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Related: About this forumTYT: 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. Theyre still getting mail and packages. Apparently theyre 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 occupations 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.
Were 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
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CanonRay
(14,103 posts)1. How about getting in your f'ing pickups
and just leaving. Don't let the door hit you in the ass...
louis-t
(23,295 posts)2. He means "some way to get him out without
admitting defeat or humiliating himself." That's going to take some doing.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Watch for them to bail in the middle of the night.
Out the back way to a main road a few yards away.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)5. Right. Catch them running away.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)6. Going to be interesting to say the least.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)7. The other option is cops doing the 3:00AM thing.....
My advice:
Don't sleep "commando". Buy some PJs.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)8. Seems the area Polictico's
are kinda nervous and really do not to provoke anything. Just checked the Oregonian News Web.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)9. So they're the ones who made a federal case of it?
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)4. freezing their bank accounts
would be a nice start. Certainly would get their attention!