MARTIN LUTHER KING AND THE BUNDY'S

"......I have come to think of my role as one which operates outside the realm of partisan politics raising the issues and through action create the situation which forces whatever party is in power to act creatively and constructively in response to the dramatic presentations of these issues on the public scene...."     

Dr. Martin Luther King-April 25, 1967 

"America is not happy with the Republicans, Americans are not happy with the Democrats"

Cliven Bundy speaks to the Independent American Party of Nevada convention 2/23/2018

Dr. Martin Luther King was clearly against the political leaders in general and Democrats in particular.    That audio recording of JFK's widow calling King a "despicable man" was no fluke.

JFK was preparing to "deal" with King in 1964 and it was absolutely no coincidence that early in that presidential election year an audio tape of Dr. King's encounter with two prostitutes was mailed to his home by the FBI.

MLK backed down on protest in 1964 but would move forward and eventually Dr. King would take on the new Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson with his opposition to the Vietnam War.

When asked about the notion of running for president himself in 1968, King backed away saying his role was outside the 'realm of partisan politics' as in Republicans and Democrats.

Upon release from prison earlier this year Cliven Bundy showed up to speak not at a Republican or Democrat event but at the convention of the Indpendent American Party of Nevada, the political party he said he was a member of.

His son Ryan is running for Governor of Nevada as an independent candidate, saying neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are helping ranchers get their land back from federal control and domination.

"Just as I say we aren't going to let any dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around"

Dr.  Martin Luther King-Last Speech April 3, 1968 

"in 1998 a federal judge issued a permanent injunction against Bundy"

"The Federalist"- April 17, 2014

"whatever it takes"

Cliven Bundy's pledge to act if the federal government tries to enforce that injunction again made in Las Vegas on January 10th, 2018

"...but somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly, somewhere I read of the freedom of speech, somewhere I read of the freedom of press, somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights....."

Martin Luther King-Last Speech April 3, 1968

The Bundy's have always been interested in rights for farmers and ranchers that are increasingly taken away from them.   The "Wall Street Journal" published a story March 30th about how the cowboys are losing (and that's with Republican Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior).  The feds are regulating to suit both environmentalists and the recreation industry crushing farmers and ranchers under their boots to please the special interests.

The Hammonds in Oregon ended up jailed as terrorists with five year mandatory sentence for just lighting a backfire to protect their land from a brushfire.

Republican Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is pushing regulations to create wildlife corridors that will crush farmers and ranchers more claiming its a "partnership" with the states.

The Bundy's say its time for states and localities to assume control of the land against federal encroahcment.   Encroachment that will continue regardless to anything Zinke says to the contrary.

"We  have a Constitution!  Good Heavens!  The battle's already been fought for us....

I grazed my cattle on county land, and I have no contract with the federal government for over 25 years.  That's why, when I go to court, I haven't been able to make this point, but someday I will:  I don't plea guilty, and I plea innocent.  I don't play no thing.  I don't recognize this court has any jurisdiction over my land that I graze cattle on, over my right, over my home.  So what I ask you to do today here is to act like Montanans.  Act like you have a county government.  Act like you understand the Constitution."

Cliven Bundy speaks at "Freedom and Prosperity" even in Paradise Montana 1/20/2018

The Bundy's were harrassed and roughed up by BLM agents who also employed snipers around Bundy Ranch in the spring of 2014.

Ammon Bundy was tazed,  Dave Bundy was arrested and roughed up with stones embedded into his face by the federal agents before they released him.


 They were joined for a time by FBI agents-snipers who brought along a surveillance camera they     used to monitor protests.

The threatening atmosphere caused the Bundy's to ask for help and people came to exercise their First Amendment rights and some people also came exercising their Second Amendment right.

(WORK IN PROGRESS CONTINUING)