The terrorist militia occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge have the same goals as coal mine operators, oil and gas extraction industries.
I think that Koch Network and other extraction industries use their influence to stop public officials from naming property rights, posse comatatus domestic terrorists as terrorists.
Property rights terrorists are repeatedly engaged in property rights shootouts several times every year.
This Homeland Security team was pressured to disband by Republican Party officials:
"From Think Progress, July 27th 2011, Ben Armbruster writes in an article headlined - After Right-Wing pressure, DHS now has 'just one person' dealing with Domestic Terrorism. The greatest threat of large-scale attacks come from individuals and small groups of extremists who subscribe to radical Islamic or far right-wing ideologies, said Gary LaFree, director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START. Gary Ackerman, Research Director at START, said nationally, law enforcement has been focused since the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001 on the threat of Islamic terrorism, even as the threat from domestic anti-government groups has been growing.
“Some people believe we have taken our eye off the ball when it comes to domestic right-wing extremists,” he said.
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By Mysoreback
2012/08/06 · 10:21
"The Charleston church massacre tragically illustrates that the threat of radical-right terrorism must be taken seriously."
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July 14, 2015
"I specifically asked Oath Keepers to protect my property and my rights until I got to court," Rock Barclay told television station KDVR. "That's why Oath Keepers is there."
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By Max Cherney
April 23, 2015 | 12:30 pm
"The only safe place for coal in the 21st century is deep underground—these reforms will help keep more of it there."
Published on Friday, January 15, 2016 by Common Dreams
by Nadia Prupis, staff writer
"If most ranchers adhere to the laws around the management of public lands, what’s behind these small, armed factions challenging that system?
Over the past several years, a network of politicians and militiamen have been trying to roll back federal authority over public lands with increasing intensity, as documented by the Center for Western Priorities (CWP). That group describes Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory (R) as the lynchpin of a growing movement in statehouses across the western United States. The idea that federal authority over public lands is illegitimate has caught the attention of a variety of extremist groups that are convinced the government will sooner or later turn arms against its own people.
The movement has two main channels: foot soldiers like Bundy and the Oath Keepers, who view themselves as the first line of armed resistance against government tyranny, and capitalists, who know that federal land rules are keeping valuable minerals in the ground. Bundy and his ilk have been involved in multiple other lower-profile provocations with federal agents over the past few years across western states. In that same time frame, the CWP has documented dozens of legislative efforts to loosen federal control of public lands, which would ultimately allow state lawmakers to start dishing out mining and drilling permits in wilderness areas that have been preserved by and for American taxpayers for hundreds of years.
In a final bit of irony, this latest militia dust-up stems from a law created in direct response to the perception that right-wing domestic terrorism was surging during the Clinton years.
The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) created the five-year mandatory minimum sentences that the Hammonds face for arson on public property. That law sailed through a Republican Congress in the wake of the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. McVeigh and Nichols were inspired to that murderous act in part by the fatal standoffs between armed resistors and federal agents at Ruby Ridge and Waco in the early 1990s, where multiple people died and law enforcement were blamed for mishandling and escalating the situations.
Had anyone been killed by the fires the Hammonds set, they could have faced life imprisonment or even the death penalty under the AEDPA. But the rigidity of punishments that Bundy’s armed men are protesting today was established in law partly in response to the actions of their ideological forebears."
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BY ALAN PYKE JAN 3, 2016 2:43 PM UPDATED: JAN 4, 2016 2:01 PM
The anti-government terrorist violence may just be getting started:
"After the FBI releases a video of the shooting of LaVoy Finicum antigovernment extremists release a call to action
The release late Thursday of FBI aerial video, showing the fatal shooting of Oregon refuge occupier LaVoy Finicum, was intended to dispel “inaccurate and inflammatory” accounts spreading on social media and in extremist circles.
But there are already indications the release may be used as a springboard for the extremist movement to make the 54-year-old Arizona rancher and foster parent a new icon for the antigovernment movement, much like Gordon Kahl became in the 1980s and Vicki Weaver in the 1990s.
A Pacific Northwest militia group issued a statement today, saying it “condemns the violent action taken by the Harney County Sheriff's Department along with the FBI in the shooting death of Mr. Lavoy Finicum.”
The statement released by the Pacific Patriots Network urged 'all Americans to come to Burns, Ore., to come to the aid of the American people standing against these violent, malicious and deceitful tactics.”
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