Prosecutors Use Refuge Occupiers' Own Words Against Them

[phantom power]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Ammon Bundy and his followers made ample use of social media and videos to summon armed recruits to join their takeover of a wildlife refuge and to declare their readiness to stand their ground. Now federal authorities are using the occupiers’ own words against them.

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The criminal complaints detail some of the evidence against the occupiers.

A day after the takeover began, for example, a video posted on a website showed Bundy saying the group planned to stay for several years. He called on people to “come out here and stand,” adding: “We need you to bring your arms.”

A video posted Jan. 4 showed another defendant, Jon Ritzheimer, saying he was “100 percent willing to lay my life down.”

In a video posted a day later, Ritzheimer talked about Robert “LaVoy” Finicum and other occupiers taking up a “defensive posture” at the refuge against a feared FBI raid.

“Right now underneath the tarp right there — LaVoy Finicum is sitting underneath the tarp, and he’s not going to let them come through,” Ritzheimer said in the video.

That raid never came.

Finicum was killed Tuesday night in a confrontation with the FBI and Oregon State Police on a remote road. Bundy and four others were arrested during the encounter, and more followers were taken into custody by the next day.

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[lindysalsagal]

1. Sometimes you just can't save people from themselves.

The govt. took their time and tried to give them time to wake up and get rational, but for some, rational was never coming.

They did this to themselves.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Stupid is as stupid does. nt

[StrictlyRockers]

3. Darwin Award nominees.

That's what I see.