Armed occupiers remaining at an Oregon wildlife refuge, like their eight associates arrested yesterday, have rejected “ample opportunities to leave peacefully” or negotiate, a senior FBI official said today.
Armed occupiers remaining at an Oregon wildlife refuge, like their eight associates arrested yesterday, have rejected “ample opportunities to leave peacefully” or negotiate, a senior FBI official said today.
The federal government claims to have a plan to handle the antigovernment extremists who have occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
The first arrest related to the illegal occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge is an Oregon man with sovereign citizen-leanings and a lengthy, unsuccessful record of challenging the federal government and its agencies in the Pacific Northwest.
Bundy brothers’ invasion of wildlife refuge stirs a typically paranoid response among their fellow antigovernment extremists.
A protest that for months was billed in right-wing media as an “epic rights flexing march” –– an Oath Keeper arming black residents with AR-15s and marching them through the streets of Ferguson –– turned out to be little more in the end than an exercise in futility.
For the second time, a state has admonished the Oath Keepers' Stewart Rhodes for his conduct as an attorney.
Rally on steps of Capitol in Boise is only the latest example of how antigovernment extremists are helping fuel a bonfire of Islamophobia in rural areas.
The handsome black sheriff with the baritone voice is the conservative media's latest darling, but his background and the beliefs he espouses are deeply disturbing.
Conspiracy theories originating on the extreme right have invaded American political life. And that's not good for democracy.
After a year of sorrow, fear and anger over the police killing of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., last year, the one thing the troubled little city did not need this summer was a pack of self-appointed guardians of the U.S. Constitution, toting around assault rifles and wandering the tense streets filled with protesters and police.