The mother of one of his kids is now involved with an officer, Landon said, and they made a decision to send their children to another town after they were allegedly threatened by an angry protester.
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Ammon Bundy said if the government did use force to retake the Malheur National Wildlife refuge “they would be putting lives at risk”.
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Tension has been building for weeks in the Burns, Oregon, area over the case of Dwight and Steven Hammond.
The Hammonds already have served time for arson charges stemming from 2001 and 2006 incidents in which they undertook prescribed burns to get rid of invasive weeds that spread to federal land.
A federal judge in October ruled the Hammonds to return to prison for about another four years each.
Some local residents feared the Saturday rally would involve more than speeches, flags and marching.
They include three sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was at the centre of a mass armed stand-off with the Bureau of Land Management in 2014 over $1 million (£677,000) he owes in grazing fees in Gold Butte, a proposed conservation area. Their father, Cliven Bundy, was involved in a standoff with the government past year over grazing rights in Nevada. Ammon Bundy has criticized the USA government for what he called a failed legal process.
A number of militamen have seized the refuge’s headquarters in protest of arson convictions against a pair of local ranchers.
Williams also disputed the notion that the Hammonds were prosecuted as terrorists, as Bundy suggested.
“Neither Ammon Bundy nor anyone within his group/organization speak for the Hammond Family”, the Hammonds’ lawyer, W. Alan Schroeder wrote to Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward, according to the network.
According to CBS News, Dwight Hammond and his son are planning to peacefully report to prison Monday, as the judge ordered, and have been distancing themselves from the Hammonds’ actions.
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“We have no intention of being aggressive at all”, Bundy said by telephone. Many locals have told the outside groups to stay away.
The protestors holed up inside the refuge – a loose-knit grouping of anti-government farmers, ranchers and survivalists – said they planned no violence but would not rule it out if authorities stormed the site.
A small flock of pheasants wandered across the refuge driveway, scattering as men driving utility vehicles traversed the property. He also called for others to join them (with their guns) at the refuge if they supported their cause, which he said on Facebook was the defense of people who were being “abused” by the government. The protesters, Bundy says, want the state to have jurisdiction.
The refuge, according to a National Parks website, is a federal wildlife preserve where, “People and wildlife have been drawn to the resources of this oasis of wetlands in the high desert of OR for thousands of years”.
A group of armed men has occupied the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge in the US State of OR to protest the imminent jailing of two ranchers.
The Harney County Sheriff’s office released a statement Sunday saying that law enforcement was working to make sure citizens are safe and “this issue is resolved as quickly and peaceful as possible”.
The occupiers said their mission is to put the federal lands under local control, although it’s unclear by what means.
Landon, the longtime Burns resident, said he sympathizes with the Bundys’ frustrations.
“The spotted owl started the downfall of our community, then (President) Clinton made the Steens Mountains a wilderness area or whatever. Five generations of ranchers that had been on the Steens, kicked them off”, he said. “But I don’t want anybody hurt”. The biggest difference since the takeover is the undercurrent of worry, he said.
“It’s weird I woke up this morning expecting the town to be crawling with this and that agency”.
“We gave our word that’s what we would do”, Dwight Hammond said, “and we intend to act on it”.
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For their supporters, the Hammonds represent the latest battle in a struggle as old as the American settlement of the West: pitting poor cattle farmers against the federal government and its land regulations in states such as OR, where the federal government owns more than half of the land. He claimed the protesters accessed the buildings after they found a set of keys. And I guess this is what they did decide to do.
