BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF:  THE FEDS AREN'T GIVING UP THE CASE UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

"Yes.  The news is out that the government has filed to dismiss the charges against the remaining defendants and our two sons who still have charges pending against them will be truly free men.  You may also have read that the government has filed a Motion for the Judge to reconsider her decision to dismiss the case against Cliven, Ammon, Ryan and Ryan Payne.  The government still wants another bite of the apple.  

I  don't know what the judge will do--she's the only one who knows that--but it's clear that the government wants another swing at my family.  God granted His blessings and protection over my family in the last misguided prosecution and I ask for your continued prayers that He continues to extend His protection.

Hug your family tight tonight.

Carol"

Carol Bundy (Cliven's wife) Facebook Post 2/7/2018

"The Justice Department takes this issue very seriously."

Department of Justice spokesman on discovery evidence issue that led to dismissal of charges 12/20/2017

"We respect the court's ruling and will make a determination about the next appropriate steps."

Dayle Elieson-US Attorney for Nevada appointed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions 1/8/2018

When you add up all the new developments yesterday in the Bunkerville case you can see that the new US Attorney in Nevada, Dayle Elieson,  appointed last month by Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions is ultimately trying to keep the case going against the Bundys and their supporters.

While the prosecutors are asking the judge to dismiss the charges with prejudice against the remaining four defendants they are turning around and asking the judge to reconsider her dismissal of charges with prejudice last month against the key defendants, creating a court record for an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The prosecution team led by two Republicans, First Assistant US Attorney Steven Myhre and Daniel Scheiss, along with former Obama Administration Justice Department lawyer Nadia Ahmed (present in that capacity at Bunkerville in April 2014) are hell bent on continuing the case.

They, along with the lead appeals lawyer for the US Attorney's office in Nevada, Elizabeth White, are repeating old mantras about how dangerous the defendants are to justify resumption of their prosecution.   Myhre claimed when the trial of Cliven Bundy opened last year before dismissal that the case was about 'law and order', the old catch phrase of GOP President RIchard NixOn.

It seems like a warmed over Republican campaign speech about protecting law enforcement in the 29 page motion to Democrat US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro to reconsider her dismissal of the case with prejudice over what she called "willful" and "deliberate" violations of evidence rules by the prosecutors.

Lets bring in some examples from the 29 page document.

"The gunmen loaded themselves into cars and trucks and drove en masse five miles to the impoundment site where, brandishing assault rifles and other firearms, they closed in on the dangerously exposed law enforcement officers...."

This passage has some GOP flavoring to it as well as Cliven Bundy and his followers are compared to Iraq's Sadaam Hussein.

"The gunmen.....moved in and among the unarmed followers, using them as human shields...."

And then they go onto mentioning specific charges.

"Assault on a federal officer (Count 5), threatening a law enforcement officer (Count 8).........using and carrying a firearm in relation to a crime of violence (Counts 6, 9 and 15)"

It was federal law enforcement themselves that were threatening, assaulting and carrying firearms while committing crimes of violence in the days leading up to the April 12th standoff.

The new evidence shows the buildup of FBI and BLM snipers around Bundy Ranch in preparations for an operation resembling the one at Ruby Ridge in the 1990's.

The federal law enforcement officers shoved  Margaret Houston, tased Ammon Bundy, they beat and took into custody Dave Bundy, later releasing him but later relishing (according to the whitleblower memo from BLM Agent Larry Wooten) that they had embedded stones into his face.

And getting back to that evidence cache hidden by the prosecutors that led to the dismissal with prejudice, it contains four different threat assessments from various law enforcement agencies saying the Bundys posed little or no threat to law enforcement.   They might "get in the your face" but would not resort to violence.

When you listen to the Bundys and I have (including  jailhouse calls from Ammon Bundy in his solitary confinement cell holding the phone through a small opening) you get the message that the Bundys are about the original Constitution of the United States and its notion of limited government which came long before controlling bureaucracies like the Bureau of Land Management were created about 70 years ago.

This "Jim Crow" system of land management which impoverishes the rural communities and has destroyed the efforts of little people to make a living is a disgrace as shameful as the racial system that dominated the South from the end of the 19th Century well into the middle of the 20th.

I get a laugh when I read about the new GOP management team of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke deciding to rearrange the tyranny with land managers being moved from Washington DC out to the field offices and so on. 

They call it a victory when they decide to keep Obama's national monument designations and modify them to take less land away from the people who live there.

The Bundys cite the original Constitution saying the people should use it to stand against the land tyranny, the Republicans and their "CONservative Movement" front people say we need a convention to change it so things will be right sandbagging "We the People" from righting the wrongs.

The Uniparty political game keeps expanding the government, growing the tryanny with no end in sight.

Its a fact that Washington DC jumped a spot last year from seventh to sixth largest media market in the USA.

While I proudly supported President Donald Trump, I have no use for the Republicans like Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. 

None of us should have any use for the Republicans and their "CONservative" front people in media and so on.

They talk about business interests buying our government linking Democrats to Uranium One.
But this business-government corruption is not just a Democrat problem.

We have a Corporatist system as Nigel Farage has defined it linking big government, big business and big banks.

I support a few people who run as Republicans like Trump, Roy Moore and coming up Scott Wagner for governor of Pennsylvania.

But the game is up.

The Bundys stand with the original Constitution while the Republicans claim they will save us with revisions.

I prefer the former to the latter.