U.S. Fish Wildlife Service and Federal Building

patriots: The Malheur Wildlife Preserve, a federal building managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is currently occupied by a group of armed white men demanding "a base place for patriots from all over the country to come and be housed here and to live here." This refuge used to protect migratory birds, but now it protects a group of self-described off-the-land patriots who feel their culture and livelihoods, rooted in God, guns and gold bars, are under attack by a "tyrannical" federal government and a creeping liberal orthodoxy, according to Rabble. Many have condemned the double standard used by law enforcement and the media in the way a group of white, armed, hostile occupiers has been treated compared to, for example, the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson or Baltimore. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Others have denounced the way the militants deploy the myth of the rugged, self-made cowboy to erase the historic right and title of Aboriginal peoples and the actual economic class position of millionaire ranchers who want to use the resources of public land without paying for it. The mainstream media scrambled to explain what, precisely, this "tyranny" was, since the vast majority of the world had no idea what Bundy was on about. But one of the most surprising revelations of the standoff comes from language usually reserved for progressive communities or university students: apparently, white supremacist armed militias want "safe spaces" too. "We're going to be freeing these lands up, and getting ranchers back to ranching, getting the loggers back to logging, getting the miners back to mining where they could do it under the protection of the people and not be afraid of this tyranny that been set upon them," Ammon Bundy said in a Facebook video. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.