A dirty trick
The FBI arrested three more of the trespassers yesterday.
The FBI set up a perimeter around theMalheur Wildlife Refuge and established a series of checkpoints earlier in the day, as militia members continued their occupation.
In a statement, the FBI said the containment was to “better ensure the safety of community members.” Only Harney County ranchers who own property in specific areas were allowed to pass after showing IDs.
Since Wednesday morning, a total of 8 people left the refuge, the FBI said. Five of them were released and 3 were arrested.
Duane Ehmer, 45, of Irrigon, Oregon and Dylan Anderson, 34, of Provo, Utah were arrested at 3:30 p.m. Jason Patrick, 43, of Bonaire, Georgia was arrested on probable cause at 7:40 p.m., the FBI said.
From left to right: Jason Patrick, Dylan Anderson and Duane Ehmer were arrested leaving the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, January 27 2016. (MCSO)
Oddly enough, these guys are subject to the same laws we all are.
Brand Thornton, one of Bundy’s supporters, said he left the refuge Monday and wasn’t sure what those remaining would do.
“The entire leadership is gone,” he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “I wouldn’t blame any of them for leaving.”
Thornton called the arrests “a dirty trick” by law enforcement.
Bahahahahahaha! Yes, how unfair of them, to arrest people just because they stole a national wildlife refuge and set about destroying it.
Even white guys sometimes get arrested.
I am so thrilled they are finally moving on this. I was beginning to be afraid nothing was going to happen until the refuge was destroyed, and then it would be “well, there isn’t anything here worth preserving, might as well open it up to these guys”. I’ve seen similar things happen before, when local residents cut down all the trees, and by the time the government acted, they determined there was no particular ecosystem there worth preserving, so they not only got off with nothing, they basically got the land turned over to their use.
Addendum to above: to be totally fair to the land owners who cut down the trees, none of them pulled guns or threatened law enforcement. They just figured because they were rich, they could do what they wanted.
In hindsight it seems like a cunning plan for the Feds to not have arrested the culprits in some hall full of civilians but rather on a secluded stretch of road into which they went all a-cocky with the confidence of untouchables. Frustrating wait — but perhaps worth that in the result of bringing them out of circulation. Hopefully for quite a long while, in comparison.
Any news on those children who were spotted in the occupied premises?
Except for the children, and probably the slave ‘wives,’ no one should be allowed to depart without being taken into custody, fingerprinted etc.