Sipsey Street Irregulars: Occupiers evince a belated preference for public relations and de-escalation.

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Occupiers evince a belated preference for public relations and de-escalation.

"More armed men visit site of Oregon wildlife refuge standoff."

A group of armed men from around the Pacific Northwest who arrived at a wildlife refuge on Saturday morning left several hours later after people leading an occupation of the refuge told them they weren't needed.

Todd MacFarlane, a Utah lawyer acting as a mediator, said occupation leader Ammon Bundy and others were concerned about the perception the armed visitors conveyed. "This was the last thing in the world they wanted to see happen," MacFarlane told The Oregonian.

Bundy didn't request the presence of the Pacific Patriot Network, he said, and has "tried to put out the word: 'We don't need you.'" The network, a consortium of groups from Oregon, Washington and Idaho, arrived at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge midmorning in a convoy of about 18 vehicles, carrying rifles and handguns and dressed in military attire and bulletproof vests.

Some of the men told journalists they were there to help with security for the group that has occupied the headquarters of the refuge since Jan. 2. Their leader, Brandon Curtiss, said the group came to "de-escalate" the situation by providing security for those inside and outside the compound.

One of the original occupiers of the refuge, LaVoy Finicum, said earlier on Saturday that the network's help is appreciated, but "we want the long guns put away."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: I'd like to know why anyone from the EPA wasn't charged with terrorism and whatever other BS charges prosecutors like to throw against the wall when they poisoned and polluted an entire river system? Funny how these rules only apply to us mundanes.; January 9, 2016 at 11:31 PM
Anonymous said...: And, look it up on youtube. I'm going to paraphrase here. When a reporter asked Bundy if he felt more comfortable with the new "perimeter" established, he said yes.
The reporter then asked if he thought it would help prevent a "Waco" style event, Bundy smiled a bit and said yes.

Way too many mixed messages here, and as it is said, "making it up as they go" seems to apply.; January 10, 2016 at 6:29 AM
Anonymous said...: I want to know not only why no one in EPA was charge but why the 'environmental activists' have given a 100% complete pass to the EPA over handling the toxic water discharge up in Colorado. Had this been an "evil" corporation, the eco-terrorists would have been all over it.; January 10, 2016 at 9:44 AM
Millwright said...: A lot of things are happening in Harney CT,Y OR but here's some intel from people I trust.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/10/another-unbelievable-update-why-does-harney-county-sheriff-david-ward-want-hammond-family-story-hidden/#more-110824

Seems the sheriff has more irons in this fire than he will admit to ! And he is in the "nexus" to defuse the looming confrontation, so why isn't he acting to resolve it without conflict ? As the "pivot point" why isn't Sheriff Ward being moe pro-active in its resolution ?; January 11, 2016 at 1:41 AM
Anonymous said...: Interestingly, a BLM range specialist named Dave Ward assisted in prosecution of the Hammonds after helping them develop a burn plan to present to the BLM. He testified in 2012 that they went ahead with the plan without telling him or others. There is now a SHERIFF Dave Ward handling negotiations there.; January 11, 2016 at 10:18 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Occupiers evince a belated preference for public relations and de-escalation.

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