Years ago I was talking to a guy who use to be a police officer in country where corruption was rampant. He admitted they gave up arresting certain criminals they just took them to fields and shot them.
If FNC or AM radio gives people sympathetic coverage then you may as well count on a Trump pardon. No point arresting them.
The Hammonds are bad hombres. Their troublemaking goes back to the 80s. They think theyâre special snowflakes and donât have the follow the rules like the rest of us. The sovereign citizen ilk.
Theyâve threatened agents going back to the 90s. They repeatedly and intentionally started fires and tried to prevent fences from being built around federal land. They physically abused their nephew, who they forced to start fires that would âlight the whole countryside on fire.â
And they kept doing it, after being warned were held accountable. And now they got away with it.
Thereâs a guy who used to live in my town and went to our church who now lives out in Oregon. Heâs always been the folksy type, but heâs been to a lot of the trials and hearings of the Bundy and Hammond families, and others regarding these cases. He supports them. He thinks they were wrongfully convicted of arson for fires that âaccidentallyâ spread. Itâs so strange. Iâm literally sitting here being called a âstatist bitchâ by his friends on Facebook because because Iâve been laying out the FACTS of their behavior over the years.
The Hammonds are real pieces of â â â â â Theyâre the sovereign citizens type. Theyâve threatened federal agents. They repeatedly started fires that got out of control (whether deliberate or not, but evidence points to being deliberate) and were warned that if it kept happening, there would be consequences.
Theyâre relics of an older time and older system in America, and itâs amazing to see the right defend them so strongly. These are, as Trump would say, bad hombres.
The guy I mentioned above regularly attends rallies, takes photos, and goes to trials of these wannabe modern day cowboys. He fully supports them, and believes the very blatant and egregious lies they and their families spread. He believes that LaVoy Finicum was murdered in a government ambush.
I used to have a lot of respect for this guy-he was an on and off Boy Scout Leader when I was in middle and high school, and he was a lot of fun to have around-he was very smart, knew all about nature, and took us to a lot of cool places hiking and camping. But God have mercy, when it comes to this stuff, itâs like some really old habit he canât break.
The enthusiasm of the police here for dispensing street justice in the form of brutal beatings and so on goes back to Prohibition and the unimaginable amount of corruption it created over the next seven or eight decades.
A gangster might be all but invulnerable to conviction due to political ties, went the logic, but you could still give him a beating heâd remember for the rest of his life.
Yep-scroll down and youâll see the LONG history regarding the Hammonds. These are not good folks. Theyâre selfish and think their â â â â doesnât stink.
Here is the statement from the US attorneys office
âWitnesses at trial, including a relative of the Hammonds, testified the arson occurred shortly after Steven Hammond and his hunting party illegally slaughtered several deer on BLM property. Jurors were told that Steven Hammond handed out âStrike Anywhereâ matches with instructions that they be lit and dropped on the ground because they were going to âlight up the whole country on fire.â One witness testified that he barely escaped the eight to ten foot high flames caused by the arson. The fire consumed 139 acres of public land and destroyed all evidence of the game violations.â
a mere 139 acres burned on purpose to cover up game violations.