Wow...first I've heard of all this. I can certainly empathize with what the Hammond family has endured at the hands of the feds. It sounds like they pretty much just want their lives and ranch and to be left alone. Speculation only on my part, but it also sounds to me like a lot of people, many from outside the area, are using this terrible situation to inflame an already bad situation.

This is not the battle I'd choose, personally, to start some sort of armed resistance against the federal government. If I was in the middle of it my thoughts might be different. It's going to be very interesting to see how this plays out.

It's also a very complicated situation to understand with apparently decades of back story. I feel sorry for the Hammond family.