Legalectric

They’ll have 3 hots and a cot for a while, as they’re deemed a flight risk. DOH!

Here’s the redacted Complaint:

Bundy, et al Redacted Complaint

And in the news:

Ammon Bundy and other Oregon standoff leaders considered flight risk, denied release

Federal Criminal Complaint Lays Out Case Against Bundy Crew

Affidavit details case against Malheur refuge occupiers

Oregon standoff: Militants refuse to leave refuge even after Ammon …

Oregon Standoff Update: Ammon Bundy Arraigned As Harney County Sheriff Warns, ‘This Can’t Happen In America’

Above, those arrested in OR at the traffic stop, Ammon Bundy, 40; his brother Ryan Bundy, 43; Brian Cavalier, 44; Shawna Cox, 59; and Ryan Payne, 32, and in Burns, OR, Joseph Donald O’Shaughnessy, 45, and Peter Santilli, 50.  Turning himself in down in AZ was Jon Ritzheimer, below:

Well, Bundys didn’t go home, and by setting up a roadblock and arresting the leadership, that seems the best way to go, avoiding an “invasion” of the Refuge.  Robert LaVoy Finicum, who had said he was going to die there, did.  After the arrests, law enforcement has surrounded the Malheur National Wildlife Reserve.

From NBC News:

Oregon Arrests: Feds Intercepted Occupation Leaders As Part of Plan

The FBI and state police staked out a spot along the route to John Day to stop the caravan. At first, both vehicles complied with an order to pull over, but then the lead vehicle took off, the law enforcement official said.

It didn’t get very far, hitting a snow bank. Finicum, the official said, jumped out of that vehicle “brandishing a firearm.” He was shot and killed.

From the Oregonian, links where Mark McConnell who claims to have been there, had this to say about the arrests and shooting of Finicum:

Mark McConnell video on Facebook

Melvin Lee on Youtube (not an eyewitness)

And also from the Oregonian, a link to another witness, 18 year old Victoria Sharp, who was apparently not arrested, in this audio posted on Youtube:

He drove and we all got down on the floorboards and they just started firing at us, shooting at us a bunch of times,” she said, adding that Finicum reached the roadblock and his truck rammed into a snowbank.

With the car running, she said, Finicum “got out of the car and he had his hands in the air and he was like, ‘Just shoot me then, just shoot me.'”

“And they did,” she said. “They shot him dead.”

From OPB:

OPB page on Malheur Occupation

Here’s a live feed (goes off air regularly):

KEX Live video stream from inside Oregon Standoff (may be permanently offline now)

Try this one:

Watchman News Live Feed

Not much going on, talking on phones in background, hear someone walking around… supposedly they’re digging trenches preparing for feds or ?

And from Houston Eagle:

Mug shots released in Oregon occupation arrests

Too late to go home, Bundys.  Meanwhile, funny how Jon Ritzheimer happened to leave and went back home to Arizona just before the arrests.  He’s since been arrested too:

AZ militant arrested in Oregon protests – ABC15.com

Susan Hedman, head of EPA Region 5 has resigned.  I remember how thrilled I was to see that Susan Hedman, formerly of ELPC in Chicago, was appointed to head EPA Region 5.  I’d dealt with her a little during the Florence Nuclear Waste Daze, when she was an attorney on staff at ELPC, and was impressed with her knowledge and abilities, and was glad to have someone in charge that I believe would take the reins and enforce the law.  How does someone like her screw up so badly, so irresponsibly?  Wow…

Flint water crisis: EPA regional administrator resigns

EPA Administrator Quits Amid Flint Water Crisis

EPA regional chief in Chicago resigns in connection with Flint water crisis

Susan Hedman, regional EPA official, resigns over Flint water crisis

As for EPA responsibility, Hedman did a dodge and weave, and duck and cover:

 

EPA chief defends agency’s handling of Flint crisis

EPA admits fault, blames Michigan officials over Flint

EPA Implicated in Cover-up of Flint Water Crisis

State View: Federal EPA’s delays on Flint show complete gov’t failure

EPA passive on Flint water

Photo by David Kamis, taken after Stephanie’s ducks were assassinated

Tomorrow is the Memorial Service for Stephanie Henricksen.  It’s at the UCC in Northfield, gathering at 10 a.m. and service is at 11 a.m. with lunch following.

Photo by Kathleen Doran-Norton, of Stephanie, and there’s Dave & Flo Minar in the background

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In the Northfield News today:

By Carol A. Overland and Alan Muller, Special to the News

Stephanie Henriksen will be missed

Stephanie Henriksen’s death last month leaves a big gap in this part of the world.

She was a complex person, not easily described in a few words. Did you know she was a serious saxophone player? Animals in need would show up at her farm, and she’d take them in. Her life’s artwork filled the Northfield Arts Guild in “Retrospective” showing, and she organized the “Farm Art” show tour years ago.

And as most of us know, she was a devoted and driven activist and tireless advocate, working on her own and with others on farm, water, clean air and land-use issues for decades.

For some, Stephanie was an acquired taste, or, to be more blunt, a pain in the rear. Her adversaries and allies alike knew she was usually on target, and she could be counted on to show up.

Her activism and advocacy put her on the front lines, with her many successes coming at a high personal cost, such as stress, assassinated ducks, animal parts strewn on her mailbox, and impacts on her health.

Just before she died, she was worked up about another ill-advised scheme in the community, ready to launch into action. That’s the essence of Stephanie Henriksen.