BUNKERVILLE AND OREGON STANDOFFS: "MOST DANGEROUS MEN", "HE CALLS ME A DOMESTIC TERRORIST"
"I spoke to my attorney and or course we were thinking that we would be able to get out on bail......."
"So when my attorney asked the US prosecutors if they were going to oppose bail, the prosecutors began to actually laugh at him........Then they said there's no way these men will get bail and they went so far as to say these were the most dangerous men, speaking of us, that we were the most dangerous men they had ever prosecuted."
"My brother and I (Ryan) were in the bottom floors of the federal building in Oregon. We're in a holding cell down there and Judge Jones came and actually visited us in the holding cells down there..."
Ammon Bundy Facebook video 1/30/2018
"He calls me a domestic terrorist....."
Portland and Las Vegas courtroom observer Kelli Stewart describes an officer in the Portland federal courthouse
Several months in their nearly two year imprisonment without bail Ammon and Ryan Bundy were visited in a cell by Portland US District Judge Robert E. Jones.
Jones was in charge of the detention of the Oregon Standoff prisoners. Ammon Bundy described the visit as if the judge wanted to see "The Elephant Man" in his cage.
Ammon said "we thought we could talk to him" about their imprisonment without bail.
But Judge Jones carried a piece of paper and he went down the list of names and Ammon caught the paper that had a list of all the Oregon and Bunkerville defendants, all the people arrested. To the right of each name was color coding Red, Green and Yellow.
"No, it says here I can't release you, that you won't be released."
Oregon US District Judge Robert E. Jones as quoted by Ammon Bundy during a holding cell visit in 2016 before his release hearing before the judge
In a video posted yesterday (January 30th) Ammon Bundy urges viewers to support an end to the National Defense Authorization Act law that allows unlimited detention of American citizens among other things.
Bundy endorses state legislation like that proposed in Idaho to defend citizens of Idaho from arrest and detention under that law.
He points to the PANDA organization at this website at link:
PEOPLE TO END NDAA
Its amazing to realize that the men jailed over the Oregon and Bunkerville protests were jailed without bail and held indefinitely as if they were Islamic terrorists at Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay).
That begs a question to be asked of any and all federal officials connected to the cases as well as our own elected officials. Were the Bunkerville and Oregon defendants considered "terrorists"?
The Oregon Standoff protest is rooted in the return to federal prison of Dwight and Steven Hammond to serve mandatory sentences as terrorists in connection with a backfire they lit to protect their land.
It seems that in the aftermath of 9/11 during the time of George W. Bush's presidency anti-terrorism laws were passed that have been used against American citizens as in the Hammonds lighting a backfire and the Oregon and Bunkerville protesters standing for Constitutional rights.
Its amazing to realize that the men jailed over the Oregon and Bunkerville protests were jailed without bail and held indefinitely as if they were Islamic terrorists at Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay).
That begs a question to be asked of any and all federal officials connected to the cases as well as our own elected officials. Were the Bunkerville and Oregon defendants considered "terrorists"?
The Oregon Standoff protest is rooted in the return to federal prison of Dwight and Steven Hammond to serve mandatory sentences as terrorists in connection with a backfire they lit to protect their land.
It seems that in the aftermath of 9/11 during the time of George W. Bush's presidency anti-terrorism laws were passed that have been used against American citizens as in the Hammonds lighting a backfire and the Oregon and Bunkerville protesters standing for Constitutional rights.
When observer Kelli Stewart was sitting in the courtroom in Portland last week during the harsh sentencing hearing for Jake Ryan, federal officers surrounded a woman watching the trial and took her out.
These are the same kind of people like the federal marshals who surrounded, tackled, tased and arrested Ammon Bundy's defense lawyer Marcus Mumford at the end of the first trial in October 2016.
The "Department of Homeland Security" officers suspected the woman of making an audio recording in the courtroom and Kelli followed them out to make sure this woman would not be mistreated or forced to answer questions without her rights being read to her. She wanted to be a witness to anything that was going on, to ensure the safety of the young woman surrounded by three armed men trying to take her to a place where they could have in the officer's words "privacy".
Kelli Stewart described one of the officers who was in her words "hell bent on arresting somebody", "demonic", "satanic" and "high on power". He constantly made threats to arrest Kelli or put others watching in handcuffs. Remember, federal law enforcement were depicted by one of their own in the "Larry Wooten Memo" on the Bunkerville investigation as being very inappropriate with violent threats and pornographic language.
The officers threatened arrest and began asking the woman they pulled out if she was recording anything trying to intimidate her. She and the other woman went through a two hour ordeal involving the federal officers.
And the tough guy federal officer quoted by Kelli Stewart above refers to her as a "domestic terrorist" which seems to answer the question as to what the federal government considers the Bundy's and their supporters in the Oregon and Bunkerville protests to be.
And the tough guy federal officer quoted by Kelli Stewart above refers to her as a "domestic terrorist" which seems to answer the question as to what the federal government considers the Bundy's and their supporters in the Oregon and Bunkerville protests to be.
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