It’s been a long painful story for them, apparently driven by a “no humans” policy by some in the government (I’ve seen it elsewhere, to historically tragic effects).
The core & immediate problem is that two of them were tried & convicted thru creative misuse of law, one up to a year in prison, SERVED THEIR TIME, and _now_ the BLM et al are trying to re-convict and re-sentence and re-incarcerate them for having not served long enough on grounds that a “five year minimum” was ignored.
I’m inclined to think that once a judge has made a ruling, and the punishment has (nontrivially) been served, the issue is DONE - even if the judicial system made a mistake and didn’t dole out as severe a punishment as it arguably should have.
The whole incident is starting to make sense, it isn’t straightforward, and I understand why the principals are inclined to go so far as a shootout.
Unfortunately, it’s being muddled by wannabes jumping onto a flaming bandwagon.
The reason I was mocking Cruz and Rubio telling the Bundy boys to go home which they should is due to the fact that they are both sitting senators and where were they when they could have been trying to stop the Feds from persecuting the Hammonds?