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"Occupiers appear to have excavated two large trenches and an improvised road on or adjacent to grounds containing sensitive artifacts."
Feb 16 (Reuters) - The FBI said it has found a trench of human feces and a road excavated on or next to a sensitive cultural site with artifacts at the Oregon wildlife refuge where armed men staged a standoff with authorities, according to court records filed on Tuesday.
The filing came after the FBI on Friday said it was working with the Burns Paiute Tribe to identify damage to the tribe's artifacts and sacred burial grounds at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge during the six-week occupation.
Evidence teams began processing the crime scenes at the refuge on Saturday, two days after the final occupiers surrendered, and the process will last about three weeks, according to the document submitted in Oregon federal court on Tuesday.
U.S. Attorney Billy Williams of Oregon wrote in the filing that investigators found "significant amounts of human feces" in a trench at an outdoor camping area that was either on or next to a "sensitive cultural site."
"Occupiers appear to have excavated two large trenches and an improvised road on or adjacent to grounds containing sensitive artifacts," he wrote.
Williams also said in the filing - which was a response to occupiers' requests to have their attorneys allowed onto the site - that firearms and explosives were found, and it was feared vehicles and buildings could be booby trapped.
He said he would be willing to allow Bundy's legal team onto the site once authorities are finished processing it and before it is reopened to the public.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oregon-militia-cultural-refuge-feces_us_56c3f2c9e4b0b40245c870c2
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)that occupied the refuge.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)We may need a better artist, a modern-day Betsy Ross, to do this idea justice
with real fabric just to get a great photo, butt this is a real scoop.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)They literally shit on it.
Initech
(100,103 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)I hope they'll make those idiots clean up their crap.
Wounded Bear
(58,713 posts)If the lights and water were still on, why would they need to dig a pit toilet? Practicing their survival skills for the "revolution" I guess.
Assholes.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)Even though the buildings were left empty. I wonder if those fools had been ordered by Ammon Bundy to stay out of the buildings and they obeyed even after he was arrested?
You'd think once they knew that the Bundys and other "leaders" were not coming back the dredges left at the site would have moved into the buildings where they would have been more comfortable and had indoor plumbing.
Instead among the videos posted in the first few days after the arrest of Ammon and his brother, the backhoe is running behind the camera moron. I wondered why they were digging a trench and thought maybe in their diseased mind it was for "fortification."
Now it turns out that their trench was just for toilet purposes. I guess they never saw a page such as my grandfather brought back from WWI all about "trench accessories:"
http://www.woodswell.com/family/albums/dmw_photos/1918_World_War_I/slides/img920a.html
http://www.woodswell.com/family/albums/dmw_photos/1918_World_War_I/slides/img920a.html
(Sorry, I can't post the pictures here.)
Wounded Bear
(58,713 posts)for sympathy. You know, "Look how we suffer for the cause."
BS, like their whole program.
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Whether they're swinging a sledge-hammer, using dynamite or taking a dump at/near sacred ground, their tactics are equally repugnant to civilization.
In case you need a memory refresh: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2970270/Islamic-State-fighters-destroy-antiquities-Iraq-video.html
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I am willing to bet on it