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Some interesting news in the When the Moon Turns to Blood/Bundy adjacent news: at the forthcoming Book of Mormon Evidence conference, Ammon Bundy's #oregonstandoff attorney Morgan Philpot will give a talk called "The End of All Nations" on the main stage. 
The conference is really a who's who of hyper-conservative, fringe LDS figures: purveyors of the Heartland theory, Constitutionalists... a milieu I talk about in my book, but that @CristinaMartaR writes about concisely here: juvenileinstructor.org/the-mormonisms…
Rod Meldrum, whose bread and butter is the Heartland Theory, will be there. He also appeared on conference stages with Chad Daybell: now accused of three counts of murder, among other things. Meldrum told me he thought Daybell was "a nice guy" but didn't have anything else to say
(THREAD) In honor of the passing of Attorney Marcus Mumford @MumfordMarcus we (okay me) will posting some of Mumford's greatest hits from the Oregon Stand-off trial. #oregonstandoff #bundycourtsketch
Mumford replaces Attorney Mike Arnold and no one knows what hit them. The first time I saw Mumford in court I thought he may be on drugs.
Took me some time before I could draw him ...
In San Diego there is a left-wing FBI informant named “Martha.” jacobinmag.com/2018/08/richar…
How do I know that Martha is an FBI informant?
During the aftermath of the armed insurrection at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge it was revealed in court that the FBI was using paid informants to gather information about the militia men and RWNJs involved. #OregonStandoff
From Operation Mutual Defense board meetings in 2015: Gary Hunt described tiers of membership - Tier 1 are like 'generals who sit back in the safe zone and make the decisions.' ---whole idea of OMD came from the Bundy Ranch oregonlive.com/oregon-standof… #oregonstandoff 
From 11/1/2015 Operation Mutual Defense board meeting , talking of using militia to intercept 'convoys of refugees' coming into Montana or other states, and interrogating the refugees...(Ryan Payne, Gary Hunt) 
Here, Operation Mutual Defense board members Ryan Payne and Gary Hunt talk about 'degrees of involvement' with the highest , Level 5 , likely leading to a 'violent confrontation.' 
Scant info presented at Oregon DOJ presser over indictment of FBI agent. Lots of questions referred to FBI (not present) #oregonstandoff
One thing we did learn: the four other members of the FBI's hostage rescue team who were there day of Finicum shooting were NOT put on leave
They kept working, despite initial suspicions from investigators that they helped Astarita cover up the shots he fired
AUSA Knight questioned Bundy's often-repeated claim that the Malheur Refuge ruined the economy of Harney County. #oregonstandoff
Refuge created in 1908. County economy peaked in 1980s, tanked in the 1990s bc logging industry died. #oregonstandoff
Ammon: "No, you are not being honest." AUSA Knight: "oh, well okay. So the answer is no then." #oregonstandoff
Govt questioned 23 yo occupier: after guard duty, "someone asked if we wanted to go have some fun," helped steal cameras #Oregonstandoff
@karinapdx same witness said occupiers just wanted the optics of a couple of locals. Didn't actually want their help. #Oregonstandoff
Said he hid out to avoid arrest for camera threat: "they had no one to blame bc you were all at the refuge" #Oregonstandoff @karinapdx
If you think losing the bees would be bad, consider the microbes in our soil. Stop overgrazing. theconversation.com/if-the-worlds-…?
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Biochar will fix this, improve water & nutrient retention, make ranges more fertile, AND store carbon stably for centuries. #Oregonstandoff
Create a carbon economy, & you get an industry that reduces fuel loads by turning slash into biochar for soils. #Oregonstandoff
...most ranchers don’t work very hard. They have a lot of leisure time for politics and bellyaching. ~ Edward Abbey #Oregonstandoff
We do not need cowboys or ranchers. We’ve carried them on our backs long enough. ~Edward Abbey harpers.org/archive/2015/0…
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"overgrazing means eventual ruin, just like strip mining or clear-cutting... a cowburnt wasteland." harpers.org/archive/2015/0…
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8 March 1970: Leonard Peltier and other NA activists occupy the abandoned Fort Lawton, near Seattle, WA #Oregonstandoff
...testing an old fed law giving Native Americans 1st claim to lands abandoned by feds. The activists are beaten & jailed #Oregonstandoff
Today marks 40 years of political imprisonment. The prosecutor admitted they don't know who killed the 2 FBI agents #Oregonstandoff
Tomorrow marks 40 years that Leonard Peltier has been in prison. I'd have more respect for #Oregonstandoff if they even acknowledged AIM.
a federal judge, a US Attorney General, The European Parliament, The Belgian Parliament, WA & CA State Dem Parties, Amnesty International...
Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, senators, congressmen, etc. etc. have all called for clemency. Peltier remains in poor health.
All these horrible realities began to dawn on me. There I was. Alone in Malheur, completely twisted on conspiracy theories..
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no revolution, an intermittent livestream, & on top of everything else, a gigantic god damned grazing fee bill to deal with #Oregonstandoff
How would Cliven Bundy handle this situation? Stay calm. Stay calm. #Oregonstandoff
When I came to, the general white trash ambience of the refuge was so rotten, so incredibly foul #Oregonstandoff
How long had I been livestreaming here? All these signs of paranoia. What had happened? #Oregonstandoff
There was evidence in his rant of obsessive belief in almost every conspiracy theory known to civilized man since 1544 AD. #Oregonstandoff
show #Oregonstandoff you'd rather support someone who was on his own land when FBI came for an alleged boot thief.
afaik no militia has called for his pardon during his 39yrs in prison (on flimsy evidence) #Oregonstandoff ~recorded~ their crimes.
seriously. FBI was looking for someone who stole a pair of boots. Pine Ridge isn't mentioned by #Oregonstandoff. Peltier isn't white.
The most efficient way for us to do this is for each one of us to try & imagine what it is like inside of the patriot mind.
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For example a sovereign citizen refers to the gubmint as "unconstitutional". Because... Lincoln was cockroach.
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[Gonzo aside] What the fuck are these people talking about? You gotta be crazy to think the 14th amendment enslaved us.
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The livestream was dropping out. The Bundys were long gone. But the media were running strong. Good rants come on slow.
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The first 3 weeks is all bluster. Then about halfway through 4th week, you start cursing the creeps who left you behind…
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...because nothing's happening from the FBI side. And then - ZANG!
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I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, and somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things.
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...Won't be long now before they tear us to shreds.
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gotta love how sometimes there's no need to modify a single word.
I'm trapped in some stinking refuge near Burns. I don't have much time man, the fuckers are closing in!
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Whoa, getting a little paranoid?
[yelling] I need the fucking Navy Seals immediately!
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[yelling] I need the fucking Navy Seals immediately!
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What are you doing in Burns, didn't you get my telegram?
What telegram you worthless bastard? I'll cripple yer ass for this.
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What telegram you worthless bastard? I'll cripple yer ass for this.
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The only thing that really worried me was the ethereal ranting of the remaining holdouts... #Oregonstandoff
There is nothing in the world more helpless, irresponsible & depraved than a man in the depths of a patriot propaganda rant #Oregonstandoff
One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered conspiracy nut of some kind. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. #Oregonstandoff
That was the fatal flaw in Ammon Bundy's trip. He crashed around America selling armed sedition...
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...without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities lying in wait for the rubes who took him seriously...
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All those pathetically eager militia freaks who thought they could buy a government overthrow for three bucks a bullet.
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Few people understand the psychology of dealing with an FBI road block...
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A normal seditionist will panic and immediately pull over to surrender. This is wrong. It arouses suspicion by the militia.
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Make the FBI chase you. They will follow. But won't know what to make of your sudden turn into a snowbank.
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We should get some of that.
Some of what?
Pocket Constitution. Just read a few paragraphs and see what happens. #Oregonstandoff
Some of what?
Pocket Constitution. Just read a few paragraphs and see what happens. #Oregonstandoff
Shit, that's a good idea. One skim of that thing will turn you into something of a goddamn constitutional scholar...
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Your head will swell up like an Oath Keeper... you'll gain about a hundred pounds in two hours...
Great!
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Great!
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We were somewhere around Burns, on the edge of the Reserve, when the paranoia began to take hold.
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I feel a bit anti-government. Maybe you should operate the CAT.
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Suddenly, the sky was full of what looked like huge drones, all swooping and spying and diving around the reserve.
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