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Good photo gallery of the counter protestors:
Steve Duin: Free to wreak havoc in Harney County
.... Ammon and Ryan Bundy, LaVoy Finicum and a dozen other well-armed malcontents ... have occupied a federal bird sanctuary to confront the oppressive overlords who threaten our liberties.
But they do so in a demilitarized zone where they are free to entertain New Mexico state legislators and receive X-rated care packages through the U.S. Postal Service.
Free to threaten federal range conservationists and confront visitors to the refuge with assault rifles.
Free to roam Harney County, where they have seized and vandalized public land, .....
.... Ammon Bundy initially claimed he was protesting the prison sentence of ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son. Now, he's pledging to confront agents from the U.S. Forest Service or BLM in any grazing-fee dispute.
"In the midst of this armed standoff, he is trying to engineer future armed standoffs," Suckling says. "That's the scariest thing. He's trying to replicate this.
"This is not on a trajectory toward a peaceful resolution."
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.... Ammon and Ryan Bundy, LaVoy Finicum and a dozen other well-armed malcontents ... have occupied a federal bird sanctuary to confront the oppressive overlords who threaten our liberties.
But they do so in a demilitarized zone where they are free to entertain New Mexico state legislators and receive X-rated care packages through the U.S. Postal Service.
Free to threaten federal range conservationists and confront visitors to the refuge with assault rifles.
Free to roam Harney County, where they have seized and vandalized public land, .....
.... Ammon Bundy initially claimed he was protesting the prison sentence of ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son. Now, he's pledging to confront agents from the U.S. Forest Service or BLM in any grazing-fee dispute.
"In the midst of this armed standoff, he is trying to engineer future armed standoffs," Suckling says. "That's the scariest thing. He's trying to replicate this.
"This is not on a trajectory toward a peaceful resolution."
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