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PRISON REFUSES VISITS TO BUNDY AMID CONCERNS FOR HIS HEALTH FOLLOWING 13 HOUR ORDEAL CALLED 'TORTURE' Dozens of supporters are already outside Nevada Southern Detention Center...... WEDNESDAY May 10th Update: Kelli Stewart posted a Facebook video last evening laying out plans for continuous protest over the mistreatment of prisoners at Nevada Southern Detention Center. Stewart said the scope of the protest is beyond the mistreatment of Ammon Bundy. But she reminded viewers about Bundy's mistreatment, saying that additional 3 by 3 cells will be built and displayed with people in them during the protest to remind people about that happened....

.....women have marched in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, continuing a wave of protests against the rule of President Nicolas Maduro. The women, dressed in white and led by opposition MP's, denounced what they consider repression by security forces. The US has also expressed concern about what UN ambassador Nikki Haley called a "violent crackdown". At least 36 people have died and hundreds have been injured in weeks of protests. In a statement, Ms. Haley accused Mr. Maduro of "disregard for the fundamental rights of his own people", which she said had "heightened the political and economic crisis in the country."...

Ammon Bundy's lawyer Marcus Mumford called a judge's push to revoke his ability to practice law in federal court in Oregon a "serious and stigmatizing" sanction and unwarranted. The Utah-based lawyer has asked U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman for more time to respond. Mumford also wants a full transcript of last fall's refuge occupation trial to challenge what Mosman called Mumford's repeated failures or refusals to observe court rulings, highlighted in about 545 pages of excerpts from the trial transcript. Mumford was supposed to file his response to Mosman by Thursday, but instead filed an 11 page memo asking...

Leopoldo Lopez has not seen a visitor for 37 days in his Venezuelan prison. Senator Marco Rubio said he was taken to a hospital in a very serious condition. There is concern about what the regime did to him. His wife has stood outside the prison seeking to be allowed in. In Nevada, Ammon Bundy was beaten and shackled earlier this week for a 13 hour period with guards threatening to leave him that way for 72 hours leaving Bundy fearing for his life. He sounded broken and hurt when he called his wife and activist Kelli Stewart afterwards. The...

Lisa Bundy, wife of imprisoned protestor Ammon Bundy, received several messages from people who had heard her description of what happened to her husband while in s 3 foot by 3 foot shower stall in the Nevada Southern Detention Center and challenged her as to its veracity. They said they could not believe what she was saying was true. Theirin lies the very essence of what is wrong with America, Americans live in a bubble. A bubble consisting of trips to Walmart, piano recitals, walking the dog and weekend outings in the RV. No, the description that Lisa Bundy gives...

....(AT :09 Kelli Stewart) "we've got Ammon Bundy on the phone and he is live from, he's live from solitary confinement after being beat up and traumatized all night... (AT :50 Ammon Bundy)".. anyway I just wanted, I just wanted everybody to maybe understand just a little bit the situation. I, I don't, I want....(AT 1:04 Kelli Stewart) "Ammon tell us"....(AT 1:08 Ammon Bundy)...the main thing I want you to believe my wife. I don't want people calling her a liar." (AT 1:15 Kelli Stewart) "We believe her Ammon.....(AT 1:26)...you thought they were going to kill you." (AT 1:35 Ammon...

There was word late last evening that Ammon and Ryan Bundy have been moved from solitary confinement at the Southern Nevada Detention Center in Pahrump. The Bundy Brothers were put in the hole for refusing to comply with frequent body cavity searches conducted under prison rules. A few days ago Ryan Bundy filed a lawsuit in connection with his punishment at the prison. Ammon and Ryan Bundy are in prison awaiting trial later this year in connection with the April 2014 Bunkerville Standoff near Bundy Ranch. Activist Gavin Seim posted a video on his Facebook page reporting the release of...

A federal jury's failure to reach a unanimous verdict on 50 of the 60 counts in the first Bunkerville standoff case--and the mistrial that resulted--has spurred a flurry of concerns about speedy-trial rights among others accused of conspiring with rancher Cliven Bundy. Eleven people still await trial on charges that they organized a mass assault on federal agents who tried to seize Bundy's cattle from public land in April 2014. The first trial ended Monday when U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial and set a new trial date of June 26. Jurors convicted two of the first six...

(Gavin Seim at :11)"....We finally have Ammon Bundy call right now live from the Nevada jail....."(Ammon Bundy at 1:05)...."they want us to accept that what we've done or what we're doing here is our fault. I've had several actual guards say 'Well you if don't want to be here then you shouldn't have commited a crime'.....Hey, look we've not been convicted. We are innocent. We maintain our innocence.....I know without a doubt that what we did was right....They insist that us to accept guilt and we will not do that.....We will not allow them to treat us in a way...

Attorney Marcus Mumford, who last month had criminal charges dismissed against him stemming from his arrest on the day his client Ammon Bundy was acquitted of conspiracy in federal court in Portland, now faces more legal challenges. Oregon's Chief U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman is seeking to revoke Mumford's ability to practice law in any federal court in the District of Oregon, a rare move. The judge has given Mumford until May 4 to argue in writing why should not impose such a sanction. In a court filing Wednesday, Mosman cited Mumford's repeated failures or refusals to observe court...

(At 3:04-John Lamb) "We did have court today for Ammon Bundy and it was a hearing that was for Morgan Philpot to see if he was able to use him as a second lawyer like second chair on his case when Ammon's tried coming up and we don't know when its going to be just yet, its the second trial, but that motion was allowed and Philpot is able to represent Ammon in this next trial, so that was good news. It was a sealed hearing, we were not allowed to be at it, we had to stay on the...

A federal judge Wednesday dismissed all criminal charges against Marcus Mumford, Ammon Bundy's lawyer, at the prosecution's request. In a three-sentence order, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour granted prosecutors' motion to dismiss two charges against Mumford without prejudice, meaning the government could bring them back in the future. Mumford's lawyer, Michael Levine, had argued repeatedly that the deputy U.S. marshals engaged in "outrageous" misconduct and lacked authority to wrestle Mumford to the ground and stun him with a Taser gun while he was arguing on behalf of Bundy in a federal courtroom last fall.... Mumford Monday night told The...

Prosecutors spent twice as long cross-examining Ammon Bundy when he returned to a Porland courtroom Tuesday compared to last fall during his own trial that ended with his acquittal..... ...Bundy was the first witness for the defense of four men who say they were inspired by his videos and calls to take a 'hard stand in Burns" and now face trial themselves..... Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight began his cross-examination the same way he did last year, asking Bundy if he was the leader of the occupation. But Knight covered more ground and pointed out inconsistencies in Bundy's testimony this...

Ammon Bundy called a clandestine meeting around the dining room of their host's home in Burns on Dec. 29, 2015, and directed the five other men attending to leave their cell phones and laptops behind... ...Bundy discussed for the first time his idea of taking over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, testified occupier Blaine Cooper, called as a government witness... Cooper's testimony about a Dec. 29 dining-room sit down marked the first time any one has referenced in court a late December 2015 meeting in which there was talk between Bundy and five other men about seizing the federal wildlife...

Over the objection of a prosecutor, a defense lawyer Wednesday asked Oregon's recently retired top FBI agent about his reaction to the jury verdict from the first trial in the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. "You do not believe the participants that went to trial in the fall of 2016 were held accountablem that's correct?" asked Michele Kohler, representing defendant Duane Ehmer. After some hesitation and direction from the judge to answer the question, retired FBI Special Agent in Charge Greg Bretzing replied, "That's correct." Kohler pointed out that Bretzing didn't testify during last year's trial of the...

Marcus Mumford's lawyer urged a judge Wednesday to dismiss all criminal charges against his client, citing "outrageous" government misconduct and a lack of authority by deputy U.S. marshals to wrestle Mumford to the ground and stun him with a Taser gun while he was arguing on behalf of Ammon Bundy in court last fall. Marshals took Mumford into custody on Oct. 27 just after a jury acquitted Bundy, the leader of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation of all charges in the case. The jury also acquitted six co-defendants. "Mr. Mumford stood in the well of the courtroom and protested...

Prosecutors in Las Vegas filed a Motion In Limine late Tuesday in the case of The United States vs Cliven Bundy et al — in hopes that Nevada District Court Judge Gloria Navarro – will allow the Government to “cover-up” any wrong doing agents in the Bureau Of Land Management – who conducted the Bundy cattle impoundment in April of 2014 – may have committed. “It’s a shocking blatant attempt by the Government to cover-up the brutal conduct of BLM agents that caused a near catastrophe in Bunkerville, Nevada during the impoundment of rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle,” says a defense...

"I've should have been a cowboy, I shoulda have learned to rope and ride"-Toby Keith-Sould've Been A Cowboy (1993) "It's time we stop, hey what's that sound everybody look what's going down"-Buffalo Springfield-For What Its Worth (1966) It's been one year (January 26, 2016) since the FBI executed a 'felony traffic stop' against non violent protestors along Route 395 in Harney County, Oregon that led to the death of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum. Finicum was a rancher, a cowboy, a defender of Constitutional rights and a believer in the Constitution of the United States. He was a husband and father, including...

U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown said Friday she'll work to ensure the transfer of Ammon Bundy and Ryan Payne from Nevada to testify at next month's trial of seven defendants charged in the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. "I'm convinced it would be error for the court not to facilitate them as witnesses," the judge said. But Brown wants both Bundy and Payne, who face federal prosecution in Nevada this spring, to personally consent to their brief transfer. She also wants their assurances that they won't argue that the move will hurt their ability to prepare for...

"I love those dear hearts and gentle people who live in my home town because those dear hearts and gentle people will never ever let you down. They read the Good Book from Friday till Monday, that's how the weekends go....there's a place I'd like to go and its back in Idaho where your friendly neighbors smile and say hello...." Bing Crosby "Dear Hearts and Gentle People (1949) Singer Bing Crosby had a ranch in northern Nevada and built a summer home in Idaho and had great affection for the rural Western way of living as expressed in his 1949...