In one of a series of videos posted Sunday, an occupier of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge railed against people who destroyed a memorial for a dead occupier, called for the FBI to leave Oregon, and took a joyride in a pickup truck with government plates.
David Fry, 27, said that most communication to the refuge had been cut off, and that it was a "miracle" that he was able to get the video out. Fry starts one of the videos by talking about those who destroyed the memorial for Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, a former occupier who was killed by Oregon State Police on Jan. 26. The memorial was put together where Finicum died on Highway 395, about 20 miles north of Burns. News of its destruction came out Feb. 6.
"That's the kind of people we're dealing with nowadays. Just absolute trash, low-life scumbags, with no morals, no remorse for the dead," Fry said. "And that's the people that we're fighting against."
Fry continued to ask for the "good people" to stand up and tell the "evil" people to "piss off."
"It's time to take a stand, it's time to fight, and it's time to show these scumbags who's really in charge of this country," Fry said, before asking for the "patriots" of this country to "kick the feds out of the state."
He also asked the feds to leave Oregon voluntarily.
"Get the hell out of Oregon, get the hell out of all the states," Fry said. "I'm tired of you guys."
The video was one of nine published by around 5:30 p.m. Feb. 7, a break from the week-long silence of the YouTube channel they were posted on.
In some of them, Fry takes on a shrill and aggressive tone.
In a video titled "Shove your charges where the sun dont shine" a man identifying as Fry said the FBI told him they would press additional charges because the occupiers had supposedly "fortified" the refuge.
After proclaiming his right to prepare for an "onslaught," Fry approached a pickup truck with a U.S. Government license plate and got in.
"I think I'm gonna take it on a little joy ride, you know," Fry said, as he opened the door. "Yeah. Yeah. Let's start this baby up! Now you got another charge on me, FBI, I am driving your vehicle, you see this?"
"Maybe I should do a little donut in this, yeah!" Fry continued.
In another video, a man rails against people who posted comments about other videos posted Sunday.
"One day, someone's probably gonna drag your a** out and beat you up, bust your nose a little bit, because that's what you have coming, that's what you deserve," a man who sounds like Fry but does not identify himself said in a video. "So take your little comments you little keyboard warriors and shove them up where the sun don't shine."
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters
Many of the comments under Fry's videos are derisive.
"Have fun in prison, Potatriots!" one YouTube user wrote.
"You're deluded," wrote another. "Go home and get some sleep."
Fry, of Blanchester, Ohio, is the youngest of the four occupiers left at the refuge. The occupation began Jan. 2. For weeks, people were free to come and go, but that changed Jan. 26 with the death of Finicum and the arrest of the occupation's leaders. Law enforcement set up roadblocks preventing access to the refuge.
The other three occupiers are Sean Anderson, 48, and his wife, Sandy Anderson, 47, of Riggins, Idaho; and Jeff Banta, 46, of Elko, Nevada.
All four have been indicted on a charge of conspiracy to impede federal officers through intimidation, threats or force. Ammon Bundy, the now-jailed leader of the original occupation, has called for the four holdouts to leave.
A video posted around 5 p.m. shows people in what is presumably the refuge, with the song "Sail" by Awolnation playing from a laptop computer.
"Maybe I should cry for help. Maybe I should kill myself. Blame it on my ADD, baby," the song plays, as the camera points at the laptop.
An Oregon State Police spokesman said Friday that negotiations with the occupiers are ongoing. Asked if the FBI had indeed told Fry he would face additional charges for "fortifying" the refuge, a spokesman declined to comment.
The occupation could have taken another dramatic turn Saturday, the day a group called the Pacific Patriots Network planned to walk onto the refuge and escort out the holdouts. The network's members regularly protest perceived government overreach, and have been a regular presence in Burns since the occupation began.
Those plans changed when it was revealed that the four occupiers had been indicted, said one of the network's leaders, BJ Soper. That and the fact that the occupiers had said they would meet any attempt to remove them with force prompted Soper to cancel the action. Soper asked members of the network who had come to Burns to attend a memorial for Finicum instead.
This post has been updated to include information about other videos featuring occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
-- Fedor Zarkhin
503-294-7674; @fedorzarkhin