{"id":28450,"date":"2016-01-06T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=28450"},"modified":"2016-01-06T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T19:02:10","slug":"former-talk-show-host-calls-for-feds-to-violently-react-to-seizure-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=28450","title":{"rendered":"Former Talk Show Host Calls For FEDs To Violently React To Seizure In Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title\">Montel Williams Calls For &#8220;Shoot To Kill&#8221; In Oregon Showdown; Militiamen Respond They Are &#8220;Ready To Fight&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>In the latest development in the ongoing saga of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-01-03\/now-time-stand-armed-activists-militiamen-seize-federal-wildlife-refuge-office-orego\">Ammon Bundy\u2019s seizure of a Federal wildlife reuge office in Oregon<\/a>, the members of the militia said they\u2019re ready to fight, but they won\u2019t say what they would actually do if federal authorities try to remove them by force as reported in the clip below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HjYWDzTXJ0?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, while we noted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-01-03\/oregon-standoff-terrible-plan-we-might-be-stuck\">shortcomings in Bundy\u2019s latest standoff last night<\/a>, what is even more notable is that as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellihub.com\/montel-williams-calls-for-deaths-american-militiamen\/\">Shepard Ambellas of Intellihub points out<\/a>, Montel Williams he tweeted <strong>that the National Guard should be mobilized to \u201ckill\u201d protesters who have currently overtaken the federal building in Burns, Oregon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moreover USA Today has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2016\/01\/03\/militia-members-occupy-us-building-in-oregon-after-protest\/78226600\/\">reported <\/a>that \u201cmilitia members used the ranchers as a ruse,\u201d in what I and others feel may be the planed catalyst to start a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellihub.com\/alex-jones-new-waco-equals-civil-war\/\">civil war in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Rick Jervis wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<p>The Oregon sheriff whose county is at the heart of an anti-government call-to-arms said Sunday the group occupying a national wildlife refuge came to town under false pretenses.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff David Ward said protesters came to Harney County, in southeastern Oregon, \u201cclaiming to be part of militia groups supporting local ranchers.\u201d In reality, he said, \u201cthese men had alternative motives to attempt to overthrow the county and federal government in hopes to spark a movement across the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued Sunday afternoon, Ward said he was working with local and federal authorities to resolve the situation as quickly and peacefully as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Intellihub adds that its staff has identified a few suspicious individuals who claim to stand with the militants which may attempt to provocateur, escalate, the situation further. As we noted last night, this also is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-01-03\/oregon-standoff-terrible-plan-we-might-be-stuck\">distinct possibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in an interesting tangent, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/01\/04\/the-oregon-occupiers-complaint-explained-in-9-maps\/\">WaPo<\/a>, which admits that there \u201care gun rights issues, religious overtones, broad strains of anti-government sentiment and even the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement\u201d as underlying motives behind the seizure, focuses on \u201c<strong>very particular question of how much land the government controls in the state \u2014 the same question that animated the dispute with rancher Cliven Bundy in Nevada two years ago \u2014 and that helped motivate Bundy\u2019s son Ammon to take a lead role in the Oregon standoff<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It then provides several charts, alongside the following analysis, to show this curious aspect of what may be the core motive behind Bundy\u2019s actions. To wit:<\/p>\n<p>More than half of Oregon is owned by the federal government, with a large percentage of that land owned by the Bureau of Land Management \u2014 an agency widely reviled in the West and known by its acronym, BLM. (Ammon Bundy was forced to clarify on Twitter that his use of \u201cBLM\u201d didn\u2019t refer to the Black Lives Matter movement.) Data from the U.S. Geological Survey shows the amount of federal land in the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/orgeon%201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/orgeon%201_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(This map and the ones below only show areas of 600 or more acres held by the government.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The takeover occurred near Malheur Lake, at a building that\u2019s part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. That lake is at the upper center of the BLM\u2019s map of the surrounding area, which shows just how much is controlled by the government. (The original protests over the Hammonds\u2019 sentencing began in Burns, Ore.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%202_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"709\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of the issue is that there isn\u2019t much population in the eastern part of the state. Mapping Oregon\u2019s population, you can see Portland and a corridor near the coast, which is about it. The area around the wildlife refuge has almost no population.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%203_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a historic link between population and federal land ownership. In 2012, the Congressional Research Service looked at the history of tensions between the government and the population out West \u2014 particularly ranchers and farmers who, like the Hammonds and Bundys, use federal land for grazing and other purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the history of the country, the government took over land that was then distributed to citizens for farming and economic growth. As the United States expanded westward, the land was increasingly inhospitable, including the Rockies and the deserts of Nevada and Utah. By the end of the 19th century, a new focus was placed on conserving the land, with Yellowstone becoming the first national park in 1872. At that point, very few people lived in the area, as this 1890 Census Bureau map suggests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%204_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the 20th century, the government\u2019s emphasis shifted away from releasing the land to private citizens and toward managing it itself. The passage of 1976\u2019s Federal Land Policy and Management Act made that policy concrete, keeping the land as the property of the government. After the federal government\u2019s shift, there was a push from some in the West, including governors and members of Congress, to shift control from the federal to the state or local government. The Sagebrush Rebellion, as it was known, tapered off during the relative friendly administration of Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%205.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%205_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The longstanding political and legal dispute was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstrebuttal.com\/a-new-fed-mandate-the-labour-the-demand-and-the-holy-profits\/\">summarized <\/a>in more depth by the conservative Heritage Foundation, but the Congressional Research Service makes one additional point that\u2019s important to consider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the earliest days,\u201d the CRS researchers write, \u201cthese policy views took on East\/West overtones, with easterners more likely to view the lands as national public property, and westerners more likely to view the lands as necessary for local use and development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one reason for the objection from Westerners. The other is that the lock-down on the land came after the East was heavily settled but before the West had been. In the East, land was turned over to farmers. In the West, settled later in the country\u2019s history, there were fewer people to hand it to.<\/p>\n<p>Compare the Dakotas to Oregon, for example. In 1910, here\u2019s how the population was distributed. Even the Dakotas had pockets of population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%206_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still sparsely populated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%207_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But very little of the land is federal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%208.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%208_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On that 1910 map, notice that Nevada has very little population \u2014 thanks in part to its landscape being even less hospitable than the Dakotas. Its population is still small, save Reno and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%209_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the land \u2014 including the land around the Bundy ranch \u2014 is owned by the government to this day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/01\/oregon%2010_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The conclusion: \u201cThe fight isn\u2019t new, as the Congressional Research Service report notes. What\u2019s new is the way in which the broader political moment has cross-pollinated with longstanding objections to how the government manages land out West. The takeover in Oregon has its roots in the Sagebrush Rebellion. They way it\u2019s being manifested, though, is as modern as it gets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if the National Guard will take up Montel on his \u201cshoot to kill\u201d advice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-01-04\/montel-williams-calls-shoot-kill-oregon-showdown-militiamen-respond-they-are-ready-f\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-01-04\/montel-williams-calls-shoot-kill-oregon-showdown-militiamen-respond-they-are-ready-f<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montel Williams Calls For &#8220;Shoot To Kill&#8221; In Oregon Showdown; Militiamen Respond They Are &#8220;Ready To Fight&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}