Oregon: Grant County sheriff Glenn Palmer endorses the Bundy insurrection

[phantom power]

BURNS – Leaders of the armed protesters holding the national bird sanctuary on Tuesday plan to push their anti-government agenda in Grant County, whose sheriff recommends the government give in to two of their key demands.

Sheriff Glenn Palmer said in a statement to The Oregonian/OregonLive that "the government is going to have to concede something" to end the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

He said freeing a father-son ranching team from prison "would be a start. Sending the FBI home would be a start." He referred to the FBI's lead role in ending the refuge occupation.

The sheriff's endorsement of the militants' demands stunned law enforcement officials, most of whom would not publicly discuss the matter.

Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe, who has been helping in Burns, said Palmer's position "doesn't help the cause. If anything, it hampers the effort to end this."

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/post_2.html#incart_big-photo

[ananda]

1. Ermm... what effort to end it?

???

[JEB]

2. Dim bulbs everywhere in law enforcement.

[B Calm]

3. I wonder what his annual salary is?

[Gregorian]

4. Enforcement is uncomfortable about busting "friends".

Birds of a feather.

Had they been hippies, or black, or punks, or women, or anything but a bunch of misguided hillbilly bullies, they'd already be in jail.

[Fast Walker 52]

5. WTF? What bullshit.

It's too bad so many sheriffs are right-wing nutjobs.

[phantom power]

6. If you are a sheriff, I admit I can see the appeal of a cult that says you have ultimate authority

"I endorse these people over here, who say that my authority supersedes all other authorities!"

[Fast Walker 52]

9. that's true, good point

[pinboy3niner]

15. He already was a member of the 'Constitutional Sheriffs'

Remember former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack, who was with Cliven Bundy at Bunkerville and who was the one who told the press about their discussions about putting the women and children in front? It was Mack who founded the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, of which Sheriff Glenn Palmer is a member.

[phantom power]

16. It would have been interesting if they'd staged their insurrection in Grant county.

I wonder if the FBI would have dared to show up at all, with a hostile local sheriff.

[fredamae]

7. Not The Onion and OMFG!

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/watch-loincloth-clad-oregon-militant-challenges-chris-christie-to-a-sumo-match-in-this-bonkers-video/

[hifiguy]

20. That alone should be grounds for having the lot of them

involuntarily committed to the nearest laughing academy.

Where are the guys with the butterfly nets and the rubber truck?

[phantom power]

8. BTW, the guys Palmer wants to release are poachers, convicted arsonists, and...

threatened the families of local officials with wrapping their children in barbed wire and throwing them 'down a well.'

But apparently, that's all cool with Sheriff Palmer. Because... they hate the gubmint just as much as he does?

[geomon666]

10. This is the same fuckhead that openly stated

he would refuse to enforce any new gun laws after the Umpqua shooting. What exactly is this dickhead's job? Sit on his ass and eat doughnuts?

[dembotoz]

11. they picked the right location to do this with a dumbfuck sheriff out in the boonies

sheriffs been playing right along

maybe the stalemate is because dumbfuck sheriff has threatened to go over to the other side which would make for a hollywood standoff

[Lizzie Poppet]

13. Sheriff Ward is playing along? Um...wtf?

Sheriff Ward has been playing the hand dealt by the FBI, once they arrived on the scene. The feds are the decision-makers in this. He's made multiple statements about how the Bundy Bunch need to get lost and was obviously seething about the surveillance of his family, etc.

FFS, have you been reading anything beyond headlines about this debacle?

[phantom power]

14. Note, Malheur is in Harney county, south of Grant county

So Palmer has no particular jurisdiction regarding what's happening at Malheur. Annoying to see LEOs backing up this kind of lawlessness, though.

[Lizzie Poppet]

12. When even other Oregon sheriffs are objecting to that idiot's statement...

...you know that statement was fuckwittery of the first order. LEOs do not breaks ranks easily.

Grant County, btw, is directly to the north of Harney County, where this nonsense is going down. About the same population, but a little under half the size (so still very sparsely populated...a little over 7000 people in over 4500 square miles).

[gratuitous]

17. "The government is going to have to concede something"

Isn't it nice that if you rob someone at gunpoint, trash their property, and threaten your victims with death in Grant County, the Sheriff there thinks that your victims are going to have to concede something to end your crime spree? The Sheriff would also be against imposition of any mandatory minimum sentence should you be haled into court and convicted of any of your special crimes.

Nitwit.

[Odin2005]

18. This bullshit is getting our of hand and needs to be cracked down on HARSHLY.

These people cannot be allowed to set a precedent or else it will be legitimizing all-out warlordism.

[hifiguy]

19. I swear, to be a LEO these days you have to be able to prove

that Princess Sparklemoose could best you in a battle of (half)wits.

[Ilsa]

21. Someone needs to start a petition to remove him from office.

Seems like he has no intention of enforcing the laws except selectively. I hope someone runs against him.