The supposed connection between the Hammonds and their arson conviction (remember, they set fire to someone else's property in violation of the law), and the Bundy Boys' armed takeover of the wildlife refuge as a protest, is less than tenuous.

The burned acreage was managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the refuge by the Fish and Wildlife Service. And the "offending" government entity was the courts, who were following a law created by Republicans to impose mandatory sentences on domestic terrorists - which the Hammonds clearly qualified as being under the law.

It seems the Bundy Boys are just as scatterbrained about the law and reality as our new friend here is... if the protest had been focused on the egregiousness of mandatory sentencing, and had not impaired the functioning of a beautiful wildlife refuge, there would have been a sh!tload of Liberals on their side, including me.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller