Sheriff Dave Ward - The True Hero in the take over in Harney County by Domestic Terrorists.

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/01/sheriff_dave_ward_the_true_pat.html

It turns out there's been a true patriot in Harney County all along. His name is Dave Ward.

When the armed militants arrived and occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters, they called themselves patriots and twisted a reading of the U.S. Constitution to suit their purposes. Among other things, they argued public lands never really belonged to all Americans and that the federal government had no legal standing to manage them.

But they should have had that conversation more fully with Ward, better known in Burns and around the county as Sheriff Dave, because it's likely Ward could have set them straight — even though he's no constitutional scholar and had, in a meeting before the occupation, told the self-proclaimed patriots their demands were entirely outside the law.

Ward revealed himself in 2014 in his application for the sheriff's job. In it, he wrote: "I've spent many years of my life serving our country, stateside and abroad, to protect the Constitution and believe it is the sheriff's responsibility to protect each person's rights under the Constitution of the United States," Les Zaitz of The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.