Call for supplies as Oregon standoff enters second week

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Call for supplies as Oregon standoff enters second week

Rick Bowmer, Associated Press

Updated 6:01 pm, Sunday, January 10, 2016

BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The occupation of national wildlife area by a small, armed group upset over federal land policies stretched into its second week as the mother of the group's leader asked supporters to send supplies - everything from warm blankets to coffee creamer.

The group that seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon's high desert country on Jan. 2 planned no media briefings. It was quiet at the entrance to the refuge Sunday.

The leader of the occupation, Ammon Bundy, has repeatedly rejected calls to leave buildings at the refuge despite pleas from the county sheriff, from many local residents and from Oregon's governor, among others. He has said the group will leave when there is a plan to transfer control of federal land to locals.

. . .

On Saturday, Ammon Bundy's mother, Carol Bundy, sent an email to supporters asking them to send her son's group supplies from a list of more than 80 items, including sleeping bags, wool socks, cigarettes, toiletries, food, coffee and "French Vanilla Creamer."



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/science/article/Call-for-supplies-as-Oregon-standoff-enters-6749383.php

[Cary]

1. Squirrel flavored Funyions

[longship]

2. It's a bird sanctuary. We all know what snacks to send them.

And it fits perfectly to their agenda, such as it is.

If you are holding a bird sanctuary hostage, there is only one snack to send.

[christx30]

19. I don't want to hear a peep out of them.

Sorry. it was there. I had to use it.

[passiveporcupine]

69. the rainbow colors make it even better

[RKP5637]

3. They also need their psychiatric meds too!!! n/t

[underpants]

4. (cue Ken Burns) My Dearest Rose. Life is hard out on the range. We're out of French Vanilla creamer.

Several of the crew forgot their bed rolls and a lack of toiletries have spirits running low. But my love for you will keep me going. If you run into Doc Barker ask him what he suggests for a guy who's just spent a few days in Kansas City, he'll know what that means.

[saltpoint]

21. This is one of the best comments I've

read on the interwebs in months.

Bravo, underpants.

[underpants]

22. Thanks

I had to keep cutting down the subject line. Too many characters.

[myrna minx]

24. Hilarious! That's what popped into my head too - The Ken Burns style sad fiddle w/narration.

[underpants]

31. +

[Marie Marie]

30. Shouldn't that be: Freedom Vanilla creamer?

[waddirum]

34. Great minds

[FailureToCommunicate]

37. Big plus one to your most devilish post!

[Chemisse]

62. Awesome! n/t

[passiveporcupine]

70. I wonder if Mom's list includes Prep H and KY jelly.

[underpants]

78. It is funny that one of these "tough guy"'s mother sent the request

[Pharaoh]

5. Now why the fuck

would they let any supplies in through the post office or any other means? That just makes no sense whatsoever!

[99th_Monkey]

11. PRECISELY!! It's like the 'authorities' WANT this craziness to drag on and on.

they're doing nothing to end it. Nothing. It's patently irresponsible.

[homegirl]

25. Exactly!

Why let any supplies through to these scofflaws. I hope the authorities have turned off all utilities.

[brewens]

35. What are the odds that the feds don't have them infiltrated already? That could be one reason

for playing it the way they are. They probably knew all about it before they ever went out there.

[Marty McGraw]

39. I'm kinda' wondering

If the Reverse could be true. so much corrupt placements in both private & public positions.

[Chemisse]

64. They certainly seem to be big buds with the sheriff. n/t

[Cosmocat]

57. That is my thought, too

I don't get how the gun wielding idiots got in.

I know it is a tough spot, and it will be bloody hell if a WACO situation occurs, but at the very least they gotta have that place buttoned up, no one in and one on out.

These moron's stupidity and half arsedness can be what gets this resolved.

Freeze/starve them out.

[passiveporcupine]

71. And where did they find the bunch of keys that opened all the doors

just laying around on the sidewalk?

[Chemisse]

63. That's what I've been wondering!!

The quickest way to end this standoff is to cut off their supplies. It's pretty elementary.

Ohh, but they're just good ole boys protecting the ranch, and we don't want them going without their snacks.

[Plucketeer]

6. I wish I could make up a care package for them

Baby rattles, jars of Gerbers, toy guns, sun screen, you get the idea.

[7962]

8. Big box of roaches

[Downwinder]

16. Don't forget the bread bags.

[DBoon]

23. Some blotter acid

lots of LSD...

[3catwoman3]

33. Maybe some...

...pacifiers?

[davidpdx]

54. I was thinking send them sandwiches that had been sitting out for four or five days

Food poisoning is painful as hell.

[NCjack]

7. Dried prunes and guava are good snacks. /nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Restrooms could be a great source of all-natural nutrition.

They should give it shot before they come begging to outsiders.

[left-of-center2012]

61. Uh .....

Hmm ?
Say what?

[99th_Monkey]

10. Oh? They NEED more supplies? Why aren't the FBI and the Sheriff at-the-ready with those?

Those responsible for ending this daily worsening situation have done absolutely nothing to cut off these armed lunatics access to ever more supplies being brought in by whoever whenever; so they may as well just take these armed insurrectionists the supplies themselves.

[Chemisse]

65. They're probably all chipping in for chips and soda. n/t

[jimlup]

12. If the authorities allow a god damn thing in I'm mad as hell

this is infuriating. These idiots should have been isolated from the first hour. God damn it!

[Pharaoh]

29. If they were black

they would certainly be dead by now

[Judi Lynn]

49. Sure, they would. Unbelievable. I have no doubt you're right. n/t

[Chemisse]

66. Very likely. And at the very least,

the supplies would be cut off and the utilities shut off.

But no, we taxpayers are actually paying for their heat and electric!

[JoePhilly]

13. Send Snowballs ...

And yes, these do look ... ummm ... inappropriate.

[passiveporcupine]

72. Put two pink gum drops on top and you've got boobies!

[JoePhilly]

73. Or, add one twinky!!

Awe hell, send both versions!!

[63splitwindow]

14. All such pathetic losers.

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[Warpy]

15. Them boys is runnin outta CIGARETTES and CHEW!

All the Feds need to do is block those two things from getting in and half of them will slink out of there in a week.

[Chemisse]

67. They'd be out in a day!! No joke!

Why in the F we are letting supplies get through, I have no idea.

[Warpy]

77. Oh, please, they're intrepid survivalists!

They'd smoke everything down to the filters and then chew the filters to get all the goo out of them.

[myrna minx]

17. Why don't they just saunter down to Walgreen's or the local grocery store? Aren't these the same

stolen valor "rugged patriots" who come and go as they please from the tax payer heated/illuminated buildings, stay in motels, drink themselves silly from "contributions", and dine in local high end restaurants?

What a dope show and the folks who would give money to these entitled grifters are like the fools who would give money to the Palin Side Show. How these fools are allowed - after all this time - to come and go and pretend to be in some sort of Alamo fantasy camp, is beyond me - AND to go begging/whining for supplies.

"Day 2 of the siege and we are still without the Keurag Pods. Martha, please word - we need french vanilla creamers. I fear, without provisions from the USPS, we cannot survive another afternoon..."

[underpants]

27. Alamo fantasy camp

I'm using that one.

[uppityperson]

18. Apran 4"

[saltpoint]

20. Some of these guys have kids. Who

will be sitting in school classrooms all this week wondering what's going to happen to their fathers.

Some of those kids will be old enough and perceptive enough to ask themselves why their father's interest in mounting an armed insurrection of federal land is more important than spending time with their daughters and sons.

[onecaliberal]

26. Why are they mooching off people? Bootstraps time. Eat dirt fer crying out loud!

[Ford_Prefect]

28. If Ammon had enough to buy a new 5,000 sq ft house in June 2015 why is he crying poor now?

Or is that more snake oil? The level of cognitive dissonance grows by the hour as does the depth of the manure.

Ammon Bundy owns house in Emmett

Jan 6, 2016

EMMETT — One of the leaders of the occupation of a federal building in Burns, Oregon, has ties to Emmett.

Ammon and Lisa Bundy have a residence in Emmett, according to the Emmett Messenger-Index. The house on South Slope Road is 5,102 square feet on 4.89 acres. It has an apple orchard and was built in 2005. They purchased it June 2015, Gem County Assessor Rick Johnston told the Messenger-Index.

http://www.idahopress.com/members/ammon-bundy-owns-house-in-emmett/article_e85ecca1-d9f2-5e64-9283-1cc5532f4442.html

[Marty McGraw]

40. Especially when more then likely

He owes $530,000 for a past SBA Loan (probably why he is out here in the first place)

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/ammon-bundy-oregon-protest-sba-loan

[Ford_Prefect]

44. That's my point. I don't think they are there to do what they claim.

Aside from living in an altered state wherein it is common comment to warn people that you will shoot them if you think they threaten you...
More and more I get the impression they are up to something else, possibly with direction or help from 3rd parties that are using this sideshow as they have others like it to drive the fear and gun agenda. I don't see it working the way the Bundy brigade say it will, nor does anyone with any sense.

One reason for the FBI to hold back would be to find the connections I have alluded to above. Possible but not likely? I'm sure the attempt to avoid violence is real on the part of all concerned. However unless Bundy was prepared to go to jail prior to it this action makes no sense to do. Leaving aside the apparent mental dysfunction and disregard for law enforcement for the sake of argument what else can they expect to achieve?

I have met some of these guys, though not this batch, in south western Montana. They really do seem to live in their heads about the law. In their minds the law does not work therefore it can be disregarded as if it only applied to other lesser beings. I have also seen up close the pseudo cowboys with their empowering macho weapons cult. They never go anywhere without being armed: grocery store, laundromat, church (I strongly suspect), Junior High football games. They most resemble the mob guys I recall from Philadelphia: in a world of their own controlled by their own rules...and a don't-piss-me-off-it's-not-healthy attitude.

[Marty McGraw]

45. Makes me wonder

as well if their wives have put in for big life insurance policies on their dumbnut other half before the start of all this.

[Ford_Prefect]

46. Doubtful. I don't get the feeling this bunch was doing that kind of planning.

However I am no expert that I could profile what they may think or do.

I'm just getting the feeling that there is some kind of more and less to what is going on out there. It is very difficult to decide just where the boundaries of reality lie in this setting. After all it seemed that there would be some kind of arrests and the like after the Bundy Ranch situation. You'd think there would at least be action by federal marshals for drawn weapons aimed at BLM officers, not to mention warrants to impound the Bundy cattle and personal property in lieu of fees owed. If a landlord in my town can do it certainly the Feds can.

But the "Bundy brigade" has been active during the last year in other locations. We've been told by the MSM that they don't have a plan just a kind of murky self-defined anti-federal manifesto. I wonder just how much they may be coordinated by some less visible 3rd party with other agendas. The Koch brothers come to mind.

I also wonder just how far the Feds and FBI have decided to hold back on the Bundy gang and what their agenda is, if they have one that is. They truly seemed surprised by the Pacific Patriots Network showing up at the airport in Burns, which points to a very weak sense of whats going on, or else misdirection from within.

I do not want to see this become Ruby Ridge II, or anything like it. I can't help thinking there is more going on though, that this is being staged for the press somehow, especially after Republican state lawmakers met with Bundy seemingly validating the takeover.

[FreedomRain]

50. would not work out

Most LI policies probably have a disclaimer about dying while in commission of a felony

[lordsummerisle]

32. What happened to the plan

to cut off utilities to the site?

[passiveporcupine]

74. I thought they were going to do that days ago

This is all really very disturbing.

[libodem]

36. Oh, nice now material support of terrorists

Isn't a crime.

[Chemisse]

68. Good point! Those sending in supplies should be charged with being accessories.

Maybe the feds are just sitting there collecting names, compiling a list of the militia folk for later prosecution. I doubt it though.

[Rex]

38. No doubt by now the militia men need a diaper change.

Send huggies so their little asses don't get chapped! Maybe some pacifiers too.

[msongs]

41. how odd..it's federal controlled property yet the fed-in-chief has no comment or action to reveal n

[kentauros]

42. The need some Hot Pockets

[Mike__M]

43. Illustration from the next Republican-majority-school board approved history book?

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[milestogo]

47. Sleeping bags?

Who forgot to pack the sleeping bags? Shouldn't that be at the top of the list when you're planning a hostile takeover?

[trillion]

48. I think its cute how they're starving themselves out.

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[saltpoint]

51. Efforts should be made post haste

to send some David Bowie recordings out to the "militia."

There's a chance that they forgot to pack any of his CDs, and it would be a shame if they didn't have some Bowie going, 24-7.

[Paper Roses]

52. Send them this stuff, it will clear them out in a hurry.

http://www.vice.com/read/sugarless-gummy-bears-are-not-safe-for-humans

[left-of-center2012]

53. "French Vanilla Creamer"

Only the best for these "patriots".

[Locrian]

55. I've heard of "latte liberals"

are these the "French Vanilla Patriots"?

[csziggy]

58. Would they accept Pumpkin Spice creamer? Those are on clearance

Now that the holidays are over with.

[NastyRiffraff]

75. That stuff is disgusting.

But it certainly fits here. These big bad men demanding French Vanilla creamer. Figures.

[Geronimoe]

56. It wouldn't be surprising

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if FBI, does an airdrop of supplies, generator, and fuel. We don't want these ranchers to become uncomfortable or inconvenienced.

The siege could be ended with a sound canon (LRAD) device.

[L. Coyote]

59. CROW & COYOTE discuss the BurnsPaiute / BundyBoy affair

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POLITICAL SATIRE and laughter are, for me, a way of dissipating all the bad energy generated -- the bad karma / confused thinking / 2nd-rate commercial reporting -- when we can't avoid all the tragic-comic insanity of the world, and the near-manic, non-stop news reporting on all the insanity of the world, a d i n f i n i t u m . . .

When the root of a problem is VIOLENCE, and the near universal ignorance of the destructive, divisive nature of thought which is its cause, and we are flooded with sounds and images stuck in yet another tight ball of the, well, Devil's Rope of the culture of force, we must take great care to get back up to the clearer, higher ground of real dialogue and serious, sustained, peaceful reflection.

"It's Nature's way....I tell you!" says CROW.

[MariaThinks]

60. these do it yourselfers are pretty lame and stupid.

they are weaklings

[yellowcanine]

76. coffee creamer? Real militia types would drink their coffee black.

[louis-t]

79. Takers, they are. How long will they live off of donations?

Cigarettes? Their supporters are buying them cigarettes? Send a case of Jack Daniels while yer at it.