All seven defendants from the case that grew out of the 41-day standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge were found not guilty by a jury in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday.
So Uncle Sam has crushed the Oregon ranchers. Federal forces, spearheaded by the FBI, have done their job, and the rule of law has been upheld. But what law? And whose law? We’ll get to those questions in a moment. But first we can note that one man, one of the ranchers, is dead—and some will say he is a martyr.
One person is dead and another sustained non-life threatening injuries following a law enforcement raid on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building where a standoff had been underway throughout the month of January.
CNN’s national security analyst, Juliette Kayyem, has come to the stark conclusion that the protests at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, are an act of terrorism and not peaceful.
One member of an armed group occupying a federal building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon has made a video to share the occupiers’ side of the story.
