Perhaps you glossed over this snippet of information: Even the Harney County sheriff is in opposition to the terrorists. Harney County Sheriff David Ward on Sunday afternoon said a group of militants that seized an eastern Oregon wildlife refuge is trying to overthrow the local and federal governments. The group, Ward said, comprises outsiders who came to Harney County claiming to be part of militia groups supporting local ranchers. In a news release Sunday, Ward said that "in reality these men had alternative motives to attempt to over throw the county and federal government in hopes to spark a movement across the United States." If that doesn't constitute terrorism, I don't know what does.
When individuals from different states gather at a location, they're not there for the obvious reason, they have ulterior motives, and Sheriff David Ward hit the nail squarely on the head.
Richo.......the plight of Australian ranchers, and the actions of the Bundys in refusing to pay grazing fees, and the Hammonds in poaching and using arson to hide it are comparing apples to bananas. The Hammonds claim that they want to return the land to "its native state". Unfortunately for them, the land's native state is that it was tribal land seized from what is now the Burns Paiute Tribe.
The Malheur River Indian Reservation was created by executive order on March 14, 1871, and the Northern Paiute within the Oregon state boundaries were settled there. Descendants of these people form a federally recognized tribal entity, the Burns Paiute Tribe, which had 341 members in 2008.[3] Fewer than 35.5% of the tribal members live on the Burns Paiute Indian Colony near Burns.[3] The tribe earns revenue from a small casino, the Old Camp Casino, and renting out communal tribal lands for grazing rights to local ranchers.
