News Jan 6, 2016 at 10:00 pm

A Host of Oregon Lawmakers Are Pushing the Same Thing

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There's no reason to trust anti-government types. The only people with enough money to use the privileges afforded by lack of government are people who are stinking rich on their own, but not *quite* as rich as the federal government. State governments, especially smaller ones like Oregon's, are easier for rich people to buy and control if the pesky feds aren't in the way. So - fuck those anti-government guys, in all the forms they come in.

To the ranchers, I extend a tiny bit of sympathy, actually. It's a fuck of a lot of work building a ranch on a dedicated land lease over time, and I respect that. It's meaningful work, and we need farmers, but we also need regulation, because farmers (like any individual in business) are not inherently big-picture people. So what I don't respect is an argument (and this is coming from the dudes who quietly went back to jail) that because something has been done - land leased to you - for decades, that you have some right for that to continue indefinitely for your personal good when there are plenty of other goods to consider. What right does anyone have for things not to change?

By timeline logic anyway, the migratory birds and the native populations have a lot more claim to the grazed-devastation land than any rancher would.

Still, this is a solveable problem. There are true fucktons of federal dollars going to military projects that I don't approve of, and the comparatively tiny diversion of dollars it would take to fairly compensate the ranchers for their loss of livelihood would have been a politically keen gesture to dampen the fuel for this privileged white-dude uprising. Throw the ranchers whose leases have been made unrenewable some kind of retirement bone, and it'll cost you a lot less in the end, feds. Sheesh, people. Cooperate!
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Militants is a Marxist term, imported from Communis,t Soviet, Russia. The Bill of Rights of the Constitution for the United States of America establishes a spontaneous, self regulated, volunteer, Militia. These cowboys who have showed up in Oregon, seem to be over reaching in their demands; perhaps even extortionist. It's not legal to make threats. If defense is needed, you act accordingly, but it's not a proper use of a Militia to negotiate under Martial Rule. That would be more like something that useful idiots would do. When unconstitutional Federal agencies invade to confiscate land, you simply deter them will greater force, without benefit of discussion.

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