think-progress:Inside The Backwards Ideology Driving The Right-Wing Militiamen Who Captured A Federa
think-progress:Inside The Backwards Ideology Driving The Right-Wing Militiamen Who Captured A Federal BuildingTwo interlocking issues drove what appears to be slightly more than a dozen armed men to seize control of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service building in Oregon on Saturday evening. The first was the incarceration, release and eventual reincarceration of two men convicted of arson by a federal court. The second is a much broader dispute over whether ranchers are free to encroach upon federal lands without interference by the federal government itself. -- source link