PORTLAND, OR: National wildlife refuge occupier\u00a0Ryan Bundy, acting as his own lawyer, referred to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. twice during his closing argument Wednesday. \u00a0Bundy 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.”<\/p>\n
Bundy, is being tried on a charge of impeding federal workers from doing their jobs during the\u00a0occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.\u00a0 \u00a0Jurors may\u00a0begin deliberations today, after the\u00a0six-week trial.<\/p>\n
The federal prosecutor, in his closing statement said that\u00a0having your workplace taken over by an armed group that doesn’t like you is “inherently intimidating.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The charge he is facing\u00a0is punishable by up to six years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"