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    History repeats itself - The Oregon Standoff: A Community Divided

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    Post  Carol Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:48 pm


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSfbvLn87ZI&feature=youtu.be
    April 2014 Shocking New Video Of Destruction After Standoff At Bundy Ranch - The Kelly File


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NeHPgF_9E0
    The Oregon Standoff: A Community Divided
    Published on Jan 11, 2016
    Members of an anti-government militia have occupied the headquarters of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in a remote region of eastern Oregon for over a week, protesting what they claim is an overreaching federal government. The occupation is being led by Ammon Bundy and his brother Ryan, two sons of Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher best known for an armed standoff with the federal government in 2014 over a cattle grazing dispute.

    The protest was sparked by the re-sentencing of two Oregon ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son Steven, to five years in a federal prison for deliberately starting fires on their property that spread to the bordering Malheur Wildlife Refuge.

    While the media has referred to the situation as an armed standoff, more specifically, the "Oregon Standoff," the federal authorities have kept their distance, and the local authorities, led by Harney County Sheriff David Ward, are also treading lightly.

    VICE News traveled to Harney County, Oregon to meet with militia leaders, attend town hall meetings, and speak with local ranchers whom the protesters claim to be representing.

    In Photos: The Faces and Frozen Landscapes of the 'Oregon Standoff’ - http://bit.ly/1ncia1i

    Read "Militia Leader Ammon Bundy Met With a Local Sheriff to Discuss Ending the Oregon Standoff” - http://bit.ly/1kYVwrB

    Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News

    Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com


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    Post  Carol Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:51 pm

    History repeats itself - The Oregon Standoff: A Community Divided Untitled-article-1452362999-body-image-1452364839

    Members of an anti-government militia have now occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in remote eastern Oregon for a week. Saturday marked the seventh day since a handful of armed men showed up at the deserted refuge, closed down for the winter, to make a stand against what they see as an encroaching federal government.

    Led by Nevada rancher Ammon Bundy and his brother Ryan, the occupiers started what the media has taken to calling "the Oregon standoff." But in this cold and desolate landscape of sagebrush and wide-open spaces, the militiamen aren't really standing off with anybody. There is, quite simply, nobody there but them.

    The federal government, which owns this land and protects it as a haven for migratory birds, is keeping its distance. Local law enforcement, led by Harney County Sheriff David Ward, is treading lightly as well.

    Related: 'We Are Going to Light Up the Whole Country on Fire': The Arson That Led to the Oregon Militia Standoff

    The town of Burns, the county seat, is almost an hour's drive away over an icy road that is often completely empty. The law hasn't really shown up at Malheur. When the sheriff met with Ammon Bundy on Thursday to try and negotiate an end to the occupation, he did so on neutral ground, on a deserted stretch away from both the refuge and Burns. Finding an empty stretch of road in Harney County is easy: It's the tenth-largest county in the United states, but only 7,700 people live there. Humans are outnumbered by cattle 14 to one.

    The only people at Malheur besides the militia are from the media. The occupiers hold occasional press conferences, attended by journalists from local, national, and even international news organizations, including VICE News. Reporters drive down for the occasion and then leave for their hotels. The Bundys won't say how many of their people are holed up in the dozen or so buildings at the entrance of the 300-square mile refuge, and because only a few of them appear outside at any given time, it's hard to guess at their number.

    Local supporters come sometimes to deliver food. A man stands watch, with a sidearm, in front of the administrative building where the brothers have set up their command center. But in a week of occupation, no one has seen federal agents — or anybody else the militia would need to guard against. Apart from the occupiers, some supporters, and the birds, the wildlife refuge is empty.

    https://news.vice.com/article/photos-faces-frozen-landscapes-oregon-under-attack-militia-standoff?utm_source=vicenewsyoutube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=relatedarticle


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    Post  Carol Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:00 pm


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbxgn54qO-c
    ARMED DRONES CIRCLE OREGON MILITIA IN BUNDY VS HAMMOND STANDOFF
    ARMED DRONES - REALLY?
    ISN'T THIS A BIT BIZAAR?



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    Post  Carol Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:04 pm


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdVyahsYGQs
    The Oregon standoff, explained in 3 minutes


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    Post  Sanicle Thu Jan 21, 2016 5:43 am

    Just curious Carol..........why is this posted in the Thuban section Question
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    Post  Carol Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:43 pm

    oops.. it belongs in the news section Cow


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