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A Militia Has Taken Over A Federal Building In Oregon

We're totally hosed if any of the Bundy men ever meet Bristol Palin. They could create an entire dumb ass army.
 
I like that the photo watermark makes it look like he's wearing a play/plastic sheriff's star.
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http://www.opb.org/news/series/burn...alition-western-states/#.Vvh4MwslUHo.facebook

GOP Politicians Planned And Participated In Key Aspects Of Refuge Occupation

On the recording, Harney County Judge Steve Grasty thanks the group for their concern, but asks them to stay away from the refuge. Grasty said the militants were showing signs of fatigue and defeat, and worried that a visit from lawmakers would reinvigorate Ammon Bundy and the rest of the occupiers.

“If we’re getting close (to a resolution), and you embolden Bundy by your presence, and this runs on for weeks and months, it will be awful in this community,” Grasty said.

The FBI agent also asked the lawmakers not to visit the refuge.

Those pleas fell on deaf ears. And Grasty’s prediction came true.

COWS representatives visited the refuge, which was closed to the public. The lawmakers acknowledge they fed the militants information gathered from that meeting, and militant leaders talked openly about what they learned from those disclosures.

“These lawmakers have shown great courage to support us,” said Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, who would later die after being shot by state police. “Much more than others who refused to come and look us in the eye.”
The visit was the latest step in an ongoing and organized campaign by these lawmakers, essentially the political arm of the militant movement, to make a once-radical political cause part of the mainstream
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The lawmakers wanted information from law enforcement, including what tactics the FBI anticipated taking against the militants. They wondered aloud, for example, whether refuge power would be cut. Law enforcement personnel repeatedly declined answering. The lawmakers continued to ask.

They also wanted to know what criminal charges the occupiers might face. After getting nowhere with that line of inquiry, coalition members asked with whom they could negotiate on behalf of the Ammon Bundy-led militants.
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Fiore and other COWS members helped militants plan press events, including one in which a New Mexico rancher promised to stop paying grazing fees to the BLM. But the coalition’s efforts on behalf of the militants went beyond public relations.
At Shea’s request, Anthony Bosworth – a one-time candidate for Yakima County Sheriff – went to the refuge as a “security specialist.” He also stayed at the facility.

“I traveled to the refuge in an attempt to de-escalate the situation… at the request of the Coalition of Western States,” Bosworth wrote in an email.

Bosworth also helped militants – including Blaine Cooper, another occupation organizer – flee the compound.
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Meanwhile, the arrest of the militants appears to be strengthening the Coalition of Western States, or at least helping its cause. Although she wouldn’t provide names, Fiore said the coalition has new members, including from the East Coast.

The GOP-controlled Congress is also considering legislation that would remove the Bureau of Land Management’s ability to enforce the law.

“We are not going away,” Fiore said. “We are dug in, and we will fight until this tyranny is defeated.”
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November 9th just became The Purge.
 
Liquid Karma said:
The precedent here is very dangerous.
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"As one supporter [of the defendants], Nevada State Rep. Michelle Fiore told me, the verdict shows that Americans need to stand up to "unlawful behavior by federal employees." [Groups that study far-right militants] say this verdict will embolden [them to commit] other extreme anti-government acts, especially if Hillary Clinton is elected."
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Moral of the last two months: American can stand up but they better not kneel.
 
Can we charge them with vandalism, trespassing, or even domestic terrorism now?

I think this was the problem with only charging 7 of the ~40 occupiers with criminal charges. Not too hard for me to see how a jury might conclude that the charges and trial were BS when most of the perpetrators, all of whom conducted pretty much the same crimes as the guys standing trial, were let off consequence free.
 
At least two of them are staying in custody until the trial next year.


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The government went for the grand slam charges instead of the gimmies. And ended up looking quite foolish.
 
How the government lost its case against the Oregon occupiers

“My client was arrested in a government truck, and he was acquitted of taking that truck,” said defense attorney Matthew Schindler, who still sounded in disbelief Friday morning.
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“All 12 jurors felt that this verdict was a statement regarding the various failures of the prosecution to prove 'conspiracy' in the count itself – and not any form of affirmation of the defense's various beliefs, actions or aspirations,'' Juror 4 wrote in an email to the Oregonian.

Juror 4 also scolded prosecutors for being overconfident and exuding an “air of triumphalism” and denied critics’ claims that jurors were supporting the defendants’ actions.
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