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Showing Original Post only (View all)Militants In Oregon Say They'll Leave If Local Community Asks [View all]
Last edited Tue Jan 5, 2016, 01:08 AM - Edit history (1)
Source: NPR
Anti-federalist militants continue to hold the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., as law enforcement officials keep their distance. But they say they're willing to leave if local residents ask them to, Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/04/461950205/gunmen-hold-federal-building-in-oregon-as-convicted-ranchers-seek-pardon
It sounds like they're looking for a graceful way out of this.
Edited to add: I'm starting to wonder about this story. No one else seems to be reporting this, and CNN just showed a video of the local sheriff asking them to leave. So they have their request from the locals and apparently aren't leaving.
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I thought the community had already told them to get lost. Did they not hear that?
Tess49
Jan 2016
#3
Sorry, I didn't mean you, drm604, but talking to the idiots who will leave
uppityperson
Jan 2016
#11
I"m wondering if they have embarrassed themselves so badly with this fool move
passiveporcupine
Jan 2016
#35
Get about 100 people to set up a nice potluck or pig roast right outside the buiding.
Elmer S. E. Dump
Jan 2016
#44
Portland had terrible weather today. Ice, cold, miserable. So maybe God is freezing them out.
JDPriestly
Jan 2016
#31
If they are convicted of a felony, then they would not be allowed to have guns
davidpdx
Jan 2016
#53
My guess is the temps in the 20s w/wind and three inches of snow tomorrow might have ..
Botany
Jan 2016
#19
Then you'll have dead police officers. Make them put down there weapons as they leave the bldg
Elmer S. E. Dump
Jan 2016
#48
The locals are pissed. Even these idiots must be able to figure out that Oregon is not
OregonBlue
Jan 2016
#51