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Sunday, February 14th, 2016

The Koch Brothers Are Now Funding the Bundy Land Seizure Agenda

Author:     Jenny Rowland and Matt Lee-Ashley
Source:     Reader Supoorted News/Think Progress
Publication Date:     13 February 16
 Link: The Koch Brothers Are Now Funding the Bundy Land Seizure Agenda
Stephan:   To really understand how committed the Koch brothers are to buying the government and distorting America to fit their very strange vision of what they think the country should be one has to dig down into the weeds. Out there in the weeds one finds the Christian terrorists. Here is a report on how the Kochs and the Theocratic Rightists terrorists have found common ground. I think this is very scary stuff with very negative long range implications for the U.S. in the future.
Lavoy Finicum and Ammon Bundy occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon. Credit: Rob Kerr

Lavoy Finicum and Ammon Bundy occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon.
Credit: Rob Kerr

The political network of the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch signaled last week that it is expanding its financial and organizational support for a coalition of anti-government activists and militants who are working to seize and sell America’s national forests, monuments, and other public lands.

The disclosure, made through emails sent by the American Lands Council and Koch-backed group Federalism in Action to their members, comes as the 40-day armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon is winding to an end.

The occupation came to a head Wednesday night, with the FBI moving in on the four remaining militants at the refuge and arresting scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy at the Portland airport under charges of conspiracy to impede federal officers. Occupation leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy were previously arrested under the same charge on January […]

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