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BamaD -> RE: Militia takes over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters (1/4/2016 9:29:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul
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ORIGINAL: BamaD
As for the complaint against his mother, I can't see these guys admitting she threatened them even if she said she was going to shoot them, that complaint is just silly.
I thought that too...no way in hell would I ever expect someone in this type of situation to admit to being threatened by a 74 year old grandmother. But there is nothing that has happened that would indicate the sheriff has lied about anything.
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ORIGINAL: BamaD
Am I correct in thinking there is no known link between thr protesters and the threats? Not that this makes the threats acceptable in any way.
Nothing I have seen yet identifies who made the threat other than 'angry protesters'.
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The Sheriff on the other hand went off the deep end and said these guys were trying to not only overthrow the county government, but the Federal government as well.
I wouldn't call it the deep end. There is a lot of backstory and little details that get lost in reporting the big picture, but that can be found elsewhere. Apparently Bundy has been posting about this for two months, talking about the peaceful protest but also telling followers to 'come prepared to take a stand'. Even the Oathkeepers, who I would think would be the last to denounce this, have a long statement posted right on their official site, and they suggest that uprising against the Federal Government may very well be part of his plan. And they are calling Bundy out for misleading people about his intentions regarding just how far he will take this.
From the Oathkeepers site:
He then describes plans for a rally, march, and protest on Saturday, January 2, that will march though town and end by placing flowers in front of the Hammond family residence in town. That description sounds like it will be only a protest, and that is the apparent intent of the Three Percenter groups involved, but Ammon’s rhetoric goes way beyond just a protest. For example, on December 11th, he posted:
Please understand that we must exhaust all prudent measures before taking a physical stand against the horrific actions that the People of Harney County are enduring (including the Hammond’s). If this Notice is ignored, then one more Notice of Demand will be sent, it will list the many petitions that have been ignored and demand that the Hammond’s rights be restored. If that final Notice is rejected then People across the Union will have justification to assemble and once again restore individual rights. (emphasis added.)
So, at the least, Ammon is sending out confusing and contradictory messages of what he is asking people to do, and at the worst, he is planning on going far beyond a mere protest, and intends some form of armed direct action (and all despite the Hammonds making it known that Ammon does not speak for them and they intend to voluntarily report to federal custody.)
At the very least Ammon needs to make it very clear what he is asking people to do, and he needs to make it clear that he is going against the clearly stated intent of the Hammonds. His rhetoric is all about taking a stand and defending the Hammonds from being taking into custody and then going further and defending the entire county against the Feds, despite serious opposition by the local community against any form of armed confrontation.
https://www.oathkeepers.org/the-hammond-family-does/
Trying to protrey this as an attempt to overthrow the government is way out there.
I wish they had used different methods but there position is just.
If this were handleded the way other disturbances have been of late the government would just move back and let them do what they wanted and go after the judge who has put the Hammonds in double jeopeardy.
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