Armed Militia Protesters Occupy Oregon National Refuge Building | UPROXX

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Controversial Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy took a public breather after the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff. This protracted event started with a dispute over grazing laws and somehow turned into ranch-hosted snipers and federal officers pointing guns at each other. The incident put Bundy which on the map as a figurehead for hard-core militiamen, who see tyranny in all federal acts. Bundy was later exposed as a proud racist, and Fox News threw him under the bus, but Bundy still holds a following.

On Saturday, Bundy drama returned with militiamen taking up his cause in Oregon, where they occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters. This act followed a peaceful protest over the impending 5-year imprisonments of two Harney county ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond. The father and son were convicted of arson under an expansive terrorism provision (after they set fires that spread to federal lands). The history of these fires (and the means by which they were prosecuted) is engrossing, and Hammond supporters take issue with how the ranchers were treated like “terrorists.”

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