The standoff in Oregon between local rights advocates and the federal government regarding the ranchers who are being sent to prison over fires they set in 2006 to clear their land of brush and weeds is increasing in intensity.
Outside groups have made their way to the Malheur Wildlife Reserve and taken over the building (which was unoccupied). The government has responded by sending SOD-X Reserve/National Guard Special Operations troops, with the very clear potential for armed conflict.
This is once again a strong arm effort by the government to show that they own much of the land in Oregon (close to 50 of the entire land mass), and that locals such as ranchers must cow-tow to the government in Washington D.C.
There are serious issues here, and many Constitutional scholars indicate that the Federal government cannot, in fact, own land except for a section in the District of Columbia, plus some ports and seaways. But that may be a moot point when you have the U.S. military going against a rag-tag band of ranchers.
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They say history repeats it self and they way this president and government are acting it soon will.
It’s more like Tim crackpot! Wonder what he’s gettin for free!
Tim Peck…..
I understand the constitution saying you can’t use federal troops to fire on U.S. citizens or did Obama wright an executive order on that too.
This is one time the military should refuse to fire on these guys. It’s clear the federal government is the enemy here.
Why are they calling setting their fields ablaze in a controlled burn to get rid of weeds when practically every land owner in nearly every state clear burns their fields. Even the government burns certain tracks of land. Not only does it get rid of weeds but adds fertilizer to the fields letting grass grown in the spring.
Government out of control. Praying for the ranchers bkz this does not sound good.
Gary McKinney
It is shameful very shameful…
I would hope so.