Posted on 10/05/2016 4:38:18 AM PDT by Nextrush
Ammon Bundy carried a worn Bible to the witness stand Tuesday and portrayed himself as a weak underdog pitted against a powerful federal government that has tied to crush his family.....
Bundy told jurors that his family has grazed cattle at their ranch near Bunkerville, Nevada since they homesteaded in the 1870's....
his family faced a "tremendous amount of abuse" for trying "to protect these grazing rights....
"We can't do it against these people. They're too smart. They're too strong. We can't fight them. Now they're prosecuting us...My dad and brothers are in jail now, every single one of them. It's wrong," Bundy said, tears filling his eyes....
he initially resisted his father's push in the summer and fall of 2015 to get involved in the case of Harney County ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond....
Ammon Bundy said he had a change of heart....
Of his visit with Steven Hammond, Bundy said, "I began to understand he was pretty tired of fighting and he was pretty much broken emotionally...He was just going to take what was given."
Bundy's lawyer, Marcus Mumford, asked his client how he responded to Seven Hammond's position.
"I didn't understand until I spent 8 and a half months in prison, how he felt," Bundy said....
As he remained on the witness stand, Bundy's attorney played for jurors clips of video from the 2014 standoff in Bunkerville. They captured a woman Ammon identified as "Aunt Margaret" getting thrown to the ground by a federal officer after she stood briefly in front of a government vehicle and then Ammon Bundy getting shot with a stun gun three times after he parked his four-wheeler in front of a government dump truck.....
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight earlier has objected to the videos being presented to jurors...
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Ammon Bundy began to lay out his story of "big government" versus "decent people" as he started to testify in the Oregon Standoff Trial yesterday.
When Nigel Farage spoke at a Donald Trump rally in Mississippi he spoke of the 'corporatists' versus the 'decent people'.
Mr. Farage describes "Corporatism" as the amalgamation of 'big government, big business and big banks' against the little people.
With its policies on grazing land and water use in the West, big government pushes the little farming and ranching people out of business only leaving room for farming and ranching as big business.
Its one aspect of the problems of the country that many people in the more populated places and the East don't realize the gravity of or feel the urgency of.
I will vote for Donald Trump but I'm not placing ultimate faith in politics to deliver change. 99 percent of those on the ballot are in the business as usual department of politicians who sometimes say the right thing but always enable things to go the wrong way.
I must listen to God and change my way of living for sure.
Beyond that I see the need to insist that elected officials either act to change things quickly or expect some heartfelt resistance of a nonviolent nature.
More testimony from Ammon Bundy today......
Video clip that includes the tasing of Ammon Bundy at Bunkerville in 2014.
Bundy was trying to see if the trucks were carrying dead cattle from his family’s herd that were confiscated by the federal government.
The tasing segment starts around 1:25 into the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXDI7oCgTkk
Twenty or thirty years ago the coastal elites declared war on flyover country. They even talked openly of abandoning flyover country and giving it back to the Indians. Every legislative action on domestic policy and regulation has been directed toward this goal for decades. Occasionally a few resist. A true course reversal will have to include restoring or reversing a balance and diminishing the power of these coastal enclaves of libtards.
PRESIDENT TRUMP
Let us hope. There is much work to be done and the libtards will be kicking and howling at every step.
Meanwhile Hillary’s real
terrorists get
to have their laptops destroyed by the FBI and information on Sorros inciting national
subversion against the Constitution with the IrS and FBI in tow gets erased
I agree. I pray. It’s not visually active but best thing I can do.
And I talk. Probably not eloquently enough. But people in my rural area of Texas mostly think as you do. Best argument i give city folks is the ranchers are feeding them.
All I can say is, you are not alone.
More of this? Flame me but Bundy led or participated in armed insurrection and is now exactly where he belongs. BTW, has he accepted jurisdiction of the US yet? Personally, until he accepts the jurisdiction of the US and our laws, he has no rights to demand anything whatsoever.
I want to think all the EO’s and like et cetera’s will be brought to Trump’s attention and with the pretty cool stroke of the pen, make our nation right and whole again.
We have to end federalism through convention of States or start seceding from this monster Federal
I dont think the elites have given up the plan to eliminate “our people” from flyover country. I believe they’ve just diverted to a stealth attack, lulling us into thinking nothing is happening.
Of course that will be the easy and early part. Rooting out and prosecuting all the criminals has to be done as well. Every Rat, every libtard that can be imprisoned needs to be. That will be a necessary second step. Unwinding and deleveraging the libtard channels of money and power a necessary third. Fortunately asset forfeiture libtards love so much will be a handy tool. All these Foundations like The Tides, Clinton, etc. can be raided as the prosecutions begin. Defunding libtard ism for a couple generations will be helpful. Much work to be done. So little time. These steps have to be accomplished or the Uniparty will just yawn.
How do you have that view? You are fine with the federal government steam rolling families on twisted logic from a terroistic bill from 1996?...The hammonds were prosecuted on a controlled burn that burned some F kin grass on a fed . piece of soil?...Then they get RE-sentenced ...are you all there?...Do you know all of what the suck off federal employee union slugs did via orders from some other bought off hack boss?...w t f?
I has been suggested Trey Gowdy for Atty. Gen.
IT has been suggested ... sheesh !
Using a Bible as a prop? He might have a future as a Democrat politician.
This trial is a farce. The fix is in. Bundy and his family sadly are going to wind up in prison. The feds don’t like it when little people try to stand up to them. They are going to ask for max sentences too, and probably get them. I bet.
Nazi.
Yeah, I know - I lost the argument. :)
You again? The smell of jackboot is STRONG with this one.
So many idiotic things in your comment. The Hammonds were convicted of starting fires to cover their illegal poaching. The Bundy’s have illegally grazed cattle on public lands. The latter reject the authority of the US government. They incited and participated in armed insurrection against the US. They are just as bad as Islamic terrorists, BLM, and others that threaten the US. I really don’t see the difference—flame me. I served in the US military, I respect and cherish the US, our Constitution, our laws, and our lands. Right or wrong this is our country. So when idiots come along and reject it, take arms against it, call on others to do the same, they are scum. Lucky to be alive and just in jail, rather than buried or in Gitmo. And I love our public lands—here in Nevada, for example, 82% is public and accessible. I cherish that. If the Bundy’s want to use our public lands, they can pay the applicable costs, not steal it. No amount of political posturing, hugging the Bible, and all changes the fact these folks raised arms against the US, rejected the authority of the US.
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