Heard just now on CBS radio network news (5PM Pacific time): Ammon Bundy released a statement from jail encouraging the remaining people at the bird sanctuary to “go home peacefully and be with their families.”
I’m inclined to think this will help bring this to a peaceful end.
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Update 2015 January 27 at 6:01PM Pacific time:
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/occupiers_begin_to_trickle_out.html
BURNS -- The ragtag remnants of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge started to give up their ground Wednesday after calls from supporters, Congress members and even their arrested leader to abandon the 26-day takeover. …