Someday law enforcement will reveal to the public either
their best theory behind Stephen Paddock’s mass murder in Las Vegas, NV. So far
the only fact we really know is that Paddock was involved in a well-planned
attack at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino killing 59 and wounding over 500.
America was struck speechless with horror, grief, rage and
fury, when breaking news from Las Vegas, Nevada flashed images of good and
decent young men and women being cut down in a hail of automatic weapons fire,
at the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert on October 1st, by an incredibly
well-armed, strategically positioned psychopathic assassin. A great evil had
descended upon this field of nearly twenty-two thousand joyful and excited
concert goers, striking the life from 59 and wounding 527 in a most terrible
manner, and it left memories of devastation and unimaginable horror with all,
who witnessed this heinous act of terror.
The first shots of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history
rang out at 10:05 PM, from an 1800 square feet luxury corner suite of the
Mandalay Bay Hotel, where Stephen Paddock, a 64 year old multimillionaire
gambler from Mesquite, Nevada, had stocked 23 semi-automatic weapons -- some
AR15s and AR10s -- modified with bumpstocks to simulate automatic fire, at
least one automatic weapon and thousands of rounds of ammunition, over several
days. And Paddock was running amok.
At 10:08 PM, a police transmission relayed: "We
got shots fired! It sounded like an automatic firearm."
One of the first casualties was Sonny Melton, 29, a
registered nurse from Big Sandy, TN, who was also a surgical assistant for his
wife, Heather, a surgeon. He died trying to shield her from the bullets, even
as Heather tried to save him from bleeding out. In an emotional interview,
Heather told NBC's Savannah Guthrie, "I lost half my heart."
As soon as everybody realized the rapid multiple
pop-pop-pops they were hearing weren't fireworks, chaos ensued, as many dove
for cover and many others sprang into action to help the wounded. One off duty
emergency medical technician, Travis Phippen, crawled from victim to victim,
according to the LA Times, and he plugged
their wounds with cloth and saw the woman next to him get shot in the head. He
also found his own father, John (age 56), mortally
wounded.
Mikkena Parry, a young
teenager, shed tears as she tried to speak to ABC's David Muir about the horror
she and others experience that night. A bullet went through her arm and into
her abdomen. Her boyfriend and two other teens carried her to the back of a
pickup truck and rushed her to the hospital.
And there was Jonathan Smith, a thirty year
old who reportedly saved up to 30 lives, taking a bullet to the neck.
The calls went out and off duty doctors and nurses rushed to
Las Vegas hospitals, like University Medical Center and Sunrise Hospital, where
they worked on the victims throughout hours of surgery. Dr. Jay Coates, a
trauma and critical care surgeon at UMC, said, "They were coming in
so fast ... with lung contusions, liver and spleen contusions ... It was like a
war zone."
Audio from the concert reveals a fire rate impossible for
even the most skilled shooters, with specialized triggers. During one 31 second
span, Paddock fired a staggering 280 rounds.
Nearly ten minutes of continuous fire had passed by the time
Jesus Campos, hotel security,
reached Paddock's door and distracted him from his murderous mission, as
Paddock shot through the door and hit him in the upper thigh. Over 200 more
rounds followed Campos's retreat down the corridor; and with police converging
on the room, Paddock took his own life. Campos's interdiction saved lives.
Police waited for reinforcements and SWAT from 10:40 to
11:20, when SWAT detonated an explosive device to breach the door. They found
Paddock dead.
At 12:31 AM Monday, authorities finally announced they
thought Paddock was the only attacker. Two hours and twenty-six minutes had
passed, and the massacre was officially over.
A note has been reported to have been found in Paddock's
room by authorities, according to numerous sources, like the Daily Wire. Perhaps once
authorities decide it doesn't compromise their investigation, they will release
its content. It may reveal a piece of the puzzle towards motive.
Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI hostage negotiator from the
bureau's behavioral science unit, stated: " On the surface,
Paddock didn't seem like a typical mass murderer. Paddock is much older than
the typical shooter and was not known to be suffering from mental
illness."
Paddock has broken the mold as a 64 year old millionaire mass murderer. This is
a different level of mass shooting and an outlier on every level.
Analyzing Paddock's computer, cellphone and other electronic
devices, investigators have found no clear connection to extremist or activist
groups or outward display of mental illness, according to the Associated Press. He was
called a loner, unfriendly, distant, surly and quick to anger by many of his
neighbors in several states where he owned homes.
And, the fact that Stephen's brother Eric says Stephen
"wasn't a gun guy" doesn't hold any weight. They weren't close, and
Stephen hadn't seen his other brother, Patrick, in 20 years.
Paddock owned over 40 guns and acquired some of them years
ago, in Utah, Texas, Nevada and California. He had an Alaskan hunting license.
He obviously learned to use them over time.
On October 4th, Clark County, Nevada Sheriff Joseph Lombardo
said: "What we know is
Stephen Paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and
living a secret life much of which will never be fully understood." He
also said it was only logical to "make the assumption" that Paddock
had "some help at some point" in pulling off that Sunday's massacre.
One should investigate the possibility, that Paddock either
had knowing accomplices or simply people he used without their knowledge in
gathering items, like the ammonium nitrate, fifty pounds of tannerite explosive
and 1600 rounds of ammo found in his car. However, he could have accomplished
this on his own. He had plenty of time and millions of dollars on his side, and
it would have been easy to move the ten suitcases, noted by the FBI, filled
with guns and ammunition to his room, slowly, patiently and methodically, and
without drawing any notice to himself.
Paddock's act of terror didn't require "military
training", only a familiarization with his tools of terror. He was
shooting down from the 32nd floor into clusters of people, who were less than
400 yards away, alternating between two different weapons position. He didn't have
to be a good marksman or even really aim the rapid automatic fire, because from
his vantage point, casualties were assured. Anyone, even a twelve year old boy,
could do the same.
Where was Paddock's conscience or moral code, that should
have stopped him from carrying out his act of pure evil?
Now, numerous false stories or stories not verified,
substantiated or authenticated, like Reuters’ claim that Paddock
converted to Islam, based on only one anonymous source, harm the investigation,
tying up resources needed elsewhere. There are other claims that are more
plausible, such as Paddock was a member of Antifa;
another says he was a Trump hater, but both, to
date, cannot be confirmed. The cacophony of white noise and misinformation is
drowning out the truth.
In the midst of our raw pain and grief so fresh, America
understands that a cold-blooded, calculating and evil monster slithered forth,
on a beautiful Sunday night, intent on breaking the hearts and the human souls
of fine and loving Americans, taking one loved one after another and making a
deep cut through the heart of those, not quite saints, who live close to God.
Rather than breaking us, he strengthened our resolve to find anyone who knew of
his plans or helped him, and as our spirits surge, we work in our knowledge
there will be an accounting and America will carry on singing God Bless America.
I am guilty of not following the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
persecution of the Bundy family over grazing rights for their cattle and
attempts to protect those cattle from BLM confiscation.
There are those that truly believe the Bundys are criminals
for not paying exorbitant grazing fees and then resisting the BLM for
attempting to take the Bundy cattle to pay for those back exorbitant fees.
Catherine Crabill pretty much sums up how the government has
gone from protecting U.S. citizens to thrive to using Big Brother tactics for
Leftist environmentalism, Crony Capitalism or both:
While many remain oblivious to
the strangulation of our most fiercely independent and productive citizens, the
American Rancher, this last week’s news cycle sputtered out incomprehensible
sound bites about Nevadan Rancher, Mr. Cliven Bundy.
Sometime in the mid 1800’s, long
before Nevada was a territory, much less a state, Cliven Bundy’s ancestors
settled a tract of land to raise a family and provide a livelihood ranching
cattle.
In 1946 another debacle of a
government agency was created, The Bureau of Land Management.
Like every single government
agency, without exception, the BLM became a bloated bully who’s main
contribution to the western states, in particular, was to destroy life, liberty
and personal property.
52 other families in Clark County
Nevada alone, had long since given up fighting the BLM. Grazing rights were/are
typically denied under the guise of protecting “endangered species”, (a common
practice nationwide to destroy watermen, farmers, and ranchers), or grazing
fees are raised until those, like the Bundy’s, who dug the wells, fenced the
land, and managed it just fine, are driven off or bankrupted.
The BLM also threatened the Bundy’s
because they declared he owed them more than a million dollars in said “grazing
fees”. I’ll say it again, for using the land that has been in his family for 7
generations.
I was gratified when all those defendants were exonerated by jury trial
pertaining to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff. Unfortunately
right after their jury exoneration the BLM and other Federal Agents arrested them for another trial
over a standoff that took place prior to Malheur in Bunkerville Nevada area of
the Bundy Ranch cattle operations.
This government persecution continues with the appearance of
COVER-UP:
The House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform has requested an investigation into allegations that
employees of the Bureau of Land Management destroyed federal records, tampered
with witnesses and obstructed a congressional investigation.
…
The original report details how BLM
employee Danial Paul Love [aka Dirty Dan] used his position to gain
entrance for family and friends to the Burning Man festival — held on
BLM-managed land — and assign a security detail to his party and
provide overnight lodging for these attendees.
…
It then goes on to document ways
Love attempted to instruct witnesses and influence the testimony of colleagues
questioned by investigators.
The Oversight Committee’s letter
cites the report’s allegations of email scrubbing, conspiracy to change and
withhold records for an impending congressional inquiry, and coaching witnesses
as having the potential to taint the investigation and undermine trust in BLM’s
law enforcement office. For this reason, Chaffetz asked for further scrutiny of
Love’s actions.
An investigation accusing a federal
agent of misconduct and ethics violations could derail one of
the most high-profile land-use trials in modern Western history.
…
But a Jan. 30 report by the
Department of Interior's Office of the Inspector General appears to raise
serious questions about the BLM special agent in charge of operations during
the standoff, who is expected to be a key witness for the government in
the case.
The report, which does not identify
the agent by name [Yup, it was Special Agent In Charge Dirty Dan], cites
ethical violations that occurred in 2015 at the annual Burning Man event in Northern
Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
Federal investigatorssaid
the agent wrongly used his influence to obtain benefits for
himselfand his family members at Burning Man,
abused federal law-enforcement resources and intimidated other BLM
staff to keep quiet about his conduct. They also accused the agent of
manipulating BLM hiring practices to help a friend get hired.
…
Whipple said the report paints a picture
of an agent with a personal agenda and no regard for the rule of law. He said
his client long has maintained that Love dangerously orchestrated events
during the Bundy standoff to "enhance and enrich" his personal
profile and "to make a name for himself."
…
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Las
Vegas also declined comment. Spokeswoman Trisha Young said Friday
the witness list in the Bundy Ranch trials has been sealed and is not
open to the public, and she declined to speak about Love's role in the
case.
Individual federal prosecutors
assigned to the cases did not return calls.
…
"It’s in an ethics report. I
think everything is up for grabs — misuse of the vehicles, using
intimidation," Gordon said. "This stuff, it suggests that he’s
willing to cheat and lie for his job."
She said defense attorneys involved
in the Bundy Ranch trials might not be able to show juries the inspector general's report
[Why the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks NOT! Where’s the justice in suppressing the
IG Report?] but could question Love about specific incidents raised in
it.
…
Investigators said when they began
looking into the complaints, the agent called other employees and encouraged
them not to cooperate. He told them "I don't recall" was a valid
answer to investigators' questions, the report said.
Investigators said the agent used
intimidation to discourage his co-workers from speaking with investigators,
telling one: "You know, if you don't side with me, grenades are going
to go off and you'll get hit."
Recorded exchanges purportedly
between Love and right-wing internet radio host Peter Santilli during the
standoff show just how quickly events escalated as each man threatened the
other with arrest.
Love maintained he had the
federal courts on his side and wanted to end the standoff peacefully. Then
he told Santilli that the protesters didn't have enough people to hold off
law enforcement, saying, "You better hope that 10,000 show up,"
according to one website.
Santilli is one of the 17 facing
charges.
…
For two decades, the BLM
repeatedly ordered Bundy to remove his cattle from federal lands and
in 2014 the agency obtained a court order
to seize Bundy's cattle as payment for more than
$1 million in back fees. In April, the BLM, led by Love, implemented
a roundup of 1,000 head of Bundy's cattle ranging on public land.
Bundy fought
back, issuing a social-media battle cry to help defend his land
rights against federal agents. Supporters, including members of several
militia groups, streamed to the ranch from several Western states,
including Nevada, Arizona, Idaho and Montana. They showed up with
rifles and handguns, determined to keep government agents at bay.
…READ ENTIRETY (BLM
misconduct probe may derail Bundy Ranch standoff trial; By Jenny Kane and
Robert Anglen; azcentral.com; 2/3/17 9:58 p.m. MT – Updated 2/4/17
11:45 a.m. MT}
Journalist Pete Santilli was arrested under the Obama
Administration DOJ claims he did not have a Free Press right for reporting on
the Bunkerville Standoff:
Reporter Pete Santilli had his
hearing in Nevada on Monday on trumped up charges he is facing for his
reporting on the Bundy Ranch Siege in 2014. As he left the courtroom in chains,
he cried out, “I’m a journalist. This is what they do in Communist China!”
…READ THE REST (Federal
Government Throws Journalist into Prison for the “Crime” of Covering BLM
Protests! By Tim Brown; Eagle Rising; May 2016)
The corruption can be seen with Defense Attorneys and the
Prosecution sparing about what evidence is admissible and about which witnesses
will be allowed to testify:
A downtown Las Vegas courtroom
provided scenes as wild as a Western movie Monday when federal prosecutors and
defense attorneys battled over nearly every piece of evidence presented in the
trial against six of rancher Cliven Bundy’s supporters.
Defense attorneys tried to block a
government witness from testifying. A prosecutor invoked an evidence rule that
led even the judge to flip open a legal handbook. A juror made a wisecrack that
caused one lawyer to raise concerns of potential bias.
By 4 p.m., U.S. District Judge
Gloria Navarro had sent the jury home early and told them not to return until
Wednesday.
The day’s most hotly disputed
footage was played outside the presence of the jury when defense lawyer Todd
Leventhal tried to bring into evidence a video from the April 2014 standoff in
Bunkerville. The video was captured by a Fox News cameraman, and Leventhal, who
represents Bundy supporter O. Scott Drexler, wanted the judge to let him play
it when he cross-examined Bureau of Land Management Ranger Gregory Johnson.
Johnson testified as a government
witness Monday. On April 12, 2014, he was recorded on dashboard camera footage
using a megaphone to repeatedly order protesters to disperse.
The protesters, who were gathered
near the site where federal authorities had been impounding Bundy’s cattle,
screamed angrily. At one point on the footage, authorities referenced a man
walking towards them — “blue shirt, looks like press.”
The cameraman was identified in
court only by his surname, Lynch. Defense lawyers tried to use the footage he
captured to bolster their arguments that protesters could not understand law
enforcement’s instructions from 200 yards away on a windy day.
On the video, Lynch walks toward
the cattle impoundment site where federal authorities were headquartered.
“I do not have a weapon — I am
shooting for Fox News,” he yelled. “May I approach so this doesn’t end in
bloodshed … the
people don’t
want to get hurt.”
“You are in violation of a U.S.
District Court order,” Johnson’s voice boomed over the megaphone.
“I am the press!” Lynch
shouted.
“Go back.”
“Why? Why can’t you talk to
me?!”
“You are in violation …”
“I have no weapon! Are you
really gonna shoot these people?” Lynch exclaimed. “We can’t hear your
announcement that far away.”
Navarro would not allow the video
into evidence Monday, but she told Leventhal he could play it for jurors if he
calls Lynch as a defense witness.
Recall above info in which Special In Charge Dirty Dan Love
is accused of ethics violations and witness intimidation. Dirty Dan is the guy
in charge yelling at the Fox News cameraman for documenting the standoff. Dirty
Dan’s BLM Agents tried to confiscate the Bundy Cattle and intimidated the
Ranchers into arming themselves with vicious actions against the protestors.
Guess what? The Federal Prosecutor is trying to
prevent Defense access to Dirty Dan at the trial:
It appears the government wants to
hide the illegal actions it has taken, along with those of the Bureau of Land Management in
the Bundy Ranch trial that is soon to begin.
On Tuesday, Prosecutors in Las
Vegas filed a Motion In Limine in the case of The United States vs Cliven Bundy et
al. They are hopeful that Nevada District Court Judge Gloria Navarro
will allow the US central government to “cover-up” any wrong doing by Bureau Of
Land Management agents during the 2014 Bundy Ranch siege.
An attorney for one of the
defendants told Guerilla Media Network, "It’s a shocking blatant attempt
by the Government to cover-up the brutal conduct of BLM agents that caused
a near catastrophe in Bunkerville, Nevada during the impoundment of rancher
Cliven Bundy’s cattle."
The motion is a draconian
attempt at best to “protect” government agents from being exposed to further
scrutiny during the upcoming Nevada trials in which they will be under-oath to
tell the truth.
...
The defense in this case is
centered around civil rights violations of the Bundy family and protestors who
came to Bunkerville, Nevada to protest an overreaching government agency who
had beaten and incarcerated Cliven Bundy’s son Dave Bundy and other protestors,
used a stun gun on his son Ammon Bundy, viciously attacked Mr. Bundy’s sister
Margaret, and terrorized peaceful protest with threat of snipers and military
force.
…
…
"It is what it is and we will
fight it," said Chris Rasmussen, attorney for reporter and radio show host Pete Santilli. "The
government wishes to eliminate anything we could use that goes to the
defendants' state of mind .. and we cannot allow that to happen. These people
were frightened and there was a reason they reacted the way they did."
"Do we or do we not still live
in America?" said former Nevada State Assemblywoman Michele Fiore on Tuesday in response to the motion.
"One way or the other the truth will be told and I would like to see
them stop me from voluntarily giving my testimony when this trial begins."
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Defendants in the case of United States vs Cliven Bundy et al .. are accusing
the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] and the FBI of altering dashboard and
body-cam video in an attempt to cover-up their aggressiveness during the 2014
protest that led to the arrest of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and 18 others.
Defendants are also accusing the FBI “infiltration team” who posed as a
documentary film crew called Long Bow, of editing video at crucial moments to
make defendants who gave interviews look guilty of crimes they did not commit.
On at least 5 different occasions the defendants in the case say that video
used to gain their indictments and create the Governments narrative that has
kept them all in jail pending trial, was clearly altered at crucial moments to
hide what they believe would expose the BLM as the aggressors and not the
“victims” as Prosecutor Steven Myhre contends.
We have found at least 5 different clear cases of evidence tampering and have
only viewed 1/4 of the discovery that was recently released to us by the
Prosecutors office say defendants, who have begun the process of creating a
power point demonstration that will be viewed by defense attorney’s on October
7, 2016.
…
MORE VIDEOS
Carol Bundy, Cliven Bundy’s wife,
reacted in a similar manner, "So what kind of defense are we allowed to
have if we can’t tell the truth? Because if the Government has it’s way
it looks like we will not be allowed to have any defense at all."
…
Judge Navarro has demonstrated that
she is just as corrupt as the BLM and the politicians surrounding what is going
on in Nevada. Just look at what she has done to Santilli and Cliven Bundy. Does anyone
really believe she is not going to accept this motion? –READ ENTIRETY (Prosecutors
Seek to Protect BLM from Scrutiny in Bundy Ranch Trial; By TIM BROWN; Freedom
Outpost; 1/28/17)
Now for the article that got me started on this brief
excursion of government cover-up and corruption. This article is specifically
about the Prosecutors preventing Dirty Dan to be confronted by the Defense as
the accuser of the Bunkerville Standoff Defendants.
The utter hypocrisy
that is being demonstrated in the Bundy Ranch trial by those who swore an oath
to uphold and defend the Constitution from both foreign and domestic enemies is
quite telling as to the level of corruption we are seeing in our land today.
Furthermore, it is demonstrating that many of those who have taken that
oath not only don't know what the Constitution says, but also have become the
very domestic enemies they proclaim to oppose because of their ignorance.
First, take this
update from Guerilla Media Network's Deb Jordan.
call Daniel P. Love to the stand she is leaning heavily toward not
allowing the defense to call him to the stand either. In a shocking statement
made outside the earshot of the Jury this past Friday, Navarro said that she
has no obligation to allow the defense to call the former Special Agent in
Charge of the Bundy cattle impoundment to the stand for the purpose of
impeaching his testimony to the grand jury .. Also this week Dennis Michael
Lynch took the stand ..
"Judge Gloria
Navarro presiding over USA vs Cliven Bundy says, if the Prosecution does not
call Daniel P. Love to the stand she is leaning heavily toward not allowing the
defense to call him to the stand either," Jordan wrote. "In a
shocking statement made outside the earshot of the Jury this past Friday,
Navarro said that she has no obligation to allow the defense to call the former
Special Agent in Charge of the Bundy cattle impoundment to the stand for the
purpose of impeaching his testimony to the grand jury."
However, that is not
the whole of what is taking place in Nevada. The Nevada Independent reports:
Although no shots were fired that day, federal officers previously
testified that alarming investigative intelligence, combined with the guns
present in the agitated crowd and para-military dress of some of the
protesters, made them afraid for their safety. Six defendants the government
describes as Bundy’s gunmen are on trial accused of threatening and
intimidating BLM and U.S. Parks Service law enforcement officers.
In recent weeks, on cross examination, the defense has managed to portray
the federal cops as inexperienced wannabes who lacked judgment and overreacted
under stress. After the decision was made to discontinue the roundup, some of
BLM rangers and Park police initially refused orders to put away their weapons,
stand down and pack up. Some of their responses under oath made them appear
more fearful than professional.
But the defense this past week had little success with Metro Sgt. Tom
Jenkins and none at all with Sheriff Joseph Lombardo.
Additionally, there
was testimony by Metro Sgt. Tom Jenkins, who claimed that protesters were
flashing handguns and rifles "from the time we got there until the time we
left." However, he remained steadfast in his claims even though
lengthy recorded exhibits didn't always agree with his testimony. Someone
is not being truthful or has a really bad memory that cannot be trusted.
Jenkins claims his
officers were "scared" and "crying." Really?
I wonder if Sgt.
Jenkins thought there was fear in the hearts of the Bundys and their supporters
over this?
Then there was
testimony from Lombardo. Again, from The Nevada Independent:
When Lombardo’s took the stand Thursday, he reminded those who have
followed his career that the public needn’t worry about his leadership skills.
An assistant sheriff at the time of the standoff, Lombardo accompanied Sheriff
Doug Gillespie to Bundy’s makeshift stage outside his ranch in an attempt to
cool the heated rhetoric and avoid bloodshed. He stood patiently during Bundy’s
windy grandstanding and impossible demands — disarm all federal law enforcement
and bulldoze the entrance booths at the region’s federal conservation and
recreation areas — and then returned to Las Vegas believing the botched cattle
roundup was reaching a peaceful resolution.
For the first time jurors saw video of the elder Bundy holding forth with
armed, uniformed members of the Arizona State Militia, who call themselves the
“Praetorian Guard,” standing guard. Dozens of his hundreds of followers were
armed with handguns and rifles.
When Bundy instructed his followers to go get his cattle, Lombardo’s day
grew complicated and dangerous. He attempted to negotiate with one of Bundy’s
sons, Dave Bundy, in a plea for patience and enough time to allow the BLM to
make a safe exit.
It was Lombardo, jurors learned, who essentially put his career on the
line to overrule BLM Supervisory Special Agent Dan Love and press for the
release of the impounded cattle during the height of the armed standoff’s
tensions.
“He advised me they were federal cattle and it was his decision,”
Lombardo said.
Fortunately, Lombardo prevailed.
On what
constitutional basis do Cliven Bundy's cattle become "federal
cattle"? There is no victim any what the government is portraying
here. Furthermore, just because a video shows armed citizens protecting
one another from a tyrannical BLM, something that even Sheriff Lombardo was
willing to stand up to, doesn't mean they were breaking the law.
Seriously, is no one reading the Second Amendment? Do none of these
people know why we have it and what provoked the
writing of the Second Amendment? or the First? or the Third? or the
Fourth, etc. etc.?
While the author of
the Nevada Independent piece concluded, "Bring guns to a peaceful protest,
and you’re bound to get everyone’s attention," what he failed to identify
is who brought them first. The response of protesters with guns was an
equal and measured defensive response to tyrants, period. Now, you can
see the utter hypocrisy and lack of moral compass that is on display in this
case.
