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HARNEY COUNTY OREGON SHERIFF'S STATEMENT ON SITUATION INVOLVING OCCUPATION OF FEDERAL BUILDING
1/3/2016 | Sheriff Dave Ward

Posted on 01/02/2016 9:38:11 PM PST by Nextrush

"After the peaceful rally was completed today, a group of outside militants drove to the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, where they seized and occupied the refuge headquarters. A collective effort from multiple agencies is currently working on a solution. For the time being please stay away from that area.....Please maintain a peaceful and united front and allow us to work through this situation"


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: ammonbundy; bundyfamily; bundyranch; clivenbundy; dwightlincolnhammond; hammond; hammondfamily; oregon; stevendwighthammond
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Word is tonight that the sheriff is working with federal and state authorities, including the FBI according to "The Oregonian/Oregon Live" website.
1 posted on 01/02/2016 9:38:12 PM PST by Nextrush
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http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/01/drama_in_burns_ends_with_quiet.html#incart_big-photo


2 posted on 01/02/2016 9:41:14 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: Nextrush

A lot of noise out there tonight with some dramatic talk, the Pete Santilli operation is up with a report from the area suggesting maybe a hundred or so folks are involved and ‘facing slaughter’.


3 posted on 01/02/2016 9:43:14 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

My prayers are with that Sheriff.

People on this board should be very careful before deciding that the Bundy’s are necessarily wrong, or the ones who have an ax to grind.

IMHO, what the Federal government is doing to the two ranchers is wrong.

First of all, the ranchers in question were not trying to destroy things when they set the fires. They were practicing good land management for the benefit of their grazing rights.

In one instance as a back fire to an approaching wild fire, and in the second to remove vegetation that was invasive to their grazing as I understand it. It just happened to be on leased federal ground. People do exactly the same thing all the time on private ground of their own.

Second, also as I understand, these two men served their sentences, but then, I believe a federal prosecutor pushed a judge to give them more, and so now they are trying to pick them up and send them away...for doing something that anyone knows in this country should not be a rime in the first place.

Sounds an awful lot like they did to the farmers in the Klamath Basin back in 2001...except then, it was the Sucker Fish as the tool.

I cannot say that what Bundy’s sons did was best...but I can say that people in this part of the country are sick and tired and full up of an ever encroaching federal government that creates reasons to go after anyone who will not toe their line.

I took the same oath as many on this forum to protect and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.

I have learned over the past 20 years at places like Jarbidge, NV and Klamath, OR, that that does not necessarily mean that someone rising up against encroachment of their rights is the enemy, nay, more likely the ones encroaching those rights.

That same oath indicates that we would bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution...and oft times that clause right there, when faithfully followed, lets us know who is on what side of the constitutional line.

So, before folks respond by throwing these people out with the wash...they should get all the facts and then seriously consider their oaths. If they do not, they could easily be led to fight against the very people they should be helping

Our founders did not want to rebel against England. They wanted to be good “subjects.” But came a time when the encroachments on their rights were just too much...and so they rose up.

Out here in the west, as you know, my friend, the encroachments have been long standing and ever and ever more burdensome and more and more against the constitution.

I pray God’s wisdom to be with particularly the people trying to stand up against encroachments, and also with that Sheriff...that he will seek a peaceful and respectful solution that does not involve backing willy-nilly the federal agencies who are most probably seeking to back up unjust actions.


4 posted on 01/02/2016 9:43:44 PM PST by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Nextrush

I wonder if we’ll again see the Federal government bringing in military hardware against civilians in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.


5 posted on 01/02/2016 9:45:31 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

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6 posted on 01/02/2016 9:48:28 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

If you search you will find very sensational comments tonight that may be part of some false flag op but the sheriff’s comments stand loud and clear.

The authorities including federal authorities are ‘working on a solution’ and people are being asked to ‘stay away from the area’


7 posted on 01/02/2016 9:49:36 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Please maintain a peaceful and united front and allow us to work through this situation"

8 posted on 01/02/2016 9:51:32 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Nextrush

When Russell Means and his ‘Red Power’ buddies took Alcatraz, there was never any talk of murdering them all.


9 posted on 01/02/2016 9:52:57 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Nextrush

bookmark


10 posted on 01/02/2016 9:58:05 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Nextrush

Folks, this so-called “federal building” is not what city people think it is. It’s not a large building. Someone in the government is trying to hype this story. Furthermore, controlled burns after harvesting to kill off bugs and get rid of diseases and also to burn off extra post-harvest straw has been part of farming here for a hundred years!


11 posted on 01/02/2016 10:01:48 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Jeff Head

“So, before folks respond by throwing these people out with the wash...”

I would find it hard to believe that anyone would NOT side with the ranchers. The Fed is way out of line here and that doesn’t surprise me. Obama will call the ranchers terrorists. I fear this may not end well.


12 posted on 01/02/2016 10:03:15 PM PST by At a Later Date
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To: Nextrush

Don’t you think that Obama would like nothing better than to wipe the Bundy brothers and their compatriots off the face of the Earth? So who is going to initiate violence if it occurs?


13 posted on 01/02/2016 10:05:27 PM PST by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: TigersEye

Local Bend, OR TV station KTVZ reports with a still picture that an American flag was placed over the welcome sign to the wildlife refuge where the building is occupied.


14 posted on 01/02/2016 10:05:55 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Nextrush.

15 posted on 01/02/2016 10:07:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: pleasenotcalifornia

Brrr


16 posted on 01/02/2016 10:09:59 PM PST by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: Nextrush

That sounds awfully provocative! /s


17 posted on 01/02/2016 10:16:17 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Nextrush
Bundy and his militia have absolutely no business stirring things up in Oregon. The Hammonds and locals have made clear they are not wanted or welcomed. They should be arrested, jailed,convicted, and sent to prison. Just like BLM and Occupy Wall Street, we, our government, needs to have zero tolerance for this kind of BS.

Now about the Hammonds, it does appear they are getting abused by the government. There is always two sides to the story but since they did finish their sentences, why new ones? Regardless, this is no excuse of Bundy and his militia pals to step in and stir things up.

If a single sheriff, local or federal official is injured, I hope that not one of Bundy's militia walk out alive. Seriously, we cannot have people taking the law into their own hands.

18 posted on 01/02/2016 10:18:00 PM PST by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: Reno89519

We should wish for no one to die in this matter....everyone is made in God’s image IMHO.


19 posted on 01/02/2016 10:22:21 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Reno89519

Yeah, we heard you the third time, fierce noob.


20 posted on 01/02/2016 10:24:51 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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