Native Americans Ask Federal Gov't To Protect Malheur Artifacts
"In the wake of video showing the armed occupants of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon rifling through Native American artifacts stored at the facility, the Burns Paiute Tribe is asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch to stop Ammon Bundy and his supporters from selling them on the black market."
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January 28, 2016
3 More Arrests At Malheur Refuge After Ammon Bundy Calls For Militants To Leave
3 More Arrests At Malheur Refuge After Ammon Bundy Calls For Militants To Leave
"The FBI announced the arrests of three more militants at the Malheur Refuge Wednesday."
"The FBI announced the arrests of three more militants at the Malheur Refuge Wednesday."
Eyewitnesses Knock Down Conspiracy Theories About LaVoy Finicum Dying With His Hands Up @alternet
Eyewitnesses Knock Down Conspiracy Theories About LaVoy Finicum Dying With His Hands Up @alternet:
"The Bundy militants and their supporters are trying to turn LaVoy Finicum into a right-wing martyr, but two eyewitnesses deny that he was shot and killed in cold blood by law enforcement officers."
"The Bundy militants and their supporters are trying to turn LaVoy Finicum into a right-wing martyr, but two eyewitnesses deny that he was shot and killed in cold blood by law enforcement officers."
Oregon Militia Standoff: One Dead After Ammon Bundy and Others Arrested @alternet
Oregon Militia Standoff: One Dead After Ammon Bundy and Others Arrested @alternet:
"FBI officials say they arrested the leader of the armed militia occupying the Malheur wildlife refuge and five others, and one person was killed during a shootout with federal agents."
"FBI officials say they arrested the leader of the armed militia occupying the Malheur wildlife refuge and five others, and one person was killed during a shootout with federal agents."
Trump Embraces Radical Anti-Catholic, Anti-Gay Pastor
Trump Embraces Radical Anti-Catholic, Anti-Gay Pastor:
"However, courting Jeffress' support didn't end well for the last Republican presidential candidate who tried it: Rick Perry. Perry, then the governor of Texas, drew flak for embracing Jeffress during his 2012 presidential campaign, particularly after Jeffress criticized Mitt Romney for his Mormon faith when he introduced Perry at the Values Voter Summit. Jeffress also declared that a Mormon president would cause God to judge America and that Mormons, Muslims, Jews and most Catholics are destined for hell. The megachurch pastor also claimed that Satan is behind Roman Catholicism."
"However, courting Jeffress' support didn't end well for the last Republican presidential candidate who tried it: Rick Perry. Perry, then the governor of Texas, drew flak for embracing Jeffress during his 2012 presidential campaign, particularly after Jeffress criticized Mitt Romney for his Mormon faith when he introduced Perry at the Values Voter Summit. Jeffress also declared that a Mormon president would cause God to judge America and that Mormons, Muslims, Jews and most Catholics are destined for hell. The megachurch pastor also claimed that Satan is behind Roman Catholicism."
January 23, 2016
Militants Bulldoze Through Native American Archeological Site, Share Video Rifling Through Artifacts @alternet
Militants Bulldoze Through Native American Archeological Site, Share Video Rifling Through Artifacts @alternet:
"Armed militants at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge continue to damage both the delicate ecosystem of the refuge and archeological sites of critical importance to the Burns Paiute Tribe."
"Armed militants at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge continue to damage both the delicate ecosystem of the refuge and archeological sites of critical importance to the Burns Paiute Tribe."
This Mormon pseudo-historian is why the Oregon militants are so confused about the Constitution
This Mormon pseudo-historian is why the Oregon militants are so confused about the Constitution
"The militants do read those pocket Constitutions, but they’re also reading fraudulent interpretations scribbled in the margins, so to speak, by a communist-hating conspiracy theorist promoted by Glenn Beck, reported the Los Angeles Times. Those annotations were written decades ago by W. Cleon Skousen, an ultra-conservative Mormon and former FBI agent who believed the Founding Fathers had established a Christian theocracy and never intended for the federal government to have any authority. Constitutional scholars, however, generally hold Skousen’s theories in churlish regard. The Pulitzer Prize-winning constitutional historian Jack Rakove, of Stanford University, said Skousen’s writings were “a joke that no self-respecting scholar would think is worth a warm pitcher of spit.” Skousen, who died in 2006, both inspired and drew inspiration from the John Birch Society — co-founded by the Koch brothers’ father — and his utopian philosophies helped spark the right-wing “Sagebrush Rebellion.” He found an even wider audience three years after his death, when Glenn Beck helped make his book, The 5,000 Year Leap, a best-seller by writing a forward for a new edition and promoting the alternate U.S. history on his CNN program at the time. Beck also folded Skousen’s teachings into his “912 Project,” which frequently overlaps with local Tea Party groups."
"The militants do read those pocket Constitutions, but they’re also reading fraudulent interpretations scribbled in the margins, so to speak, by a communist-hating conspiracy theorist promoted by Glenn Beck, reported the Los Angeles Times. Those annotations were written decades ago by W. Cleon Skousen, an ultra-conservative Mormon and former FBI agent who believed the Founding Fathers had established a Christian theocracy and never intended for the federal government to have any authority. Constitutional scholars, however, generally hold Skousen’s theories in churlish regard. The Pulitzer Prize-winning constitutional historian Jack Rakove, of Stanford University, said Skousen’s writings were “a joke that no self-respecting scholar would think is worth a warm pitcher of spit.” Skousen, who died in 2006, both inspired and drew inspiration from the John Birch Society — co-founded by the Koch brothers’ father — and his utopian philosophies helped spark the right-wing “Sagebrush Rebellion.” He found an even wider audience three years after his death, when Glenn Beck helped make his book, The 5,000 Year Leap, a best-seller by writing a forward for a new edition and promoting the alternate U.S. history on his CNN program at the time. Beck also folded Skousen’s teachings into his “912 Project,” which frequently overlaps with local Tea Party groups."
January 22, 2016
Watch: Outraged Hunters, Fishermen Vow To Take Back Malheur (VIDEO)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/14/watch-outraged-hunters-fisherman-vow-to-take-back-malheur-video/
"Unlike the Oregon terrorists, BHA members have not threatened to use their weapons to take back THEIR land from the YallQaeda terrorists. But they have made it abundantly clear that will not allow THEIR land to be stolen by these right wing extremists."
"Unlike the Oregon terrorists, BHA members have not threatened to use their weapons to take back THEIR land from the YallQaeda terrorists. But they have made it abundantly clear that will not allow THEIR land to be stolen by these right wing extremists."
It’s the Mormons and the Kochs: The secret roots of white, male Bundy rage
It’s the Mormons and the Kochs: The secret roots of white, male Bundy rage
"The goals of the Bundys and the Koch brothers coincide — it's all about acquiring public lands and exploiting them"
"The goals of the Bundys and the Koch brothers coincide — it's all about acquiring public lands and exploiting them"
January 7, 2016
Oregon Militia Terrorist: I’ll Die Before I Let The Feds Arrest Me (VIDEO)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/06/oregon-militia-terrorist-ill-die-before-i-let-the-feds-arrest-me-video/
"Well, sir, if you weren’t breaking the law, you wouldn’t have reason to fear spending time in prison. These idiots need to be arrested. They are nothing more than real life, bona fide terrorists. This guy is so dumb that he sincerely believes that the authorities won’t find him because he is hiding under a huge blue tarp in the middle of a vacant parking lot with his gun."
"Well, sir, if you weren’t breaking the law, you wouldn’t have reason to fear spending time in prison. These idiots need to be arrested. They are nothing more than real life, bona fide terrorists. This guy is so dumb that he sincerely believes that the authorities won’t find him because he is hiding under a huge blue tarp in the middle of a vacant parking lot with his gun."
We Laugh At The Bundy Cult Now, But It Can Stop Being Funny
http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/2016/01/05/we-laugh-at-the-bundy-cult-now-but-it-can-stop-being-funny/
"But these numbers also result from the dual-track strategy of an enduring land privatization campaign funded by right wing billionaires: fossil fuel, timber, mining interests, and welfare ranchers lobby for administrative action while their puppet executives are in power, then stoke ‘range war’ whenever Democrats take the White House. It’s important to remember that the standoff at Bundy Ranch began with support from the Colorado chapter of Americans for Prosperity, an organization created and funded by the Koch brothers. Not coincidentally, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Koch brothers’ state-level policy ‘bill mill’, has tirelessly worked to transfer public lands to private hands in recent years."
"But these numbers also result from the dual-track strategy of an enduring land privatization campaign funded by right wing billionaires: fossil fuel, timber, mining interests, and welfare ranchers lobby for administrative action while their puppet executives are in power, then stoke ‘range war’ whenever Democrats take the White House. It’s important to remember that the standoff at Bundy Ranch began with support from the Colorado chapter of Americans for Prosperity, an organization created and funded by the Koch brothers. Not coincidentally, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Koch brothers’ state-level policy ‘bill mill’, has tirelessly worked to transfer public lands to private hands in recent years."
Ammon Bundy Compares Himself To George Washington, Who Quashed The Whiskey Rebellion | Right Wing Watch
Ammon Bundy Compares Himself To George Washington, Who Quashed The Whiskey Rebellion | Right Wing Watch
"Bundy may want to hit the books and learn a bit more about what Washington thought of armed insurrections after the U.S. became an independent nation."
"Bundy may want to hit the books and learn a bit more about what Washington thought of armed insurrections after the U.S. became an independent nation."
The Disturbing History Of The Ideology Behind The Oregon Militia Standoff | Right Wing Watch
The Disturbing History Of The Ideology Behind The Oregon Militia Standoff | Right Wing Watch
"As Daniel Levitas explains in “The Terrorist Next Door,” his 2002 book on the history of the militia movement, the ideology of today’s antigovernment extremists is built on the ideas first formulated by William Potter Gale, a racist and anti-Semitic California preacher who argued in the 1960s and 1970s that local “posses,” under the leadership of a county sheriff, hold the true law enforcement power in the country and must resist an oppressive federal government. But Gale’s ideas really took off when they were plagiarized and distributed by Mike Beach, a former member of the fascist “Silver Shirts” movement living in Oregon."
"As Daniel Levitas explains in “The Terrorist Next Door,” his 2002 book on the history of the militia movement, the ideology of today’s antigovernment extremists is built on the ideas first formulated by William Potter Gale, a racist and anti-Semitic California preacher who argued in the 1960s and 1970s that local “posses,” under the leadership of a county sheriff, hold the true law enforcement power in the country and must resist an oppressive federal government. But Gale’s ideas really took off when they were plagiarized and distributed by Mike Beach, a former member of the fascist “Silver Shirts” movement living in Oregon."
The Bundy Siege is a Wake-Up Call: American Extremists Are Getting Desperate and Dangerous @alternet
The Bundy Siege is a Wake-Up Call: American Extremists Are Getting Desperate and Dangerous @alternet
"Leading this latest insurrection are two of Cliven Bundy’s children, wealthy ranchers who are furious that they aren’t allowed to pillage public resource for their personal profit."
"Leading this latest insurrection are two of Cliven Bundy’s children, wealthy ranchers who are furious that they aren’t allowed to pillage public resource for their personal profit."
Mormon church rips Bundy militants: ‘This armed occupation cannot be justified on a scriptural basis’
Mormon church rips Bundy militants: ‘This armed occupation cannot be justified on a scriptural basis’
"Officials with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) rejected any religious justification on Monday by the militant group behind the takeover of a federal building in Oregon."
"Officials with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) rejected any religious justification on Monday by the militant group behind the takeover of a federal building in Oregon."
Welfare Queen Ammon Bundy Got A $530,000 Loan From The Government For His Business
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/welfare-queen-ammon-bundy-got-a-530000-loan-from-the-government-for-his-business/
"It will come as no surprise that the leader of the “militia” that has taken over a federal building in Burns, Oregon, has had no problem with federal government when it comes to getting him some money."
"It will come as no surprise that the leader of the “militia” that has taken over a federal building in Burns, Oregon, has had no problem with federal government when it comes to getting him some money."
They created our Bundy/Trump hellscape: Fox News’ angry white audience will destroy us yet
They created our Bundy/Trump hellscape: Fox News’ angry white audience will destroy us yet
"Fox News viewers don’t care about reality or the truth; they watch for the sport of it and they simply can’t turn away."
"Fox News viewers don’t care about reality or the truth; they watch for the sport of it and they simply can’t turn away."
This Anti-Government Oregon Terrorist Took Thousands In Government Money
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/04/this-anti-government-oregon-terrorist-took-thousands-in-government-money/
"This is the same sort of mindset we’ve seen for years and years on the mainstream right. Out of one side of the mouth comes words condemning the government, often attacking those who have sought help from the government – particularly ethnic minorities who dare to receive government support, even temporarily. From the other side of the mouth they are more than willing to build their personal fortunes on top of government help and assistance. Help for me, not for thee. They may as well be part of the Tea Party crowd demanding that the government take its hands off Medicare."
"This is the same sort of mindset we’ve seen for years and years on the mainstream right. Out of one side of the mouth comes words condemning the government, often attacking those who have sought help from the government – particularly ethnic minorities who dare to receive government support, even temporarily. From the other side of the mouth they are more than willing to build their personal fortunes on top of government help and assistance. Help for me, not for thee. They may as well be part of the Tea Party crowd demanding that the government take its hands off Medicare."
Ammon Bundy Hates Government Unless It Gives Him Money
Ammon Bundy Hates Government Unless It Gives Him Money
"These right wingers are so ridiculous about their hatred for government. This is Ammon Bundy in a nutshell: Bundy hates government when they stand in the way of what he wants to do, and he loves government when they pave the way for what he wants to do."
"These right wingers are so ridiculous about their hatred for government. This is Ammon Bundy in a nutshell: Bundy hates government when they stand in the way of what he wants to do, and he loves government when they pave the way for what he wants to do."
The Militia Idiots in Oregon Deserve To Be Laughed At (But Never Forget One Thing)
http://thedailybanter.com/2016/01/oregon-militia-idiots/
"There’s so much material already there to work with, including the signs emblazoned with fiery slogans they’ve posted to warn people off — slogans with, of course, multiple misspellings — and social media pleas for “snacks” that they apparently forgot to pack, despite claims that they plan to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for years. There’s the comically melodramatic “goodbye” videos posted by these idiots to their families — their oath to protect this land has to come first, after all — and the predictable fracturing of the group’s conspiracy theorist support network, part of which has declared that this whole takeover is nothing more than a false flag operation. All of it is deserving of a Nelson-from-The Simpsons-style point and laugh — except of course for the one lingering issue that hangs over this entire thing like an ominous black cloud. The fact is, as dumb and pathetic as these clowns are, they’re heavily armed."
"There’s so much material already there to work with, including the signs emblazoned with fiery slogans they’ve posted to warn people off — slogans with, of course, multiple misspellings — and social media pleas for “snacks” that they apparently forgot to pack, despite claims that they plan to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for years. There’s the comically melodramatic “goodbye” videos posted by these idiots to their families — their oath to protect this land has to come first, after all — and the predictable fracturing of the group’s conspiracy theorist support network, part of which has declared that this whole takeover is nothing more than a false flag operation. All of it is deserving of a Nelson-from-The Simpsons-style point and laugh — except of course for the one lingering issue that hangs over this entire thing like an ominous black cloud. The fact is, as dumb and pathetic as these clowns are, they’re heavily armed."
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