From the diaries. Susan
Federal authorities have now made the decision to cut off power to the wildlife refuge center near Burns, Ore., occupied by the self-styled “militia” yahoos. According to a story in the Guardian, an unnamed federal official said authorities are planning to shut off the electricity to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon occupied by the Bundy bunch and their heavily armed cohorts.
About damn time.
“It’s in the middle of nowhere,” said the official, who is based in Washington, DC, and has knowledge of the planned response to the militia. “And it’s flat-ass cold up there.”
The Bundy bunch, roughly a dozen out-of-state, anti-government “militia” types, joined a protest in favor of two ranchers now serving a five-year sentence for arson, Dwight and Steven Hammond, but went further than the local protest when they took over the closed facility. And they’re about to get colder and lonelier.
“After they shut off the power, they’ll kill the phone service,” the government official added. “Then they’ll block all the roads so that all those guys have a long, lonely winter to think about what they’ve done.”
So sad. Leader Ammon Bundy (he who received $530,000 of federal stimulus package money for his business) won’t be able to talk to the media to get his traitorous message out. No more talking to Megyn Kelly or CNN.
The Guardian got a “tour” of the facility on Monday and reported the dearth of supplies.
It included a cardboard box of apples and oranges, a few dozen pots of instant ramen, 24 cans of chicken noodle soup, a similar number of cans of sweetcorn, peas, beans and chili, and 20 boxes of macaroni and cheese. There were also three sacks of potatoes, one bag of flour, another of rolled oats, boxes of raisins, a single bag of pretzels, and one granola bar.
No wonder the Bundy bunch are asking people to send them socks and snacks. One granola bar? That’s IT? Where’s the beer? Where are the Ho-Ho’s and the Ding-Dongs?
Oh, that’s right — they ARE ding dongs.
I don’t know why the feds took so long to take these actions. I think they should have done it on Saturday, when the yahoos first moved in. Let ‘em starve and freeze — when they see they’re not getting any publicity, they’ll leave soon enough.
So the local sheriff is telling them to go home. The locals don’t want them. Even Cliven Bundy, the racist deadbeat Nevada rancher who refuses to pay a backlog of $1.2 million in grazing fees, has distanced himself from the actions of the Bundy bunch, which includes sons Ammon, Ryan, and Mel.
He said that he was aware of the planned weekend protest in rural Oregon but did not know that the militia planned to splinter away from a peaceful demonstration and forcefully take over the facility. When asked if he would have condoned the takeover, he laughed. “I would have questioned them,” he said of his three sons, who are all at the standoff. “What are you doing, taking over property?”
Guess the Bundy bunch can’t give “tours” of their posh quarters anymore, if the roads are blocked. Sleep tight, boys.