EXCLUSIVE: Oregon ranch family to file last-ditch ‘government redress’ measure to resolve jail resentencing as militia units asked to prepare
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Militia and patriot organizations are preparing to deliver a “redress of government” document to state and county officials in Oregon, asking that they intervene to prevent a father and son from having to return to federal prison on “terrorist” arson charges, sources have confided to Natural News.
Meanwhile, as noted in a blog post at the site Freedom Outpost, a “Level 2 alert” has gone out from supporters of Dwight Hammond, 73, and his son Steven Hammond, 46, to unnamed militia groups, instructing them to be ready to “deploy” in an effort “to defend” them “against tyrannical Feds who label them terrorists.”
The redress stems from a 2012 conviction of both men, who were charged under a federal antiterrorism statute, with committing arson on federal land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. Both were charged in connection with a 2001 fire known as the Hardie-Hammond Fire, in the Steen Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area, which burned some 138 acres of public land, according to various published reports.
In addition, reports said, a court convicted Steven Hammond of arson in 2006 for starting a back fire, after a lightning storm started several fires near the Hammond property; Steven Hammond said he started the back fires in an attempt to save the ranch’s winter feed.
Other reports said that both fires were started on the Hammond’s property, as well as on lands which the Hammonds had leased for grazing rights – but none of that swayed federal prosecutors or the court, both of which maintained that it was unlawful to purposely burn federal land, even if it was being leased.
Double jeopardy?
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