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This is unsettling the patriotic stability of one of the most patriotic areas in the country. The federal government only gets involved in the Four Corners area when they want to push someone around.
I don't know if they're trying to make a statement or what, but it looks like Gestapo tactics."
Renis Hylton
of the Blue Mountain Trading Post in Blanding
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A lot of people think the feds went overboard and that they should be doing other things. But some of [the defendants] ... knew what they were doing was wrong."
Gus Sopena
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We find pots and hammers and all kinds of stuff. It's all over the place. But I don't see the point in selling it."
Jessi Palmer
who grew up on a Blanding-area ranch
