The Federal Bureau of Land Management was not sold to the people at the time of its creation as a militarized paramilitary police force. But that is what they have become. Corrupt and wielding far too much power for a governmental services corporation.
Dwight Stephen Hammond
2 ranchers never in any kind of real trouble with the law or anyone else. The BLM... wanted their land.
The rest is a story of government overreach, corruption, economic terrorism, and persecution using the weight of itself against a small ranching family.
Ammon & Ryan Bundy, and LaVoy Finicum took a stand with supporters. I was one of them. It cost LaVoy his life, but the Hammond’s were freed and pardoned, and well, while we took some lumps, we’re still here too.
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