Friday, December 22, 2017

BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF:  THE FBI AND I AGREE IN OUR ASSESSMENT OF THE BUNDYS


".....She also cited at least four threat assessments that indicated the Bundys likely wouldn't use violence, 'would get in your face' but not engage in a shootout, and that the Bureau of Land Management was antagonizing the family 'trying to provoke a conflict'.   The threat evaluations were made by the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, the Southern Nevada Counter Terrorism Unit, the FBI Nevada Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Gold Butte Cattle Impound Risk Assessment and the Bureau of Land Management law enforcement arm between 2011 and 2015."


"OregonLive" story 12/20/2017 on the mistrial declared by US District Judge Gloria Navarro in the third Bunkerville Standoff trial over massive amounts of evidence prosecutors "willfully" withheld from the defense


In early January 2016 the Oregon Standoff protest began with a lot of drama about "armed militants" and "militia" and  an "armed standoff" confusing my mind but as time moved on I came to realize that this protest led by Ammon Bundy and his brother Ryan was totally peaceful in its heart.

It was a protest in Ammon's words to 'love thy neighbor' as in Dwight and Steven Hammond, ordered to return to a federal prison to serve out  five year mandatory sentences as "terrorists" for lighting a backfire to protect their land from a brush fire.

I eventually came to realize that the Bundys talked like Billy Jack, but acted like Martin Luther King or Gandhi.

The federal land policies that have become increasingly repressive in the Western states over the decades are a modern day equivalent of Jim Crow racism and the Republican Party better get its act together to deal with the problem instead of slowly doing what Barack Obama was doing at a more rapid pace.

I found it laughable recently to hear Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proclaim a victory in President Donald Trump's name for deciding to only designate smaller portions of land as "national monuments" than Barack Obama planned to.

How about reversing what Barack Obama planned to do?   But that's never been the GOP way.  Both parties move us in the same way, one faster than the other.

What Zinke did leaves me wondering what Jeff Sessions will do about this case now that the dam has broke on misconduct by his man in Las Vegas, Acting US Attorney Steve Myhre.   Myhre was the man Sessions praised for his "leadership" in the case earlier this year.

This "expert" Sessions is sending to Vegas, what is he going to do?

Getting the charges dropped against the four defendants would be good, but then we must deal with all the others involved from the defendants set to face trial later, those in jail because of guilty convictions in the first rigged evidence trial and the man who pled guilty and sits in the same prison as Anthony Weiner right now.

Then let us get into the Bureau of Land Management (run by Ryan Zinke's Interior Department) and the FBI.    Both agencies acted improperly in the Acting US Attorney Steve Myhre's rigged prosecution and evidence hiding.

Myhre's zeal to rig the Bunkerville trials in Nevada is probably linked in some way to the outcome of the first trial in the Oregon Standoff protests, where all seven defendants including Ammon and Ryan Bundy were found not guilty.    The federal prosecutors in Oregon and the judge, Anna J. Brown worked to rig the second trial in ways that resemble what happened in the first two Nevada trials.

Judge Brown sat down with jurors right after their "not guilty" verdicts asking questions about why they reached their decision.

Any investigation of rigging in Oregon, Mr. Sessions?   Heck, why did President Trump end up nominating the overseer of the Oregon case, Billy Williams, as permanent US Attorney in Portland?

The hatred of the Bundys and their supporters uncovered by the BLM whistleblower, Larry Wooten, points to hatred in Oregon that led to an FBI organized felony traffic stop that killed LaVoy Finicum and injured Ryan Bundy.   People like Ryan and Ammon Bundy, arrested that night, ended up being found not guilty of felony charges.

I know there's more I'm leaving out but I will mention the US Marshals who tackled, tased and arrested Ammon Bundy's lawyer in Oregon right after the not guilty verdicts.   Criminal charges dropped but the lead federal judge in Oregon, Michael Mosman, seeking to disbar Marcus Mumford from the Oregon federal court.   A hearing in that matter set January 8th in Portland.

Who's investigating the US Marshals?

In Nevada the marshals roughed up the Bundys and forced them to face walls.   That's what Soviet guards did in their prisons of the Gulag.

The US Marshals Service needs to be investigated on multiple matters in multiple places.

The Republicans use "law and order" which Myhre said the case was all about in his evidence concealed Bunkerville prosecutions.    The Republicans tout law enforcement endorsements every election cycle.

The Democrats kissed up to the Jim Crow segregationists until Martin Luther King forced them to change.

Donald Trump said "I have you back" to the FBI agents recently but he mentioned some anger out there I guess linked to the Mueller matter.

But do you know what Washington DC, there's some other anger at the FBI and other federal law enforcement in the picture, too.




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