While the presidential election continues to dominate American headlines, we're highlighting a different political story this week. Today, the 41-day standoff between occupiers and authorities at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon ended when the last four protesters surrendered. In January, Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, one of the group's spokesmen, was shot and killed during a confrontation with authorities. It’s hard to describe exactly what this Oregon fight has been about without leaning to one side of the story or the other, so let’s have a look at how it’s being discussed from different perspectives. 
 
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Snippets from the Right
TheBlaze
"I find it interesting that the occupiers of the refuge were labeled as militants while the occupiers of Wall Street were simply 'protestors.' Why is it that the riots in Baltimore and Ferguson were reported as 'unrest' and condoned by the government when the peaceful protests of those in Oregon were reported as if it was an act of terrorism? You can’t it both ways. We have got to stop allowing the government to use us as pawns in their political game.
 
You may be asking what any of this has to do with you. Let me explain.
 
For years these ranchers and their families have been harassed, intimidated, and bullied by government agencies with a continuous barrage of new rules and regulations, making it extremely difficult to hold onto their homes and provide for their families. As one Oregon rancher said, 'Utilizing federal land requires ranchers to follow an unfair, complicated and constantly evolving set of rules.'
 
But it isn’t just America’s ranchers who have been affected by increasing governmental overreach in the last decade."
 
Snippets from the Left Leaning
Washington Post
"The holdouts were the last remnants of a larger group that seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge nearly six weeks ago, demanding that the government turn over the land to locals and release two ranchers imprisoned for setting fires. For the first time since Jan. 2, the federal land was fully under the control of the U.S. government.
 
Meanwhile, Cliven Bundy, who was at the center of the 2014 standoff at his ranch in Nevada, was arrested late Wednesday in Portland after encouraging the Oregon occupiers not to give up. Bundy is the father of Ammon Bundy, the jailed leader of the Oregon occupation.
…The 69-year-old Bundy was charged with conspiracy, assault on a federal officer, obstruction, weapons charges and other crimes. He’s accused of leading supporters who pointed military-style weapons at federal agents trying to enforce a court order to round up Bundy cattle from federal rangeland."
 
Snippets from the Center
CNN
"The end of the siege came after the armed occupiers earlier indicated they would turn themselves in. By morning's end, they fulfilled that pledge.
 
Hours before, federal agents arrested the figurehead of the protesters' movement: Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who didn't participate in the occupation but is the father of arrested standoff leader Ammon Bundy.
 
For now, the arrests of the Bundys and the end of occupation put the dispute in the hands of the courts. The Bundys and their supporters argue that the federal government has exceeded the boundaries of the Constitution.
 
Cliven Bundy announced on Wednesday he was heading to Oregon, according to a Facebook page for his Nevada ranch. He came to the national spotlight in a showdown with the federal Bureau of Land Management over grazing rights for his cattle in 2014."