Ammon Bundy asked his remaining followers occupying Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon to stand down Wednesday and leave the property.
The message was delivered by an attorney for Bundy, who was arrested late Tuesday afternoon along with his brother Ryan and six of their followers.
"I'm asking the federal government to allow the people at the refuge to go home without being prosecuted," Bundy said in a statement read by his lawyer, Mike Arnold, outside court. "To those at the refuge, I love you. Let us take this fight from here. Please stand down. Please stand down. Go home and hug your families."
Unfortunately it does not appear that the remaining protesters are listening to reason.
This according to CNN:
Earlier Wednesday, the remaining occupiers took a vote and decided to dig in and stay; on a streaming video from inside the refuge, a handful of men could be seen carrying long guns, operating a backhoe belonging to the federal government and speaking darkly of a blood bath.
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Speaking on the telephone from inside the refuge on Wednesday night, an occupier, David Fry, 27, said that seven people remained and that they had been drinking.
“We’re camping out tonight here, by this campfire,” he said, adding that they would stay “until someone starts listening or until they slaughter us.” Group members, passing around a phone, said that they believed Mr. Finicum was murdered and that holding Ammon Bundy in jail was an outrage to them.
Hey, if these guys want to die so bad.....
And let's face it if these men had been dark skinned Muslims that bird refuge would have been a smoking hole in the ground on day two.
Personally I think it might be racist NOT to blow them all away.
First the Oscars and now this. Come on America, let's get it together and move into the 21st century.
"I'm asking the federal government to allow the people at the refuge to go home without being prosecuted,"
ReplyDeleteRiiiiight. On what grounds?
Bluff and bluster.
DeleteHe wants to make a show that he is in control of those domestic terrorists and is still calling the shots and that he has some sort of pull with the government.
0 for 2.
He is in no position to bargain and he never had control over those crazies.
Idiots. Drinking. With guns. Why can I see so clearly where this is heading, and they can't?
ReplyDeleteIdiots. Drinking. With guns.
DeleteOne of them goes out for a little walk in the middle of the night. Another one sees him returning, thinks it's a government infiltrator. …
Maybe that's the perfect solution. Have the government ship in large crates of alcohol and drugs on a regular basis.
DeleteThey'll all end up taking EACH OTHER out in some spectacularly stupid way, with no need whatsoever for any government strong-arm tactics!
Done and dusted.
Like the Southpark episode where the civil war reenactors got drunk on S'More Schnapps and as long as they had booze they kept shooting their blanks and taking over towns.
DeleteIf those men in Oregon were Black Lives Matter, Bristol would be complaining like there's no tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteShe'd be looking to bitch when she's a racist just like her mom. Everytime she launches into the black lives conversation keep in mind she's full of Bullshit.
Delete""I'm asking the federal government to allow the people at the refuge to go home without being prosecuted,"
ReplyDeleteRiiiiight. On what grounds?"
He's hoping that if he LOOKS cooperative, he'll get a lighter sentence.
They're really amateurs. They think that the worst that can happen is a little jail time. It depends on how the shooting is found legally: if it's decided that whatshisname was killed in the commission of a felony, anybody with them can be charged. I don't have the legal knowledge to see if that's possible, but I do know if anyone is killed during a felony, it's the fault of the people committing it, legally. So that may be an issue.
Also, Bundy may also be receiving massive fines and legal penalties for the... I don't know what to call it: the "Occupation" seems to overrate the freeloaders' position. But anyway, you don't know misery until you've dealt with federal agencies who have the ability to levy fines... plus billing for damages to the refuge. They will probably be dealing with the aftermath for decades, even if there is no jail time.
Really, it couldn't happen to a more deserving group.
Desecration of tribal burial lands and artifacts for starters.
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ReplyDeleteThey begged for snacks and personal items including cigarettes but they have money for booze!
Snacks and personal items, right! They were coming to a standoff that was going to last "years" and they didn't expect to survive but they couldn't pack socks for a 3 day weekend! "We can't fight for liberty without our Cheetos!"
Deleteand the bunch on the livestream switched to pot in the evening.
DeletePerhaps their movement is being sponsored by Budweiser. Anyone seen a wagon full of beer being pulled by Clydesdales headed into Malheur?
DeleteI hear Flint has some fancy schmancy water that'll raise their status among the millenials.
DeleteJon Ritzheimer probably left when they ran out of French Vanilla coffee creamer.
DeleteThey asked for snacks. They got dildos and lube. Too funny!!
DeleteAs of now I believe there are only 4 left: David Fry, Sean Anderson and a married couple (wife is pregnant) from Idaho. A 5th person who was there last night turned himself in this morning.
ReplyDeleteSheesh
Correction: David Frye, husband and wife Sean and Sandy Anderson, and Jeff Banta are the four left.
DeleteSheesh
Are the three cowards hiding behind the pregnant lady's skirts?
DeleteYup.
Delete1) The sumo wrestling idiot who challenged Chris Christie to a match, or as he's known now, the "Outlaw Jersey Whale," is on his way back home.
ReplyDelete2) On yesterday's live YouTube feed, 'Sean' was inciting violence and screaming for supporters to 'Come and get some! This is a free-for-all armageddeon!' Today, he just danced his "last dance" with his pregnant, chain-smoking wife, and ended it by saying, "We're just camping here. There's no need for indictments or charges." One of the best comments on the feed : "Consequences. How do they work?"
That was Sean Andersen, the husband of pregnant Sandy Andersen?
DeleteI'll bet that situation is more of an abduction with him forcing his wife to come along and then forcing her to stay with him (so he can hide behind her.)
Once they are out of there, I see divorce papers in his future.
Unless she has gone full Stepford and defends his crazy ass. Seems so many of the religious fanatics have brainwashed their women folk into exactly that.
Perhaps it would be a mercy to her if he were to also charge the Federal officers and be taken home to Jeebus.
Women have no say in mo church. My friend was one of the women who was excommunicated and shunned for speaking up for women's rights.
DeleteTHIS is concerning too>
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chicago-police-damaged-dashcam-microphones_us_56a952f6e4b0d82286d4e101
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/28/3743794/chicago-police-officer-threatens-to-sue-teenager-he-shot-and-killed/
THIS TOO:
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Hungover and camping out in the winter is no way to go through life, son....
ReplyDeleteTime to go back to work.
If you still have a job....
The small ragtag bunch left have been putting up videos on their youtube channel (Defendyourbase) some of which I have watched live. They put up two new short ones this morning. Seriously pathetic. Plus you can see all the garbage they've made and are leaving behind as they've absolutely trashed our wildlife refuge. Oh, and the comments are absolutely priceless!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNe1Tr7EspiDNeeiJuXC5QA
They're not occupiers and they're not protesters, they're jihadist terrorists! Call them what they are for crying out loud!
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that Bundy's wife has been there the whole time. She and his father are urging the group to stay. If she was there I am assuming she is now gone.
ReplyDeletePat Padrnos
Just read she has told the group they should leave. Someone has put out a call for another group to converge on the city to help those still on the site. Don't know how they think they are going to get in.
DeleteThe few that are remaining sound totally unhinged.
Pat Padrnos
Even if they manage to sneak out, the Feds will simply go to their homes and arrest them. It's not like they are anonymous. Everyone knows who they are. There is plenty of video identifying them.
DeleteYou'd think they'd been drinking the water in Flint MI they way they have managed to ignore the long game on this.
Or maybe they think they can just yell "TRICK" and all is forgiven.
Morons. Every last one of them.
The bundys bought some of that poisened land out in emmett,id. Part of the "downwinder" problem. People living there have a tendency towards developing cancer.
DeleteThey are nothing more than confused goofballs with guns and alcohol ... little boys really.
ReplyDeleteLove the comment: "Consequences, how do they work?" They will soon find out.
Don't get me started on the Oscars either.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Wasilla Police, Track Palin was NOT suicidal.
ReplyDeletehttp://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2016/01/well-it-looks-like-sarah-palin-is-still.html?showComment=1454009518092#c1421137901296479969
Bundy's Oregon protesters claim they will fight til the end. THAT IS SUICIDAL. They want to be martyrs. Anyone demonstrating these behaviors is IN severe need of mental health attention. It may be too late for them.
I'll race you to the copyright office for votive candles with their photos on them.
DeleteLast I remember pointing a gun at yourself even if unloaded is still intent.
DeleteHave they started a memorial yet so they
Deletecan stand around with candles and cry and complain about the idiots choices?
One A-10 Warthog can handle this,
ReplyDeletegatling gun blazin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIJvPj_pjE
The perfect ending: A group of emaciated skeletons piled around a "WE WON " flag, with their children cleaning up the mess they left behind.
ReplyDeletePolygamist DNA and Genes. Rowing with one oar!
ReplyDeleteHow/why the federal charge originated to arrest the bundy gang on.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/charge_against_refuge_occupier.html#incart_maj-story-1
many more federal/state charges in this motley crews not too distant future, guarandamnteed ..
Have any IMers ever been to Colorado city where some of these inbreds are from? Holey cow. Weird hardly discribes it. Its like the twilight zone.
DeleteWhy should these criminals be allowed to just go home?
ReplyDeleteIn their tiny minds they've done nothing wrong or illegal. If they decide to give up, then they should have the right to go home.
DeleteThere is actually an idiot on their youtube site that claims the government abandoned the land and the center. I guess because the employees of a bird sanctuary are expected to work 24/7? Or something?
You'd think it was a missile silo or something.
I just hope they didn't damage any habitant or harm any of the protected wildlife. If they did I WANT THEM CHARGED WITH A FEDERAL FELONY!
Ammon's got it right. But the stupid is thick with these folks, they're asking for trouble and they'll get it.
ReplyDeleteFull criminal complaint against Bundys, Payne, and others
ReplyDeletehttp://res.cloudinary.com/bdy4ger4/image/upload/v1453933656/AmmonBundy1_kkivkn.pdf
Bundy bunch brought night vision goggles, explosives and weapons to refuge when it took over, court filing says.
ReplyDeleteFBI has video of the shooting which was released this afternoon and available on their YouTube channel for anyone to download:
ReplyDeleteFBI Portland @FBIPortland 4h4 hours ago
Full statement available here: https://www.flashalert.net/id/FBIOregon?alert=1 …
FBI's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/fbi