January 19, 2016

Well, it looks like the Bundy Boys are trying to start up as much as they can and take their little "liberty movement" viral. According to Raw Story, they're stirring the pot in Utah.

Two of the Oregon militants have been traveling out of state to meet with other groups who want the federal government to hand over public land to their control.

LaVoy Finicum said he left the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last week and drove to Utah with one of the other armed militants, reported OPB.

He later identified his travel companion as Ryan Bundy, and he claimed they met with county officials eager to engage in a similar standoff with federal authorities over public land ownership.

Finicum said the occupied visitors center, which the militants have renamed the Harney County Resource Center, was a symbolic victory and inspiration to other anti-government extremists.

“We have occupied their fort, and we’re not giving it back, it goes to Harney County,” said Finicum, who has ignored local pleas to leave the area. “It does not go back to the federal government.”

Utah blogger Chris Zinda had his photo taken Wednesday with Finicum in Cedar City, where Ryan Bundy lives and owns a construction company.

Here's what I want to know. Who is funding all of this? You know it's being funded, and you know we'll eventually find out who is behind it, but not for another couple of years. Still, I guarantee you there's a money trail and it will lead back to some major league funders aligned with Republican and libertarian interests.

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