Oregon occupier seeking $666,666,666,666.66 in damages from the government

Shawna Cox, bottom right.
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One of the armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon has filed a criminal counterclaim against federal officials, saying she "suffered damages from the works of the devil" and deserves a settlement of $666,666,666,666.66.

Shawna Cox, 59, of Kanab, Utah, is accused of conspiring against the government, and she's one of a handful of the occupiers facing federal charges allowed to be home under house arrest. On Wednesday, she filed an eight-page countersuit, The Guardian reports, claiming she went to the refuge to come "to the assistance of economically vulnerable individuals who were being harassed, threatened, intimidated, persecuted, and incarcerated by arrogant, narcissi [sic] Federal Government officials who have organized together to hijack and steal our Constitutional form of government from the people of the United States of America."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.