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Jury hears from the accidental occupier - #BundyTeaParty
Jeremy P. Jacobs, E&E reporter
Greenwire: Thursday, September 15, 2016
PORTLAND, Ore. — ... Walter "Butch" Eaton told the jury that he ... marched in a peaceful protest in Burns ...
"Ryan Payne came up to me and said, 'Are you ready to go?'" Eaton said. (Payne has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.)
Eaton, a retired carpenter who is bald, with a long beard and glasses, hopped into a car with some of the activists, thinking they were heading to the courthouse as part of the protest parade ...
During a 30-mile drive, the others asked Eaton if he was armed. He wasn't, and they offered him a gun. There was an assault rifle on the seat next to him ...
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060042882
