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NPR is reporting on this tale of direct action:
A self-styled militia in eastern Oregon grabbed national headlines Saturday when they broke into the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. There the armed group remains Sunday, occupying the federal building in protest of what it sees as government overreach on rangelands throughout the western United States.
"We stand in defense," Ammon Bundy, the group's apparent leader and spokesperson, told Oregon Public Broadcasting. "And when the time is right we will begin to defend the people of Harney County, [Ore.,] in using the land and the resources."
Ammon's brother, Ryan, has reportedly used harsher rhetoric, saying members of the militia are willing to kill or be killed.
Their last name may ring a bell. Ammon and Ryan Bundy are sons of rancher Cliven Bundy, who notably took part in an armed standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, in Nevada in 2014.
Ammon Bundy now is part of a group of 15 to 150 people — depending on which source you believe — who are protesting the arson convictions of two Oregon ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son, Steven.
Also at Oregon Live, NYT, and the Associated Press.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday January 04 2016, @10:47PM
Cliven appeared on television with a pamphlet by W. Cleon Skousen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Cleon_Skousen [wikipedia.org] on almost every occasion. Ol' Cleon pretty much defines wacko right-wing Mormonism, but guess who else considers himself a follower? Yes, Ben Carson, and he's a neuro-surgeon, so there can't be any craziness here, right? Can we divide the non-orthodox Mormons into the pedophile polygamists ( Warren Jeffs), and the Moroni Successionists? Of course, the lines are faint. Skousen was born in Canada, spent time at a Mormon community in Mexico, and as you may recall, Romney's father was born in Mexico. Many Mormons left the US when the church was "encouraged" to have a "revelation" renouncing polygamy, as a condition of Utah statehood. I guess many (or at least 15) Latter Day Saints are still upset about that.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @11:03PM
Hate to interrupt but... BEN CARSON IS A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST. Ok, go on with your mormon bashing there...
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday January 04 2016, @11:21PM
. BEN CARSON IS A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST.
Yes, I know, you don't have to shout. Do you have to be a mormon to be a follower of a mormon right-wing nutjob? Besides, Mormonism is actually just 19th Century Scientology, complete with magic "seer stones" and a Xenu named "God", so it is not that far away from other fundie pretenders to true, universal, established by Jesus his own self, Christianity. Or maybe Carson just doesn't know. He seems to be a bit, um, conservative, when it comes to knowing stuff.