The Federal Bureau of Investigation have arrived in Oregon to fixed the stand off at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
City folk and many country folks, will never understand the feeling of looking over the range and seeing the heard grazing. A rancher knows the cattle and the way they eat will bring good prices at market. This is how The Hammond's and Ammon Bundy who are fighting with the Federal government make their living, ranching.
The Hammond's were wrongly convicted of burning lands. For years the BLM and United States Forest Service have wanted the ranches in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge forest area.
Federal Government employees, used illegal tactics to get families to sell out. When that failed in some cases, these federal employees flooded the lands, forcing families off the lands with nothing. Most everyone left. The Hammond's stayed.
These two agencies, the United States Forest Service and the Bureau Land Management, utilized a Federal Judge to imprison the father and son ranchers for 5 years after they set fire to some of the lands to prevent further damage from forest fires. The Hammond's had done this for years without any legal problems.
The story is much larger than this shorter version. The Hammond ranch practically sits in the middle of the Governments targeted Federal forest area. After running all the other families out.
The employees of the Federal government decided they would use the Hammond's naivety about the laws to crush them. Take out the father and son, the rest of the Hammond's were weaker.
Mr. Ammon Bundy came to Oregon to protest the United States governments interference and take over of public lands that people have farmed and ranched for years. Mr. Bundy told F.B.I. release the Hammond's and we'll see how things go. To settle the stand off at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
If any law enforcement or government personnel believe they are able to contain the outrage of American citizens by continually imprisoning people, they are wrong. Oregonian's may not like the fact that Ammon Bundy came here to help the Hammond's and to try to get people to stand up against this sort of coercion.
The actions of one man may indeed anger others. To shut up, lay down, and allow our elected national leaders, sworn in law officials and others to illegally lock us up and steal our lands must stop. Perhaps this is the message they are trying so hard to get us to hear and understand. The oppression we allow now, will be the oppression we experience later.
City folk and many country folks, will never understand the feeling of looking over the range and seeing the heard grazing. A rancher knows the cattle and the way they eat will bring good prices at market. This is how The Hammond's and Ammon Bundy who are fighting with the Federal government make their living, ranching.
The Hammond's were wrongly convicted of burning lands. For years the BLM and United States Forest Service have wanted the ranches in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge forest area.
Federal Government employees, used illegal tactics to get families to sell out. When that failed in some cases, these federal employees flooded the lands, forcing families off the lands with nothing. Most everyone left. The Hammond's stayed.
These two agencies, the United States Forest Service and the Bureau Land Management, utilized a Federal Judge to imprison the father and son ranchers for 5 years after they set fire to some of the lands to prevent further damage from forest fires. The Hammond's had done this for years without any legal problems.
The story is much larger than this shorter version. The Hammond ranch practically sits in the middle of the Governments targeted Federal forest area. After running all the other families out.
The employees of the Federal government decided they would use the Hammond's naivety about the laws to crush them. Take out the father and son, the rest of the Hammond's were weaker.
Mr. Ammon Bundy came to Oregon to protest the United States governments interference and take over of public lands that people have farmed and ranched for years. Mr. Bundy told F.B.I. release the Hammond's and we'll see how things go. To settle the stand off at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
If any law enforcement or government personnel believe they are able to contain the outrage of American citizens by continually imprisoning people, they are wrong. Oregonian's may not like the fact that Ammon Bundy came here to help the Hammond's and to try to get people to stand up against this sort of coercion.
The actions of one man may indeed anger others. To shut up, lay down, and allow our elected national leaders, sworn in law officials and others to illegally lock us up and steal our lands must stop. Perhaps this is the message they are trying so hard to get us to hear and understand. The oppression we allow now, will be the oppression we experience later.
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