{"id":923,"date":"2016-01-05T04:21:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T20:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/anti-government-militias-have-surged-since-obama-was-elected\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T04:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T20:21:04","slug":"anti-government-militias-have-surged-since-obama-was-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/anti-government-militias-have-surged-since-obama-was-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-government militias have surged since Obama was elected"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An organized, heavily armed group took over<\/a> an empty federal building on Saturday in a small city in Oregon, where they’ve been camped out ever since<\/p>\n

The armed occupiers, who are now hunkered down at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters near Burns, Oregon, broke off from a larger group of protesters who were demonstrating against the imminent imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers convicted of arson<\/p>\n

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Inside the Bundy bunker#OregonUnderAttack<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/DB7is9RCfy<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Gordon R. Friedman (@gordonrfriedman) January 4, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But these occupiers \u2014 who have also been called militants, extremists, freedom fighters and terrorists<\/a> \u2014 are not the first armed group we’ve seen do this over the past few years. In fact, the number of so-called militias in the U.S. shot up after the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. The question is, why? Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Oregon<\/a>, Us World<\/a>, Us<\/a>, Right Wing<\/a>, and Ammon Bundy<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An organized, heavily armed group took over an empty federal building on Saturday in a small city in Oregon, where they’ve been camped out ever since The armed occupiers, who are now hunkered down at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,282,1,431,70,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ammon-bundy","category-oregon","category-other","category-right-wing","category-us","category-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}