[Nextrush]

Pretrial arguments giving us a picture of what the trial may look like for the Oregon Standoff defendants and what lawyers will say in their defense....

[Islander7]

Brown added that it's OK to criticize the U.S. Bureau of Land Management employees, but preventing those BLM officers from doing their work on their property isn't permitted under law.

It ain't THEIR property, dingbat! It's our property.

[WildHighlander57]

Thanks for posting !

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3433379/posts?page=1#1

Ping to first and second amendment impact of the Bundy case.

[wastedyears]

Government trying to limit what we may do? Next you’ll tell me rain is wet.

[Texas Fossil]

I agree with the premise of you article.

But, you said:

“It’s also not lawful to intimidate someone with a firearm or threaten someone with a firearm.”

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I’ve had to produce a weapon 2 times in my 68 years. Never had to use one. But am not sure I’d be here today if I didn’t have one then.

The threat of use was what it took to end the danger.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

The proof is found right here at Free Republic.

[Pollster1]

The purpose of the conspiracy charge in the Oregon standoff case is to chill political dissent. Whether or not you agree with the activists in Oregon, and whether or not you think their tactics were appropriate, all decent people should be disgusted by most of the prosecutions and persecutions in the case.

[sergeantdave]

“Of course a person has First Amendment rights but there are limits....It’s also not lawful to intimidate someone with a firearm or threaten someone with a firearm.”.....

Typical King George III thinking. The elitist fascist government not only intimidates citizens with firearms, it also uses firearms to murder citizens. The slippery slope has been greased. Where it takes us is obvious to me.

[kiryandil]

U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown, who has set a Sept. 7 trial date in the refuge occupation case, countered that the statute "does not criminalize mere criticism" or "mere protest."

Another lying Statist.

Of course, Brown was nominated by "Rape Boy" Clinton, in order to rape the Natural Rights of the peasantry.