FBI Arrests Twelve Over 2014 Cliven Bundy Standoff, Including Trump Campaigner


Ranchers Pay a Price for Citing Constitution

The federal government purports to own over 51% of the land in eleven western states, and it is expanding its holdings through simple decrees. These are raw power grabs as well as tribute paid to environmental groups who resent private ownership and anyone who raises cattle or drills for oil. In the most recent protest in Oregon, ranchers occupied a wilderness wildlife outpost building for a few weeks, damaged nothing, shot at no one, and the only injury that occurred was when federal agents forced one of the ranchers from his truck in deep snow and murdered him in cold blood. No shots were returned by any of the ranchers.

But the problem is that these serious, angry Americans represent a true threat to the status quo and the establishment. They could well be the flash point against this lawless and greedy government, and they have the constitution on their side. Unlike the Black Lives Matter crowd who will be bought off by free stuff and the freeing of a few felonious prisoners, the ranchers are determined to fight back and to demand the government respect the limits that are part of our country’s laws. And that means that the government must come down hard and fast on these patriots before the situation gets out of hand and the people rise up against the tyranny that is pushing its way across the land.

So the latest move is to throw as many of the movements leaders into prison, and to charge them with as many trumped up charges as possible. And that is exactly what is happening.

Five Bundy relatives and the New Hampshire campaign co-chair for Trump face prosecution for roles in 2014 armed conflict over federal land restriction

The FBI escalated its investigation into Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s 2014 standoff with the federal government Thursday with sweeping raids across the country that resulted in 12 arrests, including that of a Donald Trump campaign coalition co-chair in New Hampshire.

Two of Bundy’s sons were also among those arrested, amid signs that federal authorities are ramping up their efforts against the ultra-conservative, anti-government movement that also inspired the armed standoff in Oregon earlier this year.

A federal grand jury last month indicted Cliven, 69, and his two sons Ammon, 40, and Ryan, 43, on a slew of felony offenses – including armed assault of law enforcement officials and conspiracy against the government – for the high-profile land-use dispute at the Bundy ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada.

The latest arrests mean five members of the Bundy family, Cliven included, are in jail awaiting trial. If convicted, they could each face decades in prison.

Ammon and Ryan Bundy have also been indicted over the standoff in Oregon, which lasted 41 days.

Now two more sons of Cliven – Davey, 39, and Mel, 41 – have also been arrested in a coordinated operation that also involved the arrest of Jerry DeLemus, a 61-year-old New Hampshire co-chair for Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner.

Those three, along with 11 other new defendants, now face prosecution for their participation in the conflict over government land restrictions. The charges include conspiracy to impede and injure federal law enforcement officers, threatening and assaulting officers, obstruction of justice, interfering with interstate commerce by extortion, and use of firearms for a violent crime.

The stunning turn of events on Thursday brought the total number of defendants in the case to 19 and indicates that federal prosecutors are aggressively targeting the Bundy family and their right wing supporters who have for years protested against the federal government’s regulations on public lands.

Mel’s wife, Briana Bundy, said in a brief phone interview that her husband was arrested Thursday and that she didn’t know what charges he is facing.

“I don’t have anything to say except wake the hell up, America. It’s time to decide what side of the line you’re on,” said Briana, 30, who lives in Nevada and has five children, including a newborn baby. “I have my life to figure out. I have five kids now with no provider.”

You have to wonder what the FBI agents are thinking as they launch a full-on assault against hard working Americans who simply want to be able to manage their ranches without government intrusion, while community “organizers” who live off the public dole and are interested in extracting even more from the taxpayers, are allowed to roam free and foment more trouble and destruction with little or no interference from the Obama administration.

It is entirely possible that the government is correct in that they can control the Black Lives Matter rabble with trinkets and baubles, while the patriots out west are just the beginning of a simmering, angry populace fed up with an out of control government.

Source: theguardian.com

 



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  1. Larry Starrett

    Figures whites fighting for rights arrested blm get ok for riots and killings

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  2. Tim Lonberger

    Funny, and they can’t arrest Killery !

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  3. Jayne Turner

    FBI should be after the terrorist groups in this area. Talk about not doing their jobs.
    Shame on the FBI. I have lost some respect for them

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  4. Karen Melim

    Obama is what’s wrong with our government and him telling all the blacks that he would give them everything free. So they expect everything free. If they don’t get it they do something against the law to cause problems and bring more attention to themselves. These are nothing but greedy people.

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