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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 05:43 PM Jan 2016

TYT: Oregon Militia Ponders Exit Strategy



Some militia clowns in Oregon, lead by Ammon Bundy, are still in the federal building they took over with guns. They’re still getting mail and packages. Apparently they’re thinking of leaving now. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"As the armed siege of an eastern Oregon wildlife refuge entered its second week, the rightwing militia faced increasing pressure to surrender – including from former supporters of the occupation’s leader.

Ammon Bundy, the Nevada rancher who organized the takeover of the Malheur national wildlife refuge headquarters, avoided reporters all weekend as some of the protesters began to leave the occupation and as local residents and activists who had previously backed Bundy demanded that he and his militiamen retreat.

“We’re gonna figure some way to get him out,” Travis Williams, a 46-year-old Harney County rancher, told the Guardian on Saturday night. Williams had met and collaborated with Bundy last month in advance of a large rally to protest against the prosecution and imprisonment of local cattle ranchers Dwight Hammond and his son, Steven. But he and other local allies of Bundy were shocked when Bundy and fellow out-of-state men hijacked the protests and formed a heavily armed militia that seized a number of buildings at the federal wildlife sanctuary, located 30 miles away from the town of Burns.”*

Read more here: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/11/oregon-militia-protesters-ammon-bundy-malheur-wildlife-refuge
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TYT: Oregon Militia Ponders Exit Strategy (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2016 OP
How about getting in your f'ing pickups CanonRay Jan 2016 #1
He means "some way to get him out without louis-t Jan 2016 #2
Watch for them to bail in the middle of the night. Wellstone ruled Jan 2016 #3
Right. Catch them running away. Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2016 #5
Going to be interesting to say the least. Wellstone ruled Jan 2016 #6
The other option is cops doing the 3:00AM thing..... Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2016 #7
Seems the area Polictico's Wellstone ruled Jan 2016 #8
So they're the ones who made a federal case of it? Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2016 #9
freezing their bank accounts Pharaoh Jan 2016 #4

louis-t

(23,295 posts)
2. He means "some way to get him out without
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 06:29 PM
Jan 2016

admitting defeat or humiliating himself." That's going to take some doing.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. Seems the area Polictico's
Fri Jan 15, 2016, 01:29 AM
Jan 2016

are kinda nervous and really do not to provoke anything. Just checked the Oregonian News Web.

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