Whats going on in Oregon?

Could be, from what I have heard from friends who live in the area the mass media is leaving a Lot. Though I suspect local bias also.

The thing that disturbs me most though is that they were tried convicted and spent time. Then a judge says oops I was wrong here is the rest of the sentence. That is wrong in my book regardless of who is wrong.

 

Sadly te current adminstration has a checkered history on enforcement. If these guys had the correct pig,entation or were braking immigration law it would be 100% different

 

If you think the BLM is the keeper of "your" land, you are a bit naive. They are thieves, with federal backing.

 

since when are black lives matter people involved in land at all?

 

Bureau of Land Management, aka BLM (and they used those letters looooong before blacklivesmatters had).

 

Foolish, foolish boy. We own nothing. The public owns nothing. Stating that public lands are " our" lands means the illusion they have sold you is still working.

I'll remind you of your position should the time come that they take you house by imminent domain to make another park for "We the people".

 

There's no reason to get excited over armed men taking over a federal building.
It's not like they're selling loose cigarettes or waiting for a cab to a tennis match.

 

And here I thought this crowd liked Teddy R.

 

Good points. I'm going to occupy an ice cream stand. Who the hell gives a shit about an ice-cream stand in January?
#fatlivesmatter #heyIfinnalyusedahashtagthatmakesmegiggle

 

Did they take it at gunpoint? Or did men who legally own guns occupy an otherwise unoccupied building? Students have been occupying university presidents offices and college libraries for months with no response from anyone other than to cave to their mostly infantile demands.

I haven't seen video of them doing anything by force, just being present while armed. But I haven't watched the news yet.

 

It's a visitor center that's been shut down for the season I think. It was empty for the holiday.

 

He said icecream, not DQ.

 

This land is my land
It isn't your land
I have a shotgun
And you don't got one
If you don't get off
I'll blow your head off
This land is private property!

 

Are you talking about when they set a back fire to stop a HUGE out of control wildfire caused by lightening (and are actually credited with stopping the wildfire)?

 

So is this like some push for a billionaire to buy up cheap land?

 

Here's a pretty good explanation of what happened to the sentencing of the two that supposedly the whole protest was over.....

https://popehat.com/2016/01/04/what-happened-in-the-hammond-sentencing-in-oregon-a-lawsplainer/

 

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...n_t_evidence_of_a_racial_double_standard.html

 

Prescribed and Back Burning are actually good. Unfortunately in the west prescribed burning has been cut back allowing large amounts of fuel to build up and this in turn allows massive and dangerous fires to happen putting people and property in danger.

Also the limited grazing and timbering over the years have caused greater amounts of fuel and issues.

So what they were doing was actually a good thing and they seemed to take care of the prescribed burning getting away from them on their own, based on reports. The back burning they did was actually helpful and controlled the wild fire that was happening, reducing overall risk to property and lives.