{"id":129465,"date":"2016-01-12T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/the-oregon-gang-ups-the-ante.html"},"modified":"2016-01-12T18:36:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:36:06","slug":"the-oregon-gang-ups-the-ante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/the-oregon-gang-ups-the-ante.html","title":{"rendered":"The Oregon Gang ups the ante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently emboldened by the feds not doing much of anything about their occupation of a wildlife refuge, Ammon Bundy &amp; Co. have started to take it a apart, using government equipment &#8212; at least in terms of dismantling some fences between the refuge and a neighboring ranch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/oregon-standoff\/2016\/01\/oregon_standoff_bundy_militant.html\">http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/oregon-standoff\/2016\/01\/oregon_standoff_bundy_militant.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the lack of response by the feds? <\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;&quot;I don&#39;t think they want to do anything,&quot; Bundy said. &quot;I think there&#39;s a lot of good people in the federal government who feel the same way as us.&quot; Payne said the militants plan similar actions in the future.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And surrounded by news crews, no less.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it&#39;s arguably a good thing that the feds aren&#39;t dropping drones on these guys, or rolling in the tanks. But there are also costs and consequences to apparent inaction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6238971560660242577\/6238971562801248322?authkey=CJnZ1v_3_tGnHw'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-aRj7mZs9Xzg\/VpVHlLSIOEI\/AAAAAAADpzA\/PfZV2MIGb9w\/-3fc621ad0d4dbab1%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/CMQ5gVwfFcb'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently emboldened by the feds not doing much of anything about their occupation of a wildlife refuge, Ammon Bundy &amp; Co. have started to take it a apart, using government equipment &#8212; at least in terms of dismantling some fences between the refuge and a neighboring ranch. http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/oregon-standoff\/2016\/01\/oregon_standoff_bundy_militant.html And the lack of response by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/the-oregon-gang-ups-the-ante.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Oregon Gang ups the ante&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/-3fc621ad0d4dbab15B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/sovereign-citizens-of-cloud-cuckoo-land.html","url_meta":{"origin":129465,"position":0},"title":"Sovereign Citizens of Cloud-Cuckoo Land","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Apr-16 10:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"I do have to give credit to Ammon Bundy and the whole clan of Malheur occupiers for sticking with their premise, i.e., the feds don't rightfully own Malheur Refuge, so the occupiers couldn't possibly be trespassing, so all charges should be dropped.It's no more likely to succeed than efforts to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129336,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/follow-the-money-freedom-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":129465,"position":1},"title":"Follow the Money (FREEDOM! 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