Posted on 02/01/2016 5:52:44 PM PST by Nextrush
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy said Monday that the occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge would continue.
In a notarized letter from Clark County, Nevada, Bundy wrote to Harney County Sheriff David Ward that "We the people of Harney County and also we the People of the citizens of United States DO GIVE NOTICE THAT WE WILL RETAIN POSSESSION OF THE HARNEY COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER (Malheur (sic) National Wildlife Refuge)."
The letter was also sent by certified mail to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and President Barack Obama.
"Remove all federal and state policing agents out of Harney County," Bundy wrote. "Place a Harney County sheriff guard post at the entrance road of the Harney County Resource Center stopping all from entering or exiting, for a time."
The attorney for Cliven's son, Ammon Bundy, wouldn't comment on the letter.
But in the last week, Ammon Bundy and his counsel have repeatedly called for an end to the occupation.
"I have asked those people at the refuge to go home," Bundy told a federal judge in court Friday. "This was never about an armed standoff."
A person reached at Cliven Bundy's ranch Monday confirmed the authenticity of the letter but said the elder Bundy was taking calls from "fellow patriots"....
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Flight risk? They were going to meet with a sheriff.
18 U.S.C. § 372 Conspiracy to Impede Officers of the United States from discharging their official duties through the use of force, intimidation, or threats
The penalty is “fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.” In 2002, fined “not more than $5,000” was changed to “fined under this title”.
> They weren’t going to just let him walk out and go home.
Understood. It’s not like he’s Al Capone though.
No. But I'm sure that part of this is FBI and Federal Government payback for what happened at the ranch in Nevada. They'll throw every charge they can at them this time.
Flight risk as in if they let them out on bail then the Bundy boys will never turn up for the trial. They'll hole up somewhere and the government will have to dig even harder to get them out. That "flight risk".
See link in my #10:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3391612/posts?page=10#10
Another Gadsden flag was put up in a town nearby.
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