A lot is said about the dispute between Cliven Bundy and the feds with a lot being said about 'unpaid grazing fees'.
The whole dispute began when the federal government's environmental regulations began to hurt Cliven Bundy's ranching business.
When the environmentalist movement emerged in the 1960's and the EPA started in the 1970's, it spelled the death knell for logging, farming, ranching in the West etc. etc.
Taking care of the land meant 'conservation' as NBC News Anchorman Chet Huntley put it in an interview at the time of his retirement in July 1970. The Montana native, leaving the news biz for what was expected to be a political career, suggested it should be a conservative idea to care for the earth.
But of course the EPA made it more of a Soviet notion with its rules shutting down productive industries and small farmers and ranchers who didn't have political connections like the big operators did.
And so we have the victims like Cliven Bundy and his sons plus those who came to help them sitting in Nevada prisons right now.
Trump can pardon them!
Where is Cliven now?
Makes me feel ashamed of our government. Hopefully we will drain the swamp and fix things like this.
These men have been acquitted of all federal charges in Oregon after the jury clearly saw through the setup they were subjected to.
The crimes they are actually guilty of are at most minor misdemeanors and are being exceeded daily by Leftist mobs in the streets of America after Trump’s election.
But they are imprisoned and given no bail?
If a writ of Habeas Corpus was denied in these cases, what are the grounds now? We get to imprison you until we find a cooperative jury who will convict you of whatever fabricated or strained legal theory we can make stick?
The Obama government - the corrupt DoJ of Loretta Lynch and Corrupt Comey - continue to try to make an example of the Bundy’s, who are simply independent men making a political statement about the appalling coercion being forced on them and their fellow rural Westerners trying to make a living the way they always have.
The federal government under Obama gives far more leeway to the average illegal alien then it does natural born Americans.
Where is their bail? Why are they still imprisoned and dragged through a federal penitentiary system when it is clear that another jury may in fact clear them of all charges.
They are now nothing more then political prisoners of the Stalinist Obama regime, clinging to its last vestiges of power until the day Don Trump is sworn in.
On that day he needs to do exactly what the criminal Will Jefferson Clinton did in January of 1993: fire every Federal District Attorney and start over.
The Bundy’s deserve Bail and reduction of charges to credible levels of the minor infractions they may have done in the progress of their protest.
There WERE some people with guns pointed at federal officers at Bunkerville but it isn’t clear to me that they were NOT federal agents or informers now that the truth has come out about the so-called “militias” who rode in un-invited. Those guys may turn out to ALL be provacateurs.
Think that’s what the jury in Oregon saw.
They should all be out on bail.