Ammon Bundy departs after addressing the media at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, on January 4.
Credit: Reuters/Jim Urquhart

The Oregon militants are proving as stubborn as they are self-righteous, and their armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge shows no signs of resolving soon.

Not even near-unanimous opposition to their occupation by the very community the militiamen claim to be liberating from federal “tyranny” is making these men second-guess their hard stand. Nor are the occupiers heeding the plea of the Burns Piaute Tribe — who claim the refuge as part of their ancestral land — to “get the hell out of here.”

Who are the men behind the militia calling itself Citizens for Constitutional Freedom?

Meet the key occupiers:

Ammon Bundy
Age: 40
Who: Leader of the takeover.
Where he’s from: The Bundy family ranch is in […]