The Oregon occupation is over, but standoffs among nearby residents continue

Matt Pearce

In the end, the people in the little town of Burns never rose up in revolution against the federal government. They only rose up against one another, in cafes, on Facebook, in their places of worship ...

They now must find a way to end their own standoffs among themselves ...

Last week, two men came to Linda Gainer’s RV park outside the refuge ... She soon found out that the men had posted on Facebook that they were starting a new protest site at her RV park and were calling for supporters to join them ... Gainer had trouble reaching the overwhelmed local sheriff’s office to get help kicking the men out, and then she became a target for abuse ...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oregon-standoff-west-20160212-story.html