Cliven Bundy Son, Militia Take Over Fed Building

A group of militiamen occupied a federal building at an OR wildlife refuge late Saturday and vowed to stay there indefinitely to protest rancher rights.

“A collective effort from multiple agencies is now working on a solution”.

The group is calling for the Hammonds’ release and said the militia was planning an occupation that lasted “for years“.

He called for other likeminded United States citizens to travel to the refuge in solidarity and to support what he said would be a symbolic showdown between impoverished farmers and overzealous federal authorities.

“We want the government to abide by the Constitution… and to play by the rules”, Ammon Bundy told CNN in a phone interview on Sunday.

A armed group has seized control of a federal building in OR to protest alleged unconstitutional action by the US government after holding a rally showing support for ranchers convicted of arson.

Is the situation unfolding at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge tantamount to double standards while “Oregon is under attack?”

Mr Bundy posted a video on his Facebook page asking for people to come help him.

On Twitter, news of the event quickly spread under the hashtag, #OregonUnderAttack, with many users mocking the light treatment of the armed protesters by law enforcement, after heavily armed reactions to protesters in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore.

Hammond has said he and his son plan to report to prison Monday as ordered by a judge.

Dwight Hammond, 73, and his son Steven Hammond, 46, are the ranchers returning to jail; the father and son said they started fires in 2001 and 2006 to protect their land from wildfires, according to The Associate Press.

The men were eventually charged under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, and both have already served time in prison – Dwight served three months, and Stephen served one year and one day.

This is not the first time the Bundys have confronted federal authority.

“Five years ago, a federal grand jury charged Dwight and Steven Hammond with committing arson on public lands and endangering firefighters”, Williams wrote for the newspaper.

He said he swore an oath to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and “that’s why I couldn’t be with you on Christmas, and that’s why I can’t be with you on New Year’s“. “You know, if the Hammonds wouldn’t stand, if the sheriff didn’t stand, then, you know, the people had to do something”. They want the federal government to turn the Malheur National Forest over to local ranchers, miners, and loggers for commercial use. Only Ammon spoke to the media, but a few of the men quietly identified themselves as longtime residents of the Burns area and supporters of the Hammonds.

After throwing more coins at the county courthouse a couple of blocks away, the protesters returned to the auto park and dispersed.

Ammon Bundy, who arrived last month in Burns – a rural town about 60 miles from the Hammond ranch – with a group of militiamen, faulted the judge’s decision and the legal process as another example of federal overreach.

The Bundy clan, a bunch of self-proclaimed freedom fighters from Nevada, weren’t too keen on the U.S government getting their noses into the supposedly local issue, and headed north to protest the ranchers’ imminent lock-up. “Below the video is this statement: “(asterisk)(asterisk)ALL PATRIOTS ITS TIME TO STAND UP NOT STAND DOWN!!!