BUNKERVILLE-OREGON STANDOFF: AMMON BUNDY SPEAKS OUT, TALKS ABOUT HIS BUSINESS
"My family's grazed there for 141 years and we have vested property rights deeded with the State of Nevada and the federal government will not recognize them cause they say 'we own the land'.
And so not only do we openly and as loudly as we can say that 'you do not own this land, you do not have the authority to own and control this land' but we also say 'we have rights to this land and you have to recognize them and respect those rights'......
.........It was the same in Oregon the Hammonds were the same way. They have vested property rights. The federal government was disregarding them and tromping on them and taking them away and then took it to the next level of prosecution......"
Ammon Bundy speaks with KTVB Boise about Bunkerville and Oregon 1/13/2018
From his home in Idaho last Saturday (January 13th) Ammon Bundy answered questions from a reporter from KTVB-TV about the Bunkerville and Oregon Standoff protests.
Bundy said that a stand had to be taken in Oregon to draw attention to the case of the Hammonds.
When asked about notions like "militia" and firearms at the protest Bundy noted that he and the others went peacefully to the wildlife refuge on a weekend when no one was around, the refuge was 35 miles out of town out of the way of community life and was the entity responsible for most of the "vindictive actions against the people of Harney County".
He also noted that when the Second Amendment works people "respect each other".
Ammon Bundy also discussed his fleet maintenance business that employed more than 20 people before the Oregon Standoff protest. Bundy says a lot of national accounts left and that Chase Bank closed his business and personal bank accounts after the protest began. Now there are four employees and he is hoping to rebuild the business.
He said he had no regrets about the last two years and regarding the federal government that prosecuted and persecuted him, he said this: "If we allow the federal government to blatantly just disregard the very charter that organized them then what's going to keep them intact on everything else."
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