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Monday, January 4, 2016

ARMED PATRIOTS TAKE A STAND AGAINST FEDERAL TYRANNY~TEXAS IMPLEMENTS OPEN CARRY LAW; GOVERNOR DARES OBAMA TO "COME AND TAKE IT"

ARMED PROTESTERS TAKE OVER OREGON FEDERAL BUILDING

 "Citizens for Constitutional Freedom."

Oregon militia in standoff with feds names themselves.
The militia group at the center of a standoff on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon said they are occupying federal land in protest in order to restore the constitution.

Ammon Bundy - the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was involved in an armed standoff with the government over grazing rights - said his group will stay there as long as it takes to see justice served. On Monday, he told reporters that the collective of protesters had decided to name themselves "Citizens for Constitutional Freedom."

The case that brought self-described armed patriots from across the country to Oregon involves a pair of Oregon ranchers convicted of burning federal land. And while the milita group insists they are acting in support of the Hammonds, the Hammonds say they don't want the protesters at the refuge.

.A group of over 100 ranchers have holed up at the U.S. wildlife refuge in Princeton, Oregon to protest the jailing of two ranchers.

It began Saturday after a protest in Burns, Oregon. The group split with the rest of the crowd and began the occupation at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to support Dwight Hammond, Jr. and his son Steven.
The two were convicted of arson in 2012 for setting fires that spread to public land. On Saturday they turned themselves in to federal authorities after prosecutors won an appeal which resulted in their resentencing to longer terms, even though they both served their time.
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Militia groups and the Bundy family assemble to protect an Oregon ranching family

ARMED PATRIOTS TAKE A STAND AGAINST FEDERAL TYRANNY 
SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST:
Published on Jan 3, 2016
The occupation is in response to prosecution of two Harney County ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond, who were convicted of arson under a provision of a wide-ranging federal anti-terrorism law, according to the newspaper.

The feds decided to prosecute the Hammonds, who own about 12,000 acres in the Diamond-Frenchglen area of Oregon, after they used fire as a tool to combat invasive plant species on their ranch. The government accused the ranchers of allowing the fire to spread to federally owned land.

The Hammonds were indicted in 2010 on federal arson charges and faced sentencing as terrorists under the federal Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

The occupation appears headed for a confrontation with the Harney County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI.
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Patriots Stand in Defiance Of Tyrannical Government
Joe Biggs of Infowars Reports on Site:

Armed Bundys, Friends Battle Feds Over Two Ranchers Imprisoned

BY SELWYN DUKE
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes



The Bundys are back. After prevailing in a grazing-rights standoff with Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents last year, the Nevada ranching clan is again locking horns with the feds. This time Ammon Bundy (shown) is leading an armed group of protesters, which includes his two brothers, who have occupied a federal building at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon; the men are taking up the cudgels for a pair of ranchers they claim have been unjustly imprisoned by the central government.



The ranchers, Dwight Hammond, 73, and his son Steven Hammond, 46, have been in conflict with the feds for decades and recently were sentenced to five years in prison. Reports the Washington Post:



Prosecutors accused the Hammonds of committing arson on federal land in 2001 and 2006. The men and their attorneys argued that the fires had been set on their own property — once to prevent the spread of an invasive species of plant and once in attempt to prevent the spread of a wildfire — and had inadvertently burned onto public lands. But prosecutors said the fires were set in attempt to destroy evidence that the Hammonds had been illegally hunting deer on the federal lands.



The two men have previously served prison time for the crimes, but earlier this year a federal appeals court concluded that their initial sentences had been too short — arson on federal property carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years — and ordered the men back to prison.



The armed protesters were part of a larger rally for the Hammonds on Saturday. Afterwards, writes CNN, the armed group “broke into the refuge's unoccupied building and refused to leave.” CNN continued:



"We will be here as long as it takes," said Ammon Bundy, a spokesman for the group. "We have no intentions of using force upon anyone, [but] if force is used against us, we would defend ourselves."



Bundy is the 40-year-old son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who drew national attention last year after staging a standoff with federal authorities over a Bureau of Land Management dispute.



Ammon Bundy said the group in Oregon was armed, but said he would not describe it as a militia. Bundy declined to say how many people were occupying the building.



"We are not terrorists," he said. "We are concerned citizens and realize we have to act if we want to pass along anything to our children."



… A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesperson said the agency and the Bureau of Land Management are aware of the armed protesters … [and] will continue to monitor the situation."



Whatever the facts of the Hammond case and whatever the outcome of this protest, critics such as American Thinker’s Rick Moran point out that “the larger point being made by Bundy et al needs airing.” To wit, writes Moran, “The federal government owns too much land — especially in the western US. Even more to the point, the government manages that land stupidly. Wildlife refuges are a fine idea — within reason. But reason, logic, and intelligence is sorely lacking as the government gives into the demands of greens who weep when a tree is cut down, and thinks saving every insect, varmint, and weed should override the needs of human [sic] beings.”



And the amount of land the feds own is staggering. As the Congressional Research Service reports, “The federal government owns roughly 635-640 million acres, 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States.” And with the vast majority of Uncle Sam real estate lying in the West, it’s not surprising fed-citizen range wars arise there. The central government owns only 0.4 percent of Connecticut and Rhode Island, 0.8 percent of Iowa and New York, and only three states east of Colorado are above the 10-percent mark. Yet the lowest figure among states west of Kansas is just under 30 percent (Montana). In Oregon, where the current controversy rages, the feds own more than half the state. And the Bundys’ Nevada holds the record, with the central government laying claim to a whopping 84.5 percent of the land.



Perhaps this suits some state governments, as they receive federal payments for the acreage to compensate them for lost real-estate taxes. Yet it certainly doesn’t suit all their residents. As CNN also reported, Bundy stated that “the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has taken over the space of 100 ranches since the early 1900s. ‘They are continuing to expand the refuge at the expense of the ranchers and miners,’ Bundy said. He also said Harney County, in southeastern Oregon, went from one of the state's wealthiest counties to one of the poorest.”



While CNN wrote that it has not “independently corroborated Bundy’s claims,” federal land grabs truly are nothing new. As an example, The New American’s William F. Jasper wrote last year in “War on the West: Why More Bundy Standoffs Are Coming”:



Chief Judge Robert C. Jones of the Federal District Court of Nevada last year ruled [that the BLM] had been engaged in a decades-long criminal “conspiracy” against the Wayne Hage family, fellow ranchers and friends of the Bundys. Among other things, Judge Jones accused the federal bureaucrats of racketeering under the federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations) statute, and accused them as well of extortion, mail fraud, and fraud, in an effort “to kill the business of Mr. Hage.” In fact, the government’s actions were so malicious, said the judge, as to “shock the conscience of the Court.” Judge Jones granted an injunction against the agencies and referred area BLM and Forest Service managers to the Justice Department for prosecution.



And such trespasses will inspire opposition. As for the current protest, estimates of the number of people at the refuge range from 15 to 150. And while Bundy would not disclose how many are militia members, citing “operational security,” some of the protesters are merely local residents.



Yet not everyone in the Burns area supports the effort. The Hammonds have said they don’t want the protesters help and that the group doesn’t speak for them. Local resident Monica McCannon told KTVZ that she doesn’t “like the militia's methods.” “They had their rally," she continued. “Now it's time for them to go home. People are afraid of them." And the Washington Post quotes Harney County sheriff David Ward as stating, “These men [protesters] came to Harney County claiming to be part of militia groups supporting local ranchers. When in reality these men had alternative motives, to attempt to overthrow the county and federal government in hopes to spark a movement across the United States.”



Whatever the wisdom of the current protest, however, it itself merely reflects a wider, already vibrant movement to resist federal constitutional trespass and tyranny. This has manifested itself in state nullification efforts — in which states recognize federal actions as unconstitutional and thus null and void — targeting central government laws dealing with matters from gun control to ObamaCare. And with Washington trampling states underfoot as it aggregates ever more power, this push-back will only become more intense.



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Hammond Family Were Victimized By Federal Govt





Published on Jan 3, 2016





Case has heightened debate about how federal government runs its lands. http://www.infowars.com/oregon-ranche...
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BREAKING: BUNDY FAMILY REPORTEDLY JOINS MILITIA IN OCCUPATION OF FEDERAL BUILDING



Breaking: Bundy Family Reportedly Joins Militia in Occupation of Federal Building



Armed militia, incl. Bundy bros, occupy forest reserve HQ in Oregon, call ‘US patriots’ to arms



Occupation appears headed for confrontation with Harney County Sheriff’s Office and FBI



BY KURT NIMMO 



SEE: http://www.infowars.com/breaking-bundy-family-reportedly-joins-militia-in-occupation-of-federal-building/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









The Oregonian reports the Bundy family has joined “hard-core militiamen” in the occupation of the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge 50 miles southeast of Burns, Oregon.













“The facility has been the tool to do all the tyranny that has been placed upon the Hammonds,” Ammon Bundy said. According to the Oregonian, Bundy has called patriots from across the country to join them at the remote refuge.





Among those joining Bundy in the occupation are Ryan Payne,  U.S. Army veteran, and Blaine Cooper. Payne has claimed to have helped organize militia snipers to target federal agents in a standoff last year in Nevada. He told one news organization the federal agents would have been killed had they made the wrong move.





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The occupation is in response to prosecution of two Harney County ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond, who were convicted of arson under a provision of a wide-ranging federal anti-terrorism law, according to the newspaper.



The feds decided to prosecute the Hammonds, who own about 12,000 acres in the Diamond-Frenchglen area of Oregon, after they used fire as a tool to combat invasive plant species on their ranch. The government accused the ranchers of allowing the fire to spread to federally owned land.



The Hammonds were indicted in 2010 on federal arson charges and faced sentencing as terrorists under the federal Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.



The occupation appears headed for a confrontation with the Harney County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI.



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ARMED MILITIA, INCL. BUNDY BROS, OCCUPY FOREST RESERVE HQ IN OREGON, CALL ‘US PATRIOTS’ TO ARMS



Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s three sons and “about 150” militiamen have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ



SEE: http://www.infowars.com/armed-militia-incl-bundy-bros-occupy-forest-reserve-hq-in-oregon-call-us-patriots-to-arms/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s three sons and “about 150” militiamen have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ to protest the pending imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, arguing the federal government has no authority in local cases.







Published on Jan 2, 2016







Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's three sons and around 150 militia members occupied a federal building in eastern Oregon on Saturday, in an attempt to keep two local ranchers from going to prison. The group seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters, located around 50 miles (80km) from Burns, after two of its members were scheduled to go to prison on Monday for setting fire to federal land.












“We’re going to be freeing these lands up, and getting ranchers back to ranching, getting the loggers back to logging, getting the miners back to mining where they could do it under the protection of the people and not be afraid of this tyranny that’s been set upon them,” Ammon Bundy, who appears to be the leader of the group, said in a Facebook video posted by Sarah Dee Spurlock on Saturday.








Bundy appears to be standing at the scene of the takeover, surrounded by several men in military-style uniforms with rifles and hand-held radios.



The rancher points out that Harney County used to be the richest in state, and is now the poorest. His radical proposal to solve the situation is to have armed “patriots” come and live in a de-facto self-rule zone independent of the federal authorities.



The second speaker in the video, identified as Blane Cooper, equates the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to bullies at school that used to beat one up and who eventually had to be put in their place.



“Until that line is drawn and say ‘we’ve had enough of this tyranny, you are going to leave us alone’ it will not change,” the military-clad man says.



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Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Center



Oregon Occupation About Unconstitutional Federal Land Grab



OREGON OCCUPATION ABOUT UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL LAND GRAB



Corporate media portrays incident as illegal act by crazed gun-toting militias



BY KURT NIMMO



SEE: http://www.infowars.com/oregon-occupation-about-unconstitutional-federal-land-grab/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









Corporate media coverage of the impending standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon will downplay the underlying issue—the federal government’s claimed ownership in the name of the “people” of nearly 650 million acres of land, almost 30 percent of the area of the United States.



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The federal government is not authorized to own land. The Constitution restricts the feds to establishing “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other Needful Buildings” and reserves for the States the right to own land.



“Our Founding Fathers specifically restricted what land the Federal government could own,” explains the Constitutional Concepts Foundation. “Even then, the Federal government had to purchase the land from the State, with the approval of the State Legislature. Further, the Constitution stipulates that all new States will become members of the Union on an equal footing with all other States. This is not true of the Western States where the vast majority of the land within the boundaries of the State was simply taken by the Federal government.”



Supporters of large, centralized government argue the massive theft of land is permitted under the Property Clause of the Constitution. “The Property Clause gives Congress the authority over federal property generally, and the Supreme Court has described Congress’s power to legislate under this clause as ‘without limitation,'” concludes the Congressional Research Service, a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress.



The mention of the Supreme Court refers to a 1911 ruling permitting the federal government to grab large tracts of land as national forests held in the “public interest.”



“The current regime of federal land management is blatantly unconstitutional,” writes the Tenth Amendment Center. “The founding fathers never intended to create a Republic where the feds could impose draconian fees on peaceful individuals and force them from the land. As a matter of fact, that is exactly the arrangement that the Constitution was written to prevent, as it clearly violates the principles of fiduciary government, sympathy and independence.”



Omitted from the discussion playing out in the media is the fact the feds have gobbled up millions of acres of land in Pacman fashion not out of concern for the “public interest,” but for profit and concession to large corporations in control of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government.



For instance, the states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming have the largest deposits of shale oil in the world. In addition, the West has an abundance of bauxite, phosphate, trees, oil, gas, clay, fish and is cultivated for a wide variety of agricultural products.



Since 1982, the federal government has leased for oil and gas drilling 229 million acres of public and private land in 12 western states. One of the federal government’s largest sources of non-tax revenue comes from the land it leases to oil, gas and coal companies, The Washington Post notes. Corporations get a stupendous deal from the government, often leasing land at around $2 per acre, a price less than a cup of coffee.







The occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge center is about the federal government’s unconstitutional claimed ownership of land and the rules it imposes on ranchers (and its effort to drive the few remaining independent ranchers off the land).



The corporate media, however, will continue to minimize this and portray the occupation as an illegal act by gun-toting militias bent on armed confrontation with the federal government. This may sell newspapers and result in web page views, but it does a disservice to the overriding issue—the continued expansion of government and its zeal to abrogate property rights and implement Agenda 21.



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Texas Governor To Obama: ‘Come And Take It"Texas Governor Challenges Obama on Gun Control: 'Come and Take It'

Published on Jan 3, 2016





Governor invokes revolutionary battle cry in defense of Texans' Second Amendment rights. http://www.infowars.com/texas-governo...











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TEXAS GOVERNOR CHALLENGES OBAMA ON GUN CONTROL: ‘COME AND TAKE IT’



Governor invokes revolutionary battle cry in defense of Texans' Second Amendment rights



BY ADAN SALAZAR



http://www.infowars.com/texas-governor-challenges-obama-on-gun-control-come-and-take-it/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









On New Year’s Day, Texas Governor Greg Abbott had a strong message for President Obama regarding his upcoming plan to unilaterally enact gun control legislation: “Come and take it.”





“Obama wants to impose more gun control,” Abbott tweeted Friday. “My response? COME & TAKE IT.”



The Republican governor’s statement comes amid announcements the Obama administration will act later this month to impose stricter rules on the selling and purchase of firearms.



The president will meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch Monday to discuss what actions can be taken to circumvent the Second Amendment without congressional authorization, the Washington Post reports.



The new rules will reportedly seek to require private sellers to conduct background checks, as well as prevent people on the no-fly list from being able to purchase firearms.



Meanwhile, Governor Abbott has made a strong show of support for Texans’ Second Amendment rights.



On Friday a new law came into effect allowing licensed citizens of the Lone Star State to openly carry holstered pistols.








The phrase “come and take it” was emblazoned on a flag flown by Texian forces during the Texas Revolution, chiefly at the battle of Gonzales, where Texian rebels revolted against the Mexican army and challenged them to retrieve a cannon loaned to them for protection.



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Don't Help Obama Take The Guns!

Published on Jan 4, 2016





Alex Jones breaks down how recent events in Oregon could be provocateured and actually help Obama come after our guns via executive orders
























































































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