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‘Patriots’ Rally For Oregon Mine Owners Turns Out A Tepid Affair

[Cross-posted at Hatewatch.] So much for a repeat of the Bundy Ranch standoff. A collection of antigovernment “Patriots” gathered Thursday in the parking lot of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in Medford, OR, to protest what they believe was the federal government’s “tyrannical” treatment of miners in the region. But the organizers of the affair were adamant they were uninterested in a standoff with federal authorities similar to the confrontation between BLM agents and hundreds of heavily armed “Patriots” a year ago at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada.

 

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