Indicted Oregon Occupier Wants $666 Billion From Govt … Get It? 666!

Ammon Bundy speaks to reporters at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Ore., on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. Bundy is the leader of a small, armed group that has been occupying the remote refuge in Oregon sinc... Ammon Bundy speaks to reporters at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Ore., on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. Bundy is the leader of a small, armed group that has been occupying the remote refuge in Oregon since Jan. 2 to protest federal land policies. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler) MORE LESS
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Shawna Cox, a leader and one of the few women involved in the Oregon standoff at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, is demanding that the federal government pay her $666 billion.

In a lawsuit she filed in the U.S. District Court in Portland, she claims she was “maliciously prosecuted by State and Federal Bar Association members because they do not want to be held accountable for their subversive activities against the people of the United States of America,” according to the Oregonian.

Cox–who was actually in the vehicle with LaVoy Finicum the day he was shot and killed by Oregon State Police as law enforcement tried to arrest the standoff leaders – was indicted in January on a count of “conspiracy to impede federal officers from discharging their official duties through the use of force, intimidation or threats.”

She was released in January on the condition that she “not commit any offense in violation of federal, state or local law while on release while she is pending trial.”

In her complaint, Cox claims that because it was mid-winter, she and others who took over the government wildlife preserve, were not interfering “with any public employees working on the Malheur.”

“In fact we encouraged them to come to work as we wanted to discuss

the ownership problem with them and get as much information we could from them,” the complaint says. “If anything, it was their choice to not come to work, out of guilt. The evidence will show that maintenance individuals came to conduct routine maintenance on the Malheur while we were there, and we helped them conduct their maintenance duties. I never knowingly or intentionally broke any laws.”

Cox’s claim goes on to actually charge the government with wrongdoing.

“Evidence will show that federal employees were determined to secretly extend the boundaries of the Malheur. The individuals who we allegedly interfered with were directly involved in subversive activities to secretly extend the boundaries of the Malheur, and take taxpayers (ranchers) lives, liberties and properties,” the complaint says.

Cox says that she has “suffered damages from the works of the devil in excess of six hundred sixty six billion, six hundred sixty six million, six hundred sixty six thousand, six hundred sixty six dollars and sixty six cents.”

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