Do you even immediate action, bro?Quote:
Originally Posted by foxtrot
Do you even immediate action, bro?Quote:
Originally Posted by foxtrot
I'm having that issue on my MacBook Pro using Chrome since upgrading to Sierra. I'm back to Safari for consistent spacebar function.Quote:
Originally Posted by foxtrot
This thread is a bigger train wreck than most political threads.
Stumbled upon an interesting blog concerning the occupation trial:
http://outpost-of-freedom.com/blog/
The media has moved on, but they are still stirring it up in Oregon.
http://canadafreepress.com/article/f...-lavoy-finicum
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“A year-long investigation prompted charges of making a false statement with the intent to obstruct justice against the agent, the Oregonian reported.
“He was not immediately identified pending a federal court appearance Wednesday in Portland.
“Oregon state troopers noted multiple gun rifle casings where the FBI agents had been standing during the Jan. 26, 2016, shooting. During a later probe, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office determined one agent fired two shots at Finicum’s pickup truck after it crashed into a snowbank. The team of federal agents then covered up the shooting by removing the casings, the sheriff alleged.
“The initial shots the agent fired failed to hit Finicum, 54. He was fatally shot moments later when troopers opened fire.
“One bullet struck his heart.
“Finicum was traveling in a convoy with militia leaders, the brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, to a community meeting. Finicum, a self-proclaimed spokesman for the armed group, helped seize the Malheur Wildlife Refuge for about a month in southeast Oregon.”
Wow. Surprised. But I remember the State police said early on that someone witnessed the feds picking up cases...hard to sweep that under the rug.
Trump Pardons Oregon Men Whose Case Sparked Wildlife Refuge Takeover
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday pardoned a pair of Oregon cattle ranchers who had been serving sentences for arson on federal land — sentences that set off the armed occupation of a wildlife refuge in 2016.
Dwight L. Hammond, now 76, and his son, Steven D. Hammond, 49, became a cause célèbre that inspired an antigovernment group’s battle with the federal government over its control of rural land in Oregon. The occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge resulted in the death of a rancher from Arizona.
The Hammonds have a long history of conflict with the federal government, but many felt their sentences for the 2001 and 2006 fires were unfair.
“The Hammonds are multigeneration cattle ranchers in Oregon imprisoned in connection with a fire that leaked onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said in a statement. “The evidence at trial regarding the Hammonds’ responsibility for the fire was conflicting, and the jury acquitted them on most of the charges.”
The pardons will shave some time off the Hammonds’ five-year sentences — Dwight Hammond has served three years and Steven Hammond has served four. But the pardons suggest the Trump administration’s support of ranchers in the battle over federal lands and also undo an Obama administration appeal to impose longer sentences for the Hammonds.
“Awesome, awesome, awesome,” said Ryan Bundy who helped lead the occupation of the federal wildlife refuge near the Hammond ranch that was meant to protest the government’s treatment of the Hammonds and grew into a protest of federal land policies. “It’s been a long time coming. It’s been a long time coming. That is good news.”
^Great news!
I was pleased to see this.
Pretty interesting, if nothing else.