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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 03:28 PM Jan 2016

Militants accuse FBI of blocking communications

Created on Sunday, 31 January 2016 11:08 | Written by OPB Staff

... OPB spoke with the remaining occupiers inside the refuge Sunday by cellphone. They say federal authorities have locked down their ability to make or receive calls.

David Fry, one of the four remaining militants, said the FBI made it so the occupiers can’t make outgoing calls on their cellphones. Fry said he can receive incoming calls, but that the other three in the refuge appear unable to receive calls on their cellphones. The militants also said they’ve lost access to the internet.

The militants said they aren’t currently inside any of the buildings at the refuge and they’ve been using a generator so they aren’t sure if the FBI also cut power to the buildings.

Sean Anderson .. expressed frustration with the FBI’s barricade that is preventing media from getting into the refuge ...


http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/291321-168609-militants-accuse-fbi-of-blocking-communications

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Militants accuse FBI of blocking communications (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2016 OP
Blanchester man one of final four armed protestors left at Oregon wildlife refuge struggle4progress Jan 2016 #1
FBI Fry ain't doing a day of time. Criminy, he's the communications liason for the FBI LOL Monk06 Jan 2016 #25
Seriously who do these morons think they are? malaise Jan 2016 #2
If they are also 2naSalit Jan 2016 #8
That sounds like theReTHUG party line malaise Jan 2016 #11
Heh, that's about the size of it.....nt 2naSalit Jan 2016 #22
They think they are "Shining Stars" womanofthehills Jan 2016 #28
Was he drunk when he said it malaise Jan 2016 #29
Aw, poor widdle terrorists SwankyXomb Jan 2016 #3
This Fry creature is so pathetic in so many ways. cwydro Jan 2016 #4
I think Sean Anderson is the dangerous one of the bunch Kaleva Jan 2016 #16
LOL Scurrilous Jan 2016 #23
He's a crazy one. but that boohoo video the other night where he said he didn't want to die... cwydro Jan 2016 #33
Buffoons matt819 Jan 2016 #5
For rough & ready heroes they sure do whine a lot. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2016 #6
How DARE the FBI take away their rights to do anything they want to anytime they want to? uppityperson Jan 2016 #7
Aw, poor little militants. My heart's just breaking! sinkingfeeling Jan 2016 #9
That's the way you deal with armed criminals taking over federal facilities... Blue_Tires Jan 2016 #10
One wonders how they would have fared during the KingCharlemagne Jan 2016 #15
It would have been totally different pinboy3niner Jan 2016 #17
LOL - Good one! - nt KingCharlemagne Jan 2016 #27
Inside the refuge Cartoonist Jan 2016 #12
About friggin' time! n/t ljm2002 Jan 2016 #13
The FBI has not taken their dildos, so they will be just fine!!! madinmaryland Jan 2016 #14
Put laxitives in their snacks. nt Quixote1818 Jan 2016 #18
As much as I enjoy their antics Egnever Jan 2016 #19
Wait - "OPB spoke with the remaining occupiers inside the refuge Sunday by cellphone." csziggy Jan 2016 #20
Did they pay their bill? Generic Other Jan 2016 #21
+ struggle4progress Jan 2016 #32
They call themselves revolutionaries? They declare war against ZOG and the NWO and then complain Monk06 Jan 2016 #24
Neener, neener. Baitball Blogger Jan 2016 #26
WiFi is a basic human right. kwassa Jan 2016 #30
Is that a Mendocino Jan 2016 #35
The right to bear WiFi shall not be abridged. kwassa Jan 2016 #37
bear wifi Mendocino Feb 2016 #38
Yabba dabba do. kwassa Feb 2016 #39
Busy signals on phones of 4 remaining Malheur militants struggle4progress Jan 2016 #31
... warrprayer Jan 2016 #34
They don't see it at all, do they? gratuitous Jan 2016 #36
Boo hoo hoo. GoCubsGo Feb 2016 #40

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
1. Blanchester man one of final four armed protestors left at Oregon wildlife refuge
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 03:34 PM
Jan 2016

Marais Jacon-Duffy
12:03 PM, Jan 31, 2016

... Fry has played a major role in communicating with the FBI , he told OPB reporters. He said he spoke to an FBI negotiator three times in the last 24 hours

“They don’t want us to die. They’re begging us to come home," he said. "Go to prison, for five years, is what they’re saying" ...


http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/warren-county/blanchester/blanchester-man-one-of-final-four-armed-protestors-left-at-oregon-wildlife-refuge

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)
8. If they are also
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 04:07 PM
Jan 2016

mormons, they have been conditioned to believe they are saints... for whom there is no sin if they are the ones committing the "act(s)".

womanofthehills

(8,718 posts)
28. They think they are "Shining Stars"
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 08:43 PM
Jan 2016

quote from Sean Anderson a few days ago:

" We were just four drunks, we don't have any military experience, and now we're the shining stars,”

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
23. LOL
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 07:04 PM
Jan 2016

"The family member also said Anderson envisions that in 100 years from now the Oregon occupation will be looked back on as a ‘Boston Tea Party event."


"On Wednesday, in the early hours, he posted on Facebook what appeared to be a reference to losing his cellphone service: "My last words .....(let the history books record) Woop woop."

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
33. He's a crazy one. but that boohoo video the other night where he said he didn't want to die...
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 10:17 PM
Jan 2016

I think he's just a wannabe.

The Fry kid worries me because I think he's got no way to save face except to go down.

The Feds are handling this well I think. They'll just wait till the weed and beer runs out.

Maybe it's wrong of me, but I love that the Bundys etc. cannot bond out until these fools give up.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
7. How DARE the FBI take away their rights to do anything they want to anytime they want to?
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 04:01 PM
Jan 2016

Even if it's only in their paranoid little minds?

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
10. That's the way you deal with armed criminals taking over federal facilities...
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 04:11 PM
Jan 2016

Surround them and cut off comms

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
19. As much as I enjoy their antics
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 06:00 PM
Jan 2016

There is a small percentage of the population that is buying into their poor me I am peaceful shtick.

Glad they got cut off but going to miss the entertainment.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
20. Wait - "OPB spoke with the remaining occupiers inside the refuge Sunday by cellphone."
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 06:39 PM
Jan 2016

So calls ARE getting in. Maybe the other people they are trying to call have their numbers blocked so they aren't charged as part of the anti-government conspiracy?

Monk06

(7,675 posts)
24. They call themselves revolutionaries? They declare war against ZOG and the NWO and then complain
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 08:00 PM
Jan 2016

when their phone and internet access is cut off.

Demand snacks and cigarettes

No shortage of dope tho "Pass that bowl"

Living off Coors and energy bars cause they are so fat it will take them months to starve to death

Oh and can we leave after threatening to kill the police without any charges? Can't have felonies because I'll lose my 2A rights

What a bunch of muppets

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
31. Busy signals on phones of 4 remaining Malheur militants
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:42 PM
Jan 2016

4 remaining militants want pardons before they will willingly leave
Jennifer Dowling and KOIN 6 News Staff
Published: January 31, 2016, 1:13 pm
Updated: January 31, 2016, 4:08 pm

... Phone numbers for Jeff Banta, David Fry, Sean Anderson and Sandy Anderson were not working when KOIN 6 News called Sunday morning. OPB reports Fry said 3 of the 4 occupiers can’t make or receive phone calls ...

On Saturday, a recorded message from jailed militia leader Ammon Bundy to the remaining occupiers, urging them to leave and go home, was ignored.

“Your husband and your brother-in-law and all your friends are in prison right now because they do what they want to do,” Sean Anderson said Saturday, “I have to submit to people I don’t believe or trust. You say Ammon is directed by God. So am I” ...


http://koin.com/2016/01/31/busy-signals-on-phones-of-4-remaining-malheur-militia/

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
36. They don't see it at all, do they?
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 11:50 PM
Jan 2016

They want their cell phones - using publicly-owned federally-regulated cell signals - and their wi-fi - using that federally created internet - but they're all frustrated because they've been cut off. Really rugged individualists, aren't they? "Oh yeah, I was gonna be at the Alamo, but they had such spotty wi-fi, I just couldn't see sticking it out."

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
40. Boo hoo hoo.
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 12:32 AM
Feb 2016

Tough shit. You assholes have been blocking refuge workers and scientists from being able to do their jobs, as well as preventing their families from living safely in their homes. Take your complaints and stick 'em where the sun don't shine.

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