Armed militia, incl. Bundy bros, occupy forest reserve HQ in Oregon, call ‘US patriots’ to arms
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Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s three sons and “about 150” militiamen have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ to protest the pending imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, arguing the federal government has no authority in local cases.
“We’re going to be freeing these lands up, and getting ranchers back to ranching, getting the loggers back to logging, getting the miners back to mining where they could do it under the protection of the people and not be afraid of this tyranny that’s been set upon them,” Ammon Bundy, who appears to be the leader of the group, said in a Facebook video posted by Sarah Dee Spurlock on Saturday.
USA: Armed militia occupy federal building in Oregon
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s three sons and “about 150” militiamen have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ to protest the pending imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, arguing the federal government has no authority in local cases.
“We’re going to be freeing these lands up, and getting ranchers back to ranching, getting the loggers back to logging, getting the miners back to mining where they could do it under the protection of the people and not be afraid of this tyranny that’s been set upon them,” Ammon Bundy, who appears to be the leader of the group, said in a Facebook video posted by Sarah Dee Spurlock on Saturday.Bundy appears to be standing at the scene of the takeover, surrounded by several men in military-style uniforms with rifles and hand-held radios.
The rancher points out that Harney County used to be the richest in state, and is now the poorest. His radical proposal to solve the situation is to have armed “patriots” come and live in a de-facto self-rule zone independent of the federal authorities.
The second speaker in the video, identified as Blane Cooper, equates the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to bullies at school that used to beat one up and who eventually had to be put in their place.
“Until that line is drawn and say ‘we’ve had enough of this tyranny, you are going to leave us alone’ it will not change,” the military-clad man says.
According to Cooper, they hope their occupation will spell the beginning of a US-wide movement.
“It doesn’t have to stop here. This could be a hope that spreads through the whole country, the whole United States. Everybody’s looking for this hope because the government has beat us, and oppressed us, and took everything from us; they will not stop until we tell them no,” he claims.
The militiamen told OregonLive there were about 150 of them, but a couple who delivered food to the refuge HQ estimated that there were just 15.
Ammon Bundy, 40, told CNN by phone that the protesters want the federal government to restore the "people's constitutional rights."
"This refuge - it has been destructive to the people of the county and to the people of the area," he said. "People need to be aware that we've become a system where government is actually claiming and using and defending people's rights, and they are doing that against the people."
The Bundys and their armed supporters occupied the federal property after splitting from a peaceful Saturday morning protest in Burns, Oregon.
Some 300 people marched through the town to protest against the prosecution of two Harney County ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond, who are scheduled to report to prison on Monday.
Both ranchers were convicted on charges of setting fire to federal land. The case has attracted interest from local militia and intensified debate around the federal government’s authority.
“Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr., 73, and his son, Steven Dwight Hammond, 46, both residents of Diamond, Oregon in Harney County, were sentenced to five years in prison by Chief US District Judge Ann Aiken for arsons they committed on federal lands,” the US Attorney Office said.
The occupation resembles the Bundy Ranch standoff of 2014, when the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) attempted to enforce grazing laws. Bundy got the help of armed militia and triggered a standoff with federal authorities.
The family said heavily-armed federal agents had surrounded their ranch as “trespass cattle” were removed from the disputed land.
READ MORE: Heavily-armed feds surround Nevada Bundy ranch, confiscate cattle (VIDEO)
Since 1993, Cliven Bundy – the “last rancher in Clark County, Nevada” – has refused to pay fees to the federal government for the right to raise cattle on land that his family has ranched since the 1870s, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Hammonds case
The Pendleton, Oregon jury found the Hammonds guilty of the arsons in June 2012. Both were charged with igniting a series of fires on lands managed by the BLM.Hammond Ranches has about 12,000 acres in the Diamond-Frenchglen area. Their livelihood is running cattle during the winter. Two years ago, the ranch used 26,420 acres of land belonging to the BLM for summer grazing.
Supporters of the Hammonds believe they were treated unconstitutionally because the two were convicted of arson under a provision of an expansive federal law punishing terrorism. They both served their prison terms for 2001 and 2006 fires, but were then told by appellate judges they had to go back to prison to serve more.
However, Hammonds said they did not welcome the Bundy group's help, CBS News reported.
"Neither Ammon Bundy nor anyone within his group/organization speak for the Hammond Family," the Hammonds' lawyer W. Alan Schroeder wrote to Sheriff David Ward.
“I find it incredible that the government would want to try these ranchers as terrorists,” Bushue told The Pete Santilli Show. “Now is where the rubber meets the road. Right now is when the public should absolutely be incensed. And the public, I think, should be fearful.”
Related:
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2016/01/150-militia-take-over-forest-reserve-hq-in-oregon-call-us-patriots-to-arms-videos-3270032.html
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/12/militia-called-to-oregon-are-feds-gearing-up-to-slaughter-patriots-hammondranch-update-page-3268656.html
http://beforeitsnews.com/blogging-citizen-journalism/2016/01/patriot-militia-seizes-federal-building-in-oregon-armed-insurrection-against-federal-tyranny-begins-be-wise-no-kill-protestors-2527358.html
Army Not Prepping for Battle; Training For Riot Control and Martial Law
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Army Not Prepping for Battle; Training For Riot Control and Martial Law
In my first video below, I break
down some very disturbing events going on around the country again
where federal agents are squaring off directly across from citizen
militias. I am SHOCKED it has taken this long to see these types of
events starting to spring up again. Why? Because knowing how intent
Obama is on gun confiscation, and knowing how intense those situations
can get (as you’ll see in the heart pounding second video below), all
it’s going to take is one itchy trigger finger before a few hundred are
dead, and we’re either under Martial Law, or civil war has broken out.
How many standoffs do you think before a shot will be fired? Personally,
I’m of the belief that Obama is such trash, he’d put a plant in with
the patriots to fire the first shot… but that’s just my opinion. This post is broken down as follows:
PART I: What is going on that is causing this most recent standoff which is happening in Burns, Oregon?
PART II: What happened at the Bundy Ranch LAST time? Most people have no idea how tense that got…. WOW!
PART III:
What do we know Obama has done as far as steps toward Martial Law, and
specifically when laws have been passed for him to use the broad sword
of the Army on U.S. streets? Also, what authority does Obama “think” he
is acting under?
Part IV: What further evidence is there that Obama plans to use the Military against U.S. citizens?
PART I: WHAT IS UNFOLDING AT THIS MOMENT?
BURNS – The strangers carrying the whisper of danger arrived in the vast territory of the Harney Basin just before the holidays.
Ammon
Bundy once helped his father repulse the government in an armed showdown
on a Nevada desert. He was Tasered for his effort.
Ryan
Payne, an electrician from Montana, joined that same standoff and
boasted of organizing civilians into sniper squads that drew a bead on
federal agents.
And not long
ago, Jon Ritzheimer worried the FBI with his threatening rants against
Muslims in Arizona and elsewhere, according to press reports.
Now, the men say, they are in Burns to help Dwight and Steven Hammond.
The
Hammonds are father and son ranchers, due to report to federal prison on
Monday. They were convicted in 2012 of arson for lighting public land
on fire adjacent to their ranch land south of Burns. They have been
imprisoned once and must return for an additional term after federal
appellate judges said they had been illegally sentenced the first time.
Self-styled
patriots and militiamen gathering in Burns don’t want that to happen,
declaring the Hammonds’ imprisonment illegal under the U.S.
Constitution.
They have latched on to the Hammonds as their latest cause to stand against the federal government.
“I am here now
trying to empower and motivate the people of this community to take a
stand against tyranny and show them that I will gladly stand with them,”
Ritzheimer said.
The Hammonds don’t want to be part of the outsiders’ cause, and neither do many in Harney County.
But
that hasn’t stopped the strangers from summoning help from militia
groups across the country. They are vague about their intention and
their plans, unsettling the community and putting law enforcement on
edge. The militia plan a rally and a parade on Saturday, circling the
county courthouse that houses the sheriff’s office.
The militia members have been insisting that Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward
create a sanctuary so the Hammonds will be immune from surrendering.
Ward met with the militiamen and rejected that demand. The militia has
since labeled him an “enemy of the people.” Ward said he has received
emailed death threats among thousands of messages from across the
country regarding the Hammonds.
Two
weeks ago, Bundy and Payne roused 60 or so local citizens to their cause
at a community meeting. They rented the Memorial Building at the
fairgrounds for the night. They taped themselves lecturing the locals on
their rights, on the Constitution, and on their duty to protect
themselves.http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2015/12/army-not-prepping-for-battle-training-for-riot-control-and-martial-law-2767512.html