Bundy to followers at Oregon refuge "Stand down. Go home. And hug your families"

Just heard this on the news. The message was delivered via Ammon Bundy's lawyer.

UPI:
BURNS , Ore., Jan. 27 (UPI) — The man who led the occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks, and was arrested there Tuesday, has instructed followers still at the bird sanctuary to leave the property and go home.

"I'm asking the federal government to allow the people at the refuge to go home without being prosecuted," Bundy said in a statement delivered by his lawyer, Mike Arnold. "To those at the refuge, I love you. Let us take this fight from here. Please stand down. Please stand down. Go home and hug your families." […]

H/T: MSNBC

I'm still hopeful that the stand-off will end without further bloodshed. But that will be up to Bundy's followers who have chosen to drag this thing out awhile longer.

I'm pretty sure they know they're going to be arrested too…but we shall see if they surrender..

Cops had to send tanks cuz the blacks were rioting and looting. These guys in Oregon only went in a empty building and stayed. There's a real difference there bro.

No we don't live in a perfect world. But I'm not talking about changing the system. i'm talking about making it equal for everybody. Don't send tanks to stop black protesters but do nothing when it's white protesters. The main reason there is a Black lives matter movement is because we get treated different. There is no easy answer but like I said before I think they mishandled this whole thing. If police want respect that have to earn it by showing they treat everybody the same.

LOL and I know you're a big girl and can handle it.

I undersatnd you point BD …..it is certainly well made my friend.

And in a perfect world I am right there with you. There should be NO double standard regarding how Blacks and Whites are treated in in America …especially when it comes to enforcing the law.

But we don't live In a perfect world. We live in America – where double-standards, rooted in White racism and White priviledge still rules the day in far too many cases.

So then, I ask…how do We achive that Change…that Full Equality…we seek and deserve?

I'm all ears BD. Help me out here.

Because right now I truly believe We will NOT experience real *Change* in America until/unless a sizeable percentage of White America supports that vision too. The fact that no one came to join the Bundy bunch speaks volumes.

You may still disagree with me(?)…and that's alright.

I'm a big girl, I can take it. 😉

Anyway I have to take a rare disagree with Truth on this one. Yes its a good thing only one person died but I don't like the double standard on how they handled this. They brought out army tanks and police in riot gear on black people in Ferguson. We all know they would have tear gassed the place on the first day if it was some black or brown people pulling this stunt. But they have a pic of police shaking hands with the leader?? No way this was right. Don't separate how law is enforced by blacks and whites.