UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 1, 1996
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Standstill continues at Freemen compound
The Associated Press
JORDAN, Mont. — The Freemen holed up on an isolated farm where they claim to have their own legal system should surrender and face an established court, a leader of another militant group said yesterday.
Others urged that outsiders stay away and not get involved in the standoff between federal authorities and the Freemen, barricaded on a wheat farm in east-central Montana.
More than 100 FBI agents have been keeping watch on the
A third member of the group surrendered on Saturday. Authorities won't say how many people still are at the farm, but 14 of them are believed to be wanted on various state and federal charges.
Freemen's compound, 30 miles outside Jordan, since two leaders of the group were arrested on March 25.
Neighbors said the Freemen have built bunkers and openly stockpiled food, fuel and weapons — possibly including military armaments.
FBI agents twice have stopped a pair of sympathizers trying to reach the farm.
"Stay home, and let the negotiators and the people on the site handle this problem, so we don't have a Waco or a Ruby Ridge," said John Parsons of the Tri-State Militia of South Dakota.
"The key thing here is that we need a peaceful solution to this problem. They need to come out and face their forum in a court of law and state their problems in a court of law under a system that is just," Parsons said on ABC's This Week With David Brinkley.
The Freemen deny the legitimacy of the U.S. government. Members call their compound 'Justus Township* and insist they have their own laws and their own courts.
The Washington Post reported yesterday that the FBI was considering an offer from white separatist Randy Weaver, whose wife and son were killed by federal agents in 1992 in a shootout at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, to mediate an end to the standoff.
However, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont, said Weaver and outside militia groups should let officials try to resolve the situation peacefully.
People like Weaver tend to create division and create more problems than they solve, Baucus said on
CBS's Face the Nation.
The standoff in Montana started with the arrests of LeRoy Schweitzer and Daniel Petersen Jr.
Schweitzer was transferred on Saturday from a jail at Billings to a federal prison medical center in Missouri because he had been on a hunger strike.
Also on Saturday, another member of the Freemen, Richard E. Clark, turned himself in to FBI agents.
Schweitzer and Petersen are charged with threatening public officials and millions of dollars worth of bank, financial and mail fraud.
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