Posted on 07/10/2018 7:47:27 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump on Tuesday pardoned a pair of Oregon ranchers whose arson conviction became a focus for opponents of federal government land ownership.
Dwight Hammond, 76, and his son Steven, 49, were convicted in 2012 and sent to prison on arson charges. They had set a series of fires on their ranch that spread to federal land.
The Hammonds’ case became the inspiration for the 40-day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. The organizers wanted to protest federal land ownership.
The Hammonds distanced themselves from the occupiers and didn't endorse the action.
In a statement Tuesday announcing the pardon, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders emphasized uncertainties in the case and the prison terms and fines the Hammonds had already completed.
“The evidence at trial regarding the Hammonds’ responsibility for the fire was conflicting, and the jury acquitted them on most of the charges,” the White House said.
“The Hammonds are devoted family men, respected contributors to their local community, and have widespread support from their neighbors, local law enforcement, and farmers and ranchers across the West. Justice is overdue for Dwight and Steven Hammond, both of whom are entirely deserving of these Grants of Executive Clemency.”
“I have grown to really hate that worthless f*cker George W. Boosh! (His entire family too, they are just a worthless pile of $hit!)”
I voted for the SOB twice,then watched him betray us with that toothy grin. I argued with the Bushbots and Day in The Lifers here for most of his second term. I grew to hate W with a blood passion. He was our own Obama, leaving the GOP a shambles and Dems in command everywhere.
The progressive movement has always been evil and has changed very little. I think you mean "liberal".
The Bundys remain unconvicted and the federal case against them was dismissed with prejudice in Nevada and they were found not guilty in Oregon.
So unless and until they actually get convicted, no pardon is possible.
Trump could however direct Sessions to shut down the nimrod prosecutor who is appealing the judge’s decision to dismiss the case with prejudice and take another swing at them.
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Finally some common sense.
Now it is time to prosecute the prosecutors and the judge!
Its also time to boot the BLM off of all western lands; they have no surface rights to any of those lands.
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George was a great president for his time.
Don Trump is a great president for our time.
Apples and oranges are great for fruit salad.
Considering his complete lack of experience at governance, Trump is doing an amazing job.
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If Sessions had man ballz!
Sessions is deep black hat because he is culpable on Uranium one.
“I voted for the SOB twice,then watched him betray us with that toothy grin.”
Yeah, me too! But the reality was that as worthless as he turned out to be, his RAT opponents would have been worse! He was though, the person who began the “eye opening process” to the fact that the GOP has betrayed it’s grass roots party members for all of my life. For me, it finally came to me that they had been f*cking us almost as badly as the RATs. You can understand the RATs, they are the enemy, but when you come to the realization that the Party you support is doing most of the same things, you know it’s an unresolvable problem, absent a strong individual in the Presidency, like Donald Trump.
I mean just look at how this collection of Sacks of $hit voted bills out ending Obamacare all the time that that half-breed imposter was in office. But now, when those votes actually mean something, the f*cking GOPE is nowhere to be found!
Ditto on illegal immigration.
So now the trick is to somehow “hold the Congress” while we eliminate, one by one every last one of the GOPE crap weasels.
Again with the winning.
It’s a stolen word, meant to hide their evil intentions. But true progress is something real and good. Flying cars are progress. Clean-burning coal is progress. Redistribution of wealth is legalized theft by the state, not “progress” or “social justice”.
Well, it was stolen 140 years ago. It has always been associated with state power and hostility to individual freedom.
Exactly. It’s like being on Pierre Boule’s Planet of the Apes, but where there are no creative chimpanzees, just gorillas and orangutans, incapable of original thought or creativity, just dogmatic repetition and brute force. Rod Serling’s movie was a different take on the story, but the book is also worth reading.
“George was a great president for his time.”
You need therapy if you actually believe that statement! That worthless, globalist a$$hole, “gave” us EIGHT YEARS of Obola, plus a doubling of the National Debt and the deaths of thousands of our young men and women.
And his equally worthless father, did all his pea-brain could, to undermine and undo as much of what Ronald Reagan accomplished.
Quoting GHWB @ the UN:
“It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.”
I can’t wait to read his obituary!
Your comment is shameful!
Not the way TR practiced it. Making labor and management sit down together and end a strike was a good thing. The Klamath Basin dam pact was a great deal while it lasted. Environmental conservation TR style was a good thing, until it went mental. I’d say the evil “progressivism” didn’t get into high gear until Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, even if it was around in nascent form for 140 years.
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Just how did George Washington give us the muzzie?
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“Just how did George Washington give us the muzzie?”
I had been discussing GWB with another poster, and I evidently made the erroneous assumption because of the positioning of your post that the “George” you were referring to was BOOSH not Washington. MY apologies! I guess you couldn’t tell there is no love lost with the Boosh “family!”
TR was a monster. He was as socialist as FDR. And he gave us Wilson.
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In post 24, to which I had replied, Boosh was not in evidence!
Its OK, I’ve done similar low coffee episodes!
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>> “And he gave us Wilson.” <<
Deliberately!
That was the only purpose for the “Bull Moose” party.
I’d have to disagree. He was a renaissance man who believed in practicing gun-boat diplomacy against the crumbling Spanish empire in the New World. He was a lifelong anti-communist, a naturalist and taxidermist who ate all of his kills, even rhinos and ostriches, stuffing their skin. You really must visit Sagamore Hill next time you’re in New York.
And he hadn’t meant to get Wilson elected. He’d made a foolish pledge not to run for a third term, since he had become POTUS by virtue of the assassination of McKinley. But he became so dissatisfied with Taft’s ineptitude that he butted in as a third party candidate, which split the vote and gave the Dems a victory. He loudly protested Wilson’s refusal to involve himself in the European war, calling him a coward. Ultimately, America had to get into the war, but not at a time of anyone’s choosing. The fractures that occurred because of the prolonged “great war” made WW II inevitable. If America had gotten in earlier, it might have ended earlier, before the poison gas, the millions killed on the battlefield, and before the insane corporal went into politics. TR was right.
Another win for Trump and another loss for the left. Outstanding.
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