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...settlement. On Tuesday, the FBI flew Freemen spokesman Edwin Clark to Billings, Montana, to discuss terms of the surrender proposal with Daniel Petersen Jr. and LeRoy Schweitzer, whose arrest in March triggered the confrontation. Clark was returned to the ranch Tuesday evening and the Freemen gathered in a barn later, apparently to confer on the proposal. "Ed Clark puts a lot of stock in Schweitzer's opinion," TIME's Pat Dawson reports from Montana, "and he is under a lot of pressure from his family to leave the compound." Other Freemen may have more to lose by leaving, says Dawson...
...DAWSON arrived in the little town of Jordan, Montana, to cover the confrontation between the FBI and the Freemen only to find that news crews and law officers had taken all the hotel rooms. "So I flopped my sleeping bag in an old school bus in the barn on my cousin John Cooley's ranch," says Dawson, a native Montanan who has reported from the West for TIME for 15 years. He notes that the state has a "colorful and maybe not always noble history of vigilante movements." And although Dawson was surprised by "the accumulated anger and tunnel vision...
...course, because a group of heavily armed outlaws are currently occupying a barn surrounded by federal agents, refusing to give themselves up to the justice system. Clearly, the group of Freemen pose a dangerous threat to the proper conduct of government...
...federal agents delayed a direct confrontation until the local townspeople were ready to form their own posse. They are now maintaining a loose perimeter around the barn and surrounding property. Agents began with negotiations, not shooting...
...thing, there are no children in the barn with the militia members. That alone is comforting fact; this is not going to be a slaughter of people who have never violated a single law. (All those inside the barn are trespassing, currently...