The outcome options now become more crucial and limited for the dead-ender four now armed with snacks, personal lube, and 20 firearms, as regional authorities prepare for potential armed threats that could come via fellow traveler militias from the original takeover of the Malhuer Wildlife Refuge including but not limited to the Pacific Patriot Network, the III% (3%), and the Oath Keepers.
All are accused of using intimidation to prevent federal officers from doing their work at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
The armed holdouts have said they wouldn't leave until receiving assurances they wouldn't be charged.
The indictment says two conspirators traveled to the area in October to warn the local sheriff of "extreme civil unrest" if certain demands weren't met.
The documents say that once the occupation began on Jan. 2, the group brandished firearms to keep officials from carrying out their duties.
Meanwhile, the government has beefed up security at the national wildlife refuge as the standoff has created tensions in the region and shows no sign of ending soon…
Preserves and other sites run by the Fish and Wildlife Service nationwide are being extra vigilant, said Gavin Shire, the agency's chief of public affairs.
"Due to the evolving situation in eastern Oregon, all service stations are on alert and being advised to take appropriate caution," Shire said in a statement.
Unlike a progressive Cascadian independence movement, the RW sovereign citizens and secessionist end-times militias could be trying to use a theocratic land-privatizing Bundyism as a Lexington-Concord or Alamo reenactment pretext for the formation of the secessionist state of Jefferson.