The federal government claims to have a plan to handle the antigovernment extremists who have occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
The federal government claims to have a plan to handle the antigovernment extremists who have occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
The first arrest related to the illegal occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge is an Oregon man with sovereign citizen-leanings and a lengthy, unsuccessful record of challenging the federal government and its agencies in the Pacific Northwest.
There appears to be a growing list of potential federal laws that could be used to charge antigovernment extremists and militia members who are illegally occupying a wildlife and bird refuge in Oregon. The standoff is now two weeks old, and a resolution doesn’t appear in sight.
Disgruntled with Harney officials, militiamen travel to Grant County to seek help from CSPOA-affiliated sheriff, but he declines.
Militia and antigovernment extremists illegally occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon are now pledging to form a “citizen’s grand jury” to indict and bring criminal charges against public officials and judges the occupiers accuse of committing crimes and violating the Constitution.
The takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon by three of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s sons and their fellow militiamen continues to attract support from the hardcore extremist and racist right.
Bundy brothers’ invasion of wildlife refuge stirs a typically paranoid response among their fellow antigovernment extremists.
The armed takeover of a federal government building in Oregon comes amid a renewed expansion of the far-right, antigovernment militia movement in the wake of the 2014 standoff between federal agents and heavily armed antigovernment activists in the Nevada desert.
Armed antigovernment extremists, including the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, seized an unoccupied federal visitor’s center in Oregon over the weekend after their rally failed to convince two ranchers to continue defying the U.S. government.
In the wake of a three-person United Nations team visiting Alabama to investigate the state’s “commitment to substantive equality for women in all spheres of life,” alarms are sounding from an uncommon corner of government.
Now, more than ever, we must work together to protect the values that ensure a fair and inclusive future for all.