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01-05-2016, 12:09 PM
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Anyone here who has been involved in a criminal case knows damn well the intense desire to just put the shit behind you ASAP even if you know you are innocent; knowing that dragging it out will cost more money and the system is so corrupt you could do significant time if you let things play out all the way to the end. The Hammond's lost their freedom for absolute bullshit but decided to suck it up and do some time to get on with their lives.
THEN the fuckin goddamn government AFTER the Hammond's do their time VOIDS the plea deal by claiming it doesn't exist and they must go back to prison and do 5 years for burning fires (as is par for the course in those parts when needed) in the middle of goddamn nowhere with no real damage to anyone or anything? Unless I am missing something here...
It is also routine for attorneys, including lazy defense attorneys, to scare the accused away from a trial and take the plea agreement.
They will say, "Look, if you go to trial and lose, the judge will give you 8 years (as example) of hard time. However, take the plea offer and you will only do 30 days and two years of probation"
Even if you are innocent, facing the reality of years in prison is daunting. Many a conviction is procured this way. I have little doubt that the Hammonds weighed exactly this situation, when deciding to take the plea.
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50 armed militiamen take over Oregon wildlife refuge
01-05-2016, 05:53 PM
Living out in the west there seems to be a lot of things that people don't realize about this place. Especially if you are out of the country.
Most of the population lives either on the eastern side of the US (basically east of I35, running through the middle of the country from Minneapolis to San Antonio) or on the west side of I5 (running down the west coast). In between its pretty sparse.
Once you drive past Kansas City on I70 its nothing but 300 miles of corn fields, then you get another 200 or so through Colorado until you hit Denver and the mountains. Thats a days drive on the highway with no major cities to encounter. Compare this to anywhere in Europe.
Colorado, New Mexico Utah and Arizona are all roughly the size of Germany with a fraction of the population. It gets very rural here real fast.
Most of the midwest was settled via homesteading. You come to Nebraska, plant your flag and if you put up a homestead after some time the feds gave you title to your 40 acres.
This didn't happen out west of the Rockies. The feds still own huge swaths of land out here, since these were territories originally. Part of this is because of the prevalence of ranching as opposed to actual farming. You paid for your square on the map, let loose your herd of cattle and came back to get them later. This still happens today. You drive outside the ski resorts and there is cattle gates and little herds all around.
You can go camp out there and shoot and fish etc.
The other huge thing out west is water rights. Here in Colorado its only in the last few years that its become legal to collect (a small!) amount of rain water. Most of this place is pretty much high desert and if you want to do anything , you need water. And who owns the water is a huge thing, and BLM owns a lot of land and water on it.
The gun control thing is a big deal out here too. Eastern snoobs telling people , hey you don't need a gun just call the cops.
Well if you live 30 mins outside the city and it takes 5mins just to drive up your driveway on a dry day and you might not have cell service , well you need a gun. Add to this the general distaste for coastal pansyism.
Instead of opening up land for people to use and making sure its not crapped upon, BLM has been doing things like this, restricting usage not just for ranching but other things, like 4x4 snowmobile use etc.
The EPA, for all their talk about global warming, fucked up a river here recently. Not like a little one either.
[url=http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2015/10/25/lovely-the-epa-spill-in-colorado-was-completely-preventable-n2070226][/url]
No one went to jail for that one.
TL;DR Pansy east coasters get cushy jobs with the feds and shit on people who want to live a rural lifestyle. Hilarity, does not ensue.
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01-05-2016, 06:27 PM
Some of my more liberal acquaintances have objected that the land the locals are claiming is native american land, not white locals land. Ignoring other problems that I have with this logic, they fail to explain how this makes the west any different than the land east of the Dakotas.
In some ways the rural economy out west would be better off if the land was indeed in private ownership by native american individuals. In some ways, ANCSA has been a boon to the Alaskan economy. The natives are just as interested in making a living (surprise) as white people are and they are much more open to cooperating with private entities than the federal government is. If not for ANCSA, much more of Alaska would be owned by the bureau of land management.
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01-05-2016, 07:22 PM
Among other things, the problem with these white extremists is they openly threaten violence against the government if any action is taken to remove them. That by itself is domestic terrorism. I don't care what your BS issue is, once you start threatening to kill ppl you are over the line and the FBI should take your ass down. You cannot have a civilization if every lunatic thinks they can do something like this every time they get butthurt about some purported indignity.
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01-05-2016, 09:04 PM
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That's hilarious considering that the US was founded by a violent revolution inspired by another revolution (France).
American Revolution 1775-1783
French Revolution 1789-1799
If only you knew how bad things really are.
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50 armed militiamen take over Oregon wildlife refuge
01-08-2016, 11:57 AM
Native American protesters occupied Alcatraz for almost two years back in 1969.
Bring this up to anybody you know whining about white privilege or any such nonsense. The fact remains that if the federal building is basically worthless (desolate BLM outpost, defunct prison), their hands are more or less tied and they want to do everything to avoid a media nightmare.
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50 armed militiamen take over Oregon wildlife refuge
01-08-2016, 07:45 PM
They're still there at the facility in Oregon as it appears.
I think what many fence sitters on this incident don't understand, is that it would appear the gov't is taking away private land, as well as public land that citizens had access to for their livelihood for years.
But what they're doing it for - according to many rumors floating around - is for mining of uranium, arsenic, mercury, and other resources. Who mines minerals? Private industry, NOT governments.. governments just buy those commodities.
So it's very likely an inside job, a politician is doing favors to fill their coffers at the expense of the little guy, using gov't agencies and "wildlife preservation" as the excuse for the cover up. In this case.
This is isn't a new concept, yet, with the massive disapproval of this presidency, and Obama's Executive Order trigger finger, and the otherall brokenness of this gov't (just the debt alone is fraudulent to its citizens), someone, somewhere, has to make a stand. And who better than the Good Ole Boys?
This is a case where I don't think anyone will ever know the complete truth, all I know is it smells like shit.
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50 armed militiamen take over Oregon wildlife refuge
01-26-2016, 10:47 PM
If the militiamen fired first they'd all be dead.
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50 armed militiamen take over Oregon wildlife refuge
01-26-2016, 10:49 PM
Will be in prison the rest of their lives, government will make an example out of them.
If you cross that line you have to be willing to go down shooting until you die. No way you'll get a fair trial or any objective trial from a Judge on the government payroll.
Anyone who thinks 'well maybe they'll get a good attorney'.... it doesn't matter. Look at that court indicting the Planned Parenthood videographers. Government will crack down hard on anyone who crosses their agenda.
You have to pick your battle carefully and ask yourself what you're willing to die for BEFORE you get into it. If you waver in a gray area and surrender, you're fucked in prison.
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50 armed militiamen take over Oregon wildlife refuge
01-27-2016, 02:12 AM
So.... there's still 32 guys at the HQ?
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01-27-2016, 04:12 PM
#Handsupdontshoot #Americanlivesmatter #rememberrubyridge #thetruthaboutwaco
Strange that the media isn't as sympathetic when it's white people being shot.
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01-27-2016, 05:41 PM
Do American law enforcement know anything else other than escalation?
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01-27-2016, 05:49 PM
I think it was a straight up ambush as they were leaving the FBI/LEO meeting. They left cause they wanted the fbi guy to debate with them in front of media, he didn't want to, and instead had them taken out down the road.
There's still guys at the HQ. In before they get taken out too, because they "fired first on authorities".
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01-28-2016, 12:52 AM
Just saw on the news that the protesters have started packing up and leaving, Amon had his lawyer plead them to leave on air, supposedly -not sure if that really was his lawyer, but I guess everything is over now with a few deaths.
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