The history of the United States serves as a reminder that gun control was already tried in the 1950s, and it was intentionally implemented to suppress minorities.
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In April 2014, hundreds of armed protesters gathered at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada to take a stand against the federal government.
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Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has long claimed he was wronged by the Obama administration’s overly aggressive prosecution of him and his family in 2014 over his refusal to pay bogus grazing fees he said he never owed.
Turns out he was exactly right.
As reported by The Daily Caller, court documents unsealed last week provide details about how a team of prosecutors assigned to convict Bundy and his sons Ammon and Ryan, along with family friend Ryan W. Payne, following an armed standoff near their Nevada ranch failed to hand over exculpatory evidence to a federal court.
As such, their case ended in a mistrial Dec. 20 after U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro ruled that the prosecutors violated the defendants’ civil rights after withholding evidence that would have supported their case.
Now, Navarro is considering tossing the case out altogether “with prejudice,” a ruling which would block prosecutors from retrying the case. A decision is expected Jan. 8, The New York Times reported.
Two earlier trials against other defendants ended in hung juries, the Times noted further.
Among the exculpatory evidence the prosecution failed to turn over was a video taken from within the Bundy range during the standoff by a federal informant, evidence that the FBI had agents involved in the standoff, and a threat assessment of the Bundys that the government drafted.
“There were approximately 3,000 pages that were provided to us only after we started trial,” Bret D. Whipple, one of Cliven Bundy’s lawyers, told the Times. “I personally have never seen anything like this, especially in a case of such importance.”
“We’ve told everyone all along, ‘the truth will set us free,’” said Angie Bundy, the wife of Ryan Bundy. “It was the lies we’re worried about.”
Other evidence withheld from the court was an assessment by government officials that the Bundys were not violent people. “She cited all of that,” Angie Bundy said of Navarro. “At this point, I don’t know what kind of case they have against us.”
The Oregonian reported that attorneys for Ryan Payne requested in a July 5 email that prosecutors turn over all threat assessments prepared before the 2014 standoff, but prosecutors characterized the defendants’ frequent push for the assessments as one in a “long list of frivolous and vexatious pleadings.” As such, prosecutors withheld those assessments until the defendants were actually in court and in the midst of their trial. The existence of the assessments was confirmed by a government witness under cross-examination.
Failure to hand over the assessments was “just one example of the prosecution team’s callous disregard of its constitutional obligations to share with the defense any potentially favorable evidence, according to Payne’s lawyers,” The Oregonian reported.
(Related: REPORT: BLM used ‘incredible bias’ during overly aggressive RAID of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.)
For more than 20 years Cliven Bundy has grazed his cattle on federal land in Nevada but refused to pay grazing fees, insisting he was not obligated to do so because he had inherited water rights on the land. In response, the BLM, during a heavily-armed raid, seized his cattle, killing some of them, in an attempt to force him to pay. The Bundys were supported immediately by dozens of armed neighbors who showed up to help protect and defend them.
In April 2014, Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, wrote a column that was critical of the BLM for the way its agents handled the standoff with Bundy, noting prophetically that “the federal government is out of control yet again.”
A subsequent report in December substantiated Adams’ claims. BLM special agent Larry Wooten issued a report indicating that government agents very likely broke federal laws and used “incredible bias” against Bundy and his family during the incident while engaging in tactics of intimidation during the operation.
Via Natural News
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by Rep. Raul Labrador 1-27-2018
It took too long, but our legal system delivered a blow for justice this month when a federal judge in Nevada dismissed charges against rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons and a fourth man.
The government alleged they led an armed rebellion against the United States, charging them with conspiracy, extortion, using firearms in the commission of crimes, assault, threatening federal officers and other felonies.
But U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed the charges, citing “outrageous” misconduct by federal prosecutors that “violated due process rights.”
In an unusual step, Navarro read her order from the bench, taking a half-hour for a point-by-point account of government misconduct. At the heart of the outrage was the prosecution’s willful withholding of critical evidence that could have proven the defendants guiltless. Navarro said the prosecution committed an “intentional abdication of its responsibility.”
To ensure fairness in our justice system, the government is required to disclose exculpatory evidence that may be helpful to the defense. That prosecutors ignored this bedrock principle is abhorrent.
Among the evidence that might have helped the defense were records of government surveillance at the Bundy ranch, information about the presence of government snipers, FBI logs about activity at the ranch in the days before the 2014 standoff, and law enforcement assessments saying the Bundys posed no threat of violence.
Rather than disclose that evidence as required by law, the prosecution taunted the defense for seeking the BLM’s internal affairs report, calling it a “bright shiny object…that did not exist.” Navarro noted that prosecutors had willfully mocked the defense for making a basic request to ensure fairness and justice.
I’ve been so troubled by the prosecutions that in September I contacted Attorney General Jeff Sessions. I both wrote and spoke to Sessions, urging him to review a letter signed by 53 current and former members of the Idaho Legislature. The legislators had expressed serious concerns about the treatment of four Idahoans facing trial in connection with the standoff, including Ammon Bundy, who was among those covered by Judge Navarro’s dismissal.
“There is a strong possibility that a miscarriage of justice is being committed,” I wrote, asking Sessions to ensure that defendants be treated fairly. In December, Sessions opened an inquiry into the prosecutors’ actions. I welcome that investigation.
Congress will also hold the BLM accountable. I am a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, which has asked the BLM director to address the Bundy case and to how to restore trust in the agency’s ability to effectively enforce the law on federal land. In Idaho, the BLM manages about 22 percent of the land. It’s vital that Idahoans working and recreating on those lands have confidence that they are treated fairly.
We must learn from this horrible example of bad faith and take steps to ensure that such misconduct isn’t repeated. And we must never shy from the principle that civil liberties are absolutely fundamental to our constitutional form of government.
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The court"s decision marks an end to the federal case against the Bundy family for their role in the 2014 armed standoff over cattle-grazing rights in Nevada.
Unsealed court documents detail how the team of prosecutors tasked with convicting Cliven Bundy and his sons of crimes relating to a 2014 armed standoff failed to turn over potential exculpatory evidence to the court, The Oregonian reports.
The Bundys’ case ended in a mistrial Dec. 20 after Judge Gloria Navarro ruled that prosecutors violated the civil rights of the defendants by withholding evidence supporting the Bundys’ case.
Navarro is considering dismissing the case “with prejudice” and blocking prosecutors from retrying the case. Her decision will come Jan. 8, according to The New York Times.
“There were approximately 3,000 pages that were provided to us only after we started trial,” Bundy lawyer Bret D. Whipple told TheNYT. “I personally have never seen anything like this, especially in a case of such importance.”
Those 3,000 pages include the Bundys’ requests for multiple federal assessments that showed the Bundy family was likely not dangerous. Prosecutors called the requests part of a “long list of frivolous and vexatious pleadings,” until a government witness, under cross examination, revealed knowledge of the assessments in court, The Oregonian reports.
Defense attorney’s asked federal prosecutors to hand over Inspector General reports on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agent Dan Love, who directed the BLM raid on the Bundy ranch to seize the family’s cattle over decades of unpaid grazing fees.
Love was fired from the agency in September for corruption and unethical behavior.
Prosecutors had dismissed the allegations and investigations of Love as an “urban legend,” but ended up handing over 500 pages worth of reports on Love in December, according to The Oregonian.
The Bundys’ lawyers made two requests to Navarro for a special “discovery monitor” to ensure that all relevant documents were being turned over by the prosecution. Both requests were denied.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, however, launched an investigation into prosecutorial misconduct after the mistrial.
12-18-17 RealNews with David Knight – Interview with Matt Shea following up on recent interviews with Shari Dovale of Redoubt News, about the whistleblower, BLM Agent Whooten, and documents related to the Bundy Ranch Trial currently in progress in Las Vegas.
12/18/17 Matt Shea with David Knight
12-18-17 RealNews with David Knight – Interview with Matt Shea following up on recent interviews with Shari Dovale of Redoubt News, about the whistleblower, BLM Agent Whooten, and documents related to the Bundy Ranch Trial currently in progress in Las Vegas.
Posted by Redoubt News on Monday, December 18, 2017
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YOU CAN SEE, BY THEIR OWN WORDING, THAT THEY THOUGHT THE WOOTEN DISCLOSURES WERE DETRIMENTAL TO THEIR CASE.
by Shari Dovale
Washington Representative Matt Shea is all over these leaks coming out of the Bunkerville ‘Trial of the Century’. Exclusively through Redoubt News, Shea tells the world about ANOTHER leaked document that has BLM Agent Kent Klemen trying to discredit the Larry Wooten whistleblower report, but it actually reinforces Wooten’s information.
To begin with, Agent Kent Klemen was a government witness in this case, who was asked by Acting US Attorney Steven Myhre to investigate the shredding of the documents found at the Incident Command Post (ICP) after the BLM and FBI left the area. Not only did Myhre want Klemen to lead the investigation but Myhre also defined the parameters of this same investigation.
It is interesting that this trained investigator never ask anyone involved “Why” they were shredding documents or “Who” directed them to shred the documents.
Now, we have AUSA Myhre asking his favorite investigator to handle this whistle-blower report, as well. The Klemen report begins:
On February 17,2017, BLM Special Agent (SA) Larry “Clint” Wooten was removed from the Bundy investigative team at the request of lead prosecutor First Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Myhre. Myhre stated that Wooten had made recent statements that Wooten believes that the BLM lacks law enforcement authority. Additionally, Wooten recently stated to Bundy case prosecutors that in Wooten’s opinion the government withheld exculpatory evidence involving Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) Dan Love.
He then explains how he got onto this investigation:
Myhre requested that I collect and review Wooten’s case materials to identify any previously undisclosed information. Myhre specifically requested that I review Wooten’s “rumor log” that Wooten implied to the prosecutors contained this withheld exculpatory information. Myhre also requested that I review any material related to Wooten’s claim that Dan Love ordered BLM officers to “rough up” Bundy family members or to “kick Cliven Bundy in the teeth” that Wooten said BLM SA Rand Stover knew about.
You can see, by their own wording, that they thought the Wooten disclosures were detrimental to their case. Calling it a “rumor log” shows they want the report discredited.
“Potential Issues/Critical Vulnerabilities.”
The reviewed materials included calendar notes for a conference call with prosecutors on October 14, 2016. Listed under “Critical Vulnerabilities”, the report itemizes the following topics that the BLM agent felt were critical:
1. BLM was heavy handed even cruel in the enforcement of the court order.
2. BLM lacked law enforcement authority in their case.
3. BLM is a poor manager of the resources such as grazing.
4. DL (Dan Love) had a personal agenda and is immoral (jury appeal)
This indicates this is nothing new to AUSA Myhre. The prosecutors knew about this since the conference call on October 14, 2016! It did not suddenly get revealed to him in February 2017. He knew about this months before.
However, nothing was done until Larry Wooten pressed the issue. The prosecutors never turned over this information to the defense, as is required under the Brady Rules. Not when they first learned of it, and not when Larry Wooten wrote his email report. Not even when Klemen was told to investigate Wooten after he wrote the whistle-blower email.
And not anytime during the first two trials of these 19 men. It was not revealed until well into the third trial.
This report verifies that the Bureau of Land Management’s own investigator believed that the BLM was in violation of the law during the Bunkerville protest!
It is time for the prosecution to stop playing fast and loose with the Brady rules. Judge Gloria Navarro needs to take control and sanction these rogue government employees.
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This time what appears to be a self-admission of flaws within the agency…http://ow.ly/d/786p
Here is an excerpt:
“Critical Vulnerabilities” [in the case]
1. “BLM was heavy handed even cruel in the enforcement of court order.”
2. “BLM lacked law enforcement authority in their case.”
3. “BLM is a poor manager of the resources such as grazing.”
4. “Dan Love had a personal agenda and is immoral (jury appeal).”
Yet, even more reasons that Congress, Secretary Zinke, and the Trump Administration need to launch an investigation.
Matt Shea: ANOTHER SMOKING GUN REGARDING THE BLM
Even MORE Breaking News on the BLM from Representative Matt Shea!Documents here: https://redoubtnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Kent-Kleman-Communication_786p.pdf
Posted by Redoubt News on Saturday, December 16, 2017
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In an exclusive video interview with Redoubt News, Washington State Representative Matt Shea read from a letter he received concerning a BLM whistle blower named Larry Wooten.
Wooten was the lead investigator for the Bureau of Land Management’s investigation into the Bunkerville/Gold Butte operation that went bad for them in April of 2014.
The letter outlines egregious violations and abuses committed by the Bureau of Land Management employees, lead by SAC Dan Love.
These heinous acts were discovered when Wooten was assigned to investigate the Bunkerville Standoff/Gold Butte operation that took place in April 2014.
Wooten was the lead investigator for nearly 3 years, digging into a multitude of issues. He states in the letter:
…the investigation revealed a widespread pattern of bad judgment, lack of discipline, incredible bias, unprofessionalism and misconduct, as well as likely policy, ethical, and legal violations among senior and supervisory staff at the BLM’s Office of Law Enforcement and Security.
He outlined specifics, such as very derogatory name calling, when he described the unprofessional behavior. Additionally, Wooten states that this behavior was committed “often by law enforcement supervisors who are potential witnesses and investigative team supervisors”.
Agent Wooten outlines in detail how Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Dan Love was known for his bad behavior and allowed to get away with it, as he was “the BLM OLES “Directors boy” and they indicated they were going to hide and protect him.”
But, the information that this courageous whistle blower reveals only gets worse from here.
Wooten goes on to outline that SAC Dan Love had what was called a “Kill Book as a trophy and in essence bragged about getting three individuals in Utah to commit suicide (see Operation Cerberus Action out of Blanding, Utah and the death of Dr. Redd).”
The report also describes what appears to be additional people on the BLM hit list, this time, however, Wooten’s own supervisor was an accessory.
My supervisor even took photographs in the secure command post area of the Las Vegas FBI Headquarters and even after he was told that no photographs were allowed, he recklessly emailed out photographs of the “Arrest Tracking Wall” in which Eric Parker and Cliven Bundy had “X’s” through their face and body (indicating prejudice and bias).
The report that Representative Shea shared has multiple pages and is presented here for you to read for yourself.
Some people might claim this is a disgruntled employee, and I would say they are probably not wrong. However, there are too many specifics included, and too many verifiable facts, to disregard the report. Any person that uncovered these abuses, and was fired for trying to report them, has every right to be disgruntled.
Wooten explains that in “February of 2017, it became clear to me that keeping quite became an unofficial condition of my future employment with the BLM, future awards, promotions, and a good future job reference.”
This report names several BLM agents and employees, but then it goes even further. The US Attorney’s office is also implicated in the cover-up:
When I asked [AUSA (First Assistant and Lead Prosecutor) Steven] Myhre if the former BLM SAC’s statements like “Go out there and kick Cliven Bundy in the mouth (or teeth) and take his cattle” and “I need you to get the troops fired up to go get those cows and not take any crap from anyone” would be exculpatory or if we would have to inform the defense counsel, he said something like “we do now,” or “it is now.”
Wooten took great risk upon himself to report the flagrant and vicious acts committed by these government representatives and the Acting US Attorney, Steven Myhre, had him fired from the investigation.
On February 18, 2017, I was removed from my position as the Case Agent Lead Investigator for the Cliven Bundy/Gold Butte Nevada Case
My supervisor told me that AUSA Steven Myhre “furiously demanded” that I be removed from the case and mentioned something about us (the BLM, specifically my supervisor) not turning over (or disclosing) discovery related material
We have previously reported on the blatant Brady violations the prosecution continues to commit. They have withheld evidence that would have easily exonerated these 19 men. The prosecution knew the Bundy family was not threat, as they have already referred to the “Threat Assessment Report” previously completed. These men should never have been incarcerated at all, let alone kept for nearly 2 years.
The list of exculpatory evidence that has been kept from the defense continues to grow. 2 men, Todd Engel and Greg Burleson, were convicted based on this false information. Will truth win out and their convictions get overturned? If the people are to have any chance of regaining trust in our judicial system, this is what should happen.
What about the men that were pressured to accept plea agreements? If those agreements were based on false evidence the prosecution claimed to have had, or if they did not disclose the true facts of the case, will these men have any recourse to have their pleas overturned?
It is now in the hands of Judge Gloria Navarro. She has spent months catering to the prosecution. She has proven to be no friend of the defense.
However, was she misled in this case, as well? Have her eyes been opened to the truth of the scandalous behavior of the prosecution and their witnesses?
If she wants to make this right, and see justice is served, she needs to resolve these issues immediately. She needs to dismiss this case, unseal the entire case and evidence, and hold Steven Myhre and company accountable for their actions
We thank Rep. Matt Shea for his courage in reporting this corruption. We need more elected officials to speak up on behalf of their constituents.
And we thank Larry Wooten for his bravery in shedding light on this outrage. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke needs to step up and address his situation, as well.
Breaking News: Special Report from Washington Representative Matt Shea. The Smoking Gun!
Posted by Redoubt News on Thursday, December 14, 2017
David Knight w Shari Dovale 12-15-17
RealNews with David Knight w Shari Dovale of Redoubt News 12-15-17Discussing the BREAKING NEWS from Rep. Matt Shea concerning the BLM whistleblower.
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THEY CANNOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF “WE THE PEOPLE.”
by Shari Dovale 12/2/2017
We continue pointing out the failings of the Federal government for a reason. A representative of our government recently testified in Federal court that they do not follow the Constitution. In fact, he had not even read the Constitution prior to that day.
This is why the government has grown so large and overbearing to its citizens – they do not understand that the Constitution is the supreme Law of the Land.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is a perfect example. They are an unnecessary organization, and just one of the many heads of the Hydra of Corruption.
BLM agents actively protect their own, even at the detriment of the citizens. Standing up for the US Constitution, and the people of this country, seems to be a foreign ideology to them.
Here are two recent examples of the BLM corruption and power grab against the citizens.
The BLM was not concerned over the murder of Kate Steinle, a young woman in California. Instead, they actually attempted to hinder the trial that concluded this week. It was more important to them that their employee not tell the truth of what happened to his weapon.
BLM Ranger John Woychowski was careless with his handgun, meaning that he did not secure it properly when he went out for a social occasion in San Francisco. That gun was then stolen and ultimately used to kill Kathryn Steinle.
The Federal government kept the narrative on the fact that the killer was an illegal immigrant and they believed that the ultimate responsibility for this crime is the City of San Francisco and its Sanctuary Status. The national debate about this tragedy centered around this issue.
While this is an important issue that should be addressed, what they are not wanting you to see is just as important.
Ranger Woychowski faced neither disciplinary action, nor criminal charges for failing to secure his weapon — a misdemeanor under California law, and against the BLM’s own policy.
KQED.org reports on the crimes the BLM agent committed:
“If the San Francisco Police Department and the district attorney wanted to, they could have pressed charges,” civil attorney Alison Cordova said in an interview. “From what we know, John Woychowski did not have his gun in a locked compartment in the vehicle. It was in a backpack, unlocked in the vehicle. That is not a locked compartment. It was a violation of criminal law at the time that it happened.”
Defense attorney Gonzalez says that wasn’t the only crime. Woychowski had a second handgun in the spare tire wheel well in the trunk of his car that Gonzalez says was also unsecured. It wasn’t stolen. Woychowski didn’t mention it to police investigators, and they didn’t ask, Gonzalez said.
However, the BLM did not discipline this man, or hold him responsible in any way. On the contrary, the actually promoted him 5 months later.
Even though he wasn’t criminally charged, Woychowski should have faced administrative discipline — such as a reprimand, suspension or firing, Gonzalez says, for violating BLM law enforcement policies in addition to state law.
The bureau does not like to tell the public the rules that govern law enforcement officers, saying they are exempt from public disclosure.
The bottom line is that the BLM did not hold this man accountable for his actions. In fact, they rewarded him. He was promoted to a supervisory position five months after Steinle’s death.
KQED shared this information obtained from an internal BLM email thread :
The email thread announcing Woychowski’s promotion starts with a message from Stephanie Clark, then the chief ranger of the BLM’s El Centro field office, sent just before 1 p.m. on Dec. 9, 2015. Its recipients include the BLM’s top law enforcement official in California, Special Agent in Charge Kynan Barrios, and the BLM’s chief ranger in the state, Salvador Nieblas. Both are based in Sacramento but worked previously in El Centro.
“I’m pleased to announce the selections of Ranger George Masner and Ranger John Woychowski as Supervisory Staff Law Enforcement Rangers (Field Supervisors) for the El Centro Field Office,” the message begins. Clark mentions that both men had in the past served as acting supervisory rangers.
“John is an accomplished Field Training Instructor and provides tremendous guidance to his trainees, El Centro Rangers, and peers throughout the nation; experience greatly needed as El Centro prepares the next generation of rangers.”
Supervisory Ranger Sal Nieblas, Ranger Woychowski and Field Manager Margaret L. Goodro, in 2011
Not only did the BLM not discipline this agent, they also made every attempt to protect him from having to testify at the trial. The BLM is arguing that they must give their permission before any of their employees can be forced to testify in a trial, which, of course, they are unlikely to do.
KQED, in an outstanding job of bringing these abuses to the public, tells us:
“[I]t is the Department’s general policy not to allow its employees to testify or to produce Department records either upon request or by subpoena,” the letter says, citing U.S. Department of the Interior regulations.
The letter continues:
“While these regulations provide at § 2.80 (c) (4) that this subpart does not apply to ‘Federal, State and Tribal criminal court proceedings’ in fact, the Department will review your … Request and decide whether to deny it, or narrow the scope of any testimony or production allowed based on your written response.”
In a 24-page motion, the defense had to argue the relevance of this BLM Ranger testifying in court. The BLM should never have had any standing to potentially hinder that testimony.
However, it is the BLM policy, or so they state.
Except when it comes to a case of cattle impoundment gone bad in the Southern Nevada desert.
Not only has the BLM presented the majority of the witnesses for the defense, they have been allowed to, shall we say… stretch the facts to suit their narrative?
It is the Department’s general policy not to allow its employees to testify or to produce Department records either upon request or by subpoena.
No one heard about this policy when it came to the Bunkerville trials. I guess that they will allow it if they can control the narrative and are not shown to distort the truth.
It has been exposed that BLM sharpshooter Alexandra Burke was ready to kill Eric Parker, yet Burke was allowed to get on the stand and cry from her fear of this electrician from Hailey, Idaho. When Parker took to the witness stand in his own defense, the Judge refused to allow him to contradict Burke’s testimony and impeach her.
How about BLM chief ranger Salvador Nieblas? This is the same man we mentioned above that promoted his agent 5 months after young Kate Steinle died.
Nieblas was also at the Bunkerville Standoff. It was this man that wanted the BLM to ignore the Sheriff even though the Sheriff had the ultimate authority in the county and this situation. Nieblas seemed happy to have his agents fully armed in their battle gear and ready to shoot unarmed protesters.
At about the 14:30 mark, you will hear Neiblas tell the other BLM officers to “Don’t take orders from that officer” referring to Sheriff Deputy Tom Roberts.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
We will continue to shed light on the corruption of these overreaching, unnecessary government entities. The truth is coming out and the people will judge for themselves.
It is time the bureaucrats learned that they cannot underestimate the power of “We The People.” They need to remember their place, and it is not by dictating to the American people.
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JUDGE NAVARRO AGREED TO THE RELEASE OF THE DEFENDANTS BECAUSE OF THE THREAT ASSESSMENT REPORT.
by Shari Dovale 11/29/2017
The defendants in the Bunkerville Standoff Trial are to be released from prison. Ammon Bundy is to be released on Thursday morning, Nov 30th. Ryan Payne will be released, with the coordination of Judge Anna Brown in Oregon, as soon as he provides Bond.
Cliven Bundy has been offered release but has refused it. Cliven will wait until the remaining defendants, including 2 more of his sons, are also offered release.
These defendants have been incarcerated for nearly 2 years, and though the judge just recently ruled against their pre-trial release, she has changed her mind.
What happened?
There was a sealed hearing this morning. The court discussed the false narrative that the prosecution has been perpetuating. I am sure they did not call it that, but nonetheless, it is what it is.
The government has been trying to get everyone to believe many false statements, beginning with Cliven owing more than a million dollars in grazing fees. As we showed, they never sent a bill for grazing fees to the Bundy Ranch, however, the fees for trespassing cattle was less than $9,000. They added their own administrative fees to it which brought the total to less than $300,000. Far less than the $1.1 million they have been repeating through their controlled and biased media.
Another falsehood by the government is the cameras placed strategically to surveil the Bundy Ranch during the days that lead up to the standoff. The prosecution continued to deny their existence, down to mocking Ryan Bundy months ago when he filed a motion for the release of that information. The prosecutors called it a fishing expedition at the time, then had to eat their words when their own witness testified to the existence of these cameras.
Attempting to save face, AUSA Myhre, and company, made every excuse they could as to these cameras. Claiming there was only a single camera, it was shown to be at least 3, and possibly 4, cameras recording the Bundy family.
The prosecutors then tried to say that, though these live feeds were streamed directly to the office of disgraced BLM Special Agent Daniel Love, no one was watching the extra large big screen TV. They also attempted to say that there was no recording of the surveillance, no one taking notes of the footage, and no one else could watch the video, all of which proved to be false.
There is also the tale of the government snipers. Though the information on the snipers was revealed in previous trials, the prosecution continued to call them false, and tried to say it was a lie by the defense. However, the release of more photographic evidence revealed the lies to come from the government.
The super-secret sealed hearing today, one of multiple such sealed hearings in this case, revealed more discovery that the prosecution has refused to turn over to the defense. It has been previously discussed how the government attempted to hide required discovery evidence by burying it deep in massive amounts of unrelated documents, including 2 full novels and unrelated medical records. It has been said that the amount of discovery is so massive that it must be accessed through a special website. At an estimated 4 terabytes large, it cannot fit on any one, or even two, computers.
However, even with these attempts, the prosecution continues to be caught hiding more exculpatory evidence.
Reliable sources have told me that the main reason that Judge Navarro agreed to the release of the defendants is because of the Threat Assessment Report.
The government has relied upon this report to justify keeping the defendants incarcerated. They have claimed all along that the Bundy’s were violent, yet no one has produced evidence of these claims.
The FBI did a Threat Assessment on the Bundy’s in the beginning that stated they were NOT a threat. The government has made every attempt to hide this report, yet it was finally revealed in court.
Additionally, this claim of the family being violent is what was used as justification for their overabundance of government agents during the impoundment operation known as “Gold Butte”.
As we shared previously from Deb Jordan, the undercover BLM agent, Robyn Kirkham, AKA Alex Branson, was making every attempt to get the Bundy family to react violently to the false narrative she was implying.
During the first trial in Las Vegas, Nevada against Bundy Ranch protestors caught up in a surprising show of force by Federal Law Enforcement, the FBI admitted on the stand that 1,000 FBI and other Federal officers were assigned to surveil the Bundy family and their closest followers on social media.
One of those agents was Robyn Kirkham, a Bureau of Land Management Agent who under the direction of former BLM (SAC) Daniel P. Love, began her surveillance sometime in January of 2014.
BLM Agent Robyn Kirkham is also known as “Alex Branson on FaceBook”
BLM Agent Robyn Kirkham known as “Alex Branson on FaceBook”, contacted Bailey Bundy Logue in March of 2014 on Facebook. Bailey, who is the daughter of Cliven Bundy says that in those messages Agent Kirkham “aka” Alex Branson, tells her that she was involved in a group of “like minded” people in Cedar City, Utah and would like to help the Bundy family with protest they may be planning against the Bureau of Land Management’s upcoming cattle impoundment. She then ask if there are any plans coming up to protest —
The messages take on a more urgent feel after Kirkum tells Bailey Bundy that she is good friends with someone inside the Las Vegas Metro Police Department who is sympathetic to the Bundy cause. She routinely alerts Cliven’s daughter, that her intel inside Metro PD is telling her “lots of cops” are coming down there, and that the BLM is starting to get “VERY” busy. At one point she tells her that her inside person is now advising that the BLM had an MRAP delivered to the compound.
So, the bottom line is: The BLM and FBI knew the family was non-violent, yet they lied about it from the beginning. The government used these lies to bring hundreds of agents to their ranch, commit atrocities against them, then incarcerate them for nearly two years.
Will the government be held accountable?
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Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior Department, said that almost a third of his agency’s employees aren’t exactly President Donald Trump supporters — or fans of the American flag, for that matter.
Holy cow. Why are they still there? Talk about a deep state.
It’s one thing to work in the federal government for people with whom you politically disagree. It’s another thing entirely to work in the federal government of a country you don’t entirely support.
In a different day, a different time, that’d be cause for a red flag followup from U.S. intel agents concerned about government collapse or takeover from communist-aligned enemies, or otherwise anti-American forces.
But now?
Anti-Americanism, non-patriotism — these are just modern-day expressions of free speech.
“I got 30 percent of the crew that’s not loyal to the flag,” Zinke said during a speech to the National Petroleum Council, referring to his level of awareness in March when he took over the agency, The Associated Press reported. “We do have good people. But the direction has to be clear and you’ve got to hold people accountable.”
Get ready for the culture change at Interior — and it’s one that’s been a long time coming. For far too long, land-use decisions have been inflicted on the general population from the bubble of D.C.’s sizable bureaucracy. That’s led to a system where feds control everything from how farmers farm, how cattle-ranchers raise cattle, how land owners out West access their very own properties.
It’s been tyrannical at times. The BLM has engaged in armed standoffs with private citizens.
An entirely new approach to federal land management is needed. Zinke’s plan to shift operations away from D.C. and toward the states is not only a constitutional solution, aligned with the principles of the 10th Amendment. But it’s one that will no doubt hand landowners back their private property rights — you know, the ones in the 4th and 5th amendments, the ones that were never supposed to belong to federal powers in the first place.
Read more at The Washington Times
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Washington, D.C. — Over the weekend, in Washington, hundreds of Trump supporters gathered for the Mother of All Rallies event to praise their leader in the white house. Naturally, there were some folks there to counter-protest — nine Black Lives Matter activists to be exact.
This counter-protest began just like all the counter-protests before, people gathered around and began shouting in faces. “You don’t like this country, you leave!” shouted one man, repeating the ill-thought-out, yet often repeated, asinine talking point — implying that people who criticize the government, should leave instead.
The Black Lives Matter members remained militant and did not stand down as they chanted “black lives matter!” over and over, while Trump supporters encircled them.
As the hostile crowd began to surround the small group of Black Lives Matter protesters, event organizers on stage told them to back off and come back to the stage — albeit they did it in the most offensive way — saying, “don’t give them the spotlight. They don’t exist.”
But, like every other human on this planet, they do exist. And in order for all of us to coexist, we must be at peace. We don’t have to like each other, we just have to not be violent toward one another.
Shortly after reigning in the Trump supporters back to the stage, instead of simply insulting the Black Lives Matter activists further, the organizers did something entirely unexpected — they invited them to speak.
Rally lead organizer Tommy Gunn told the Trump fans that the BLMers would have two minutes to speak.
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“What we are going to do is something you’re not used to,” Gunn told the BLM activists. “We’re going to give you two minutes of our platform to put your message out. Whether [people in the crowd] disagree or agree with your message is irrelevant. It’s the fact that you have the right to have the message,” he said as the crowd cheered.
Hawk Newsome, the man at the forefront of the small BLM outfit acknowledged this respect and then took the mic and proceeded to mend a growing violent rift that has been forming in this country far before the divisive Trump came into office. Despite the occasional outburst from the obstinate peanut gallery, Newsome was allowed to explain the Black Lives Matter point of view to the Trump supporters.
“I am an American!” Newsome said after introducing himself. “And the beauty of America is that when you see something broke in your country, you can mobilize to fix it!”
The crowd cheered.
“So you ask, why there’s a Black Lives Matter?” he said. “Because you can watch a black man die and be choked to death on television, and nothing happens! We need to address that!”
Some folks in the crowd didn’t take to kindly to that statement. Referring to the murder of Eric Garner by the NYPD, some of the pro-Trump crowd began calling him a “criminal,” as they attempt to justify a father’s killing. However, Garner was merely accused of selling loose cigarettes. Those who would justify a man’s execution over untaxed cigarettes are no friend of a free society — luckily there were only a few of them.
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“I am a Christian!” Newsome said, before destroying the hypocrisy of hatred toward people from other countries. “I don’t think my Bible is any different from yours when it says, ‘Love thy neighbor!’ It didn’t say that neighbor had to be from the continental United States!”
Despite making some of their heads explode with his stand based on logic, Newsome continued and the crowd became even more supportive.
“The reason why we fight is to draw attention to issues and to fix it!” he yelled. “We are not anti-cop! We are anti-bad-cop! We say, if a cop is bad, he needs to get fired! Like a bad plumber! Like a bad lawyer! Like a bad fuckin’ politician!”
The crowd cheered again.
Newsome then caused more heads to explode by shattering another stereotype that surrounds Black Live Matter supporters.
All of the sudden a heckler in the crowd then began to chant “All Lives Matter!” But Newsome remained unphased answering back. “I’m going to leave you with this and I’m gone,” he said. “All lives matter, right? But when a black life is lost, we get no justice. That’s why we say, ‘Black Lives Matter.’”
At the end of the speech, Newsome was approached by many open-minded Trump supporters who offered their praise. Some of them even wanted their kids to take pictures with Newsome. As of this morning, the video below had over 30 million views, proving that this is what people want — peace.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how progress is made when people are not assholes to each other.
Once the Trump supporter saw that Newsome and his crew wanted the same things as them, “freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” they had no reason to shout in each other’s faces. Peace was achieved.
Sadly, however, there are still folks out there who buy into the establishment’s divide and conquer propaganda and shortly after this video of Newsome went viral, some people felt the need to decry his peaceful actions.
Both BLM New York and BLM DC disavowed Newsome for doing what he did.
FYI: The group "BLM NY" aka "BLM Greater NY" is not affiliated with our chapter or the #BlackLivesMatter Global Network.
— BlackLivesMatterNYC (@BLMNYC) September 17, 2017
@BLMGreaterNY is NOT part of @Blklivesmatter and does NOT share our principles, politics, or values. https://t.co/y0lsH62sAS
— BlackLivesMatter DC (@DMVBlackLives) September 17, 2017
Fortunately, however, judging from the complete lack of engagement in their tweets, not very many people share their sentiment.
The establishment’s program of divide and conquer is powerful, but peace and love are even stronger. So, as corporate media blasts photos and videos of Antifa battling white supremacists and Trump supporters, telling you that there is a race war brewing — remember that they are the ones brewing it — all to keep you from looking up at the real war taking place on humanity, 24 hours a day, across the globe, carried out by sick people who loathe the fact citizens are refusing to hate each other.
(POPEYE) As an astute observer of history I can’t help but recognize that there is a pattern playing out again before our very eyes that we have seen before. A series of events that seam to be pushing the country ever further apart. This pattern is one of division and control. As I have said many times on my radio broadcast, the most effective way to bring this country down is to rip it apart from the inside. To have it tear itself apart piece by piece via the citizens themselves. Exactly like the image we (FederalJack.com) use on the back of our T-shirts and business cards. The shadowy Uncle Sam figure that holds two puppets, one republican, the other a democrat. Underneath it is written the phrase: I WANT YOU, to disagree and fight amongst each other while I retain complete control.
This image perfectly symbolizes the very situation we see going on right now before our eyes. The method of control that is deployed against us en masse. I have been saying for the past few years now, that since the riots in Ferguson, Missouri in August of 2014 the mindset of the general public has been changed. The narrative went from the encroaching police state; police brutality; militarized police forces; and the prospect of open martial law, to a much more base level strawman argument of bullshit racial divide.
People were just starting to think outside the box. To think in a more open manner. To see things from a different perspective. To realize how connected we all truly are. Well the powers that shouldn’t be couldn’t have that. Society is not easily controlled en mass if everyone isn’t afraid. Fear is their favorite tool and most powerful weapon. It is used far and wide against us. We are constantly bathed in the fear frequency 24/7. Our modern society is a constant drip of fear into our veins like an IV. The media via their “news” channels pump out fear on a steady drumbeat like cadence. But with the advent of social media the fear IV went from a daily drip, to a steady hourly, almost minute by minute, drip right into our veins. At this point people are literally afraid of everything and everyone. That ladies and gentlemen is not by accident.
It is that very fear frequency that fuels the divide in this country. Whether it be racial fear; political fear; survival fear; or the most basic fear, the fear of each other (which serves to only isolate each of us from the other completely and feel alone). Remember, humans are easier to control when we are in the fear frequency (protection) vs. when we are in the love frequency (growth). For further study on fear vs. love I refer you to research the work of Dr. Bruce Lipton.
That fear is the driving force behind all of these clashes between groups that are suddenly becoming a dangerous problem. A problem that the system conveniently just happens to have a solution for, all they need is the reaction from the masses to call for them to do something about it in order to justify their actions which were the real agenda all along. Problem, reaction, solution. Ordo Ab Chao, or Order Out of Chaos.
The truth is in your face to see plain as day. You just currently need to have your Hoffman sunglasses from THEY LIVE on to see it.
Through the use of groups like Antifa; BAMN; BLM; The Neo-Nazis (which are overrun with feds); and other groups of useful idiots, no matter which “side” they pretend to be on, the powers that shouldn’t be have succeeded in creating an emotional based reaction from both sides of this logical fallacy filled argument. You are all doing exactly what the powers that shouldn’t be want. Open your eyes and see the forest through the trees.
If they wanted to bring about real change, in a positive manner, then these groups would have studied and employed the tactics of people like Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. Two individuals who understood the real true power of non-violence when seeking to bring about real positive change.
It is for this reason I have taken part of an interview Martin Luther King Jr. did as well as parts from two speeches he gave and put them together so you can all hear from Reverend King himself about the power of non-violence in activism. His words echo through time from the 1960s straight through to today. We would all be wise to pay heed to what Reverend King had to say.
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(Free Range Report) – The name ‘Dan Love’ has become synonymous with the arrogant attitudes and feckless, iron-fisted tactics so commonplace in federal administrative agencies. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agent and sometimes director, Dan Love, is being investigated by the federal Inspector General’s Office (OIG) for unethical, possibly illegal activities related to incidents during his term as an investigative agent and law enforcement director in Utah and Nevada.
But Dan Love is no aberration. He was acclaimed and rewarded for his strong-arm tactics following the tragic Utah antiquities sting, Operation Cerberus, and was put in charge of the outrageous Bundy Ranch raid in April of 2014. By that time, Love had already established a reputation for ruthlessness, and it’s very likely that then-BLM Chief and Harry Reid lapdog, Neil Kornze, appointed him precisely because of his willingness to overstep the bounds of legal authority and common decency.
With the Trump Administration taking serious steps to return the BLM to its proper mission and restore respectability to its public image, Interior Secretary Zinke is starting to address the agency’s nuisance personnel and policies. And although Dan Love is a vestige of Obama-era aggression and overreach, he’s a creation of the federal government, and it’s up to the feds to take care of their miscreant problem child.
Free Range Report (FRR) issued a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the OIG earlier this month, however, because the investigation is active, we are unable to obtain detailed information about the scope and implications of Love’s apparent criminal conduct. But the office did respond with this:
FRR has documented Love’s sadistic behavior towards the family of the most tragic of his victims, Dr. James Redd, whom Love targeted, harassed, and drove to suicide over a tiny Native American bead. And Love’s thuggish tactics related to the Bundy Ranch standoff, and the Burning Man event of 2015, have been broadcast widely. But on May 19th an explosive report by Deb Jordan of the Pete Santilli Show, revealed that Love’s crimes are worse than previous reports have shown. It stated:
According to records, a memorandum from The US Department of The Interior dated November 2nd, 2016 and signed by the BLM Director of Law Enforcement Security Salvatore R. Lauro , was issued to SAC Love informing him of his immediate suspension from duty and directing him to turn in his uniforms, badges, and government issued firearms. Love was also stripped of his Law Enforcement Authority.
The suspended BLM Special Agent In Charge was being investigated internally for two extremely heinous acts.
The first offense on record was, that on more than one occasion Love ordered a subordinate to drive a government issued vehicle to run personal errands for him. There have been some outside reports claiming the subordinate found ancient Indian artifacts in Love’s vehicle during this process, but the most egregious allegation was still to come.
After a raid on the Redd Family of Blanding, Utah, that also involved several other collectors of ancient Indian artifacts in the surrounding area, Love demanded the Utah Department of The Interior Evidence Custodian to retrieve several of the artifacts from the evidence room so he could display them on his desk. The internal investigation also states that Love gave at least several BLM Agents, other “Federal Agents,” and one private contractor “Moqui Marbles” to keep as a trophy after the 2009 raid he and FBI Special Agent Greg Bretzing called, Operation Cerberus.
Although we have not been able to view the documents mentioned in the Pete Santilli Show report, all available information reinforces the supposition that the current Dan Love investigation is serious and far-reaching. In February, Love’s withholding and deletion of federal records–both, serious crimes–related to the Bundy Ranch raid and Burning Man event, were addressed in a letter from House Oversight Chairman, Jason Chaffetz (UT) to the OIG. It reads, in part:
I understand your office initiated this investigation in October of 2015 after receiving numerous complaints concerning Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employee Daniel Paul Love. The report documents numerous instances of troubling behavior exhibited by Love.
One such instance involved the intentional withholding of documents responsive to a congressional inquiry. Your report documents that a witness told your investigators that after receiving a congressional request for documents, the witness heard Dan Love “say to [another
BLM employee] that [said BLM employee] needed to make sure that he scrubbed the emails before he sent them, you know, flagging anything that looked inappropriate so that [Dan Love] could remove them if needed.”
In another part of the report, a witness testifies about how a BLM employee accessed and “deleted hundreds of documents” from a shared network. The deleted documents were “team documents” which served as the “historical record or administrative record” for a BLM authorized event. The witness stated the deleted documents were subject to the Federal Records Act, and were required, under the law not to be destroyed. If substantiated, these attempts to conceal documents and destroy federal records responsive to a congressional inquiry are unlawful, as it is a federal crime to obstruct a congressional investigation or falsify, conceal or cover up a material fact in one.
And it goes on:
Your report documents that Love allegedly attempted to influence the outcome of your investigation by coaching a witness in advance of an interview with your investigators. In your investigative report, you state a specific occasion when ” Dan Love called [a BLM employee] and… essentially gave [said BLM employee] talking points for any questions that may come up during his interview” with your office.
The report states Love provided that same BLM employee with “rationalizations,” leading the employee to believe Love was essentially telling them what to say in the interview. This allegation is problematic as it occurred after you had already initiated your investigation into Love’s behavior.
As a federal law enforcement officer, Love’ s actions have the potential to not only taint your investigation, but to seriously undermine the trust in BLM’ s law enforcement office and thwart congressional oversight of the Bureau. As such, I request that you investigate the specific allegations raised in your interviews of destruction of federal records, witness tampering, and obstruction of a congressional investigation.
Information within the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the Estate of Dr. James Redd against Dan Love and the federal government furthers the contention that he is a thief. FRR obtained a copy of the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the Estate of Dr. James Redd against Dan Love. Information in the lawsuit confirms that Dan Love kept some crude artifacts Ted Gardiner (the now-dead secret informant who helped entrap the Redds) acquired from Jeanne.
The crude artifacts should have been entered into the evidence locker following the raid, but they were not. After searching for the artifacts the FBI found them in Dan Love’s car. An FBI document contained in the wrongful death lawsuit (exhibit 11) reveals that Dan Love was reprimanded and written up for keeping Jeanne Redd’s artifacts for his personal use, and failing to enter them property into evidence. When the Redd Family filed this, the federal government quickly had this document (exhibit 11) sealed so no one could see or read it but it is mentioned in the lawsuit itself. See below:
While the OIG investigates Love for his legal and ethical malfeasance, his human victims know of, and must live with the consequences of his appalling moral lapses. Through interviews with members of the Redd Family, FRR learned that Jeanne Redd, the widow of Dr. James Redd, once indicated that Dan Love confiscated her journal during the Operation Cerberus raid and then “proceeded to read it with great interest.”
When Dan Love and the other federal agents involved in the raid rifled through her collection of artifacts, Love took special note of the items Jeanne was most fond of. A month after the raid and Dr. Redd’s death, Dan Love and the others came to Jeanne’s house to remove the remaining artifacts. While in her home, Dan Love said to Jeanne, while sneering, that he knew what her favorite artifact was. He then said it is the pendant that looks like a sprocket, and Jeanne said ‘yes.’
With evidence building of Dan Love’s criminal, unethical and immoral conduct, the ongoing investigation is likely to result in charges against the BLM’s very face of arrogance and raw power. Lives lost and suffering caused by his actions cannot be replaced or compensated for, but many victims of the overreach, dishonesty, violence, cruelty, and larceny of Dan Love hope that a measure of justice will soon be realized.
Redoubt News: https://redoubtnews.com/2017/06/evidence-dan-loves-criminal-conduct/
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