Ammon Bundy used a Facebook video posted December 31 to summon an armed militia to Burns, Ore., by January 2.
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“The best possible outcome is that the ranchers that have been kicked out of the area, then they will come back and reclaim their land, and the wildlife refuge will be shut down forever and the federal government will relinquish such control”, Ryan Bundy told the Oregonian. All official updates from the militia will come only from Bundy.
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Among the occupiers are several members of the Bundy family, whose patriarch – Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy – was involved in an armed standoff with government agents over grazing rights in 2014.
The occupation came after an estimated 300 marchers – militia and local citizens – paraded through Burns to protest the prosecution of two Harney County ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr., 73, and Steven Hammond, 46, who are to report to prison Monday, according to The Oregonian.
Some of the same armed “militia” involved in the Cliven Bundy affair in Nevada have occupied federal land in OR formerly reserved for the Northern Paiute.
The situation began, in some ways, in the decades following the Civil War. It was unclear exactly how many people were taking part in the protests. When they arrived, they took over a federal building. “And livestock ranchers are, in my experience, pretty savvy people”. An occupation of the Burns, Oregon federal building started on Saturday led by several members of the Bundy family.
The decision generated controversy and is part of a decades-long dispute between some Westerners and the federal government over the use of public lands.
According to the Congressional Research Service, in Nevada the USA owned more than 81 percent of the state’s land in 2010. Most of the OR protesters are white.
“The fact is, it’s a paradox being a rugged individualist dependent on the government – unless you’re John Wayne”, Robbins says.
Tension has been building for weeks in the Burns, Oregon, area over the case of Dwight and Steven Hammond. “Seems like a bit of an overkill”, Dwight Hammond said of the conviction.
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, encompassing 292 square miles (75,628 hectares), was established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt as a breeding ground for greater sandhill cranes and other native birds.
The seeds of the current situation were sown in 2001 and 2006. The two men were convicted of arson for setting fires on their property that spread to the adjacent Malheur wildlife refuge. The law, which was passed in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, struck the judge presiding over the sentencing as too harsh – and off-base in this instance.
“I thank everyone who came out here today”, Hammond said. “I am not supposed to use the word “fairness” in criminal law”.
“He told me that they were there for the long run”. And I don’t do that. The father and son were sentenced to five years in prison.
Ritzheimer later says he plans to occupy federal lands and suggests he’ll fight to the death rather than suffer the “oppressive, tyrannical government”.
Some local residents feared the Saturday rally would involve more than speeches, flags and marching. “Given the seriousness of arson, a five-year sentence is not grossly disproportionate to the offense”.
Bundy said that while the occupiers, who included his brother Ryan Bundy, were not looking to hurt anyone, they would not rule out violence if police tried to remove them, the Oregonian reported.
But Ammon Bundy has also reportedly said he wants to hand over federal land in the area to loggers, miners and ranchers.
And then one of Bundy’s sons, Ammon Bundy, did it for me.
Ammon Bundy’s father, Cliven Bundy, told Oregon Public Broadcasting on Saturday night that he had nothing to do with the takeover of the building. Officials with the Harney County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
Ammon Bundy told the Oregonian that he and two of his brothers had joined dozens of people in seizing the refuge’s headquarters. Wilson said several men were “openly carrying assault weapons”, including one with an AR-15 who denied him entry to the grounds.
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White settlement nibbled at the Maiheur Indian Reservation until the Bannock War in 1878, which ended with surrendered Paiutes and Bannocks on the reservation being removed, officially to the Yakama Reservation in Washington Territory.
