Posted on 07/26/2017 12:58:31 PM PDT by Coronal
Gregory Burleson, a member of Arizona militia groups who participated in the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville, was sentenced Wednesday to more than 68 years in federal prison.
During the standoff, which resulted in federal agents deserting an operation to round up rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle, Burleson was photographed with a long gun, moving around the sandy wash where Bureau of Land Management agents were headquartered.
After the standoff, he posted incendiary, anti-government messages on Facebook. “I was hell bent on killing federal agents that had turned their back on we the people,” he told an undercover FBI agent who posed as a documentary filmmaker in order to interview him.
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Just remember...agents will like like hell when need be.
Kind of a large sentence. This is unjust.
Seems disproportionate given murderers and rapists routinely get less.
Now it’s up to President Trump to issue a pardon.
The Judge is a Reid recommended, Obama appointed ‘RAT JUDGE.
He would have gotten a lighter sentence if he had robbed and murdered a liquor store owner.
In the old USSR, a 10 year sentence was the shocking extreme you could get short of a death penalty.
This modern technique of stacking crimes to create outlandish sentences is un-American.
In 150 years people will be shocked at the police state we endured. And they will pore through the liberated NSA files with astonishment. Its happening with Stasi files now.
In the old USSR, a 10 year sentence was the shocking extreme you could get short of a death penalty.
This modern technique of stacking crimes to create outlandish sentences is un-American.
In 150 years people will be shocked at the police state we endured. And they will pore through the liberated NSA files with astonishment. Its happening with Stasi files now.
As a legal and moral matter, I am generally against any armed insurrection, but what was the criminal charge here?
Conspiracy requires at least two conspirators. Were the feds ever shot at? I think he needed better lawyers, and a great one on appeal.
At his age this is a life sentence. “Death or life in prison for daring to challenge the Crown”.
This sentence is designed to install fear into the subjects of the Crown.
Well at least it wasn’t a death sentence like Lavoy Finnican got.
His sentence is absurd.
> In the old USSR, a 10 year sentence was the shocking extreme you could get short of a death penalty. <
Yep, that was actually true at one time. The thinking was that anything more than 10 years would mentally damage a person for life. That makes some sense.
But it was routine for the Soviets to tack on an additional 10 year sentence once a prisoner’s sentence was almost up. Additional time for “crimes” committed while in prison, of course.
If Uncle Joe wanted you, Uncle Joe got you.
Reminds me of an old Soviet joke:
An old man spots a friend he hasn’t seen for a long time and he asks him where he’s been all this time. He says “I’ve in prison for ten years”.
The old guy says “what did you do?”
His friend says “I didn’t do anything- I was innocent “
The old guy says “C’mon - what did really do? Innocent men only get five years”.
Did he loot and riot? Did he burned down gas stations and beauty supply stores?
How much time to those people get?
Cover your *&MN faces people! It’s 2017, this is not some Cowboy shoot with white hats!
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That will do it.
Looks like the feds think they can escalate there. Some people are willing to pay the price. Will the fed be willing to pay the price or will they whine again like little btches to the media?
Burleson was convicted by jury in April of eight counts, which included assault, threats, extortion, obstruction of justice, and multiple gun charges.
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