Freemen Keep Low Profile Over Holiday Weekend

There was little activity at the wind-buffeted freemen ranch on Sunday, Day 63 of the standoff between the anti-government militants and the FBI.

The freemen remained indoors much of the day as unseasonable cold continued to grip the farm and ranch country around Jordan during the Memorial Day weekend. Children played outside with a dog briefly, and some adults moved among buildings at the ranch.

A freemen sentry inside a hilltop trailer could be seen looking through binoculars toward another hill, about half a mile from the ranch boundary, where the media congregate daily and the FBI mans a truck.

A U.S. flag that the freemen raised upside down outside the sentry trailer on Wednesday remained in that position Sunday, fluttering rapidly in the strong wind.