Those Darn Bundys At It Again!

[piscator]

I guess the US Constitution's just like the Book of Mormon - You're free to interpret it just how you like!

The Bundy family of Nevada joined with hard-core militiamen Saturday to take over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, vowing to occupy the remote federal outpost 50 miles southeast of Burns [Oregon] for years.
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Among the occupiers is Ammon Bundy, son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, and two of his brothers. Militia members at the refuge claimed they had as many as 150 supporters with them. The refuge, federal property managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was closed and unoccupied for the holiday weekend.
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Ammon Bundy said the goal is to turn over federal land to local ranchers, loggers and miners. He said he met with 10 or so residents in Burns on Friday to try to recruit them, but they declined.

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http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-north ... ry_package



Some background on the innocent little Hammonds, idiots utile of the skilled and cynical Bundy insurgency:

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-north ... _big-photo

[JimC]

Time for the black helicopters to fly...

[cronus]

[pErvinalia]

Damn, beat me to it, P. You snooze (literally) you lose.

[pErvinalia]

SETH, TIME TO LOAD UP THE TRUCK!

[Tero]

Just like the amendment!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... story.html

[pErvinalia]

merge required

[JimC]

merge required

Merge with what?

[pErvinalia]

Piscator started a thread about the militia men yesterday or the day before.

[pErvinalia]

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=50494

[JimC]

Will do...

(as an aside, why not a completely fucking dis-organised militia, getting pissed and stoned all the time?)

[pErvinalia]

That would be an Australian militia...

[piscator]

For God and Country, some wingnut oped with background:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/201 ... rsecution/

[Tero]

There are $ involved. The Bundy case involved making money off public lands for decades. When the Gubment raised the rent, wah wah, take pity on the rich rancher.
(Wiki:The Salt Lake City Tribune published an editorial on April 15 entitled "Bundy is a lawbreaker, not a hero", in which it said, "Don't let him get away with it" and "The only winner in this was a scofflaw who has twice lost in the courts for running cattle where they don’t belong and skipping out on grazing fees. Some 20,000 ranchers in Western states abide by BLM regulations, so what makes Bundy special?" To sum it up, the Tribune said, "When some manage to avoid justice by extralegal means, the rule of law is weakened for all Americans."

Some of Bundy's neighbors were not impressed by his actions.[25] "I feel that the rule of law supersedes armed militias coming in from all over the country to stand with a law-breaking rancher, which is what he is", Mesquite resident Elaine Hurd told local television station KLAS)

So why would anyone connect themselves to Bundy? The current case involves use of fire, so it is clearly different.

[laklak]

Hey now, it takes real guts to assault and occupy an empty building!

Anyone know what they're trying to prove, other than the fact they probably shouldn't play with loaded weapons?