Oregon standoff: Final 5 say they will leave if the FBI agrees not to arrest them

[cali]

Five people who remained holed up at a remote wildlife refuge early Thursday were trying to negotiate a peaceful exit with the FBI but were unwilling to leave unless all were assured they would not be arrested, according to a broadcast online by some of the occupiers.

“We’re asking them just to just drop the charges and we’re willing to go -- and nobody dies,” David Fry, a 27-year-old from Ohio who has been posting live videos from the refuge on YouTube, said in a brief broadcast overnight. “But if they’re not willing to do that, we’re all just kind of willing to stay here.”

Fry said five people remained at the refuge and that the FBI had told them that four were free to go without facing arrest. One, however, a man named Sean, faced the same felony charge that other occupiers arrested have faced.

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-oregon-standoff-final-5-20160128-story.html

[villager]

1. Thank God they weren't trying to Occupy Wall Street!

Full weight of the law would have to be used!

But rightwing white boy hijinks, well, we can overlook those, right?

[gratuitous]

4. It IS sweet, isn't it?

More than three weeks later, they want to take their guns and their bombs with them and "Hey G-men, let's just forget the whole thing, mmmkay?"

There was a magazine cartoon I saw many years ago (National Lampoon?): Guy in a t-shirt, holding a gun while looking out an upper-floor window. He's in a seedy-looking apartment, bullet holes in the wall, stacks of cash sitting on the cheap bed behind him. He's holding up a bill and yelling down to the cops, "Here's twenty bucks that says let's forget the whole thing."

[lsewpershad]

6. That's right

all of us remember "occupy wallstreet"

[rustydog]

2. wow, all that you-tubed tough talk of dying fer the cause

dying fer the constitution! standing up against the evil gubmints arrest of criminals...."Please don't arrest us for the armed take over of a federal facility in order to change government policy (can you say terrorism?)!
Please don't arrest us for breaking local state and federal laws! We have rights accorded to us by the constitution!
Where's my mommy!!!!

[arthritisR_US]

8. Good summation!

[Bluenorthwest]

3. It's down to 4 now and the weather out there is stinking, a 'wintery mix' and ice rain and regular

rain and snow. Saturday it will get really cold but they will be long gone by then.

[thereismore]

5. Must be comfy in that heated gov'mint housing. nt

[safeinOhio]

11. 3 hots and a cot

starting to sound better yet?

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Got to feel for the Tack Squad Folks who are standing out there doing their jobs.

You just know the last are not going just walk away,no one embarrasses these special units and to this point,no one has. The ones who tried are in Portland or at the Mortician's Office.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. It's the SuperPatriot version of "Mommy, don't be mad at me."

[flamingdem]

9. Is it okay for the feds to say "well okay" with their fingies crossed?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. They're Feds. They can promise that a timely reply ...

... will be mailed to their homes in a matter of months.

[B Calm]

12. The FBI should give them a counter offer of give yourself up or die!

[TipTok]

14. GFY...

[BillZBubb]

15. Quote St. Ronnie to them:

"We don't negotiate with terrorists!"