‘Freemen’ Avoid Meeting With Authorities
The anti-government “freemen” carried through Saturday on their refusal to send representatives to the community hall where FBI agents proposed to meet in an attempt to end their 41-day standoff.
It had taken the freemen less than an hour Thursday to reject FBI agent Robin Montgomery’s written demand to have two representatives meet with two federal agents and two state officials who have tried to mediate the standoff.
At the freemen complex Saturday three men unloaded firewood from a pickup truck alongside the main farmhouse while two children played nearby.
The freemen contend they are not subject to state or federal law, but only to common law as administered in their own courts. Several of the about 20 people believed to be in the compound are wanted on state and federal charges ranging from writing bad checks to threatening to kidnap and kill a federal judge.
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