Armed Militia Takes Over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ

Can we just leave it at a bunch of crazies breaking laws that will eventually be sorted out and not turn it into a dem/rep shouting match?

The Hammonds have distanced themselves from the standoff since its beginning. A lawyer for the family wrote early on that "neither Ammon Bundy nor anyone within his group/organization speak for the Hammond Family.”

So has Cliven Bundy, the father of Ammon, who held his own standoff against the federal government nearly two years ago. The elder Bundy does not recognize federal control over the land where his cattle graze, and refuses to pay his grazing fees. In 2014, when federal agents started seizing his cattle, Bundy owed $1.2 million to the Bureau of Land Management. According to the Los Angeles Times, he still does.

“I don’t quite understand how much they’re going to accomplish,” Cliven Bundy said about his sons at the beginning of this month. “I think of it this way: what business does the Bundy family have in Harney County, Oregon?”

Ammon Bundy's big "Tear up your grazing contract" event at Malheur yesterday was another "black-eye" for the Cow-Quida occcupiers. No Oregon ranchers tore up their contracts and only one rancher did, a man from New Mexico who has been with the Cow-Quida since the start.

Can we just leave it at a bunch of crazies breaking laws that will eventually be sorted out and not turn it into a dem/rep shouting match?