Some of these guys may have been hard working family men who had some legitimate beefs about grazing rights and other issues. And if they did some kind of "sit-in", picket line, even chain themselves to gates or something, I may be sympathetic to what they had to say. But when you come in ARMED and take over a public wildlife refuge, visited by hundreds of law abiding, tax paying citizens (who  through their duly elected government, basically own the place) then you have gone too far and deserve to be arrested, tried, and sentenced.