In January 2016, armed protestors in Oregon occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to call attention to what they | dG1fdHdUMHUxS0VGcEU
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00:00They're in place to try at least eight people.
00:11One person has been out here for many weeks.
00:14There are also other folks who are still here and they are not leaving, they say.
00:17Let me show you something about that.
00:19They have been out here.
00:20Now, they murdered the innocent man with his hands up like this, shot him in the chest
00:28three times.
00:31I know he was unarmed because I'm wearing his pistol.
00:36When tyranny becomes law, then rebellion becomes necessity.
00:4311 years in the Marine Corps, three deployments to Iraq, but now I'm actually out serving
00:52my country.
00:53The land here needs to be returned to the people.
00:54This can't go on.
00:55The federal government's got to withdraw.
00:59Ammon Bundy said that the refuge was an example of federal overreach, and now they have weapons
01:07and they're making a stand.
01:09I do believe they were looking for a confrontation with the federal government.
01:13Don't talk to me.
01:14Don't be afraid of me.
01:15Okay?
01:16I said be constitutional.
01:17All right?
01:18That wasn't a twist on your head.
01:19This quickly became a stew of right-wing militants.
01:24The Malheur Refuge became exhibit A of that anti-federal fury.
01:30So it's day 10 here.
01:34We have not seen any kind of law enforcement come in and restrict what these men are doing.
01:39I think that Oregon made a huge statement by saying this is a white utopia.
01:43This is Trump country all day.
01:45Cowboys with guns taking over a bird sanctuary in the middle of the desert screaming about
01:50American tyranny.
01:51You cannot convince me that federal law enforcement will react the exact same way if you were
01:57dealing with some folks who are Black Lives Matter activists.
02:00Mr. Obama, this one is for you.
02:04Let him out!
02:05Let him out!
02:06Let him out!
02:07Hold on.
02:08Hold on.
02:09The kind of certitude that was professed there, it almost demands blood sacrifice to justify
02:17itself.