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Sat Jan 30, 2016, 07:00 PM Jan 2016

How A Digital Friendship Created An Unlikely Holdout

by John Sepulvado OPB | Jan. 30, 2016 1:36 p.m. | Updated: Jan. 30, 2016 2:47 p.m. | Burns, Oregon

... “I want to say goodbye to LaVoy, but then I have to go home,” Fry told OPB the afternoon of Jan. 14. “I think I make some of the guys nervous here because of the bad things people are saying about me.”

Those “bad things” included criticism that Fry supported the radical terrorist group ISIS and had repeatedly praised Adolph Hitler in long, anti-Semitic rants ...

“He’s had his problems, some of which he’s brought on himself,” his paternal grandfather, William Fry, told OPB. “He gets pulled over for busted taillights, and instead of just rolling down his window and handing over his insurance, he screams at the officer, ‘What the <expletive> do you want?’ And right there, a regular thing turns into him in handcuffs” ...

“Dear America, here’s a letter I received from Pioneer Collections Agency telling me they want some money because I refused to pay some criminal court fines for smoking marijuana on a river and not wearing a life jacket,” Fry said in a YouTube video, where he shows himself burning the collections letter ...


http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/david-fry-lavoy-finicum-malheur-refuge-occupatin-oregon/

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