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by Josh Marshall
04.14.14 | 1:10 pm

I totally get the very correct desire to avoid violence. But allowing a bunch of militia freaks and gun-toting thugs to run off federal agents trying to act against a rancher who’s refused to pay grazing fees for using federal lands for 20 years seems like a very, very bad idea. If you’ve missed what happened this weekend, read this.

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