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flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 03:37 AM Jan 2016

Oregon standoff: Four holdouts say fight is "going to keep going"

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/oregon_standoff_four_holdouts_say_fight_is_going_to_keep_going.html

--- Wuz wondrin' what happened to the crew, Sandy is pregnant? See comments.

The holdouts repeated their demands for pardons in several videos posted online on Saturday, the 29th day the federal building has been occupied. One clip responded to calls from Ammon Bundy, who lead the occupation until he was arrested on Tuesday, to be vacate the refuge. Instead, one holdout declared on the video that their fight is "a fight that is going to keep going."

"When are Americans going to learn to take a stand and then fight the system that is corrupt, instead of throwing yourselves into that mess and trying to put your fate into what you are fighting against?" asks the video's narrator, who appears to be David Fry, 27, of Blanchester, Ohio.

The others encamped are Sean Anderson, 47, and his wife, Sandy Anderson, 48, of Idaho, and Jeff Banta, 46, of Elko, Nevada.

Authorities have blocked public access to the refuge Wednesday. On Saturday afternoon, at least three convoys of SUVs emerged from behind one set of road blocks, signaling the heavy law enforcement presence on the site.

The occupiers appeared to spend the afternoon gathered at a makeshift camp site around a fire. The Andersons wore camouflage, Banta sipped a Coors Light and Fry captured the scene on video.
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Oregon standoff: Four holdouts say fight is "going to keep going" (Original Post) flamingdem Jan 2016 OP
Until the snacks run out. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #1
Or the pot flamingdem Jan 2016 #2
Send them Twinkies, and more dildos. longship Jan 2016 #3
I watched some of the 2naSalit Jan 2016 #4
"poster children for mandatory public education funding" ha! wordpix Jan 2016 #5
I base this assumption 2naSalit Jan 2016 #8
FatFuck aka Sean was a union electrician. geomon666 Jan 2016 #7
The rest probably 2naSalit Jan 2016 #10
I think it's supposed to be The Exodus (capitalized) in keeping with their divine nature. randome Jan 2016 #11
Oh geeze, I forgot 2naSalit Jan 2016 #12
It reached a high point of farce when Jon Ritzheimer joined up. randome Jan 2016 #6
A true interweb warrior. nt 2naSalit Jan 2016 #9
They will run out of beer soon Egnever Jan 2016 #13

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
2. Or the pot
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 04:00 AM
Jan 2016

According to some commentators yesterday they were high as kites. Explains rhe snack prioriity!

2naSalit

(86,536 posts)
4. I watched some of the
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:56 AM
Jan 2016

videos... looks like the couple from Idaho see cammo as a fashion statement more than anything and that they are too stupid to know anything else. Probable professional welfare/pubic assistance recipients.

I also suspect that they are so indoctrinated with bullsh*t that the other two are taking advantage of them and using them to drag this out... they are not walking out without charges and they are willing to get these two half-wits to sacrifice themselves for "the cause" which at this moment is making a media shitstorm to mark their passing after the shootout.

The FBI are probably rolling their eyes every time they have to engage in what might pass for negotiations with these poster children for mandatory public education funding.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
5. "poster children for mandatory public education funding" ha!
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 10:04 AM
Jan 2016
I have said many times, the country is a mess b/c a hs diploma means nothing. You don't need to think critically or have evidence to back up your statements/opinion to get a diploma. I have taught in several high schools as a classroom teacher and tutor, so I know.

DC Public Schools doesn't even have an anti-truancy program, while truancy is one of the biggest issues in those schools.

2naSalit

(86,536 posts)
8. I base this assumption
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 10:12 AM
Jan 2016

on my experience in public schools before thing got really bad in the 1970s. My elementary education, which spanned 14 different public schools in the first 9 years prepared me for practically waltzing into academia as a 9th grade dropout and 9 more years later earned a graduate degree. Had I not been taught well in my early years, I would not have made it into, let alone through academia.

I have been truly horrified watching the decline of the public education system that has been ruined by the same forces that are now attempting to destroy democracy, doing away with education was one of the early steps to get to where we are now, sadly.

geomon666

(7,512 posts)
7. FatFuck aka Sean was a union electrician.
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 10:12 AM
Jan 2016

Before alcohol and his own stupidity cost him his job and his wife. He's a pathetic toad of a human.

2naSalit

(86,536 posts)
10. The rest probably
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 10:20 AM
Jan 2016

left them there on purpose during the exodus because they are so worthless. It might even be why they weren't staying inside the buildings on site... they may have been too weird even for the miscreant terrorists. They don't sound too bright, might have been more than just drink that lost him his job and status, if he actually ever had any.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
11. I think it's supposed to be The Exodus (capitalized) in keeping with their divine nature.
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 10:24 AM
Jan 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.
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randome

(34,845 posts)
6. It reached a high point of farce when Jon Ritzheimer joined up.
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 10:11 AM
Jan 2016

That guy is all mouth and nothing else.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.
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