Oregon Militiamen Have Trouble Finding Place To Hold Their Community Meeting

Ammon Bundy, center, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, walks off after speaking with reporters during a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, near Burns,... Ammon Bundy, center, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, walks off after speaking with reporters during a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, near Burns, Ore. Bundy, who was involved in a 2014 standoff with the government over grazing rights told reporters on Monday that two local ranchers who face long prison sentences for setting fire to land have been treated unfairly. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) MORE LESS
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County officials will not allow Oregon’s “Constitutional” crusaders to address the community from a county facility, the Oregonian is reporting.

Ammon Bundy–the militiamen’s leader–had announced earlier this week that he would unveil an exit strategy Friday evening to the people of Harney County at a meeting hosted by the sympathetic Harney County Committee of Safety. But the meeting space the group was banking on will not be available for the militiamen.

In a statement, Harney County commissioner Steven Grasty told the Oregonian that the county might have a “longstanding practice of allowing community groups to use county facilities,” but “we unfortunately now find ourselves in a place where the county must deny those facilities to any group that is supportive of, associated with, or on the behalf of the militants at the refuge.”

Bundy and the self-styled Harney County Committee of Safety, comprised of locals who are sympathetic to the militia at the refuge, still plan to hold the meeting, but the location is still to be determined.

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  1. Arrest them, give them a trial and then lock them up for a couple of decades next to that Unabomber creep . . . .

  2. does this mean they’ll need to occupy another government facility in order to hold their community meeting? don’t forget the French Vanilla Creamer… it goes well in tea too for the Mormonly inclined…

    1. Hold the meeting at the gov facility you are already occupying.
    2. Stage an armed takeover of the meeting hall. Who’s going to stop you?
  3. Great…another call for a resupply of Dildos is going to go out now.

  4. That’s what happens when you take over joints: people are hesitant to invite you in.

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