Hundreds of Armed Right-Wing Militia Members Take Over Federal Building

Federal, state and local law authorities have been closely monitoring the situation at the refuge but have so far taken no action against Bundy and his followers, apparently to avoid a confrontation. Ward has been the most visible law enforcement authority during the occupation, and his strategy so far has been to try to show Bundy that locals oppose the occupation and want them to leave.

Sheriff Ward got a lot of support during a packed community meeting Wednesday night.

At that meeting, local residents said they sympathized with the armed group’s complaints about federal land management but disagreed with their tactics and called on Ammon Bundy and his followers to leave.

1) It is distracting you from your former practice of contributing posts that are germane to the topic at hand

You are free to post as you please

may I request that you refrain from further back and forth with glitterbag?

This exchange will only end if you end it

for all that the Bundys have said they're in Harney county for the locals, they don't actually want to listen to the locals

At a town hall meeting on Wednesday afternoon, residents of the closest town, Burns, appeared divided on whether the militia should leave the refuge, a 45-minute drive away...

Later, as others spoke calling attention to the land-use issue the Bundys were focusing on, people said they had become sympathetic to their cause — which touches on a long-standing controversy between the government, which owns vast amounts of protected land in the West, and locals who want to use it for grazing, mining and economic exploitation.

The leader of the anti-government militia that has occupied a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon and the local sheriff met on Thursday in an effort to resolve the situation peacefully. The meeting ended without an agreement, but the two will talk again Friday in another attempt to find a solution....

A group of militia members led by Bundy arrived in a convoy at the rendezvous, witnessed by VICE News, while the sheriff came accompanied by a small tactical team. The two met by the side of the road for about five minutes, then shook hands, and agreed to talk again on Friday.

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Nice try, but you know that was meant for you. I've always marveled that people like you fling derogatory insults with ease then get all faux offended if someone returns the favor.

You are having short-term memory problems. If you will recall, you threw the first insult out there when you referred to Layman and myself as being about as sharp as a bowl of oatmeal for the "crime" of asking bob for the source of a "fact" he posted.

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I'll never understand why a man who gets a return smart ass remark after they fling the first insult, has the unmitigated gall to pretend that their mother, their kids their wife or their dog and American flag have been somehow debased. That's a cowards move.

So, in view of the fact that I just reminded you that you threw out the first insult, how do you feel about having been shown that, according to your own
definitions, you pulled a coward's move? Don't you just hate it when this kind of
thing happens to you?

back in 1920 during a campaign to drain Malheur Lake and sell the land to farmers. That campaign failed. Fifteen years later, Franklin Roosevelt added an additional 65,000 acres to the refuge.

You have a reading comprehension problem, my remark about oatmeal was not directed at you. I think it was starkly apparent who I was referencing.

At his point, does it matter what their plea was? They were found guilty.
(Bob, some folks reasoning abilities are as sharp as a bowl of oatmeal. We should pray for them, chant or maybe do nothing)

no external threat has ever frightened an American more than the fear of the power of their own government.

Concrete barriers went up outside the Harney County courthouse and sheriff’s office Friday morning in preparation for a possible protest, according to workers at the building.

Heavily armed sheriff’s deputies were seen on foot and in patrol trucks in the neighborhood around the courthouse in Burns.