[Nextrush]

The Hammonds were trying to protect their “facilities” as in their land from “vandalism” as in fire.

And the feds jailed them as terrorists because their backfire touched the federal lands.

There’s a pecking order out West and wherever the Feds own the land its Federal rules and regs, especially environmental ones plus big business use of land under federal auspices come first.

The small farmers and ranchers get the short end of the stick just like black people did down south during the “Jim Crow” Era of segregation and marginalization.

I have no problem with non-violent protest to stop the wrongdoing by the federal government.

Its needs to be as good and better protest than Martin Luther King and others inspired down South in the early 1960’s.

It has to evade crazy people who show up and FBI informants who also come to create notions of violence at protests as was proven during the Oregon Standoff and during the Civil Rights Era the FBI informants were in the CR protests and inside the KKK creating turmoil and violent tendencies.

[Reno89519]

Ah, wasn't the small print, as revealed by a family member, to burn the land to cover up their poaching. Just a bit of inconvenient detail left out of that explanation. Hammonds are in jail for their crime. Terrorism is odd charge but credit to the prosecutors for finding something to use in bringing them to justice.

And the insurrectionists, let them rot in jail or wherever. No one should be allowed to raise up arms against the US.