Bundy Group In Oregon Indicted On Federal Charges

Sixteen people, including four who are still at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, have been indicted by a federal grand jury. They have all been charged with felony conspiracy. The charge is for using intimidation to prevent federal officers from doing their work at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, threatening violence against federal authorities, and using social media to urge others to join them. The federal charge carries a maximum sentence of six years in prison

Named defendants include standoff leader Ammon Bundy , and Kenneth Medenbach, who was arrested after being caught driving a government vehicle to a supermarket. The four remaining domestic terrorists are: David Fry, 27, of Blanchester, Ohio; Jeff Banta, 46, of Elko, Nevada; and Sean Anderson, 48, and Sandy Anderson, 47, from Riggins, Idaho. Sean and Sandy Anderson are a married couple.

The standoff began Jan. 2, 2016, with the group demanding the federal government turn public lands over to local control and free two ranchers imprisoned for setting fires.

Federal documents allege that once the occupation began, the group brandished firearms to keep officials from carrying out their duties, threatened violence and intimidated locals “to effectuate the goals of the conspiracy.”

Strained tensions in the Burn, Oregon community increased with the death of Robert “LaVoy” Finicum on January 26, 2016. His death led to protests this week by those supporting the trespassers, while local residents rallied to urge the 4 holdouts to leave.

Please watch the following video for a bit of history into the Bundy Ranch and their Sovereign Citizen beliefs.

 

Insurrection in Oregon

Thanks for the history and being candid. I totally agree that this is a dangerous group, and they are playing to other hate-groups that have, since 2008, wanted a civil war in this country to destroy the federal government.

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Ammon Bundy (Photo the Oregonian) 

Friends of Padre Steve’s World,

It is seldom now that I get this spun up, but I have had it with violent conspiracy theorists using the cover of patriotism to mount an insurrection. Let’s be honest and call what is happening in Oregon what it is. It is armed insurrection and terrorism being perpetrated by extreme right wing, pseudo-Christian, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis. The list of extreme supporters has exploded on the Internet today, and frankly if you actually bother to read something about them even their own materials, they are a violent and dangerous bunch.

Led by Cliven Bundy’s sons Ammon, and Ryan Bundy, and former Army sergeant Ryan Payne who threatened to kill Federal agents during the standoff at the Bundy Ranch in 2014, these people are a threat, not just to society in general, but to the causes that they purport to…

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