The Federal government does not like to be challenged, and it has the resources and the power to make citizens yield, and does so when it cannot win the argument. If you have been following the conflict in Oregon recently between ranchers and the Federal government, you will know that the government, which owns over 50% of the land in eleven western states, is willing to jail you for unintended trespass of undeveloped, unoccupied land.
Two ranchers who did some brush clearing of their own ranch, but inadvertently burned some of the adjoining federal land, are now in prison for a long stay, based on a charge of arson. It is worth pointing out that the fire they started was put out by the ranchers without outside help, and the land itself is actually now healthier and more productive due to the reduction of brush and overgrowth. But the government wants to make sure that everyone understands they are in charge and they have the power.
A small group of ranchers, led by Ammon Bundy, are occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in protest of the unjust sentence and the overbearing government position. Fortunately, no violence has developed, but Bundy and his group have vowed to stay until the two ranchers in question are freed. But the government still wants to make a strong point, and they have enlisted a judge to help them.
Huge fine threatened, page 2:
Whatever! The government is plowing too close to the cotton on this one…the truth will surface!
Charge the leaders of black lives matter, they actually destroyed property.
This is how the government wins their battles. If the people would band together in large numbers, our power would reign.
WHEN WILL GOVERNMENT OVER-REACH END ? GEEZ BLM WATCH OUT YOUR MOUNTING SOME MEGA IT SEEMS
Good Luck collecting that, Morons!
Unarmed (protestors) lmao that’s an oxymoronic statement, they were the exact opposite, armed with rocks and flamin bottles, and they were not protestors but rioters, in any other country they would have been shot
Angel Toro – Let me retract my last statement I respect your liberal, conservative or middle view. The one thing I agree with you on is the right to protest. That does not mean one group of people get fined $ 70.000 a day and another group of people go without consequences.
All of the minerals under the ground they have promised them to China.
Someone should soot the judge outside the group. That will set judicial system straight
Just an opportunity by Government to seize what you got!