I think it would be good for the politicians to have been more forthcoming on these matters especially with the protest going on in Oregon in January.
I saw a bunch of politicians and “conservative media” too busy fighting each other and not giving a rip about the Hammonds double imprisonment on the same charge being forced back a second time as ‘terrorists’ for lighting a backfire to protect their land.
I ended up voting for Trump here in PA to defeat a GOP Establishment that is out of touch with all of us.
Regarding Trump this was posted on Facebook tonight by a man named Blaine Fox.
“I told supporters of the Bundy Clan 6 weeks ago to go read the interview Donald Trump did in Field and Stream Magazine the week end of the Shot Show in Las Vegas where he states very clearly that he will NEVER support the turning over of land owned by the Federal Government to the States of the Private Citizen because he believed the Federal Government controlled them better than the State or Private Citizens ever would!!!. I was actively ridiculed and told I did NOT have a clue what I was talking about!!! Guess you now know that I do, eh!!! Many is the people that PROJECTED that Donald Trump is their savior and many is the people that are going to be sorely disappointed, as, evidently, you have now figured out!!!”
> “... he states very clearly that he will NEVER support the turning over of land owned by the Federal Government to the States of the Private Citizen ...”
You abridged his statement. He said he would not turn over lands to states. He never mentioned anything about private citizens.
He said clearly he would not turn them over to states because he did not know what states would do with them. A lot of corruption happens at the state level.
He also said in a statement that he could have settled the Oregon protest with a simple phone call.
I listened to the audio of Lavoy Finnicum. Although I can sympathize in general with the ranchers, he was acting quite belligerent to law enforcement as in Oregon State Troopers when stopped on the road. I took away the impression that cooler heads could have done better. Videos do show he appeared to have been murdered but his belligerent attitude did not make him a sympathetic figure.
The plight of the ranchers engendered Donald Trump’s sympathy but it needed to be accompanied by a smarter attitude.