a bike path which was put in by the Knox County Park district, and while that was just a small amount of actual land that was lost, it's something that was a big issue as we couldn't cross the new bike path with our farm equipment, so new access to the back of the fields had to be put in, easements granted from other farmers, etc. Also, if they disturbed any tile (water drainage stuff) when they put in the path, that would be a problem as how would we get in to fix it

[silver_apples]

Yes, eminent domain has its problems, but it's not the issue here. There does seem to be a lot of resentment in the area about how much land is federal and the fees and restrictions that puts on land owners, but it's "that should be ours" not "that used to be ours".