Remember the Hammond family? The ones who were convicted of setting fire to grass lands, in a prescribed burn to rejuvenate grazing? The family who was convicted and sentence to 5 years in prison under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. They hurt no one, in fact they improved the land owned by the government (to which the Hammonds had grazing rights). They didn’t burn down houses, destroy cattle, corals, feed lots. Nope. But if the BLM wants to send a message to ranchers, they just set a fire. Now who’s the terrorist?
