FBI Surrounds Occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

[struggle4progress]

FBI Portland
February 10, 2016
Beth Anne Steele
[phone]

At approximately 4:30 p.m. (Pacific) on Wednesday, February 10, 2016, one of the occupiers rode an ATV outside the barricades established by the militia at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. FBI agents attempted to approach the driver, and he returned to the encampment at the refuge at a high rate of speed.

At this time, the FBI has moved to contain the remaining occupiers by placing agents at barricades both immediately ahead of and behind the area where the occupiers are camping. Negotiations between the occupiers and the FBI continue. No shots have been fired ...

https://www.fbi.gov/portland/press-releases/2016/fbi-surrounds-occupiers-at-the-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge

[struggle4progress]

1. Occupiers at Oregon refuge say they'll turn themselves in

REBECCA BOONE AND LISA BAUMANN, ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 10, 2016
Updated: February 10, 2016 10:47pm

... Fry, 27, of Blanchester, Ohio, sounded increasingly unraveled as he continually yelled, at times hysterically, at what he said was an FBI negotiator. "You're going to hell. Kill me. Get it over with," he said. "We're innocent people camping at a public facility, and you're going to murder us."

"The only way we're leaving here is dead or without charges," Fry said, who told the FBI to "get the hell out of Oregon" ...

Sean Anderson said late Wednesday he spoke with the FBI and that he and the three other holdouts would turn themselves in at a nearby FBI checkpoint at 8 a.m. Thursday ...

"We're not surrendering, we're turning ourselves in. It's going against everything we believe in," he said ...

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/science/article/Occupiers-at-Oregon-refuge-say-they-ll-turn-6822621.php

[struggle4progress]

2. FBI surrounds wildlife refuge, occupiers say they'll turn themselves in Thursday morning

BY KATU.COM STAFF
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH 2016

... The FBI was heard using a loud speaker directing them to surrender.

"If we surrender, then we go to jail, we'll never see the light of day again," Sandy said. "I'm not afraid .. I'm more pissed than I am scared, because they shouldn't be doing this, they promised they wouldn't" ...

http://kval.com/news/local/remaining-refuge-occupiers-say-fbi-is-moving-in

[Major Nikon]

3. Evidently one of them tried to make a Yoo-Hoo and Slim Jim run

That's when they figured out the FBI is still there. With the vital supplies running low, panic ensued.

[flamingdem]

4. They said on the video that they only had snacks and had to live only on granola bars

for the past couple of days.

Send snacks!

[struggle4progress]

6. Sounds like livin off th'granola bars ain't so great fer a feller's mental health

[DetlefK]

8. But these freedom-fighters were prepared to stay there for years!

[artislife]

5. "We're innocent people camping at a public facility,..."

This.



I just can't even.




Camping.




A public facility.




I think they have mad cow disease because there are holes in their brains.

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. They are out of Slim Jims, Twinkies, Pork Rinds, beer, and pot.

Time to give up and enjoy a nice prison cot with plenty of free chicken pot pies.