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Bundys Go Free, But Their Lawyer is Tazed and Arrested
Remember the Oregon Wildlife Refuge Standoff and the shooting of LaVoy Finicum? Well the verdict was just released and the Bundy brothers, Jeff Banta, Shawna Cox, David Fry, Neil Wampler, and Kenneth Medenbach were found not guilty on all charges by the jury. The government was stunned and did not like the jury’s verdict, so why not take it out on their attorney. When their lawyer asked for his client’s immediate release he was tasered and arrested by federal agents. Oh yes, the federal government is now charging the attorney with failure to comply with a lawful order and disturbance.
And hear from the men who the government tried to imprison:
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I don’t understand why the BLM can’t be challenged in a court of law going all the way to the Supreme Court and closed down. Surely something can be done to stop these petty bureaucrats. Fighting one incident at a time doesn’t seem effective. The whole BLM needs to be taken on by our congressional members. Wonder what Trump is going to do about these rouge agencies.
Because maybe they prefer to see a civil uprising that would make more exciting news? More likely because they are too ignorant to ask those questions.
Yes, as does…
Agencies are stand alone little governments with their own legislative, judicial and police functions. You know it must be a problem if the National Review can see it.
Other agencies will not hear the complaint since they pretend it is not in their jurisdiction. I understand that’s why it can not be brought into the court system. Welcome to the power of the administrative state.
The government has sovereign immunity that has carried over to modern times in the form of a general rule that you cannot sue the government — unless the government says you can. There are some exceptions to this but it seems that BLM is not one of them.
The leader of the occupation of BLM died, characterized as a neo-Nazi, in a shootout with the Feds, so law and order types don’t raise questions. Unless they’re deep enough in the weeds to know some of the history the OP does. Maybe, hopefully, if they have seen the Oregonian’s video –so some journalists are asking questions – they might have a problem with it, though right now that seems to be mainly the province of libertarians and the Patriot movement (and both camps contain an uncomfortable sprinkling of nuts and conspiracy theorists so to some extent it’s Three Monkeys time, even here at Ricochet.)
On the other hand, the Left doesn’t have principles about law and order, it has principles about extending and consolidating unchallengeable power. In the service of that agenda it has successfully pushed the view that objecting to a government agency with a warm feeling in its name: Civil Rights, Land Management, Environmental Protection puts you so beyond the pale so that you deserve whatever you get; they are making collaborators out of the law and order camp. It’s beginning to feel uncomfortably like Martin Niemoller time right here in the U S of A.
CPSC has a SWAT team? How tough can they be? All their weapons are bright orange plastic and have those big orange plugs in the barrel.
They don’t want the IRS after them or their supporters, or the relevant agencies saying “that’s a nice little project you want in your district. It’d be a shame if the EPA (etc.) found something to keep it from happening (or worse “that Animas River thing was terrible. It’d be a real shame if something like that happened upstream from your district.”) Ya know what I mean?”
So why keep what the head of what a former assistant director of the FBI calls a crime family out of the White House?
They had SWAT envy, and wanted one too.
Someone above posted the link, but here it is again:
It became much clearer to me this morning as I listened to NPR on my way to church. They are setting up an equivalence comparison between the Oregon BLM protest and the Dakota Pipeline Protest. In that case the protestors are mostly Native Americans, so Privileged Democrat Minority.
I do not know how legit their beef may be, but they do have a sound basis to protest. What is troubling is the way Leftist Mass Media is setting us up for another round of racial dividing and recriminations.
NPR story on the Dakota pipeline protest.
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/28/499756362/tensions-escalate-as-police-clear-protesters-near-dakota-access-pipeline
NPR feature that gave voice to a Paiute Indian worrying about that all-white jury in Oregon.
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/29/499899381/burns-paiute-tribe-leader-worries-bundy-acquittal-empowers-misbehavior
Yes, I was listening to NPR so you don’t have to.
Vote Clinton!
I think you’re looking for the other room, down the hall on the left.
Not meant for you I suspect, Stephens is just yanking the chain of the Never Trump people.
Yes. But a bigger point is that there will be more abuses like this under Clinton.