PORTLAND, OR: National wildlife refuge occupier Ryan Bundy, acting as his own lawyer, referred to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. twice during his closing argument Wednesday. Bundy also said: “At some point the people have to insist that the government is not our master, they are our servants, and we have given them a duty.”
Bundy, is being tried on a charge of impeding federal workers from doing their jobs during the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Jurors may begin deliberations today, after the six-week trial.
The federal prosecutor, in his closing statement said that having your workplace taken over by an armed group that doesn’t like you is “inherently intimidating.”
Ryan Bundy didn’t deny taking over work spaces that belonged to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife and U.S. Bureau of Land Management but the defendant said, there was no conspiracy to prevent them from going to work.
The charge he is facing is punishable by up to six years in prison.
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