Fox News Hardly Mentions Bundys’ Latest Armed Standoff, Go Figure
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Fox News Hardly Mentions Bundys’ Latest Armed Standoff, Go Figure
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Ammon pissed off Megyn. You do not want to piss off Megyn.
So here we are in Day Three of the Bundy Bird Sanctuary Armed Standoff and not much has changed. The brave gun-fondling protectors of freedom are still holed up in a wildlife refuge in Oregon, law enforcement continues to give them a wide berth and nothing to shoot at, and we’re learning some interesting background facts on some of the players:
In 2010, Ammon Bundy, that fierce opponent of Big Government, happily took a loan for $530,000 from the Small Business Administration, a government body that is definitely not mentioned in the Constitution. We The People subsidized the loan to the tune of about $22,000.
Here’s some stomach-turning history about Dwight and Steven Hammond, the ranchers whose five-year federal prison sentence for arson on federal land was the ostensible reason for the militia standoff. Turns out they weren’t merely clearing brush! One of the fires endangered nearby campers, and the other was in violation of a no-burn order meant to protect firefighters fighting a large range fire nearby. To top it off, how about some allegations of child abuse? The Hammonds admitted to having forced a teen boy in the family to eat a can of snuff, to teach him that tobacco is bad. And after the kid “used a paper clip to carve the letter ‘J’ into one side of his chest and the letter ‘S’ onto the other side,” the family decided together that the appropriate punishment was to use sandpaper to sand the letters off the boy’s chest. Somehow, no charges were filed against the family. Those are your plucky frontier heroes, wingnut America.
The Hammonds turned themselves in Monday to begin serving their terms in a federal prison in California. Back in Oregon, Harney County Sheriff David Ward suggested that since the guys the militia nuts were supposedly protecting are in jail, maybe it’s time to end the stupid:
“You said you were here to help the citizens of Harney County,” Ward said. “That help ended when a peaceful protest became an armed and unlawful protest. The Hammonds have turned themselves in. It is time for you to leave our community. Go home, be with your own families and end this peacefully,” the sheriff said.
He then presumably looked in the general direction of the wildlife refuge and asked, “Anyone? Anyone? Bundy? Bundy?”
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