Mike Adams introduces a Pete Santilli video on Brighteon
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Obama Administration to Burisma dirt that includes the Bidens. The video is
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Pete Santilli releases bombshell video exposing TRUTH
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Pete Santilli, who runs one
of the more popular video channels on Brighteon.com,
has just released a bombshell 36-minute documentary video that rips wide open
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the full-blown treason against America that has been waged by the
Democrats.
Consider this a must-see documentary. It aligns with the
bombshell information uncovered by Rudy Giuliani, who has now found that Barack
Obama and his key political operators scammed at least $12.5 billion out of
Ukraine from 2012 – 2018. Giuliani summarized these stunning findings in a recent interview with Glenn Beck from The Blaze:
Giuliani said the corruption in
Ukraine most likely started in 2012 during the Obama administration and
involved at least two major schemes, one for $7.5 billion and another for $5
billion.
He backed his claims with bank
and court records that show a million-dollar money trail leading from Ukraine
to a fake company in Latvia, then to Cyprus, and finally to the board members
of Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas firm whose board included Hunter Biden
and business partner Devon Archer.
Pete Santilli’s bombshell video goes way deeper, uncovering
a system of fraud, corruption, extortion and money laundering that easily
qualifies as the most outrageous corruption ever witnessed in the history of
the United States of America.
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When the president of the United
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investigate crimes at the highest levels of both governments. This video lays
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administration beginning in 2013 and explains clearly how Ukraine was corrupted
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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.
I have some background
perspective leading up to the good news that journalist Pete Santilli had all
charges against him dismissed in relation to the Oregon Malheur Wildlife
Reserve Standoff between ranchers and State/Federal authorities.
Toward the end of 2015 and the first couple months of 2016
the news media was all astir about some angry ranchers, self-termed a militia,
protesting government land-grabbing around the Burns Oregon area. More
specifically these angry ranchers occupied Oregon
Malheur Wildlife Reserve which is public land that was nationalized by the
Federal government.
What sparked a number of ranchers from many Western States
to occupy a federal refuge in Oregon? A Burns area ranching family – the
Hammonds – was dealing with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Fish
and Wildlife Service (FWS) who desired to purchase a swath of the Hammond
family’s. After the Hammonds refused to sell the BLM and FWS utilized
regulations and rules that have the force of law (even if not specifically
legislated by Congress) to oppress/persecute the Hammonds to sell or for the
Federal government to simply downright steal the land by force of law:
…
HISTORY: (aa) The
Harney Basin (where the Hammond ranch is established) was settled in the
1870’s. The valley was settled by multiple ranchers and was known to have run
over 300,000 head of cattle. These ranchers developed a state of the art
irrigated system to water the meadows, and it soon became a favorite stopping
place for migrating birds on their annual trek north.
…
(a) In 1964 the Hammonds’ purchased
their ranch in the Harney Basin. The purchase included approximately 6000 acres
of private property, 4 grazing rights on public land, a small ranch house and 3
water rights. The ranch is around 53 miles South of Burns, Oregon.
(a1) By the 1970’s nearly all the
ranches adjacent to the Blitzen Valley were purchased by the US Fish and
Wildlife Service (FWS) and added to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The
refuge covers over 187,000 acres, stretches over 45 miles long and 37 miles
wide. The expansion of the refuge grew and surrounds to the Hammond’s ranch.
Approached many times by the FWS, the Hammonds refused to sell. Other ranchers
also choose not to sell.
(a2) During the 1970’s the Fish and
Wildlife Service (FWS), in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM), took a different approach to get the ranchers to sell. Ranchers were
told: “grazing was detrimental to wildlife and must be reduced”; 32 out of 53
permits were revoked and many ranchers were forced to leave. Grazing fees were
raised significantly for those who were allowed to remain. Refuge personnel
took over the irrigation system claiming it as their own.
(a3) By 1980 a conflict was well on
its way over water allocations on the adjacent privately owned Silvies Plain.
The FWS wanted to acquire the ranch lands on the Silvies Plain to add to their
already vast holdings. Refuge personnel intentionally diverted the water
bypassing the vast meadow lands, directing the water into the rising Malheur
Lakes. Within a few short years the surface area of the lakes doubled.
Thirty-one ranches on the Silvies plains were flooded. Homes, corrals, barns and
graze-land were washed away and destroyed. The ranchers who once fought to keep
the FWS from taking their land, now broke and destroyed, begged the FWS to
acquire their useless ranches. In 1989 the waters began to recede; now the once
thriving privately owned Silvies plains are a proud part of the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge claimed by the FWS.
(a4) By the 1990’s the Hammonds
were one of the very few ranchers who still owned private property adjacent to
the refuge. Susie Hammond in an effort to make sense of what was going on began
compiling facts about the refuge. In a hidden public record she found a study
done by the FWS in 1975. The study showed the “no use” policies of the FWS on
the refuge were causing the wildlife to leave the refuge and move to private
property. The study showed the private property adjacent to the Malheur
Wildlife Refuge produced four times more ducks and geese than the refuge.
The study also showed the migrating birds were 13 times more likely to land on
private property than on the refuge. When Susie brought this to the attention
of the FWS and refuge personnel, her and her family became the subjects of a
long train of abuses and corruptions.
(b) In the early 1990’s the
Hammonds filed on a livestock water source and obtained a deed for the water
right from the State of Oregon. When the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and US
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) found out the Hammonds obtained new water
rights near the Malhuer Wildlife Refuge, they were agitated and became belligerent
and vindictive toward the Hammonds. The US Fish and Wildlife Service challenged
the Hammonds right to the water in an Oregon State Circuit Court. The court
found the Hammonds legally obtained rights to the water in accordance to State
law and therefore the use of the water belongs to the Hammonds.*
(c) In August 1994 the BLM &
FWS illegally began building a fence around the Hammonds water source. Owning
the water rights, and knowing that their cattle relied on that water source
daily, the Hammonds tried to stop the building of the fence. The BLM & FWS
called the Harney County Sheriff department and had Dwight Hammond (Father)
arrested and charged with “disturbing and interfering with” federal officials
or federal contractors (two counts, each a felony). Dwight spent one
night in the Deschutes County Jail in Bend, and a second night behind bars in
Portland. He was then hauled before a federal magistrate and released without
bail. A hearing on the charges was postponed and the federal judge never set
another date.
(d) The FWS also began restricting
access to upper pieces of the Hammond’s private property. In order to get to
the upper part of the Hammond’s ranch they had to go on a road that went
through the Malhuer Wildlife Refuge. The FWS began barricading the road and
threatening the Hammonds if they drove through it. The Hammonds removed the
barricades and gates and continued to use their right of access. The road was
proven later to be owned by the County of Harney. This further enraged the BLM &
FWS.
(e) Shortly after the road &
water disputes, the BLM & FWS arbitrarily revoked the Hammond’s upper
grazing permit without any given cause, court proceeding or court ruling. As a
traditional “fence out state” Oregon requires no obligation on the part of an
owner to keep his or her livestock within a fence or to maintain control over
the movement of the livestock. The Hammonds still intended to use their private
property for grazing. However, they were informed a federal judge ruled, in a
federal court, the federal government did not have to observe the Oregon fence
out law. “Those laws are for the people, not for them”.
(f) The Hammonds were forced to
either build and maintain miles of fences or be restricted from the use of
their private property. Cutting their ranch in almost half, they could not
afford to fence the land, so …READ
ENTIRETY (Full Story About What’s Going on In Oregon –
“Militia” Take Over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge In Protest to Hammond
Family Persecution…; By sundance;
The Last Refuge –
Conservative Tree House; 1/3/16)
The odd thing about the plight of the Hammonds is as a
family they never committed to be supportive of all the ranchers that came to
the Malheur Wildlife Reserve to occupy and protest the treatment of the
Hammonds and the father and son incarceration twice for the
same accused crime. The Oregon local ranchers and rural communities
were not very supportive either. My guess is the locals did not want to rock
the status quo they had become accustomed to from the BLM and FWS OR some of
the Left Coast thinking had infected the locals who may have some sympathy for
the Left Wing environmentalists (Eco-Marxism) who want to
protect wetlands for their precious birds (Left
Coast Thinking: HERE. AND Paiutes: HERE. AND Conservative
Sympathetic yet Support Feds: HERE) over the property
rights being abused against ranchers who have become upset enough over Federal
Land Grabbing to actually arm themselves to go down swinging against the power
of Big Brother.
Even without Oregon local support, I tended to have a lot of
sympathy for their protest. I will never be a fan of a coercive government
pressuring American citizens pertaining to their rights to property. In the
case of Western rural landowners - ranching, farming or a combination – The
federal government’s job should be limited to protecting constitutional Rights
rather than usurping land by coercion or pressure via bureaucratic regulations.
The vast amount of land under Federal control is an intrusion of States’ Rights
(Tenth Amendment).
The Ammon Bundy protest was undoubtedly doomed to failure.
The Left Stream Media and politicians made little effort to report on the
reasons these ranchers embarked on a doomed protest. The lack of balanced
coverage painted a picture of extremists doing Right Wing nut job antics. Worse
these ranchers were prepared to the weapons the 2nd Amendment
guarantees every American to own for self-protection and to rise up against a
tyrannical government. After all, it was British tyranny that caused thirteen
British Colonies to rebel. One of the British injustices was storming onto
private citizens’ property and seize food and guns. HENCE the Second Amendment.
The Founding Fathers had a mistrust of a government that might devolve into
tyranny.
In the case of Ammon Bundy’s rancher militia, if shooting
began, there was zero possibility the militia could match the fire power of
well-resourced State and Federal police force. HENCE the death of LaVoy Finicum –
witnesses claim murder and the FBI claims justified shooting because Finicum
was armed. By the way, armed with what to die in a hail of bullets?
Shortly after the arrest of Ammon and Ryan Bundy the militia
protest ended. As far as the Left Wing Media goes, that was the end of the
story. Yet anyone considered in a leadership mode were all arrested. Those
prosecutions are still ongoing. I haven’t noticed any media coverage. To read
coverage on the trials you have to go alternative news sources of the Left and
Right to see how Big Brother is persecuting these rancher protesters. Much of
the Left that is following the trials are full of condemnation ready to pitch
the perceived lawbreakers to the lions of the coliseum. The sympathetic Right
are typically anti-Big Brother types such as Oath
Keepers and III Percenters
(Explanation: SHORT – LONG). There are
Establishment Conservatives that also have an unsympathetic view of the rancher
militia in Oregon because they believe the Constitution does not support the
Bundy/Militia view.
Then there are sympathetic types that faithfully covered the
Bundy/Militia rancher standoff in blogs, radio and live streaming podcasts. The
most prolific of these was Pete Santilli whose sympathies were rewarded by
being present with an inside view reporting on the Malheur Wildlife Reserve
Standoff. The problem for Santilli was that the Federal authorities did not
appreciate him giving the public a favorable perspective of the ranchers’
complaints.
Santilli was arrested for his efforts. Prosecutors decided
to throw the book at Santilli to the degree if convicted, he could have spent
as long as thirty years in prison. For what? Allowing the public an inside
view.
The good news for Santilli is that his lawyers managed to
get the Judge to get the evidence the Prosecutors desired to use tossed. This
led to the announcement that ALL CHARCHES against Pete Santilli were dismissed
without prejudice. Below is The
Washington Standard’s coverage of Pete Santilli’s victory over the
Prosecution by Big Brother.
(I have some background links that I am providing after the
WS story)
In a filing on Tuesday, US
Attorney Billy J. Williams said prosecutors decided not to pursue charges
against Santilli because of “this Court’s pretrial evidentiary rulings
excluding evidence against” him.
“It’s been our position since
the beginning that Pete had innocent intentions here,” Santilli’s lawyer Tom
Coan told KOIN 6 News. “He never encouraged anyone to go out and stay at the
refuge.”
The dismissal came at the
request of federal prosecutors in Portland who acknowledged in court papers
that they no longer had enough evidence to pursue their case against
conservative radio talk show host Pete Santilli. Prosecutors cited rulings that
barred them from presenting some of their evidence.
“Based upon this
Court’s pretrial evidentiary rulings excluding evidence against Santilli (ECF
No. 1171), the government has decided that the interests of justice do not
support further pursuit of these charges against Santilli,” wrote US Attorney
Billy J. Williams.
Awww, their
evidence wasn’t admitted? Poor babies. Perhaps, they should try acknowledging
who is actually committing the crimes on land that, according the Constitution,
belongs to the people of the State of Oregon.
However, this does
not mean that Santilli is completely off the hook just yet. He is being
transported to Nevada where he is facing trumped up charges from the 2014 Bundy
Ranch siege in Bunkerville, Nevada.
“He looks forward
to focusing 100 percent of his time defending the charges here in Nevada,”
Santilli attorney Chris Rasmussen said Tuesday.
Ammon Bundy’s
former attorney Mike Arnold added that he believes the trial on what he refers
to as “thought crimes” will be a long one.
“We don’t have
thought crimes in America. You need, typically, overt acts to accompany speech
in order to make it past First Amendment muster,” Arnold said. “In this case,
the government is claiming that the possession of firearms on the property was
such an overt act and the protesters are presumably going to say, ‘you know, we
have a right to open carry.'”
Mark McConnell was at the arrest and shootout of Ammon and Ryan Bundy, LaVoy Finicum (killed), Brian Cavalier, Shawna Cox and Ryan Waylen Payne. At nearby locations Joseph Donald O’Shaughnessy and Pete Santilli (Internet Journalist).
Evidently Mark McConnell was in one of the vehicles but was not arrested after interrogation. The reasoning for no arrest is unclear to me at this point. McConnell says he wasn’t a part of the agenda of the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom so they let him go. To me it sounds suspicious but he does come across as convincing. The problem his account of Finicum’s murder by the FBI differs from others who say they watched what happened.
My heart & prays go out to LaVoy Finicum's family he was just murdered with his hands up in Burns OR. Ryan Bundy has been shot in the arm
Here we have an elected official from the state of Nevada with obvious sympathy for the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom stand against the unconstitutional usurpation of private land from the Federal government. For more public examples like the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) charging the Bundy family graze their cattle on land appropriated by the Federal government. Or right in Oregon when the BLM burned brush for a good purpose but torched private homes in the process. AND when a family like the Hammonds ignited a backfire to keep a BLM fire from overtaking their own land, a Hammond father and son were thrown in jail twice for the same incident labelled a crime by first Oregon state and second by the Federal government when a Federal prosecutor deemed the State sentence was too lenient. So after a half decade the Federal Judiciary threw them in jail again.
This last intrusion in the private lives in a rancher family’s life led to Ammon Bundy to organize what became the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom. This CCF group never and I mean never initiated an armed resistance to the government but rather occupied a then unused wildlife center on Federally usurped land saying they would stay there until the Hammonds were released from prison.
The Hammond family already feeling the full force of State and Federal government power through manipulation of the rule of law chose not to join Ammon Bundy and the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom in their stand for Original Intent of the U.S. Constitution.
The core leaders of the Bundy led group were on their way to another Oregon town called John Day to make a free speech appeal to the citizens there in a public Townhall meeting. It turned out the Feds got wind of the expedition and set up a road block to arrest the core leadership. One of which was LaVoy Finicum. Now we come back to Mark McConnell and the details of how Finicum was shot to death.
McConnell asserts Finicum charged the FBI and was shot to death. Other witnesses say Finicum got out of the vehicle and went to his knees with his hands up (as Assemblywoman Fiore indicated) and the FBI sent a hail of bullets onto the surrendering Finicum killing him in cold blood. Here is Mark McConnell’s Facebook video which he preluded with, “Here’s the video of what happened.”
Here's the video of what happened.
Posted by Mark McConnell on Wednesday, January 27, 2016
NOW here is an eyewitness account of a troubled lady who claims to be in one of the vehicles in which she saw LaVoy Finicum murdered in cold blood. THIS IS ENTIRELY A DIFFERENT PICTURE than what Mark McConnell paints.
This is breaking, first-hand, eyewitness audio testimony of one person's perspective on what happened to LaVoy Finicum on January 26, 2016. The witness you're going to hear was in the car with LaVoy, Ryan Payne, Ryan Bundy, and Shawna Cox.
The federal agents fired the first and only shots, according to this testimony. The witness stated that Finicum had his hands in the air when he was shot.
Blog Editor Update 1/30/16: The owner of the above video as of this moment has withdrawn the embed to other blogs. So here is the same audio as above but with a WND embed:
The two pictures painted by McConnell and the other eyewitness are very divergent. I am willing to bet when the FBI finally releases an official account it will resemble McConnell’s version. But if you listened closely to his account you will pick up on something about his monologue as being off. I heard him say something to the effect he was in one of the vehicles stopped by the road block. McConnell described that the Bundy’s surrendered but left out any details of Ryan Bundy being shot which he was. Ryan was shot in the arm according to what I read. McConnell also says Finicum jumped back in his vehicle and tried to speed away yet got blocked by the cops. According McConnell, then Finicum got out of his vehicle and charged the FBI and then was shot to death. Does anyone see something off about McConnell saying Finicum sped off but was able to see his get out of his vehicle and charge the FBI?
Well that is just something to dwell on.
It is also interesting that LaVoy Finicum seems to have had a premonition of his death. He gave an interview to the Oregonian the very same day he was assassinated by the FBI:
"They're doing all the things that shows that they want to take some kinetic action against us," Robert "LaVoy" Finicum says of federal agents. These were some of Finicum's last words to The Oregonian/OregonLive on the day before his death.
Also on the same day LaVoy Finicum to a mobile phone video of his family singing “Amazing Grace”:
