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[center]THE POLITISTICK ?@ThePolitiStick
BREAKING: Cliven Bundy Issues Formal Declaration to Feds Regarding #OregonStandoff http://po.st/BjfdYS
And I thought Politistick was spelled Politistickkk.
Conrad Wilson ?@conradjwilson 2 hours ago -- Reporter at @OPBnews.
Here's the letter rancher Cliven Bundy sent to @HarneyCoSheriff, @OregonGovBrown and @POTUS #Oregonstandoff
Bundy no doubts wants to make sure Obama has to sign for this himself.
And I thought that you don't start a rebellion until you have your own Postal service!
Meanwhile, at the White House, the irony begins to soak in:
trusty elf
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malaise
(269,157 posts)brer cat
(24,605 posts)should give notice to Cliven Bundy that we want the unpaid grazing fees he has stolen from us, costs for restoration of our land damaged by his trespass cattle, and compensation for destruction of archaeological artifacts.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)I base this on several clues, not direct sources.
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Brent Weisberg ?@BrentKOIN Jan 29
Sen. Jeff Merkley: Charges could be filed in the Bundy standoff that happened in Nevada.
33 minutes ago - Happening today: Federal judge to hear release appeal for Ammon Bundy, 2 others.
http://koin.com/2016/02/02/judge-to-hear-release-appeal-for-bundy-2-others/
#KOIN6News
Karen Fishler ?@kfseattle
An amazing amount of scientific work goes on @ Malheur, even more than we knew #Oregonstandoff
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/malheur-standoff-puts-science-in-the-crosshairs/
Conrad Wilson ?@conradjwilson
Here's what you need to know from Monday's emotional protest in Burns
OccupiedBurns ?@occupied_burns
The People speak!
OccupiedBurns ?@occupied_burns 14h14 hours ago
The People speak!
Rev. L.M. Harris MTS ?@vayhi
Thank you to journalist @amandapeacher for her work on the #Oregonstandoff
I hope Oregon is extending the best of our hospitality to you.
Gargoyle @Patztense
[link: https://m.facebook.com/CrookCountySheriffsSearchAndRescue/photos/a.336956273090431.77660.302922749827117/942297435889642/|Sheriff of Cook County, OR warns of outsiders promoting violence and causing anarchy ]
Brent Weisberg ?@BrentKOIN
US Marshals Service confirms Shawna Cox released early on clerk's error, but matter considered resolved.
http://koin.com/2016/01/31/refuge-occupier-shawna-cox-released-from-jail/
The weirdest letter in American political history saved for last:
randome
(34,845 posts)Can you imagine the story that notary told her family Sunday evening? "I pretended to sneeze so I wouldn't laugh out loud!"
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
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central scrutinizer
(11,661 posts)in their cowboy hats
Megahurtz
(7,046 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)What arrogant ignorance to invade another county in another state and then declare that you're doing it because the residents want you to!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
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Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)Not sure how a letter postmarked in NV can be seriously opened with the words, "We the People of Harney County Oregon."
The stupid does kind of burn.
on edit: speaking of stupid. Harney County
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)You cannot understand the Mormon perspective without taking into account that they invaded the Native Americans (Mexico) and tried to carve off the northern part of the Spanish realm for themselves, all the way to California, the competing Manifest Destinies of two different Gods.
victoria suescum ?@victoriasuescum 9 minutes ago
Masculinity, femininity and #Oregonstandoff
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/what-malheur-occupation-patriarchy-masculinity_b_9116064.html
Mama Slide ?@paullivingston 10 minutes ago
I am offended when the media calls the Bundy gang "protesters". They are armed militants. #oregonstandoff
randome
(34,845 posts)Just goes to show what living an insular and unchallenged life can do to you over time. It's like discovering a family of mutant cannibals living in a remote part of the desert. They are not like us.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
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Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)and heard some of their irrational justifications. Would like to think they are harmless eccentrics, but of course they are dangerous, especially if unchecked.
They're hitting on sedition and insurrection here. I don't like calling them "protesters" either. This isn't a peaceful protest, it's an armed occupation.
Megahurtz
(7,046 posts)an Arrest Cliven Bundy Petition at the White House. I'm so tired of these brazen militant thieves.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I've heard nothing on it.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Mike Warner ?@MikeKATU 2 hours ago Hines, OR
Another amazing sunrise in Burns this morning. It got up to 8°... can't feel my toes. #LiveOnK2 #oregonstandoff
cwydro
(51,308 posts)That's a great pic - whoever took it.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)David Shapiro ?@davidrshapiro 1 hour ago
#Oregonstandoff awaiting the scales of justice to be balanced and weighed for Pete Santili.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I can't find anything on this situation anywhere.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)What does that mean? Does he think some of us citizens aren't people?
Such a scumbag at every turn.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Eventually they are going to run out of groceries, snacks and bags of dicks...and if no one can go out to get more or come in to bring them, they'll quickly starve.
Anyway, Cliven royally screwed the pooch with that letter because the feds can use it to tie him to the Malheur standoff for RICO purposes.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Should be very easy to convict them, and RICO also means seizing all their assets, I assume.[center]
Wilderness Watch @WildernessWatch
#PublicLands ranching is destroying the West, including #Wilderness areas & #wildlife: http://bit.ly/1JTJXhD #p2
Super film! 'American Values, American #Wilderness' narrated by the late Christopher Reeve: http://bit.ly/1PMrI9L
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Since it's not too hard to prove you used everything you own to "further the conspiracy," I figure the feds will try to seize everything those guys own right down to their ten-gallon hats.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Sam Levin @SamTLevin Tuesday 2 February 2016
The arrested militiamen of the Oregon refuge occupation have had extensive previous run-ins with the law and a history of anti-government protests that federal officials are now using against them in court.
In recent filings in federal court in Portland, prosecutors have detailed the criminal histories of the 11 people facing felony charges ....
Jason Patrick, ... faced charges in August 2014 of making terrorist threats after he threatened to kill everyone inside a Georgia municipal court building ...
PhoenixNewTimes ?@phoenixnewtimes Feb 1
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/oregon-occupation-puts-arizona-public-land-grab-mania-in-focus-letter-to-the-editor-8016997
"This occupation was an act of greed and entitlement, plain and simple."
DJ Rubiconski ?@Rubiconski Jan 31
The Rural Organizing Project condemns the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Grant County residents: "We are not all crazy here in John Day!"
Wild Earth Guardians - Portland 4 #MalheurRefuge
Brandon Unger ?@ungerbn103
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201506/anti-intellectualism-is-killing-america
Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America - Psychology Today
tencats
(567 posts)A federal judge Tuesday affirmed another judge's earlier decision to release Oregon standoff figure Joseph O'Shaughnessy from custody with home detention and GPS monitoring
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/02/federal_judge_affirms_release.html