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MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE Oregon refuge occupier releases videos mocking FBI One of four holdouts releases footage of barricades, joyride in federal vehicle Comment By Terrence Petty The Associated Press MailTribune.com By Terrence Petty The Associated Press Posted Feb. 9, 2016 at 2:00 AM By Terrence Petty The Associated Press Posted Feb. 9, 2016 at 2:00 AM » Social News PORTLAND — The last four occupiers of an Oregon wildlife refuge have posted a series of defiant videos in which one of them calls FBI agents losers, shows a defensive perimeter they have built and takes a joyride in a government vehicle. The videos were posted Sunday on a YouTube channel called Defend Your Base, which the armed group has been using to give live updates. The holdouts are among 16 people charged with conspiracy to interfere with federal workers in the armed standoff over federal land policy that has surpassed five weeks. In one of the new videos, occupier David Fry says the FBI told him he faces additional charges because of defensive barricades the four have built. "We just got done talking with the FBI," said the 27-year-old Blanchester, Ohio, resident. "They consider fortifying a crime." Fry said he, Jeff Banta of Nevada, and husband and wife Sean and Sandy Anderson of Idaho have "every right" to defend themselves from the "oncoming onslaught of people with fully automatic rifles (and) armored vehicles. "I'm tired of you guys telling us what we can and can't do," he says. Then Fry shows government vehicles they have been using without permission. He walks up to a white truck and says, "I think I'm going to take it on a little joyride. "Now you've got another charge on me FBI. I'm driving your vehicle." FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said the agency had no comment on the videos. The four have refused to leave the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon since the compound nearly emptied out after the Jan. 26 arrests of group leader Ammon Bundy and other main figures. The group seized the property on Jan. 2, demanding federal lands be turned over to locals. The traffic stop on a remote road outside the refuge also led police to shoot and kill Robert "LaVoy" Finicum. The FBI says the Arizona rancher was reaching for a pistol in his pocket, but Finicum's family and Bundy's followers dispute that and say his death was not justified. Authorities surrounded the refuge after the arrests. The FBI has been negotiating, but the holdouts have said they won't go home without assurances they won't be arrested. In another video posted Sunday, Sean and Sandy Anderson are sitting together and the husband says they feel like hostages because they can't leave without being arrested. "What are they to do with us?" Sean Anderson says. "They either let us go, drop all charges because we're good people, or they come in and kill us. How's that going to set with America?" Meanwhile, Ammon Bundy's attorneys on Monday released an audio recording in which the jailed occupation leader called on elected officials in eight states to visit arrested occupiers from those states and show support for their rights to free speech, assembly and civil disobedience. While federal authorities say the refuge occupation is illegal and Bundy's followers had threatened violence and intimidated federal employees, Bundy contends the takeover was a peaceful protest. A Nevada state Assembly member who is sympathetic to Bundy's cause, Michelle Fiore, said Monday she and lawmakers from several other states plan to meet in Portland this week to protest the jailing of Bundy and his followers. She said the lawmakers are members of a group called the Coalition of Western States, which opposes federal management of Western lands. "My folks are prisoners for exercising political free speech. That is not OK," the Republican lawmaker told the AP. By Terrence Petty The Associated Press MailTribune.com By Terrence Petty The Associated Press Posted Feb. 9, 2016 at 2:00 AM » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. Southern Oregon Directory Featured Businesses Loading... 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