Posted on 12/03/2017 5:48:03 AM PST by Nextrush
There's plenty of news coming out of Las Vegas about the home detention release of those currently on trial and still facing trial in the Bunkerville Standoff case, but Cliven Bundy has decided to stay behind bars noting that home detention is not freedom.
His wife, Carol Bundy, spoke to the news media Friday afternoon outside the federal courthouse in Las Vegas as defendant Ryan Payne left the building going to his home detention.
Here is an excerpt of what she had to say:
"My family made a stand in 2014, made a peaceful protest and we exercised our First and Second Amendment right, two years later they're picked up on the street they've been innocent men. They're in jail for two years, they've been treated, they've been treated poorly.
Let me tell you how they bring em from here to there (jail).
They shackle then, they shackle their feet, they put a chain around their waist, they put a box between their hands, they tie their hands tight. They put them in the back of their vans and they drive with helicopters flying overhead with cars in the front and in the back and they drive very unsafely, not only for the men sliding back and forth inside those vans, but for anybody else that's in the road. They endanger every single person. This is America today..."
She was describing the risk taking high speed convoy that whirlwind's its way through the streets of Las Vegas every day involving federal, state and local police transporting the prisoners back and forth from jail to the courthouse.
Who have they got in there, the leadership of Islamic State?
Carol Bundy had more to say and you can watch it at the link at the bottom.
Her husband remains in jail and will continue to show up at the trial in his jail uniform to remind us there is no freedom in America when citizens who have exercised their First or Second Amendment rights are not free. whether they're Cliven Bundy in jail or the others under home detention in this trial and the Bunkerville Standoff case.
Republican endorsed (by AG Sessions) prosecutor Acting US Attorney Steve Myhre's case falls apart as he fails to give the defense all the evidence shamelessly before Democrat US District Judge Gloria Navarro.
The Uniparties know their house of cards is falling yet they cannot give up and set these people free and pardon those who entered guilty pleas or were found guilty or who made plea deals with prosecutors while evidence was withheld from defense lawyers.
In 1962 Dr. Martin Luther King tried to stay in jail leading a civil rights protest in Albany, Georgia but the Democrats had to reduce public attention and make believe things were OK so Bobby Kennedy sent a Justice Department aide down to bail him out.
I think the Uniparty is trying to shut down the outrage over this case today just like the political machine went out to shut down MLK back then with this wave of "home detention releases".
Cliven Bundy is not letting them get away with it.
Care about this and defend Constitutional rights.
I was there in my youth when the Uniparties actually used the Fairness Doctrine to shut down the First Amendment.
I worked as a religious broadcaster-newscaster in the early 1980's to report the stuggle for parents to have Christian, private and home schools free of rules and regulations in Nebraska when people went to jail.
Ever since the Oregon Standoff began last year I'm seeing the same kind of situation again loud and clear.
The people impacted by this include Mr. Bundy and others I hope to write about during the trial's hiatus.
There have been guilty pleas and two convictions in a trial with evidence not revealed by the prosecution to the defense.
It seems so often today that the words “American” and “justice” are totally incompatible. It shouldn’t be this way, but the American people know or care?
noting that home detention is not freedom.
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Wonder why? Certainly got to be more freedom than locked in a jail cell.
If he is not free to use the land because the “desert tortoise” has more rights then he is not free.
If he can’t assert his water rights on the grazing land which reside with the State of Nevada, not Washington DC then he is not free.
If he can’t go back to his home at the ranch and live freely making a living unencumbered by the federal government’s rules, regulation etc. then he is not free.
Home detention at some house in Las Vegas away from the ranch is a far cry from the conditions I mentioned above.
It relieves the federal government of pressure from the public to change things and it stops the jury from seeing a jail uniform on Cliven Bundy when he is in the courtroom.
None of us is free. Don’t pay your property taxes and just see how free you are in this country.Your land and your home belong to the state. You pay for the right to occupy them as long as you pay them what they tell you to pay. Does that sound like what the Founders had in mind when they established “the land of the free?”
How many acres does Cliv own in fee? On those he can do pretty
much what he wants. But on other owners property he doesn’t
have those same rights.
Cliven and dozens of other ranchers were working together to feed their animals and provide water through a collection and distribution system they created, but then “desert tortoise” became the priority and dozens of ranchers were driven out of business but Cliven Bundy stood along and kept standing to keep the family business (a small business) going in the face of big government.
This controversy began back around 1990.
Grazing rights and water rights are disputed here but Bundy is saying the Nevada has water rights already and should have the grazing rights, too.
But the feds disagree. Cliven Bundy has sent his 8-thousand dollars in fees over a 20 plus year period to Clark County, Nevada instead of Washington DC to make his point.
For those 8 thousand dollars in fees, the federal government has spent millions upon millions in our tax dollars in its prosecution-persecution campaign against the Bundy’s and their supporters.
On top of that, the government runs over and kills large numbers of the desert tortoise when it suits THEM. Not illegal when the sainted government kills the critters, of course.
I’m not aware of the minute details of the Bundy 160 acre ranch. I have sat in the
saddle for hours gathering free range cattle in my early years on land not owned
by the cattle owners. Things change and today that land is owned by some large
corporations and small home owners. Fenced and no longer available for grazing.
How much does Bundy owe in fees? He can dispute ownership all he wants but he
has to pay his dues and get it resolved in a court of law. He doesn’t make the
rules on land he doesn’t own or refuses to pay the fees or abide by other rules
the land owner may impose. Did he ever have a written contract for grazing?
JMO and yours varies but we each have that right. Take care and have a good Sunday.
Plus while he’s in jail, the feds cant plant drugs or kiddie porn on him.
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