Three more suspects linked to the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered Wednesday, hours after their jailed leader urged the handful of remaining militants to abandon the site they have occupied for more than three weeks.
In response, at least one militiaman is calling for supporters and previous military members to come and join the impending “bloodbath,” and to kill any police that try and stop them.
After militant leader Ammon Bundy made his first court appearance in Portland on Wednesday, his attorney, Mike Arnold, called for calm and read this statement from his client: “Please stand down. Go home and hug your families. This fight is now in the courts.”
In a different live-stream video, the group allegedly showed mixed feelings about the standoff. Some expressed plans to leave to return to their families, while others counted and doled out ammunition. According to the LA Times,
“I want to go to my wife,” a man could be heard saying Wednesday afternoon, complaining that his credit card was maxed out and he was driving a rental car. “Sorry, guys.”
“No hard feelings,” another man responded.
At one point, the live stream caught what sounded like the cocking of a gun, and at least six occupiers could be seen passing through the camera’s field of vision and discussing their available weapons and ammunition.
“You got enough rounds for the 12-gauge?”
“We’ve got, what, two SKS [rifles]?”
“Hey, Sean! I think these fit your gun – they won’t fit the AR [rifle].”
“Anybody got a .45 pistol?”
It was unclear how many of Bundy’s followers still holed up at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge south of Burns were ready to heed Bundy’s call for surrender, but more arrests were made later Wednesday at a nearby checkpoint established by federal and state law enforcement officials, according to the FBI.
The FBI and Oregon State Police said in a statement Wednesday night that 45-year-old Duane Leo Ehmer of Irrigon, Oregon, and 34-year-old Dylan Wade Anderson of Provo, Utah, turned themselves in around 3:30 p.m. And 43-year-old Jason S. Patrick of Bonaire, Georgia, did the same a few hours later.
As with Bundy and the seven others arrested a day earlier, officials said the men will each face a felony charge.
Meanwhile, details began to emerge about the confrontation Tuesday on a remote highway that resulted in the arrest of Bundy and other leading figures in the group of occupiers, and in the death of militant Robert Finicum.
Bundy followers gave conflicting accounts of how Finicum died. One said Finicum charged at FBI agents, who then shot him. A member of the Bundy family said Finicum did nothing to provoke the agents.
Also on Wednesday, a federal judge in Portland unsealed a criminal complaint that said the armed group had explosives and night-vision goggles and that they were prepared to fight at the refuge or in the nearby town of Burns.
Someone told authorities about the equipment on Jan. 2, when the group took over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, according to the document.
Federal law officials and Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward held a news conference on Wednesday in which they called on the rest of the occupiers to go home. There is a huge law enforcement presence in the region, and the FBI has now set up checkpoints outside the refuge.
FBI agent Greg Bretzing said people could leave through checkpoints “where they will be identified.” He said negotiators were available to talk if they have “questions or concerns.” FBI officials said Wednesday night, in addition to the three men arrested, five people left the refuge through the checkpoints and were released without arrest.
At the earlier news conference, Bretzing also defended the FBI-led operation that resulted in the arrest of Bundy and other leaders, and in the death of Finicum. “I will say that the armed occupiers were given ample opportunities to leave peacefully,” he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
We have a video of the woman who was in the car with the man who was murdered. The man clearly had his hands up and was shot down anyway. This Is murder most foul!
Gloria, can you share that video? What is the website address or url?
If this was murder? A video can make the difference between an Agent being above the law as verses accountable to the law.
Hey Horn! Please do some home work. This character is a Crisis Actor. He was used on ALL the main stream Media to portray the PATRIOTS as Trigger Itching baboons. Here he is asked to sign a release form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQZnR0IH_fA The real tragedy is that Mr. Robert LeVoy Finicum, Dedicated Husband, Father of 11 and several Grand Children, Loves America, It’s Liberty, Freedom, hated OUR tyrannical Fed Gov. [Read the second paragraph of The Declaration Of Independence]. That is what he and Hammond and the occupiers are all about. This Man was assassinated for giving out pocket Constitutions, un armed, hands up, shot in the face once and several times as he laid on his back with his hands up. Feds let radicles Burn Ferguson down, not once, not twice but three times. I guess their saving grace was that they did not have a Pocket Constitution in their pocket, LaVoy should of known better. Sorry you missed your birthday. Happy birth day LaVoy, 1/26/2015
yeah, right, you will have the video ready for publication as soon as it is finished in EDITING!
Lets make it easy – Public lands are owned BY THE TAXPAYERS, NOT THE GOVERNMENT! So let the ranchers use the land for their cattle and the rancher is assessed a fee, which EVERY TAX PAYING American get a piece back, and in return the TAXPAYER allows the rancher to us the land and no one gets shot. .
Public lands are owned by the government for the good of all of the people, not a greedy few.
Bad call on officers . This can be resolved with out violence . Local and federal have family’s and share the pain. We can resolve are pain and wounds by a peaceful solution.
Court are not always for Obama or AG. M
No more blood. I have listened.
Levoy’s last moments, caution! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4TsU2k6fW4
Post it!
Says the Civic Coordinator of “White Lives Matter”!
Shut up socialist.
You shut up
Well…this may be better to take to the courts….if we have any faith in the courts.
You really have faith in court? You gotta be kidding me. Most court in United States is so corrupted. That’s including Portland.
they have tried the courts for years. too many corupt JUDGES. it has never been aobut the land, to the BLM it is about what is UNDER the land.
Certainly an FBI representative will defend whatever the FBI has done, as well as the deliberate murder of Mr. Finicum.
Certainly, the FBI and special forces contingent will follow the directives issued by the members of congress, former members of congress, and other treasonous US officials who want access to the mineral-rich properties that the BLM is in the process of confiscating. Acquiring mineral rights to public lands and conveying those rights to relatives and political associates, to mine and extract the valuable minerals, passing profits to friends and relatives instead of the US Treasury, appears to be the game plan.
The best thing these protestors can do is go home. The Bundy family’s problem with the federal government came because they did not want to pay for grazing rights on government land. The Hammonds family got into trouble because they set fires on government land.
If someone uses government land for the personal profit they should pay for the privilege. If someone damages property that doesn’t belong to them they should be held responsible for their actions.
I would question the wisdom of anyone willing to become a martyr for a freeloading rancher or an arsonist.
Due process only applies to Black Lives Matter. Apparently you condone the murder of an unarmed man. He believed what he was doing was right. You believe what you believe is right. They murdered him to prove a point. By the way,the Government would never violate a person’s rights,would they?
What lies and ignorance! The ranchers have always cared for the land, developed all the water for wildlife and stock and are the economic reason Burns even exists. They also pay to be there. The biggest freeloaders are the public who want to use it as a play ground and mostly pay nothing. Check your facts and find its true.
If two black men had been put in jail in Baltimore or any number of towns in this country under double jeopardy, they would of burned the whole town, You saw their response and we blamed the police! So in Oregon we kill peaceful protesters, who are protesting the attempted taking of a ranch because they want the uranium that’s there. You watch they will continue to do anything to that family to steal their ranch, The protest is right! The Federal representatives in DC failed to control out of control agency heads.
Check out the real Sage Grouse research which showed the biggest and best populations were on the ranches. The study showed that ranching was NOT one of the reasons the bird is in decline.
So maybe since you know nothing factual or truthful you should shut up and be ashamed that a man in peaceful protest was killed.
I believe you are so right cause i have little faith in this administration these days. I also believe that this murder could have been a set up for these people.
what an idiot, gov. doesn’t own anything, we the people own it…
i wish that people were more educated as to the issues before speaking, the u.s. government did a illegal land grab from the hammonds, anyone know why?? uranium on the property. any time the government grabs personal land for their gain and screwing landowners well i dont blame them for the occupation of the refuge. and i hope someone gets even with the government
These guys should all be thrown in prison. I don’t pay my taxes so these guys can demand they can use federal land without paying their share. Who do they think they are? If you point a gun at Local or Federal law enforcement you should be shot down just like any other criminal. They are not patriots as they would like everyone to believe.
I think that there was no reason for this man to be murdered and i hope the real truth comes out PERIOD.
These guys should all be thrown in prison. I don’t pay my taxes so these guys can demand they can use federal land without paying their share. Who do they think they are? If you point a gun at Local or Federal law enforcement you should be shot down just like any other criminal. They are not patriots as they would like everyone to believe.
Hey, Joseph:
“These guys should all be thrown in prison.”
If you’re referring to the oathbreaking criminal government murderers, i couldn’t agree more; if you’re referring to those extraordinarily brave men and women standing up for the Constitution and demanding that an Unconstitutional BLM relinqish control over lands it has ZERO legal basis to control, then you’re either an unaware clodhopper blindly supporting USG agents simply because they ARE USG agents, a gov’t employee paid to monitor and post on blogs like this one, or a man in ignorance; if you are the latter, pay attention, and you may learn something important.
” I don’t pay my taxes”
More true than you know. Unless you hand over sacks of nickels(the only unadulterated coin remaining to Americans), you use FRN’s(Federal Reserve notes). FRN’ are IOU’s, promises to pay dollars, NOT REAL dollars. Dollar “BILLS,” that is, Bills FOR dollars. With them, you may only DISCHARGE debt, not permanently extinguish it, like you can with real money, that is, coin of know purity and intrinsic value…the Constitution, btw, only authorizes Congress to COIN money, not print it – and NOWHERE is Congress authorized to outsource that primary duty and sacred responsibility to any privately-owned entity; the Federal Reserve Board is as Federal as Federal Express.
“so these guys can demand they can use federal land without paying their share.”
And how do you know it’s “federal land”? Because they SAY so? When the States were accepted into the Union, all “territory” once administered(nominally) by the USG was to be immediately relinquished to the States.
“Who do they think they are?”
Oh, i don’t know; fools who think that sworn gov’t agents ought to obey their oaths of office, maybe? Like judges who think that those who swear oaths in court ought to tell the truth or go to jail?
“If you point a gun at Local or Federal law enforcement you should be shot down just like any other criminal.”
Show me where any of them did that. An unarmed man with his hands raised was shot dead in cold blood. No one was pointing weapons except oathbreaking criminal gov’t agents. And they not only murdered, they attempted to murder.
“They are not patriots as they would like everyone to believe.”
In my book, they are. Apparently, you think the LEO’s who murdered one man and attempted to murder everyone else in that SUV are the patriots. Stand where you will, and take the consequences or rewards, but rest assured you, too, will be held accountable for your words and deeds, eventually.
You are totally an idiot you have no clue. Oregonian says so
Get ALL the FACTS, before insulting the Ranchers . Hammond was the last hold out for their Ranch Land to go to Government Greed, intercepted.
Justin typical DUMBED down troll. Do some research instead of sitting on your sticky computer chair scratching yourself and asking your Mom to clean up your room. Speaking of Free Loading you F#*king troll.
i hope these Idiot trolls like the freedomless world they are helping to create. keeping their heads up their @sses, where the light can’t shine.
I have read somewhere that Clinton (sec of state) sold that land to Russia to mine all those mineral resources for their country. When Clinton’s were in the White House, they made so much land out west into reserves or parks, to come back later and sell
the land for money in their pockets. When the Fed. Govt. can not purchase (own) land beyond their 10 mile radius around
the D. C. area, except ports or military bases. The control of Govt can not go beyond those limits, but the administrations don’t
care about the laws instituted by the founders and framers of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence of these united
States of America. The Fed. Govt is a corporation and cannot control any sovereign state. The same as the IRS, it is a Puerto
Rico Trust and foreign owned and controlled. Anybody who lives within the boarders of the 10 mile limit, are the recipients of
what Congress and this administration passes as laws for the Sovereign States. Not to many people realize this as they are not
educated in the history of this country.
that is the truth — that is why the District of Columbia is a ‘District’ and NOT a STATE– and not under the jurisdiction of the Constitution–
When they were territories the land belonged to the government -but when they become STATES the land is supposed to belong to the STATES–
I also read that they were also selling uranium mining rights at or in the Grand Canyon to China or Russia
And not too many people know that a W-4 is not needed to work — under Title 26 CFR 31.3402 – Section 31 is for an ‘Employment’ tax and I read that it says — an employee MAY enter into an agreement by signing the W-4– so read it yourself or go to Family Guardian.org
Amen got that down to pat
I don’t feel this whole thing was right. The Hammonds never asked the Bundys to be there. In fact, they did everything they could to distance themselves from the Bundys.
The Bundys had a grudge since 2014 against the Fed’s. I understand their complaints which may have merit, but so far, I only saw one person listed as being from Oregon.
I am not picking sides because I certainly don’t know all the facts, but it is more than obvious that these people left their home state, armed for a confrontation with the Fed’s.
The wise man picks the battles they can win either through public opinion or force. There was no way they were going to win in this matter and the Bundys knew it, unless naive enough to think everyone would join them in this dispute.
I also.have a problem with people wanting to kill cops. Now, I have my reasons to hate the Fed’s as much as these guys, but to call for the death of cops is wrong!
but its okay for cops to harass and kill inocent people,and no im not talking black lives matter, its just a white person being killed is not newsworthy or considered discriminitory. you know the old saying, mess with the bull and you will get the horns. back when i was growing up you could respect cops, but not most of today. alot think they are paramilitary
I AGREE 100000% PEOPLE DONT SEE THAT ALL STATES HAVE BECOME A POLICE STATE MOST COPS ARE NOT RESPECTFUL TO CITIZENS AND WILL PULL THERE GUN AND KILL AT THE DROP OF A HAT , I KNOW A FEW OF THEM I PERSONALLY HAVENT HAD PROBLEMS WITH THEM BUT HAVE SEEN SOME COPS PUNCH A GUY THAT WAS HAND CUFFED AND THEN PUT HIS KNEE ON HIS HEAD ON THE FLOOR IN MY OPINION THEY ARE MORE CRIMINAL THAN MOST ON THE STREET AMERICAS FINEST WHAT A JOKE LOOK AT THE SHOOTINGS ON TV OF KIDS OLD LADIES BEING TAZED SHOOTING SOMEONE IN THE BACK WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE FOR SMALL CHARGES YOU PEOPLE THINK THIS IS AMERICAS FINEST LIKE THEY SAY ON TV THEN YOU ARE BLIND AND WILL BE TAKEN OVER IN THE NEAR FUTURE BY THE SAME GUYS YOU THINK SO MUCH OF !!!!!!!!!!! THEN YOU WILL SEE HOW BAD MOST OF THEM ARE BAD A….SS ATTITUDE BIG AND BAD WITTH THE BADGE AND GOV GIVING THEM MORE POWER AND PEOPLE ARE LETTING THEM HAVE IT ROB SAYS PEOPLE CANT WIN BUT OUR FOR FATHERS GAVE US THE SECOND AMMENDMENT TO KEEP THE GOV IN CHECK NOT TO LET THEM GET STRONGER THANE WE THE PEOPLE BUT PEOPLE LIKE ROB THINKS THEY SHOULD HAVE MORE POWER YOU IDIOTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOT TO MENTION SEVERAL COPS THAT CHOCKED A GUY TO DEATH EVEN THOUGH HE WAS TELLING THEM I CANT BREATH FOR SELLING CIGS ON THE STREET YES IT WAS ILLEGAL AND HE SHOULDNT HAVE DONE IT BUT CHOKE HIM FOR SMALL CRAP .. BUT COPS ALWAYS SAY THEY WANT TO GO HOME AT NIGHT BUT WHAT ABOUT CITIZENS THEY HAVE FAMILY AND LOVE ONES THEY WANT TO GO HOME TOO ,THEY SHOULD HAVE GAVE HIM A TICKET FINE HIM OR PUT HIM IN JAIL BUY ALL JUMP ON HIM AND CHOKE HIM EVERYONE ONE OF THEM SHOULD BE HUNG IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN FOR THAT CRAP BUT NO ONE PROSECUTED WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!!!! IF COPS WERE RESPECTFUL TO CITIZINS AND STOP SHOOTING UNARMED PEOPLE I WOULD BACK THEM 100000% AND GIVE MY LIFE TO PROTECT A COP THAT WAS INJURED IN A SHOOT OUT OR ANY SITIUTION
How do you chock a guy to death?
OOOPS I MEANT CHOKED , LOL AND ITS NOT JUST BLACKS THEY KILL US WHITES JUST AS FAST !!!!!
I don’t believe that these people want to “kill cops”! Who came up with this BS?
Oh yes they did they are with farmers corporation and Bundy group showed up wanting government to drop charges against Hammond.
Michael are you in the same room with Justin? Check this out. Dots getting connected on Judge Grasty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrSz9xHYW1w Harry Ried and Oregon http://www.truthandaction.org/busted-harry-reid-owns-93-acres-next-bundy-ranch/ Full Back story on the Hamonds http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/03/full-story-on-whats-going-on-in-oregon-militia-take-over-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-in-protest-to-hammond-family-persecution/ Fast teach on The Constitution hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T424sWq1SkE FBI “JACK BOOT” refuses to take a copy of THE US CONSTITUTION!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJjt-onWq4s
and we are paying his salary You won’t see this on Glen Beck I bet.
If these protesters would have been black the outcome would have been different. The Feds would have completely backed away for fear of being called racist. If this rancher ,who was murdered, was black and this happened,Sharpton, Jackson would already be in Oregon demanding justice.MSM would be camped out everywhere and the media whores that work for the MSM would be calling for heads to roll. This is sickening plain and simple. MURDER.
My heart and sincere prayers go out to the militia. I have seen my country turned into hell, by an out of control government coupled with the sin running rampant in this country. You who defend the government, and call ranchers arsonists and freeloaders don’t even have a clue. It’s only government land after FEDZILLA stole it from the sovereign states. Then they give it away to foreign countries to somehow think it will appease this massive debt they have accrued to destroy us. Remember our Constitution Americans, when this government becomes a tyranny against it’s own people, it’s the right, yes it’s the duty of the people to take back their country for future generations. This veteran is retired military, 68 years old, health not the best, or I would be with you. Father, place Your hedge of protection around those who have taken the stand against tyranny, that no devil, NO DEVIL could kill, steal, or destroy, for they are protected, by the Blood of the Lamb, by the Word of Almighty God, by the mighty Name of Jesus Christ, by the Armour of Light, and by God’s Holy Angels, in Jesus’ Name, AMEN!
Amen thanks Chaplain Jim. from Chaplain Don I also am a past 10 year Police Officer and Chief of Police I have to side both ways other the not killing. However our Constitution does say the people of the United states may use deadly force to gain it’s Country back. I would hate to see this happen. I would rather see Jesus Christ coming as he says he will and those responsible face judgement Before God. Amen
YES I AGREE ,JESUS HELP US
That is a crock and everyone knows it. This is the media’s attempt to explain away the unlawful action of a government out of control. The man who was killed had his hands up and was surrendering. And still he was murdered. Pay attention people, if our governement can walk all over our Constitution like that and have the media try to explain it away in falsehoods, where are we heading?
God is about to wipe Oregon off the face of the earth, they are fighting over a corpse of a state. Worse they are violating Matthew 26:52 and doing exactly the opposite of what Jesus said to do. Which is to obey civil law and not take the law into your own hands. The same way as John Brown did at Harper’s Ferry.
If they kill a police officer they commit 1st degree murder, it is as simple as that.
When the FBI kills an unarmed man with his hands up have committed first degree murder!
I want to see that video, and want it spread wildfire across the country! Please put it on horn news and YouTube, FAST! If that poor man was shot down in cold blood, we need blatant evidence, NOW!
Yes!
Hey, John:
Not quite as simple as you’re suggesting; it depends on what the office-holders are doing at the time of any attempted arrest. If they’re attempting to perform an arrest for which they have no authority, then the worst that the protesters could be charged with is manslaughter, if that.
Check this out:
“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer’s life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.”
After all, what’s at the root of the issue is whether these ARE “federal lands” to BEGIN with. If they AIN’T – and when every State was admitted to the Union, those “territories” were supposed to be turned over – then these a-holes have no authority to force them to do anything, as long as they’re “peaceably assembled.” That’s where the Courts come in. They have to decide whether or not the Constitution’s dictates in RE: federal acquisition of lands have been met – essentially, whether or not the Constitution is still the Supreme Law of the Land as it states in Article 6, and which all office-holders swear oaths of fealty to as a condition of employment.
So let’s see if they can graze cattle on government property, just like the deer, antelope, and elk. Hunting taxpayers should be able to buy a license and harvest these critters, and rancher SOL. I mean chance he takes leaving it out there. I thought range wars went out in the 1800’s Cattle, sheep, and cowboys shot for being on someone else’s property. No free rides. I want $0.25 for each animal grazing. Now multiply that by each FEDERAL household. Me thinks might be a bit expensive. Or just get me a steer, better eating than venison anyway.
It is time to end this fieaco.
Get these criminals out of the government property.
Hopefully in hand cuffs, but in a body bag if they insist.
Hie-dee, Groooover!
Wut’s a “fieaco”?
More to the point, how do you know that the property IS “government” property? Because the gov’t agents SAY so?
Are you familiar with a document called the Constitution, you know, the one that all gov’t agents swear oaths of loyalty to?
Would you cut’n’paste that portion of the Constitution or Amendments that would AUTHORIZE a BLM in the first place?
Since you won’t find THAT, how ’bout you cut’n’paste that part of the Constitution that DOES deal with how the federal government is SUPPOSED to acquire property?
Never mind.
I’ll do it FOR you:
“To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings”
Hmm. Looks to me like the SUPREME LAW of the UNITED STATES says that these lands must be “purchased” and may only be sold by the voluntary consent of the Legislature of the State in question.
Tell me, Grooover, when did the Legislature of Oregon sell that Malheur place to the Government of the United States? How much did Oregon get for it? Which “forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, or other needful buildings” went up there? What date, exactly, did the legislature of the State of Oregon “voluntarily consent” to sell?
If you can’t answer those questions, then the property does NOT BELONG to the USG. Ergo, your argument falls into the trash pile of history.
I can post close to a dozen court decisions which unequivocally state that ANY and EVERY “law” passed by Congress or put in place by executive fiat or as a consequence of a bad SCOTUS ruling are null and void, without power of any kind whatsoever. Wanna see ’em, or you gonna take my word for it?
That’s your opinion and your entitled to it. But wow do you need to WTFU. Goober you should read all that Constitutionalist has posted. The poster has excellent insight on how this Gov.is SUPPOSED to operate. Slowly this Gov. has become out of control.So slow that people didn’t realise what was happening. Gov. Agencies that have no business having swat teams and arsenals that would make the Army proud shows this Gov. is Out of Control. A great article written by Col. Grossman is a good lesson. Wolf,Sheep and the Sheepdog. The Wolf is the Government. The Sheep are the people. The Sheepdog is the protector of the people from the wolf. These brave ranchers and many true patriots like them are the Sheepdog. Goober if I were you I would try to find a Sheepdog and become best friends with him.
wow, you are the personification of stupid and have no read or if you have, do not comprehend what you read in the Constitution….
that fat piece of human excrement with his gun, yelling at the camera about ‘them coming to kill us…’ is such a phoney wannabee hype, he personifies an ignorant, illogical, uneducated dirtbag” When his is in custody, hope they throw the book at him and those of his ild, fat white idiotic ignorant uneducated racist, misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic dirtbag…