On Tuesday, after the FBI and Oregon state police arrested six of his comrades following deadly shootout, notorious Islamophobe Jon Ritzheimer (a.k.a. the angry dildo man) turned himself in to the Peoria, Arizona, police department.
In a statement, the FBI on Tuesday confirmed earlier reports that Ammon Bundy and several other armed militants were arrested north of Burns, Oregon, after a traffic stop north of Burns, Oregon, turned violent. One of the militants was killed. Six people were arrested.
On Monday, the Guardian reports, Oregon state police arrested a man who said he was on his way to the Malheur national wildlife refuge for driving under the influence of alcohol. Joseph Stetson, 54, was armed with a pellet gun and said he wanted to “help with killing federal agents.”
In two letters drafted yesterday, Governor Kate Brown of Oregon requested direct and immediate help from the White House and Department of Justice to end the militia standoff in her state, calling them “armed criminals” and “[insisting] on a swift resolution” to the occupation.
A video uploaded to Facebook on Wednesday appears to show the armed militants occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge rummaging through a storage area, accusing the Bureau of Land Management of improperly storing artifacts belonging to the local, native Paiute tribe. “SHARE!” the video is captioned. “BREAKING…
You may know the shofar as a musical instrument of Jewish antiquity, traditionally blown in synagogues during Rosh Hashanah—but did you know that right now, in the frozen hinterland of the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon militiamen are blowing the HORNS OF FREEDOM as we speak?
Oregon militia spokesman Robert “LaVoy” Finicum told OPB that the four foster children who had been living with him and his wife on their Chino Valley, Arizona, ranch have been taken away. “I hope people are seeing the sacrifices we’re making here,” he said.
Drama, drama, drama! The loosely organized anti-government radicals who took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge were hoping to provoke a war with the federal government—but instead they’ve found themselves at war with each other, feuding, fussing, and freezing.
The militiamen who are still holed up at a wildlife refuge in Oregon waiting for creamer and tampons say they’ve taken up a new pastime to stay busy: rifling through government documents.
While you were all distracted by the body of work pooped out by Sean Penn this weekend, the Oregon militiamen were still holding out in their lawless corner of the wilderness, and they’ve released new demands.
Apparently, all that begging for snacks and cold-weather socks on Facebook was little more than freeloading (notice a pattern?). Because as the Oregon State Police told Talking Points Memo, the armed, angry men who barricaded themselves in a nature trail lobby are “allowed to come and go as they want.”
Things the Oregon Militia idiots still need: socks, snacks, energy drinks, “gear.”
On Wednesday, the Washington Post reports, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) delivered vegan jerky—made of soy, seitan, and shiitake mushrooms—to the Bundy gang. Also on Wednesday, Paiute tribal chairwoman Charlotte Rodrique said that the milita was encroaching on land sacred to the Paiute people.
It’s unclear to what extent anti-government gunmen, currently occupying a federal building in Oregon are willing to go to make their very dumb point. But for now, one of the patriots is taking shelter underneath this blue tarp.
In a revelation that should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, an anti-Islamic activist was discovered among the ranks of the militiamen illegally holding down the fort with his pals at a wildlife refuge in Oregon.
The pair of ranchers whose arson cases sparked the Oregon militiamen’s standoff at a wildlife refuge turned themselves in on Monday and are currently in police custody.
Nine months ago, Ted Cruz was railing in support of the Second Amendment as the “the ultimate check against governmental tyranny—for the protection of liberty.” Now, as a group of armed men occupies a federal building in Oregon, Cruz says no one should use force to protest the government. What gives, Ted?
With the domestic terrorism situation that’s currently under way in Oregon being almost entirely ignored by local and federal law enforcement, the people have taken to the social media airwaves to call a spade a spade.
A group of militiamen who have taken over a national wildlife refuge in Oregon have been joined by the notable Bundy family, a group of anti-government ranchers headed by a racist patriarch.
