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"Well you know when I came back from Vietnam I just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get...." Governor George Romney-"Lou Gordon Show"-September 1967 "@Mitt Romney has announced he is running for Senate from the wonderful state of Utah. He will make a great successor and worthy successor to @Orrin Hatch and has my full support and endorsement" President Donald J. Trump endorsement of Mitt Romney on Twitter-2/19/2018 ".....There may want to be a lot of people out there that want, want to drink the Trump Kool Aid and to be honest with you I want to drink it,...

"I'm a big fan of America, but I'm not a fan of plea bargaining..... ......it's basically impossible in America now, today, to plead innocent, it's impossible because...if you go to a court its going to cost X million in legal fees and your sentence will be 750 years but of course if you want to plead guilty that's fine you'll serve five months and be out..... America is five percent of the world's population but has 20 percent of the world's prisoners...." Nigel Farage on "The Nigel Farage Show"-LBC Radio 2/6/2018 BREAKING NEWS: TODD ENGEL, WHO WAS CONVICTED IN THE...

"I'm a big fan of America, but I'm not a fan of plea bargaining....its basically impossible in America now, today to plead innocent, it's impossible because....if you go to court its going to cost X million in legal fees and your sentence will be 750 years but of course if you'll serve five months and be out.... ....America is five percent of the world's population but has 20 percent of the world's prisoners." Nigel Farage on "The Nigel Farage Show"-LBC Radio 2/6/2018 (BREAKING NEWS) (ERIC PARKER'S SENTENCING SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW HAS BEEN CONTINUED UNTIL JULY 12TH, SCOTT DREXLER, WHO WAS...

(In Case You Missed It, Links To The Latest Developments) With the new developments coming out late Friday in the pre-trial phase for the FBI agent accused of lying about the shots he fired moments before LaVoy Finicum died, you may missed it all. The 32-page document is a federal government response to a move by Agent W. Joseph Astarita to have the charges against him dismissed. We learned that the FBI had the Oregon State Police SWAT team not wear their body cams as is standard procedure and that the FBI did not want Oregon shooting investigators to record...

"My family's grazed here for 141 years and we have vested property rights deeded with the State of Nevada and the federal government will not recognize them cause they say 'we own the land'. And so not only do we openly and as loudly as we can say 'you do not own this land, you do not have the authority to own and control this land' but we also say 'we have rights to this land and you have to recognize them and repsect those rights'...... ......It was the same in Oregon the Hammonds were the same way. They have...

"We were headed to a meeting that we were invited to in Grant County and we were just going to speak at that meeting and we meant no harm or threatened nobody and...We were literally ambushed. I was there, you know, I was there. They came from out of the trees and they ambushed us. We didn't know who they were......What did we do that was so egregious and so criminal that they would ambush us on the side of a road going to a community meeting? Why did they do that? They murdered LaVoy....." Ammon Bundy speaks to KIVI-TV...

"He (Ryan Zinke) actually came out to the area of Gold Butte and never met with my family, never inquired, never spoke, but yet he went out to Gold Butte and met with the friends, what's called the, the organization called the "Friends of Gold Butte" and including the people from the Center for...the Center for Biodiversity.... "....He meets with them out at Gold Butte and they were the very people that did a friendly lawsuits with the BLM and the BLM used that as justification to come after my family..." "...why would he meet an fraternize with them an...

"Why hasn't Trump pardoned the Hammonds?" "People want to say well maybe President Trump doesn't know but I disagree...." "We love him and honor him and we want him to relieve us and start with the Hammonds." Ammon Bundy In Video With Kelli Stewart 1/4/2018 Dwight and Steven Hammond were prosecuted as terrorists for lighting a backfire to protect their property in Harney County, Oregon and forced to return to a federal prison in January of 2016 to serve out mandatory five year "terrorism" sentences. Their imprisonment led Ammon Bundy to launch the Oregon Standoff protest two years ago this...

AMMON BUNDY SAYS NEW US ATTORNEY DECISIONS WILL SEND UNEQUIVOCAL MESSAGE AS TO WHETHER TRUMP IS A MAN OF THE PEOPLE OR A FEDERAL SUPREMACIST ("NATIONALIST" IN HIS TERMINOLOGY) "......Myhre and Scheiss (prosecutors)....they are Republicans....its a very political position they are in....." "......Myhre was not demoted.....he's still the First Assistant US Attorney......now this Dayle however you say her name....the US Attorney for the Nevada District....she was appointed by the Trump Administration through Jeff Sessions....." Bunkerville defendant Ammon Bundy speaks with Kelli Stewart 1/4/2018 on Facebook Texas federal prosecutor Dayle Elieson takes over today in Las Vegas as Interim US Attorney...

"We have an unconstitutional land agency.... Why don't we have a way to hold Dan Love accountable?.... But on a county level, we could get them out, on a state level we can hold them accountable and that's the issue here and we cannot lose sight of that. Its not that we go to Washington DC...... And they have deliberately and intentionally and deceptively over years, over decades taken the land, taken the water and the resources, the minerals away from the people until we wonder why we're all struggling to make a living....." Ammon Bundy 12/14/2017 ....revelations from the...

Acting US Attorney Steve Myhre, the lead prosecutor in the Bunkerville Standoff case, got a closed door hearing today where he tried to get G. Morgan Philpot, defendant Ammon Bundy's defense attorney, sanctioned over the information that has leaked out about federal misconduct in the Bunkerville case. In the end US District Judge Gloria N. Navarro mildly admonished Philpot asking that what happened not happen again.

Happy scenes at the federal courthouse in Las Vegas today as Ammon Bundy was released to home detention under the order of US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro. Hugs from family, friends and supporters inside and outside the building. Ammon Bundy spoke with reporters outside the building. He said it is the duty of Americans to 'stand up for their rights' when the government makes mistakes. Bundy also said the government's case against him and the other defendants is in trouble......

It was dramatic enough in the courtroom in Portland when all seven defendants accused of being the "leaders" of the Oregon Standoff protest were found not guilty on October 27, 2016. But there was more to come as Ammon Bundy's lawyer, Marcus Mumford, argued for Bundy to be released. The federal government countered about a "retainer" on him for the charges in Nevada but couldn't produce any document stating that when asked by Mumford. They claimed it was "in the office" or something to that effect. A group of federal marshals descended on Mumford, tackling, tasing him and taking him...

Billy J. Williams, the Acting US Attorney in Oregon, named by the Obama Administration (Attorney General Loretta Lynch) in 2015, is now President Trump's nominee for that post. In a statement, the White House said that Williams and the other three US Attorney nominees in other parts of the country shared Trump's vision for "Making America Safe Again". Williams prosecuted protestors involved in the Oregon Standoff including the seven "leaders" found not guilty in October of 2016 and then prosecuted other protesters adding misdemeanor charges onto felonies and using a jury consultant..... The two Democrats who represent Oregon in the...

A federal judge on Monday sentenced Oregon refuge occupier Geoffrey Stanek, described as one of the more minor players indicted in the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, to two years of probation, including six months of home detention. U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown said the home detention was warranted, partly to ensure Stanek doesn't respond again to a "call to arms" from Facebook acquaintances on behalf of "We the People"......

A corrections employee committed suicide Tuesday at the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump. The private detention facility, which houses federal inmates awaiting trial, disclosed the suicide in a statement Wednesday that said the employee 'sadly took his own life'. The employee's name and position have not been released to the public. Detention center staff members found his body after responding to a fire alarm that went off around 6pm. No fire was discovered. Staff contacted emergency medical services,, who pronounced the employee dead at the scene. A source with knowledge of the investigation said tear gas or some other...

(Ammon Bundy at :05).....I would like to thank you for your love towards myself and my family. All your support, your letters, your prayers, it is such a great strength to us. So many men and women in these prisons are forgotten.... (at :50)....this wicked system without any chance of correction. For those who are innocent and for those that know they have done wrong but are not being allowed to make it right, for those that stole a dollar that are being punished like a bank robbed...... (at 3:07)...each time I see a young man, an old man or...

.....SATURDAY MAY 27th John Lamb, one of the protest organizers, announced yesterday that the protest will continue next week instead of breaking off Monday as had been previously planned. Lamb said the protest has been an encouragement to the prisoners. The 19 associated with the Bunkerville Standoff have been helped and others in the prison as well by the protestors outside and their willingness to go into the prison and visit with those held there. At last night's public meeting, activist and organizer Kelli Stewart explained her involvement with the cause of the prisoners that began during the Oregon Standoff...

....BUNDY'S MOTHER, OTHERS SHOWN LONG VIDEO OF ORDEAL, SHERIFF SAID TO HAVE COMPARED PRISON TO WALMART.... FRIDAY MAY 12th-SATURDAY MAY 13th The Nye County Sheriff has actually looked at the May 2nd torture video of Ammon Bundy and conducted an 'investigation'. On Thursday May 11th she met some family members and showed them the lengthy video of his mistreatment. Ammon's mother Carol Bundy was said to have been so disturbed by the video she left the room. Sister-in-law Angie Bundy says "Ammon was treated worse than an animal" in a Facebook posting. The Nye County Sheriff claimed that Ammon Bundy...

(At :10 Eric Parker).....this is Eric Parker, talking to you from CCA federal detention Pahrump, Nevada. Just wanted to make sure that the, the truth is out there. And this morning they uh grabbed all of the Bundy, Bundy Ranch defendants and brought us to a meeting. They called it an "attorney visit". When we got down there the attorneys weren't there. They had brought their own investigative team, they being CCA (Corporation Owning Prison) uh down to talk to us about any mistreatment or any grievances we might have uh. They set us in the chapel and uh proceeded...