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NeoConsSuck

(2,544 posts)
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:11 PM Jan 2016

Oregon standoff: Holdouts offer peaceful exit but say they're 'not afraid to die'

Source: CNN

The four people who remain holed up inside the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon say they are ready to leave peacefully -- or prepared to die.

There had been five people still in the refuge, but one man left Thursday morning. One of the others inside the refuge drove the man to a checkpoint and dropped him off, Anderson said.

The four have a proposal to leave peacefully but are not afraid to die, Anderson said. They want the FBI to let them walk away and return to their home states without being arrested or confronted, Anderson said.

"We are willing to leave peacefully," he said. "If the FBI will let us leave without arrest or forcing us through the checkpoint, we will all go home."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/us/oregon-wildlife-refuge-siege-arrests/index.html



Let me wrap my head around this: The big brave 'freedumb fighters' are brave enough to die, but too chicken to face arrest or go through a checkpoint. And these are the imbeciles the right wing looks up to??
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Oregon standoff: Holdouts offer peaceful exit but say they're 'not afraid to die' (Original Post) NeoConsSuck Jan 2016 OP
The FBI should send them some marshmellows, hershey bars and graham crackers... Johnyawl Jan 2016 #1
One move and the Idiots get it!!! getagrip_already Jan 2016 #6
LMAO Johnyawl Jan 2016 #21
Well after the wonderful performance of "Cletus & Clumpus" yesterday on their Live feed; bobalew Jan 2016 #2
A great idea! Johnyawl Jan 2016 #23
I can hear the GOP groans of disappointment forest444 Jan 2016 #3
They're afraid of prison, and I'm wondering if it's more anti-govt paranoia: phantom power Jan 2016 #4
That interview is sort of amazing. Bluenorthwest Jan 2016 #13
The inside of their minds must be a wonderland. phantom power Jan 2016 #17
Sorry boys , kacekwl Jan 2016 #24
Ben Carson says going to jail will turn you gay! Maeve Jan 2016 #42
Good, just round up some LEO's who aren't afraid to shoot. eppur_se_muova Jan 2016 #5
a special detail... getagrip_already Jan 2016 #9
I hope santafe52 Jan 2016 #7
I like how they say they'll "go home peacefully." Dream on. phantom power Jan 2016 #11
They do owe a heap o cash. Dont call me Shirley Jan 2016 #33
I read it was $133,400 per day for everything from recreation to SammyWinstonJack Jan 2016 #36
They're afraid they'll have their guns taken away.... Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2016 #8
One holdout has a federal warrant, hence his whining about not wanting to be arrested. PSPS Jan 2016 #10
Oregon Public Broadcasting interview with one of them at the link... Bluenorthwest Jan 2016 #12
"they’re going to throw us behind bars where weird shit would happen" Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2016 #15
Yeah right - we openly commited treasonous felonies, now let us go home jpak Jan 2016 #14
The best comment I've read in awhile - from the Bundy Ranch FB Page reflection Jan 2016 #16
Domestic terrorists 3auld6phart Jan 2016 #35
Preach it! flying rabbit Jan 2016 #38
damn, the Battle of Fishguard would have killed them thrice over MisterP Jan 2016 #39
On the money Fairgo Jan 2016 #41
These people are sad and pathetic. They are victims of way too many bad japple Jan 2016 #18
More like "delusions of adequacy"... nt Shipwack Jan 2016 #37
"Not afraid to die"? central scrutinizer Jan 2016 #19
"moocherhadinn" << perfect! MH1 Jan 2016 #43
The only term the government should accept is unconditional surrender Jack Rabbit Jan 2016 #20
Let them go home and arrest them @ their homes. Botany Jan 2016 #22
They're balking at having to go through a checkpoint... Johnyawl Jan 2016 #25
That's O.K. they can argue Constitutional Law w/the FBI @ the checkpoints. Botany Jan 2016 #26
hahaha good luck to them on that endeavor! Johnyawl Jan 2016 #28
Their ideas about the Constitution are really weird. Botany Jan 2016 #30
This message was self-deleted by its author Botany Jan 2016 #31
Of course they are afraid to die, otherwise they would act differently. Maybe the authoritiies randys1 Jan 2016 #27
if they were Native American or Black they would be dead, they should be happy to go to jail Agony Jan 2016 #29
They can last a long time. keithbvadu2 Jan 2016 #32
They need to eat healthier. christx30 Jan 2016 #34
I say it's time to call in the Chicago police to negotiate with them Zorro Jan 2016 #40

Johnyawl

(3,205 posts)
1. The FBI should send them some marshmellows, hershey bars and graham crackers...
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:17 PM
Jan 2016

...as a good will gesture. Then while they're sitting around their campfire making smores this evening sneak up and teargas the fuckers and put an end to this.

Who the hell is going to pay for all the damage done to the Wildlife Refuge, and the cost to have an FBI field team on site for 3 weeks?

bobalew

(321 posts)
2. Well after the wonderful performance of "Cletus & Clumpus" yesterday on their Live feed;
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:18 PM
Jan 2016

I think they should Gas them with anesthetic, wrap them up in Strait jackets, and cart them off to a penitentiary somewhere in Michigan, so they get just the right size of "Roommates"....

forest444

(5,902 posts)
3. I can hear the GOP groans of disappointment
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:19 PM
Jan 2016

Because the Feds were able to prevent a Waco-style tragedy.

There was Tarpman; but all in all they did great.

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
4. They're afraid of prison, and I'm wondering if it's more anti-govt paranoia:
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:20 PM
Jan 2016

He's afraid of 'weird shit' in prison. I thought that was a strange phrase.

“We’re not planning on using any guns. Like I said, we [want] to go home,” he said. “But if they want to attack us then we got to defend ourselves.”

Fry said if the FBI tried to arrest him, he would see it as an attack.

“If they come in to arrest then they’re going to throw us behind bars where weird shit would happen,” Fry said.

http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/trapped-inside-malheur-refuge-militans-search-for-opitions/

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
17. The inside of their minds must be a wonderland.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:50 PM
Jan 2016

I really wonder what "weird shit" he's picturing. Is it just becoming somebody's prison bitch, or is he into X-files territory. MK-ULTRA experiments, or anal probing...

getagrip_already

(14,618 posts)
9. a special detail...
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:27 PM
Jan 2016

made up of Chicago and Cincinnati police officers? I'm sure a few of those are looking for new jobs....

 

santafe52

(57 posts)
7. I hope
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:24 PM
Jan 2016

somebody takes the time to figure out how much money this bunch of Treasonous assholes have cost the United States taxpayers.

Hilarious that they think they have any bargaining chips left to spend on their "freedom".

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
11. I like how they say they'll "go home peacefully." Dream on.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:28 PM
Jan 2016

You assholes aren't going home, you're going to prison.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
8. They're afraid they'll have their guns taken away....
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:27 PM
Jan 2016

Newsflash: That's a done deal. Gone. Misspell a book about your butthurt at having your toys taken away.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
12. Oregon Public Broadcasting interview with one of them at the link...
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:33 PM
Jan 2016

“We’re not planning on using any guns. Like I said, we [want] to go home,” he said. “But if they want to attack us then we got to defend ourselves.”

Fry said if the FBI tried to arrest him, he would see it as an attack.

“If they come in to arrest then they’re going to throw us behind bars where weird shit would happen,” Fry said.

http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/trapped-inside-malheur-refuge-militans-search-for-opitions/

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
15. "they’re going to throw us behind bars where weird shit would happen"
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:43 PM
Jan 2016

LOL!!!

They're afraid they'll get traded for cigarettes!

jpak

(41,756 posts)
14. Yeah right - we openly commited treasonous felonies, now let us go home
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:37 PM
Jan 2016

Last edited Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:55 PM - Edit history (2)

and keep your fucking guns?

Poor babies...

yup

reflection

(6,286 posts)
16. The best comment I've read in awhile - from the Bundy Ranch FB Page
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:45 PM
Jan 2016

Marion Lenz

There are few things professional soldiers despise more than some fake wannabe warrior.

Professional military personnel look upon militias and paramilitaries the same way cops regard amateur security guards.

And for good reason.

Irregular militias, paramilitaries, are worse than useless when it comes to defense of a nation. Literally worse than useless. They are untrained, undisciplined, undependable, and too often belligerently unaware of their own pitiful state. They take up resources and risk the security of real soldiers. Irregular militias are often indistinguishable from an armed mob. Like those currently occupying Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, militias are almost always composed of misfits and rejects, wannabe soldiers and pretend Marines puffed up with stolen valor, disaffected braggarts, belligerent drunkards, criminals, the dangerously mentally ill, conspiracy theorists, and angry losers of every stripe.

These raggedy-assed pretend patriots are not out there defending your freedom.

Most of them don’t even rise to the level of the militiamen who fled the British at Kip’s Bay.

They’re in it for themselves.

They’re in it for themselves and only for themselves and make no mistake about it.

These are Sovereign Citizens – an oxymoron if ever there was one. These are people who have declared themselves a nation unto themselves and have rejected the obligations of civilization. They are citizens of nothing, an army of one, defenders of mob rule and rights by force.

They believe freedom comes at the muzzle of a gun and only at the muzzle of a gun, and they believe in their freedom not yours.

They literally believe a gun gives them the right to do anything they want.

Literally, these people believe might makes right - or more correctly might makes rights. Their rights, not yours.

Those militiamen occupying Malheur Wildlife Refuge are little different from the mobs of armed men currently roaming Somalia or Iraq or Syria. They are lawless thugs, nothing more. They want you to believe they are defending freedom, defending America, defending their twisted and simplistic interpretation of the Constitution.

They’ve turned the Second Amendment into a religion, a bizarre sexual fetish, into mental illness.

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3auld6phart

(1,039 posts)
35. Domestic terrorists
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:40 PM
Jan 2016

This is one,if not the best description of these feckin' bozos I've read.Thank you Reflection. Spot on

japple

(9,808 posts)
18. These people are sad and pathetic. They are victims of way too many bad
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:53 PM
Jan 2016

tv movies and r-wing media. They have been afflicted with delusions of grandeur.

central scrutinizer

(11,637 posts)
19. "Not afraid to die"?
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:54 PM
Jan 2016

Raise your hand if you believe this chicken shit moocherhadinn. He might get three squares in prison but no snacks.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
20. The only term the government should accept is unconditional surrender
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:56 PM
Jan 2016

They come out with their hands up and they get a fair trial and don't get killed.

Botany

(70,447 posts)
22. Let them go home and arrest them @ their homes.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:01 PM
Jan 2016

4 left =

Almost up to the bitter end of WW II some of the high level Nazis wanted to
negotiate w/the Americans and the Brits for a better deal. Ike would have
none of that crap and so should the local, state, and feds w/these treasonous
assholes.

Johnyawl

(3,205 posts)
25. They're balking at having to go through a checkpoint...
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:11 PM
Jan 2016

...where the FBI will do an ID check on them. They know they'll be arrested later just like John Ritzcracker.

Botany

(70,447 posts)
26. That's O.K. they can argue Constitutional Law w/the FBI @ the checkpoints.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:14 PM
Jan 2016

They are dumber then a big of hammers.

Botany

(70,447 posts)
30. Their ideas about the Constitution are really weird.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:24 PM
Jan 2016

“We will be here as a unified body of people that understand the principles of the
Constitution,” Ammon Bundy.


The refuge was set up by Teddy Roosevelt to protect migratory waterfowl and birds
who used his CONSTITUTIONALY GRANTED POWERS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge#Creation_of_the_refuge

BTW as the proud grandson of the late Bob W. of the Ashland, OR area I hate
to think what he or his fellow ranchers and farmers would do if some idiot had
cut their fence so their livestock might get out.

Response to Johnyawl (Reply #28)

randys1

(16,286 posts)
27. Of course they are afraid to die, otherwise they would act differently. Maybe the authoritiies
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:15 PM
Jan 2016

should schedule a convenient appointment time to arrest them like they did with that one guy

Agony

(2,605 posts)
29. if they were Native American or Black they would be dead, they should be happy to go to jail
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:20 PM
Jan 2016

clueless morans don't know how good they have it.

christx30

(6,241 posts)
34. They need to eat healthier.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:34 PM
Jan 2016

Maybe they can have some of the word salad that Ammon Bundy likes to give out to reporters.

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