Posted on 09/20/2016 4:34:50 AM PDT by Nextrush
Fish biologist Linda Beck, an eight-year employee at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said she returned to her office after the occupation of the federal wildlife sanctuary and found her office in the refuge headquarters a mess.
"I would describe it as completed trashed," Beck testified Monday......
Refuge archeologist Carla Burnside found a "huge muddy footprint" on the solid wooden door to her office, and the locked door hanging off the frame. Documents were "obviously missing" from her locked file cabinet that contained archeological records, she said.....
Three computers on the refuge had been logged on, using Burnside's PIN on Jan. 2, the day the refuge was taken over......
The refuge employees' testimony, plus videos shown of occupiers removing FBI license reader surveillance cameras from two locations, came on the start of the second week of trial........
(Per) Olson (David Fry defense attorney) attempted to attack the refuge's decades of efforts to control carp, the invasive species threatening the migratory birds habitat, noting with Beck's acknowledgement, that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has used poisons, dynamite and electric shock to try to destroy carp eggs in the past...
Defense lawyer Marcus Mumford asked Beck if its possible the FBI agents could have caused the mess she found in her office on Feb. 17.
"I see no point in them making this mess," she replied.
"But it's possible?" Mumford asked.
"Yes," she said.....
When it was Ryan Bundy's turn to cross-examine Beck, he started. "I've heard your name. I've seen your name. It's good to finally meet you."
Under cross-examination, Beck said she was paid throughout the refuge occupation. "I never stopped working," she testified.....
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Part of the trial yesterday was the removal of cameras by protestors including the murdered LaVoy Finicum.
LaVoy said they were FBI spy cameras and at the time, the media as in Les Zaitz and "Oregon Live' were suggesting they were security cameras for a utility company.
Well, they indeed were FBI spy cameras designed to record the license plates of cars travelling in the area.
Exactly right about the cameras.
They can not prove who did what and when.
The alleged “trashing” of the buildings is said to have occurred during a time period during which many people where in the area.
Recall the Ferguson riots. Crimes occurred during a time when many people where in the area. Only people who could be proven to have committed a crime, for example by video of them looting the Quick Trip, were prosecuted.
“where in the area” should be “were in the area”
By whom? Burnside? The Feebs? Or, least likely, the occupiers? If not Burnside, how was the PIN used? Did she leave it somewhere completely conspicuous?
By the fact she used "PIN" instead of "password", I'm guessing they had some type of two-factor identification. PIN and card, like a debit card.
Without the card, the PIN does no good, and vice-versa. That means she'd have left her card in the machine, too. Idiot.
So, the preventing federal officials conspiracy charge is phony.
The feds can find every charge in the book for a peasant they want to "get" - but they can find NO charges when it comes to an Elite like Hillary or Lerner commmitting MULTIPLE serious felonies...
About halfway through the article I realized this whole thing is minutiae. Arguing about minimally messing the place up. Its criminal trespass and vandalism at the worst. What’s that $1000 fine and 6 months in the county slam? They just the NJ terror bomber bail.
“completed trashed”?
You don’t imprison people for ten years for civil disobedience. If you believe any of the Bundy group deserve that then you are part of the problem.
I am on the ranchers side. I was questioning the grammar....shouldn’t it be “completely trashed”? And I don’t think the ranchers trashed anything anyway.
I also have doubts from the testimony that it was that trashed and nobody really knows who did it. Even if the ranchers made a mess that’s not worth 10 years in jail. None of these trumped up charges are. Anymore than the Hammond’s should be in prison for 5 years.
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