The Bundys are at it again.

[andros]

@Chimera

The local sheriff is a sympathizer, so don’t expect any action on his part.

He is? Since when?

From the Portland Tribune:

[Harney County Sheriff David M.] Ward told the Portland Tribune in one of his first media interviews since the standoff began Jan. 2, that Harney County residents were being “held hostage” by armed militants at the refuge complex and their “national agenda.” Dozens of Harney County residents have said during community meetings that they want the militants to leave. The issue has divided the small towns of Burns and Hines, Ward said, and it could take a long time for the communities to heal.

“What’s going on here is unfair to our community,” Ward said. “It’s damaging our way of life. Our community is being held hostage for a list of demands that is really about nationwide issues.

“I fear that we may never be able to get our community back to the place it was just six weeks ago. That innocence is lost. We may never look at a strange face in town again without being suspicious.”

[billfish678]

Maybe get a bunch of those snow making machines. See just how many feet of snow they can stand.

[Chimera]

Ah sorry, it’s the Sheriff of the next county over;

Oregon Militants Try to Recruit a ‘Constitutional’ Sheriff From Neighboring...

[andros]

@Chimera

Ah sorry, it’s the Sheriff of the next county over;

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/01/15/oregon-militants-try-recruit-‘constitutional’-sheriff-neighboring-county-fail

Oh damn, yeah. Palmer’s a dick. To his credit, though, I have to respect his consistency and respect for his neighboring sheriff.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

Potential solution:

1. The federal government sells the land to a local rancher with deep roots and strong ties to the local community. Price is immaterial. Could be a dollar. Could be a million billion dollars, with a promise to pay in the next month.

2. The new local owner tells the Bundy-boys to get the hell off of his private land.

3. If the Bundy-boys refuse, the local rancher/new owner has some options; Get everyone in town to surround the Bundy-boys - send in the Grandmas. Or… The local rancher/owner can gather a bigger militia with lots of firepower to oust them off his private land.

4. The local rancher/owner then decides he does not want this land after all, and deeds his new private land to the people of the United States in perpetuity. To be managed and cared for by the Federal Government in trust for the people.

[Rick_Kitchen]

This is a wildlife refuge. Selling it to a private party is not an option.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

@Rick_Kitchen

This is a wildlife refuge. Selling it to a private party is not an option.

I think you missed my point #4.

[Chimera]

@Rick_Kitchen

This is a wildlife refuge. Selling it to a private party is not an option.

Give it back to the Paiutes.

[davidm]

@Euphonious_Polemic

Potential solution:

1. The federal government sells the land to a local rancher with deep roots and strong ties to the local community. Price is immaterial. Could be a dollar. Could be a million billion dollars, with a promise to pay in the next month.

2. The new local owner tells the Bundy-boys to get the hell off of his private land.

3. If the Bundy-boys refuse, the local rancher/new owner has some options; Get everyone in town to surround the Bundy-boys - send in the Grandmas. Or… The local rancher/owner can gather a bigger militia with lots of firepower to oust them off his private land.

4. The local rancher/owner then decides he does not want this land after all, and deeds his new private land to the people of the United States in perpetuity. To be managed and cared for by the Federal Government in trust for the people.

@Rick_Kitchen

This is a wildlife refuge. Selling it to a private party is not an option.

Not an option and not necessary. What would be the point in doing this? It already belongs to the Federal Government.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

@davidm

Not an option and not necessary. What would be the point in doing this? It already belongs to the Federal Government.

It’s a bit of a tongue in cheek proposal.

It would instantly take away the Bundyites main problem. Bingo! The land is now private. Now the Bundyites can get the hell off of the private land.

Then it reverts back to the Federal Government, because the “owner” realizes the value in keeping land like this in the public domain.

And everyone laughs at the Bundyites.

As I say, not really a serious 'solution", but fun to think about their heads exploding. Especially when the posse of grandmas come to remove them from the local’s “private land”.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@davidm

Not an option and not necessary. What would be the point in doing this? It already belongs to the Federal Government.

Well, it’s kinda fanciful, but I think Euphonius Polemic’s idea is that if the refuge is nominally sold to a cooperative rancher, it becomes a matter of property rights, reverence for which is central to the YeeHadists’ ideology. Not that it would actually work, of course, but it’s fun to create logical forks with which to impale these morons.

ETA: Ninja’d.

[davidm]

Except that they don’t recognize the Federal Government’s ownership of that land, so they wouldn’t recognize it’s right to sell it.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

@davidm

Except that they don’t recognize the Federal Government’s ownership of that land, so they wouldn’t recognize it’s right to sell it.

Good point. I have failed to imagine the depths of the stupidity that exists among the Bundyites.

Oh, Oh!

Then form a “Local citizens committee of Concerned Ranchers and Good Folks” who will TELL the federal government to sell the land to the local rancher. It’s all good then, right?

[Rick_Kitchen]

Bundy supporter and his wife take their children by force in the middle of the night from the kids’ grandparents.

They also apparently now have a plane at their disposal.

[TroutMan]

It doesn’t work even as a non-serious solution. If the Bundys don’t recognize the feds as current owners, then the feds have no right to sell it to anyone. The sale is invalid, and that nutcase “judge” has one more transgression to add to his list.

ETA: damn the paging! I see davidm already made the same point.

[Rick_Kitchen]

Bundyistas blowing “Christian” shofars to call Christians to battle.

[davidm]

@Rick_Kitchen

Bundy supporter and his wife take their children by force in the middle of the night from the kids’ grandparents.

They also apparently now have a plane at their disposal.

Did you read the Youtube comments from the screen capture on that page? The kids’ grandfather is saying that many times he and his wife spent their own money to buy food and medicine for the kids because their father, Blaine Cooper, spent all of his money on “muscle supplements”.

[davidm]

@Rick_Kitchen

Bundyistas blowing “Christian” shofars to call Christians to battle.

Oh man. You can’t make this stuff up!

[Kobal2]

@Kobal2

There is some truth to the notion that the NAs who sold Manhattan thought they’d made a hell of a deal… but it’s because they were actually the ones who lived there, and in their minds they had just stumbled on the largest rube collective ever since they evidently didn’t even know which tribe they were talking to.

If ever there was a sentence missing a “not”… So, do add one : the NAs who sold Manhattan were NOT the ones who lived there/claimed the land as their own.

[Ennui]

@davidm

Did you read the Youtube comments from the screen capture on that page? The kids’ grandfather is saying that many times he and his wife spent their own money to buy food and medicine for the kids because their father, Blaine Cooper, spent all of his money on “muscle supplements”.

That exchange provided conclusive proof that roid rage and auto correct do not mix. [Link]