When the law didn't come down forcefully on the Hammonds the first time

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Nor the Bundy Ranch.

And when I say "the first time" I am talking about the Clinton Administration era (see link).

The sad thing is it has put BLM and other Federal agents lives at risk.
Many of these employees are trying to protect wetlands and endangered species.
Our government appears to be abandoning our public servants.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027503449

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1. K&R.....

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2. It's my understanding...

...that the judge who originally sentenced the Hammonds for arson gave them a fairly light sentence because he felt the mandatory minimums were excessive. An appeals court then resentenced the Hammonds on the grounds that the mandatory minimums were, y'know, mandatory. The Hammonds have reported to prison to begin serving their sentences and have rejected any connection with the militias.

There's room for criticism there, but it's a long, long way from the circus at the Bundy Ranch.

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4. The Hammond Klan threatened to kill

Nothing was done.

On one occasion Hammond told the manager of the federal refuge that “he was going to tear his head off and shit down his neck.”

According to the affidavit, Hammond threated to kill refuge manager Forrest Cameron and assistant manager Dan Walsworth and claimed he was ready to die over a fence line that the refuge wanted to construct to keep his cows out of a marsh and wetland.



Hammond’s son Steve showed up and began calling the government men “worthless cocksuckers” and “assholes.”


...including one call threatening to wrap the Camerons’ 12-year-old boy in a shroud of barbed wire and stuff him down a well. Other callers warned Mrs. Cameron that if she couldn’t get along in the cow town, she ought to move out before something “bad” happened to her family.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/05/showdown-in-the-malheur-marshes-the-origins-of-the-armed-occupation-in-burns-oregon/

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9. This sounds fimiliar,

Similar verbal out bursts were hurled at the BLM and Metro officers at Bunkerville. None of that made the news so you just know there is a Media agenda going. People on this board that have relatives or know people working for the BLM,have heard the horror stories and other juicy little tid bits.

[MohRokTah]

6. The Hammonds had runins with the BLM for decades.

They threatened BLM employees on multiple occasions.

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7. True events coincidently left out of the MSM

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8. I suspect this goes on all over our country

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3. When you coddle terrorists, the terrorists get emboldened.

We are watching the consequences of coddling terrorists play out live in Oregon.

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5. Yep