Rancher renounces contract at Bundy event

Ryan Bundy, right, gestures toward Adrian Sewell at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in near Burns, Ore., Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. Sewell was the only rancher to do so.

“I don’t mind standing out and standing alone”, he said.

Sewell posted a somewhat rambling video on Facebook, which is embedded below, earlier this week. “Well, I’m answering the call, and I’m on my way into battle, and I need your prayers, because there’s a lot at stake – my life, my liberty, and my property”.

After armed militants occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge posted a YouTube video in which they rifled through Native American artifacts housed at the federal site, the Burns Paiute Tribe is asking the FBI and the Department of Justice to file criminal charges and end the occupation.

“I’m very happy he came all the way from New Mexico”, the AP quoted Bundy saying.

“This here is the bronze star”, said Bundy.

Other members of the community surrounding the wildlife refuge have also denounced the actions of the militia members, many of whom are not from Oregon.

What’s the occupation about?

Bundy had previously met with local ranchers urging them to tear up their federal contracts. “They’re not even living up to their whole contract”. And opponents of overly broad domestic-terrorism laws should object to how the ranchers were prosecuted under them for non-terroristic acts. “Its just wonderful that she would just disregard the Constitution to the point where she would think it would be OK to give the federal government that authority to come in and take some dynamic action or something like that.”The group has recently bolstered a front entrance blockade with timbers and set up another checkpoint at a back entrance.

So has Cliven Bundy, the father of Ammon, who held his own standoff against the federal government almost two years ago. Grazing on federal land, Nantz wrote, “requires ranchers to follow an unfair, complicated and constantly evolving set of rules”. The refuge is in Harney County, where local officials have been working closely with state and federal authorities.

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service vehicle is hooked to a horse trailer at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in OR on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. It appeared to show some of the militants going through some of the tribe’s artifacts stored at the refuge.

At community meetings, local residents have asked Bundy and his group to leave.

Roderique’s message comes less than a week after Oregon Governor Kate Brown called on federal authorities to “end the occupation and hold all of the wrongdoers accountable”.

The man is Adrian Sewell, a rancher who is from Grant County in southeast New Mexico.