Ammon Bundy has pleaded with the remaining armed militiamen holed up at an Oregon wildlife refuge to go home now that he has been arrested and taken into custody.
But just to be safe, the Oregonian reported Thursday that U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman will not let Bundy or others out of custody until the standoff is over and the remaining militiamen have gone home. According to the FBI, there are four individuals still at the refuge.
According to the Oregonian, Beckerman believes that “the continued occupation only increases the defendants’ danger to public safety and risk of flight.”
So far 11 individuals face felony charges on “conspiracy to impede federal officers from their official duties through use of force, intimidation or threats.”
“until the standoff is over and the remaining militiamen have gone home.”
They are terrorist, we should be talking about large amount of years in jail, not going home.
They need to have long jail sentences plus big fines for the huge amount of money they wasted.
I kind believe what kind of deference they treat these right wing terrorists with. They should be going to Guantanamo not home!
They want to occupy governmentally owned buildings…let 'em occupy some jails.
I suspect with all the violent rhetoric coming out of the Refuge from the remaining unbalanced lunatics, there’ll be a few more arrests before this is over. I mean, the charges against the ones already held are threats of violence against federal officials.
Well, the threats from the last four or five bozos are, if anything, becoming even more extreme and unhinged. Not all of 'em are going to go home without a stop in the jail first, at minimum.
Why should they get bail at all? They’re clearly a flight risk as well as a danger to the public. Keep their sorry asses in jail.