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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 2:06 pm
Armed militia group led by Cliven Bundy's son occupies federal building in Oregon:
Ron Gainer estimated he counted about 15 people, a half dozen vehicles and a trailer at the headquarters. The Bundy family had previously told OPB around 150 people had joined their cause at the refuge.
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, occupied by the Bundys and their supporters, lies roughly a half-hour south of Burns. It was established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt, and is a popular place for birdwatching in the spring.
The occupiers draped an American flag over the welcome sign outside the refuge headquarters, and a pick-up blocked the road.
As the sun set Saturday, the temperature fell to 10 degrees. A group of five men bundled in coats and scarves fed sagebrush branches into a campfire. Only Ammon spoke to the media, but a few of the men quietly identified themselves as longtime residents of the Burns area and supporters of the Hammonds.
“We are not hurting anybody or damaging any property. We would expect that they understand that we have given them no reason to use lethal force upon us or any other force,” Bundy said.
Bundy said the men intend to use as little force as possible if law enforcement attempts to remove them from the site.
“We hope that they don’t try to do that. We are here and this is the people’s facility. It has been abused. This facility has been a tool to destroy ranchers and loggers and miners and many other individual’s rights. If they try to come and force that issue, then they make it about a building and facility and lives could be lost because of that,” he said.