Bundy Militia and friends are now threatening groups that feed the poor, destitute and homeless.

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Militant organizations that supported the Bundy gang's takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge have escalated to confrontation and intimidation of local activists who feed the homeless or assert that black lives matter.
According to the Rural Organizing Project, a grassroots nonprofit social justice organization in Oregon, community leaders in Josephine and Douglas counties have recently been confronted by Oath Keepers and other local militia who object to their activities.
In a post to the ROP website, co-director Jessica Campbell writes that "With the vandalism of our Co-Director's car in the same week, we believe it is not a coincidence that ROP leaders are being targeted."
‘Feed the Burg,' a weekly potluck event to feed the homeless in downtown Roseburg, first drew the ire of a local businesswoman who obsessively blames the group for everything that happens around her coffee shop. Alice Hicks has confronted the organizers several times, doxxed them on social media, and made much noise about carrying her 9mm handgun.
That last part caused organizers Dancer Davis and Jeri Benedetto to back away from ‘The Feed,' whereupon the community came forward to support it and new organizers took over. But as Campbell relates, that's when the militias suddenly inserted themselves into the dispute.

Then Douglas County militia leadership began harassing the Feed's organizers, demanding that they enter "mediation" where the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters would play "mediator".  The Feed politely declined, and the militia ramped up - enter "mediation" or the Feed will be forced to honor the "decisions" made in their absence.  The Oath Keepers and Three Percenters announced that they would have an open carry rally.  Their announcement read: "come support a local business under scrutiny for exercising their 2nd Amendment protected rights! Concealed and open carry welcome, please no long arms".  People who said they planned to attend made violent comments about the Feed's organizers and participants.

Quack legal theories such as ‘sovereign citizenship' have been popular within the ‘patriot movement' since its origins in the racist Posse Comitatus of the 1980s. The movement has developed a long-term strategy of supplanting present systems of power with their own - for example, by setting up so-called ‘citizens grand juries' to ‘indict' public officials who offend them, or by withholding grazing fees when their cattle range on public land, or by taking over a wildlife refuge.
The next logical step was always to impose ‘mediation' on anyone who fails to bow and scrape before their agenda. So we should not be surprised that on Tuesday, the ‘patriots' also showed up to counter a candlelight vigil for victims of police violence with cursing and abuse. Campbell again:

At the same time as community members were pledging to work together to uphold their shared values of equality and dignity, fifty people organized by the Oath Keepers gathered across the street to protest.  They screamed at those who participated in the quiet candlelight vigil, calling them names, shrieking "all lives matter", and hurling personal attacks at those gathered quietly in front of the makeshift memorial.
Joseph Rice, leader of the Josephine County Oath Keepers, took the megaphone and named Alex Budd, an ROP Board member and local ROAR organizer, multiple times over two hours, hollering things like, "Alex Budd advocates for the assassination of law enforcement", "Alex Budd is a racist who preaches hate", and "Alex Budd is a race baiter".

Get that? On most days, Oath Keepers is very, very concerned that American law enforcement should act only within ‘constitutional' limits. They denounce the federal government's regulatory powers over miners and ranchers who would otherwise extract every last bit of wealth from the land with total disregard for the toxic pollution and ecological devastation they might wreak.
But as soon as police somewhere in America blast a black person to pieces in an inexplicable hail of gunfire, these same heroes of freedom suddenly turn into authoritarian supporters of the state and advocates for the status quo. Go figure.
Sadly, chances are that we will see more stories like this in the future as social justice radicals clash with the increasing number of armed reactionaries in Oregon.