Militia Leader Refuses Sheriff's Roadside Offer To End Standoff: "I Don't Need An Escort"

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On Tuesday, Harney County Sheriff David Ward told reporters it was time for Ammon Bundy and the group of militiamen occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to “leave the community, go home, and end this peacefully.”

Bundy, we noted, had no such plans.

The handful of armed men holed up in a remote bird sanctuary say they are standing up for state’s rights in a kind of ad hoc, haphazard rekindling of the Sagebrush Rebellion.

The proximate cause for the occupation was the (re)sentencing of Dwight Hammond and his son Steven, who a judge ruled should be sent back to jail in connection with fires the two lit in 2001 and 2006. Although the Hammonds aren’t protesting their sentence, Bundy wants to see them go free before the militiamen give Linda Beck (the biologist at whose desk Bundy now sits at Malheur) her office back.

(from left to right: Bundy, his bodyguard Wes, Dwight Hammond, and Linda Beck)

On Thursday, Sheriff Ward attempted to reason with the men.

In a scene right out of a (bad) movie, Bundy and his bodyguards drove to a “neutral location” that Reuters says was located “along a remote Oregon roadside,” for a meeting with the Sheriff.


In the meeting - which apparently lasted “about five minutes” - Ward offered the men safe passage out of the state if they agreed to cede control of the snowy federal outpost. 

In short, Bundy said no.

As you can see from the video, the Sheriff seems to be at a loss when it comes to figuring out exactly what it is Bundy wants, but he is convinced that it's not safe to open local schools until the standoff is resolved. "We pose no threat whatsoever to the people," Bundy insists. "It only takes one unstable person and we know that," Ward counters.

“Ward told Bundy that he was seeking a peaceful resolution to the nearly week-long standoff and offered to escort the occupiers out of Oregon,” Reuters writes. “But Bundy, saying that the sheriff had not addressed the occupiers' grievances, declined.” "We're being ignored sir," he can be heard saying.

Bundy also seems to have been offended by the notion that he needed a police escort to leave Oregon. "I'm not afraid to go out of state. I don't need an escort,” he later told reporters. Here's a bit more from the Oregonian:

The parley between Bundy and the sheriff lasted between five and 10 minutes and took place in the open, at the intersection of a state highway and the back route to the refuge. It was another in a series of twists and turns the past week that have drawn national and international attention to this sparsely populated high desert country.


Ward was accompanied to the remote location by Sheriffs Brian Wolfe of Malheur County and Andy Long of Tillamook County as well three rigs carrying heavily armed law enforcement officers.

 

Ward met Bundy on the side of Lava Bed Road, a handful of media surrounding the men. Bundy was accompanied by Ryan Payne, a self-styled militiaman from Montana.

 

Ward explained he was there to resolve the standoff. He said he didn't want anyone to get hurt.

 

"We need to find a peaceful resolution and get you guys out of here," he said.

 

Bundy, wearing his trademark cowboy hat, told Ward, "We mean no harm to anybody."

 

Bundy went into his oft-repeated comments about why the militants had arrived to take over the refuge.

 

"We're here for the people of Harney County," he said. "We're here because people were being ignored." He said citizens have complained over and over about federal land-use issues.

 

"Yet, sheriff, you would not address those concerns," Bundy said. "We're getting ignored again."

 

Ward replied, "I didn't come here to argue."

 

The men shook hands, Bundy and Payne returning to the small convoy that brought them to the scene on a gravel road roughly 20 miles east of the refuge. It was apparent Bundy brought a security detail with him.

 

Ward climbed into a sheriff's rig and headed off over back roads to a town hall meeting in the small community of Diamond. He met about 50 citizens there to talk about the refuge occupation and hear their concerns.

And so, there was no common ground to be found on Lava Bed Road near Highway 78. Only a cold (both figuratively and literally) handshake.

The Sheriff would later say that he believes Bundy doesn't feel like the standoff is being taken seriously. "I don't feel like they think they're getting enough attention yet," he remarked.

But while Bundy says he "doesn't need an escort" out of the state, he may get one anyway because as Ward cautiously warned the group on Thursday, "at some point, this is all going to have to be resolved."

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Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:03 | 7018047 XuscitizenSweden
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Say whatever ya' wanna say about Ammon Bundy & Sheriff Dave Ward.....

I say these are 'Good People', real Americans tryin' to find the 'right way' of doin' things, fightin' for Freedom & Justice.

Say a prayer for these folks; They need all the help they can get. Can't hurt.....

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:21 | 7018152 Spectre
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Of course we should send prayers to the right mystery man in the sky or the sitaution will get even worse.  Religion kills people on both sides of an argument.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:29 | 7018523 XuscitizenSweden
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re: Spectre.....

Is that you George? I didn't know they had internet in ........Purgatory.

"George Carlin - God loves you! "  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ8hefESt7c

;) X-

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:19 | 7018051 The Spanish Amb...
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What has the Trumpster had to say about this?

 

The Trumpster should fly out there right now, meet these guys and end this. Show Americans real leadership. Win the election with this move.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:21 | 7018151 Fuku Ben
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Trump is busy having his comb over touched up for his next presser on Fox.

And Barry spent the night perfecting rubbing things under his eyes that would make him fake cry as he lies. During the last gun grab speech his left eye puffed up because he rubbed on too much and his handlers weren't happy with his performance.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:21 | 7018475 Ms No
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I noticed that!  I am so glad that somebody else did.  I am guessing that it's Preperation H that he carries around because....well you know.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:26 | 7018171 Down to Earth T...
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excellent idea, who knows ?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:35 | 7018211 GhostOfDiogenes
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Nothing.

Trump is a yankee and works for jews not you.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:07 | 7018072 F em all but 6
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Yea. Just go home and all will be forgotten. Right. Divide and conquer. Once the group disbands, expect massive SWAT raids with no knock warrants, flash bang grenades and trigger happy feds. One way or another, blood will be spilled because .gov does NOT care about human life and dignity.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:11 | 7018088 Doubleguns
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Some how I dont think the Sheriff can resolve the situation. He does not have Dwight and Steve Hammond in HIS jail and has no control over the courts on this matter or power over THE jail where they are held.

 

The FEDS locked them up. The FEDs are the only ones that can release them.  The story that needs to get out is how can someone be charged with terrorism for lighting a fire.  Thats a lot of over reach. Beware the Patriot act and the NDAA act along with the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. 

 

What is going on in CONgress. 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/04/the-myster...

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:38 | 7018091 Fuku Ben
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Safely escort them out of the State so the Feds can arrest them in the next State? What a joke. These guys have committed Federal crimes if they're U.S. Federal Corporation employees (fraudulently also called U.S. Citizens).

The Sheriff who has is the highest authority in the county, if the U.S. is not a Corporation, has clearly sold out to the Feds. But since the U.S. isn't a Country but a Corporation then the Sheriff is likely just reporting to his bosses like a good little puppet. The Sheriff's offices are also Corporations under the U.S. Corporation so you
shouldn't expect anything else. And also the whole thing including the militia may be just another piece of a psy-op by the government.

Once you know the scam figuring out who is on what team and what is happening gets far easier. If you find yourself an innocent victim inside the criminal scam getting out is hard because the fraudsters are already willing to act illegally and use deadly force to enforce their unlawful actions. Even if you knew exactly what you're doing to get out of a situation do you think they have any honor to let you go? Typically there is no honor among thieves. But in the event they do have any honor hold them to it.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:11 | 7018097 Burnbright
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Why don't they just round up 25 guys to form a grand jury and put the fear of God into the judge and charge him with treason.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:06 | 7018380 Kirk2NCC1701
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Well, that too would be either "Wrong time, wrong place, wrong person", or just plain "Out of Scope, outside of Mandate" for the Weekend Warriors.

Q: Wow, when did I become so cynical of the 3%, the Oathchokers, etc? 

A: When I looked at the Preponderance of Evidence, stepped away from their Kool-aid fountain, and started thinking for myself. 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:37 | 7018571 crossroaddemon
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Dude, you only pick a fight when you have a chance of winning.  

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:11 | 7018757 Doubleguns
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Yea like Santa Anna at the Alamo.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:23 | 7018843 WillyGroper
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Grand jury?

That's funny.

Takes 6 months, at least in my experience.

That was for pharma records denied me and LE after having provided the required affidavit on CVS' request.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:13 | 7018105 Falconsixone
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Grievances? Where are the live feeds to the world asking bundy for his grievances and getting the story of the governments land  grab of the world out? Did any msm ask? Did he ask them? This is acting to grab more rights and scare people in to sitting on there asses or the government will beat you down because no one will come to your aid. If everyone in town drove out there with there camp stoves and campers the pos governor would have to deal with it and either kill 3000 people or kick the feds off the land but that's not happening because  those people have been programmed to stand by their paycheck or have to work for there selves and that's just to fucking scary. and the operation knows that. They have ways to get them out without a shot but the more fake blood the better for the system. No live tv reporters there? Come on! Where's Carl Kolchak when you need him?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:15 | 7018118 GhostOfDiogenes
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Look at all the fedcoat supporters of the .fegov on here.

You write the same tired crap every day and time an article comes on zh to spin for the lying fraud media.

Some of you are foreigners. Liberal foreigners.

You absolutely CORRUPT people never see yourselves as corrupt.

Funny that.

PS I wonder how many of you spineless fedcoat supporters are women.

If only we knew....

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:28 | 7018178 XuscitizenSweden
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Glad you pointed that out Ghost_

Definitely paid gov't trolls writin' bs & down-votin' .....bastards must be sufferin' from somekind'a "Downs Syndrome".

Fuck U Feds......the World hates you & your time is a comin'.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:17 | 7018127 Fireman
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The Civil War WILL be televised and serialised on HBO. Get it going already damn it... When mercans start killing each other at home the rest of humanity will rejoice.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:20 | 7018144 I AM SULLY
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Sorry ...

(this nightmare show of chaos?)

(this is going EVERYWHERE)

(no safe havens)

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:11 | 7018413 Kirk2NCC1701
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U R mistaken.  The "1776 Revolution 2.0" coverage will be Canceled by the networks, due to low ratings and viewership.

When does the news season of DWTS start again?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:00 | 7018676 Niall Of The Ni...
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What do you mean "will be?"

The class war's been going on a long time. The bad guys are winning.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:19 | 7018137 I AM SULLY
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Someone wake me when they start smashing shit ...

And setting shit on fire ...

And beating the shit out of people ...

And looting shit from the auto parts store ...

(wake me up for that)

(oh, wait - white people are boring like that ...)

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:38 | 7018232 Down to Earth T...
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truth out ! only people of color can do such things and get away with it ? or owe the IRS a few million and still bwe walking around freely with all your shit intact and going to the WH regularly ?

What a fucking joke it all is and not just the multiculturalism bullshit. Europeans are getting a taste of how that plays out, Hey ? We have as well from rapes and dead people, but it is of course all ignored largely. Until the day it can't be ?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:42 | 7018250 I AM SULLY
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yeah - you totally missed my fucking point ...

NO ONE called for hell fire missiles in Baltimore ...

NO ONE amped-up an URBAN CIVILLIAN THREAT in Ferguson beyond Nat guard (wow - I listened to the riot feeds, many an auto parts store was lost).

Yes - white people set shit on fire.

(and yet these white people are apparently NOT doing that)

 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:19 | 7018141 stant
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Still the Feds should just go home, media should leave. Let it pass . Also a real prez would have pardoned the hammonds and asked the militia to leave and and investigate the blm.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:42 | 7018252 Falconsixone
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yeah I dont think its going the way the think tank thought it would

 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 23:48 | 7020518 Chris Dakota
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They don't want Bundy to become a leader. He must know if they kill him with guns

he becomes a flashpoint, they don't want that.

Brietbart said "the Tea Party has no leader and they want me to lead and I said yes"

that's when Barry offed him, the real reason.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:22 | 7018155 Down to Earth T...
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Pablo, it is not much different at all than Afghan in Burns and most of eastern Oregon. And those pockets are already there my man, so you need to get up to speed ?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:23 | 7018157 kerfuffled
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Whoever comes out of this alive were the agents.

Hope the others take a bunch of government mercs out.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:36 | 7018218 Cthonic
Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:30 | 7018193 o r c k
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I agree on leaving them alone. They should give the BLM all the exposure they can and call it a day. By the way: What laws have these guys broken? Any felonies that would require them being shot up like rabid dogs? And Trump really should fly out there and have a BBQ with these evil trespassers. Problem is, he might not get them to leave and that'll make him look weak.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:38 | 7018230 GhostOfDiogenes
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Trump is a fedcoat supporter.

He loves chuck kommmie kike gun grabber shumer of all people.

Trump is a bafoon the jews out up for comic relief.

Nothing more.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:18 | 7018442 Kirk2NCC1701
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Ok, you've made your point and are on record at ZH for calling it, having reached your conclusion early and on limited/scant evidence. 

Now allow the rest of us to reach our own conclusion, based on more substantial evidence. 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:09 | 7018742 GhostOfDiogenes
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1:40 in trump starts kissing shumer ass

http://youtu.be/G59mNNfLZx8

I have provided this evidence before.

You are just a gumbent troll.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:44 | 7018601 crossroaddemon
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Ok, we're in agreement regarding trump. But you don't exactly advance the argument by ranting like a mad dog. You seriously need to get back on your fucking meds...

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:41 | 7018246 Thick Willy
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Cops never want to "argue."  They believe their authority is absolute.  Only when faced with overwhelmingly superior force do they realize just what small, insignificant, powerless little men they truly are.  The free people of the United States is that overwhelming force.  And the pigs cannot use their normal police state tactics to overcome it.  So now the pigs and their politician pay masters are in a predicament - do they call in overwhelming firepower to murder thousands of white U.S. citizens/tax payers?  Or do they stand down?  I believe Obama could not live with himself if he left office without slaughtering thousands of white Christians in America so I believe these folks are going to get massacred and the end result is unpredictable but there's at least 80% odds that they die for nothing and Obama gets to enjoy the thought of how he slaughtered thousands of white American Christians for many years to come.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:45 | 7018276 Falconsixone
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To stay in office with matrial law or until one of the ss does the right thing (as long as the ss is black).

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:05 | 7018381 falak pema
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SS cannot be black; you haven't read Mein Kampf!

Its like asking Wild Horse Bundy to say : I am now Gen. Custer!

Hey Bundy (say the Feds)  : you are Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse... you'll never be a BLUE COAT General !          You hate the Feds !

You should go and see the new Tarantino Movie : Ugly Eight.

Meanwhile on the Oregon trail...Bundy says : I am the state and the state is above the Feds.

He ain't rong but he ain't rite !

So he is in between.

And dat is bad in Donald's land of Black and WHITE ! (No mixed breeds!)

Whence... Tarantino's moveee !

To understand the Karma of those who say : that methane is just raw Commie, black Gas !

California burns ?...so big deal ! It ain't Amerika ! Its full of Hispanics!

Tarantino says : Guess again ya race deniers.

Lets see if he can gross what Indiana Jones has in Star trek.

Either you are a Saudi prince and you put Aramco on the market or you are a Holywood Prince and you put a blockbuster on the market.

All other bets are just Corzined !

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:07 | 7018725 GhostOfDiogenes
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doesn't your shift end soon?

Or do hasbarat get overtime in tel aviv?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:59 | 7018975 falak pema
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oups, I have a doppel ganger here!

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:55 | 7019013 falak pema
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looking at yourself in the mirror and you see the enemy like you are...The Templar state in Jerusalem serves the same aims as the neo-cons and their false nosed Libertarian friends.

If you think that the tea drinkers are any different to the nuke worshippers think again !

hahaha!

You think we all have our heads up our asses thinking we are Rocky or Rambo?

Wake up dingle berry or dakota cherry.

What comes down is US Hubris; and all those who think they are immune to its fall, all the while they pack the NRA badge, will get their come-uppance. Guns don't breed peace.

Geronimo's skull is alive. Its the soul of those who will never accept "manifest destiny" and the racial divide.

Try hanging you hat on that !

You are for all people or you are for none.

Eleanor Roosevelt said that and she was right.

So man up or drop your pants and run to Malheur. That gas pipe will follow you all the way. Its your Nemesis.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:42 | 7018257 Sizzurp
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This is going to end like Taps.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:46 | 7018283 chiswickcat
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The Feds will soon start tightening the screws. Cutting utilities, preventing supplies entering, and eventually playing 24 hr music. Apart from which, they likely have listening technology and can hear almost everything being said in the building. The 'occupiers' will all be arrested when they eventually start to leave. No shooting will be done.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 17:40 | 7019196 zeroaccountability
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Nah, now's the chance for the Feds to break out one of those newfangled 'Microwave' crowd control machines.

 

Dwight to Ammond:  "Is it hot in here, or is it just you?"

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:20 | 7018304 falak pema
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I don't need an escort...

 

depends who is the escort...girl !

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:53 | 7018317 12357111317
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I don't appreciate them grazing their cattle on my land in the first place, but I REALLY don't appreciate them grazing their cattle on my land and then refusing to pay me.  Those payments are the money that keep my parks open to the rest of the citizens, who actually do pay taxes.  Besides, the land is actually Native American land.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:11 | 7018754 libertysghost
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And I think you hit on a bit of hypocricy here that few want to admit...we sit here and complain when some other group assume "they are more equal than others" when they occupy some public ground or use it or destroy it for their own personal gain or "protest" but when someone calls themselves a "patriot" they get a pass apparently.  

Hell...I'm a patriot...let me have all your houses if you think these guys making money off of "public spaces" should get that benefit.  Can I start tilling up the national forest where I live and sell the crops?  Can I light it on fire?  It's legitimate to ask what the difference is here compared to say the "protesters" at Univ of MO...and they didn't light the quad on fire.  

 

Now getting sentenced twice...that's pure BS.  But is that the reason these protesters are there?  It's about the land if we are tying it back to the Bundy clan, right? 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 17:21 | 7019125 12357111317
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Right.  It's about the land. 

If they want more land, they should buy more land.  The planet needs land too, to function, to provide air and water and so forth for us and for them.  That's an important reason for having parks.  When we let people graze their cattle on our parkland, it's like letting them eat up the community's seed corn.

Of course, we could have a nation with almost no parks.  Some nations are like that, but most of them have pretty low living standards.

We need parks.  We also need libraries.  Arithmetic.

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