From My Cold Dead Hands

Well, not exactly. It seems the four people sill at the Malheur refuge in Oregon are saying they'll come out when they get a guarantee they won't be arrested. As if any "guarantee" is ever bankable with the Feds, but, if they should get that, they will probably never sleep another night without an agent on their tails.

After a series of arrests and voluntary departures, the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was left in the hands of just four people Thursday night. The live-streams that had colorfully documented the earlier days of the nearly monthlong occupation petered out. As occupiers stopped answering calls from the outside, they apparently kept up negotiations over the terms of their departure. Talks with the FBI were continuing "around the clock," said Greg Bretzing, the special agent in charge in Portland.

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After spending two nights in a Portland jail, Ammon Bundy, through his lawyers, again urged the handful of holdouts at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to go home and pledged to continue to expose federal injustices through the court system. "Turn yourselves in and do not use physical force."

  Oregon Live

Yeah, I can just hear the offer: "Mr. Bundy, we'll take it into consideration and tell the prosecutor that you cooperated if you tell those others to go home." Those others are smart enough to know the FBI cannot be trusted, which is why they're still there. How they're going to be satisfied with any negotiated offer is anybody's guess.

Only a handful of occupiers remained at the bird sanctuary Thursday morning when the Pacific Patriot Network issued its call for support.

The group's members had helped persuade Patrick to leave the refuge, said Joseph Rice, a founding member from Grants Pass.

The FBI had assured them that Patrick would be given safe passage out of the area, Rice said Wednesday night.

He described the FBI taking Patrick into custody at a nearby checkpoint as a betrayal.

  Oregon Live

Your fault for believing them. You need to watch more documentaries.

On Thursday morning, BJ Soper, a founding member of the group from Redmond, echoed the sentiment on Facebook and called for a dramatic response.

"The events of the last few days in burns have culminated into a lot of massive frustration and anger," Soper wrote.

"The lies and mistrust used to arrest Jason Patrick last night were dirty and caused any trust left in the tank with the fbi to be lost," he said.

Soper called for thousands of people to converge on Burns peacefully to tell the FBI to leave.

"We need not hundreds, but thousands to come here," he wrote. "I am asking for any and all to come."

Soper told The Oregonian/OregonLive that his group is planning a Saturday protest.

So, the remaining holdouts at Malheur should have more info to weigh in the decision to surrender or not after tomorrow.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.