Ammon Bundy–the man leading a takeover of a federal wildlife refuge–attended a community meeting Tuesday night where residents begged him to get out of town.
Hundreds turned out for the meeting, with many saying that Bundy and his dozens of militiamen accomplices had made their point and it was time for them to head home, according to the Associated Press.
“Ammon, you need to go home to your family; thank you,” one local woman Jennifer Williams said, according to the Associated Press. “I’ve heard so many things I didn’t know before. Now I’m aware.”
The meeting was contentious, but civil. Harney County Sheriff David Ward told community members that authorities were doing their part as he listed off arrests made so far, including arrests against a militiaman who drove a refuge vehicle into town and another who was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
While Bundy has said his team would head home if it became clear they were unwelcome in the community, Bundy showed no signs of packing up Tuesday.
The militiamen occupied the refuge on Jan. 2, ostensibly to show support for local ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, who are now serving a federal prison sentence for arson on federal lands.
Calling my shot: This ends when one of the insurgents gets seriously hurt and needs medical help. The response to the help will determine the outcome of this standoff.
doing their best to win the ‘Hearts and Minds’ of the locals… a well thought out ‘military strategy’… too bad the tactics suck…
so, basically the local residents are left to deal with this bullshit on their own, since the feds are too cowardly/lazy to enforce the fucking law. want to bet there are stories to come about agents partying at nearby casinos/resorts … all at government expense, of course.
“I’ve heard so many things I didn’t know before. Now I’m aware.”
Translation: I’m as eye-buggingly gullible as you are, but I just want you out of here because it’s disrupting my life.
Or she was gaming his ass to persuade. Not everyone is an idiot.