OR - Militia members occupy federal building in Oregon after protest #1

[Tawny]

Not sure but, The Blue Tarp (Tarpman) might be on Lawrence O'Donnel's show again tonight.

Petition to demand he wears the tarp. If he refuses, the interview is canceled.

 

[bluesneakers]

Not sure but, The Blue Tarp (Tarpman) might be on Lawrence O'Donnel's show again tonight.

I'm on the edge of my seat awaiting your breakdown and analysis.

 

[i.b.nora]

Quick teaser shot of Tarpman, so I guess he is coming soon. Or maybe they will have him sit out there until the very end of the show.

 

[EllieBee]

Yay! Tarpman!

I smell a new hit costume for Halloween 2016.......

 

[bluesneakers]

Yay! Tarpman!

I smell a new hit costume for Halloween 2016.......

Nah, one way or another Tarpman is going to fade into the sunset before then.

 

[bluesneakers]

I think if the FBI would get out of the way Sheriff Ward would go in himself and take care of the mm. Wow.

 

[i.b.nora]

Playing tape of Sheriff Ward at public meeting today.

Snippet of Piaute Tribal Council members.

Live to Oregon (28 degrees) next after commercials.

 

[SuzDuJour]

WTF? Tarpman has gone to dinner in the best restaurant in the area. He doesn't want to die. He wants to go home. Where the heck is his arrest. How come he gets a pass?

 

[i.b.nora]

MSNBC reporter Tony Dokoupil says that Tarpman is not there now. The militia are in town having dinner at a restaurant.

That's it.

 

[bluesneakers]

MSNBC reporter Tony Dokoupil says that Tarpman is not there now. The militia are in town having dinner at a restaurant.

That's it.

The swankiest restaurant in Burns, Oregon.
https://www.facebook.com/ThePineRoomBurnsOregon?rf=111588678878391

He did say the Pine Room, right?

 

[Everyday Grace]

Heated rhetoric and threats through the years.

2016 -- The Oregonian

Years before the arson fires that sent two Oregon ranchers to federal prison — sparking an armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge — federal officials reported several death threats from the men.

Those accusations, which reportedly stretch back to the 1980s, first emerged in August 1994.

That's when Dwight Hammond Jr., now 73, and his son, Steven, now 46, wound up arrested by U.S. Fish and Wildlife officers after trying to stop federal workers inside Malheur from fencing off a canal they'd been using to water their cows.

Details about that fight — and the threats that reportedly preceded it — show just how long the Hammonds have been scrapping with the government over access to the refuge that borders their lands. And they make clear that the recent bubbling of bad blood that's drawn sympathetic militants to Oregon's desert is nothing new.

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/oregon_militants_years_before.html

1995 -- Village Voice via Counterpunch

In an affidavit, Earl M. Kisler, a Fish and Wildlife Service enforcement officer, said that rancher Dwight Hammond had repeatedly threatened refuge officials with violence over an eight year period. On one occasion Hammond told the manager of the federal refuge that “he was going to tear his head off and <snipped> down his neck.”

After Hammond’s arrest, Chuck Cushman of the American Land Rights Association, and a key organizer for the property rights movement in the West, said he helped stage a demonstration in Hammond’s defense in Burns. Refuge manager Cameron’s daughter attended the meeting. “She got up at our meeting,” Cushman told me. “She said she was tired of people vilifying her father. And I thought it was just wonderful. I got up and applauded her. She had the guts to do it. Too bad he didn’t have the guts to do the same thing.”

It was after that fateful gathering, while Cameron himself was 300 miles away in Portland completing the paperwork on Hammond’s arrest, that his family began receiving more threats, including one call threatening to wrap the Camerons’ 12-year-old boy in a shroud of barbed wire and stuff him down a well. Other callers warned Mrs. Cameron that if she couldn’t get along in the cow town, she ought to move out before something “bad” happened to her family. The families of three other refuge employees also received telephone threats after the meeting. Terrified, Mrs. Cameron packed up her four children, one of them confined to a wheelchair, and fled to Bend, more than 100 miles to the west.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01...gins-of-the-armed-occupation-in-burns-oregon/

1994 -- High Country News

"The refuge has been trying to work with Hammond for many years," said agency spokeswoman Susan Saul. A thick file at refuge headquarters reveals just how patient refuge managers have been.

Hammond allegedly made death threats against previous managers in 1986 and 1988 and against Cameron, the current manager, in 1991 and again this year. Saul said Hammond has never given the required 24 hours' notice before moving his cows across the refuge and that he allowed the cows to linger for as long as three days, trespassing along streams and trampling young willows that refuge workers had planted to repair damage wrought by years of overgrazing.

http://www.hcn.org/issues/20/582

 

[EllieBee]

The swankiest restaurant in Burns, Oregon.
https://www.facebook.com/ThePineRoomBurnsOregon?rf=111588678878391

He did say the Pine Room, right?

EssCUSE me......

Why are these people who have committed a federal crime able to just clock out from their siege and grab a bite in town?

WHY ARE THEY NOT ARRESTED???????:furious:

 

[Everyday Grace]

Of false valor and unicorns.

Brian Cavalier – the personal bodyguard of controversial ranchers Cliven and Ammon Bundy who lead the group – openly boasted to members of the press that he is a Marine who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

According to US Marine Corp records Cavalier has never served as a Marine, whether it be as a recruit or a Marine Corps contractor.

Since the armed occupation of the wildlife refuge Cavalier has refused to reveal his identity to members of the press.

He told journalists that he simply goes by the name 'Fluffy Unicorn'.

When Daily Mail Online visited the refuge on Monday Cavalier joked that he might change it to 'Raging Unicorn' – because he was irritated by our questioning.

'Yesterday it was Fluffy Unicorn', he said. 'Today it's Raging Unicorn.'

Then he made his false declaration.

'I'm a retired United States Marine, I can rage,' he said, before dropping in that he had served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...fghanistan-Iraq-boost-combat-credentials.html

 

[Brightbird]

So the standoff is finished?

 

[SuzDuJour]

They are free to come and go as they please. This is a travesty.

 

[bluesneakers]

They are free to come and go as they please. This is a travesty.

They are invited out to dinner!!
:banghead:

 

[LaborDayRN]

They are free to come and go as they please. This is a travesty.

No kidding! They committed a crime and should be arrested.

 

[LaborDayRN]

I wonder who is picking up the bill?

 

[bluesneakers]

I wonder who is picking up the bill?

The FBI guys better be paying out of their own pockets.

 

[LaborDayRN]

Of false valor and unicorns.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...fghanistan-Iraq-boost-combat-credentials.html

Egad! Eyewash anyone? I wish I could unsee a couple of the pictures on that page.