Oregon occupation leader rejects sheriff's bid to end standoff

[cali]

The leader of a group of armed protesters occupying the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon met briefly with a local sheriff on Thursday but rejected the lawman's offer of safe passage out of the state to end the standoff.

Ammon Bundy and other occupiers left the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in two vehicles and traveled to a neutral location along a remote Oregon roadside to meet for about five minutes with Harney County Sheriff David Ward.

During that meeting, which was attended by two Reuters reporters, Ward told Bundy that he was seeking a peaceful resolution to the nearly week-long standoff and offered to escort the occupiers out of Oregon.

But Bundy, saying that the sheriff had not addressed the occupiers' grievances, declined.

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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0UL2IW20160108

[tanyev]

1. So what happened to "if the county people tell us to leave, we'll leave"?

Idjits.

[morningfog]

2. I am ready for them to be removed from our land.

[Bettie]

5. Given how this is going

I rather expect the refuge to be turned over to them officially for whatever uses they define.

Then, they will all go with a pat on the head.

[elias49]

3. So the fool doubles down.

Let them freeze.

[DetlefK]

4. "the sheriff had not addressed the occupiers' grievances"

I thought this was about federal policies and constitution 'n stuff. Holding out until freedom returns to this besieged country! And they refuse to leave because the Sheriff didn't bring down the tyrannic bureaucrats of Washington DC?