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No guilty verdicts reached in Bunkerville ranch standoff (BREAKING NEWS!!!)
Associated Press via 13 Action News ^ | August 22, 2017

Posted on 08/22/2017 4:27:36 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Edited on 08/22/2017 5:59:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A federal jury in Las Vegas has refused to convict four accused gunmen in a 2014 standoff with federal authorities near the Nevada ranch of anti-government figure Cliven Bundy.

In a verdict that stunned Bundy supporters, the jury on Tuesday acquitted Ricky Lovelien and Steven Stewart of all 10 charges against them.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: bundy; bundyranch; bunkervilleranch; bunkervilletrial
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To: TChris

Their family owned the grazing rights before any “public land” was established. Should the law just give a thumbs up to negating prior contracts just because the government decides to grab some land and call it Federal property?


41 posted on 08/22/2017 4:49:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: PJ-Comix


42 posted on 08/22/2017 4:50:18 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04

What was done is no different than BLM protesting without a permit (which I too find to be unconstitutional) and then being arrested and fined for it. Don’t like the laws? They should be changed by through legislation. Just because it is our side does not make breaking the law a glamorous act.

It’s akin to killing your parent then crying to the public because you are now an orphan under prosecution


43 posted on 08/22/2017 4:52:35 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: Publius

Yea! Now pursue those Fed prosecutors for their outrageous behavior, including Establishment Jeff for his praise of those prosecutors.


44 posted on 08/22/2017 4:52:57 PM PDT by Kalamata (With haste and GodÂ’s divine intervention, may Liberty be restored to the People.)
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To: TChris
Is there any reason the Federal Government should own more than 90 percent of Nevada?

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45 posted on 08/22/2017 4:54:08 PM PDT by Fungi (90 percent of all soil biomass is a fungus. Fungi rule the world.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Jury nullification. Love it. Let every misguided prosecutor take note: America is a free country, and the government is here to serve us.


46 posted on 08/22/2017 4:54:09 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Publius

I was hoping the blatant railroading would piss off the jurors and cause the nullification the judge was so concerned with preventing.

Although I have wondered if the judge went full libtard intentionally to cause the nullification while covering herself from leftist criticism, sort of killing two birds with one stone. Crazy like a fox.


47 posted on 08/22/2017 4:54:12 PM PDT by Valpal1 (I am grown weary.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I am guessing that people in the west are getting leery letting a SJW government persecute their neighbors.
Listen up judges, prosecutors, and attorney generals, when you disrespect and abuse the law regular American on juries are going to be very skeptical of your ethics, your honesty, the LEO/government bureaucrat testimonies and the merits of the law behind the charges. Americans are now very well aware of the ancient right of jury nullification enshrined in English Common Law and are starting to use it.

The choice between ballots or bullets is fast approaching.

If you want to know more:

http://criminal.lawyers.com/criminal-law-basics/jury-nullification-when-the-jury-ignores-the-law.html


48 posted on 08/22/2017 4:55:29 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: TChris
“Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlement, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. Social justice, urban renewal and development, the provision of decent dwellings-and healthy conditions for people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole.” The preamble to The Vancouver Action Plan approved at Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (31 May to 11 June 1976).

wolf corridor

The Wildlands Project goal is to set aside approximately 50% of the North American continent (Turtle Island) as “wild land” for the preservation of biological diversity.

And that brings it full circle and btw, sustainable development is hugely behind the climate change fear used to encourage people to embrace communism.

It's all very nicely intertwined.

49 posted on 08/22/2017 4:58:55 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: PJ-Comix
The government pushed the American people and the American people pushed back.....

NOW THIS IS A WIN

50 posted on 08/22/2017 4:59:13 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04

At one point the government confiscated 400 of Clive Bundy’s cows. They eventually gave most back, though I seem to recall that they killed a couple of them first.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nevada-rancher-cliven-bundy-the-citizens-of-america-got-my-cattle-back/


51 posted on 08/22/2017 4:59:59 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fungi

Um Harry Reid?


52 posted on 08/22/2017 5:00:24 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Garth Tater
Read up on the subject a little before posting your drivel next time.

OK, snarkiness noted.

But should that be the response to every fee that is raised too high by the government? This kind of thing goes on in other areas all the time. Should fee hikes just result in armed standoffs from now on?

I'm not defending Obama's government or their power grabbing, but I'm just asking if that's really how we should be responding to it, because we will get a Democrat president again, eventually.

Are we going to be the party of, "I don't like your fees and taxes, so I'm getting my gun!?"

Should I barricade the door and threaten to shoot the IRS agent who was sent to audit me because tax rates are insanely high?

When I hate the obscene hikes in my property tax, should I draw down on the deputies who come to evict me for failing to pay them?

I'm just saying that this was, I believe, an inappropriate response to the problem.

53 posted on 08/22/2017 5:01:08 PM PDT by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Cliven.

Auto-correct struck again.


54 posted on 08/22/2017 5:01:17 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: PJ-Comix

Good! Now sue the living hell out of the judge! And the jack booted thugs that provoked the whole situation.

Friggin bastrds!


55 posted on 08/22/2017 5:01:44 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: TChris

I think you should reconsider. This particular trial was not about whether or not Bundy had the proper permits—he did not. However, the bind he was in was the government refusing to issue them as they had before, due to environmentalism.

But, still, I admit even that is open to much debate.

Still, the trial was about the following:

Do the citizens of this country have the right to protest against the government, and even be armed while doing so? Federal agents ordered them to stand down and leave and they would not. Many protesters were arrested because they were protesting on federal lands, and the government thought they should have been confined to a caged “protest area”, while they themselves had free range to follow their orders.

In this trial the government tried to make the case that the people have no such right, and what they did was threaten and aggrieve the federal agents, who were just doing their jobs.

The results seem to be in favor of the citizens. This time.

However, there is still the larger issue of Bundy, his operations, and whether or not a desert tortoise is more important than an American family. I say no.

Environmentalists, democrats and pretty much the entire Left says yes.

In the end, we still have a Left/Right struggle underlying it all.


56 posted on 08/22/2017 5:02:10 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: cherry

Praise God!!!!!


57 posted on 08/22/2017 5:04:10 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: TChris

We were considering going but the interstate was backed up for many miles.


58 posted on 08/22/2017 5:04:16 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: TChris

I think OP means the Feds who stole the cattle.


59 posted on 08/22/2017 5:04:25 PM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: PJ-Comix

AG Sessions will be “disappointed!”


60 posted on 08/22/2017 5:04:43 PM PDT by vette6387
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