Readers respond: An evasion of responsibility
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Thank you to reporter Noelle Crombie for thoroughly examining the history of the family behind the “red house” legal fight (“Sovereign citizen ideology embraced by Kinney son, mother in ‘red house’ legal fight: ‘This case is a political case’,” Dec. 11). It is an illuminating, necessary and vital piece of journalism. Without sensationalism, it helped me understand what is actually happening at the red house. The delinquent occupant promotes sovereign citizen ideology. Adherents to this ideology believe they are protected from the consequences of failed personal responsibility and entitled to special privileges.
Whether it is practiced at the red house in Portland, the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge or by the current occupant of the White House, this corrosive and twisted exceptionalism undermines democracy, perpetuates victimhood and promotes violence. By fallaciously connecting the red house t
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Rep. Greg Walden, second from left, listens as U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, far left, prepares to give a TV interview during a water rally near Klamath Falls, Ore., in July. Standing next to Walden is Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif. Retiring representative served eastern Oregon for 22 years, bade farewell to colleagues.
Having grown up on a cherry orchard in The Dalles, Ore., U.S. Rep. Greg Walden says he always had great admiration for the farmers and ranchers who feed the world.
In working to preserve their way of life during his 22 years in Congress, the Hood River resident found himself in the thick of two major conflicts affecting growers in his expansive eastern Oregon district: the Klamath Basin water wars, and the 2016 armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.