Re: Oct. 29 news story.
The article about parallels between public land protests in North Dakota and Oregon drew interesting comparisons. But acquitted? Are you kidding? Last time I checked, armed takeover of a federal facility is not “exercising your First and Second Amendment rights,” as the lawyers for the Malheur rabble said. Itap an act of domestic terrorism and a crime. Imagine if they had tried this at a federal facility in the District of Columbia, say, the Washington Monument. Did the jury in the case of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge go brain-dead during deliberations? It isn’t 1870 and the matter is not open to debate: The lands in question are federal lands and aren’t subject to whims of local-control fanatics. The Bundys and the rest of their political ilk aren’t patriots or heroes; they’re homegrown terrorists and criminals and should be the recipients of lengthy prison terms.
Greg Sauer, Woodland Park
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