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Normally I post Oregon Standoff matters at this time of the morning but I posted the "Oregon Live" story about the indictment of FBI Special Agent W. Joseph Astarita of the "Hostage Rescue Team" late last evening. Some analysis of the situation. The indictment of the FBI agent was rolled out the week before the July 4th holiday. This is when big government, big business release the bad news that makes them look bad, the news that's embarrassing and so on. Its at a time when you're vacationing or not working or not using media like you normally do. The...

(Gavin Seim) (at :04) ... hatred, there's so much violence happening right now. We have, we have people that are. that are abusing and being abused. We have government and police officers that are abusing and some of us are coming out and we're saying 'look its not right we can't keep supporting police who do this' It's not about not supporting law enforcement. I support law enforcement. It's that we don't have law enforcement and people are getting really angry...... (at :38) You're seeing the violence increase, the protests increase and most of these people protesting, regardless of what...

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy said Monday that the occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge would continue. In a notarized letter from Clark County, Nevada, Bundy wrote to Harney County Sheriff David Ward that "We the people of Harney County and also we the People of the citizens of United States DO GIVE NOTICE THAT WE WILL RETAIN POSSESSION OF THE HARNEY COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER (Malheur (sic) National Wildlife Refuge)." The letter was also sent by certified mail to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and President Barack Obama. "Remove all federal and state policing agents out of Harney County," Bundy wrote....