Since his death on January 26, 2016, Robert “LaVoy” Finicum –– the spokesman for the armed occupation that took place earlier this year at a wildlife refuge in Oregon –– has become a martyr to the antigovernment movement nationwide.
FBI agents on Thursday arrested without incident 14 antigovernment activists, including two more sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, for their roles in the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville, Nev., with federal agents.
A 61-year ex-Marine who has been co-chair of the Veterans for Trump campaign in New Hampshire is among three additional defendants named in a superseding indictment containing new criminal charges for their roles in an armed 2014 standoff with federal agents at the Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville, Nev.
Federal officials are speaking their mind almost two years after Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and 400 of his armed militia supporters confronted federal agents, causing them to release a herd of impounded cattle and hastily retreat.
The group calls for the United States to ban Muslim immigrants and believes that President Obama has changed the Pledge of Allegiance to accommodate Islam. It has sounded the alarm that “card carrying communists have infiltrated” America's halls of power, and even warned that undocumented immigrants are having babies to stay in the United States and undermine the ethnic character of America.
Amid comparisons to Ruby Ridge and Waco, anger is pervasive on the far right, but militia leaders are mostly calling for ‘cooler heads’ to prevail.
Armed occupiers remaining at an Oregon wildlife refuge, like their eight associates arrested yesterday, have rejected “ample opportunities to leave peacefully” or negotiate, a senior FBI official said today.
The federal government claims to have a plan to handle the antigovernment extremists who have occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
The first arrest related to the illegal occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge is an Oregon man with sovereign citizen-leanings and a lengthy, unsuccessful record of challenging the federal government and its agencies in the Pacific Northwest.
Bundy brothers’ invasion of wildlife refuge stirs a typically paranoid response among their fellow antigovernment extremists.
