More on the Malheur Morans, legal scholars

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2. They are no cowboys. They are red neck idiots who couldn't find a range let alone ride one.

Big hat no cattle is a very apt description of most of them. They want a pretend cowboy life that never happened. Its the one they see in advertising and old TV shows where a "man" was defined by how fast and often he used his weapon to settle a score. Where patience, thought and information are trumped every time by attitude, anger and adrenaline. They imagine they would be the guys in the white hats bringing "Christian Justice" in this movie world, but in truth they are the lynch mob: driven by fear and greed, manipulated by the "big interests" they claim to abhor.

They are in a hurry to undo all they claim is wrong as long as it means they wind up with the land, the water, the trees, and what's under the land, with no "rules" or inconveniently placed Native Americans to interfere with their presumptive "god given" dominion. These are exactly the conditions that lead to the creation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.