Posted on 12/28/2017 7:14:28 AM PST by Nextrush
"You may not support the Occupiers for the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and or the Bundy Standoff and that is a personal choice or decision made by each of us as an individual. At this point, these issues should be moot with all of us.
The underlying issue and concern I have is how far our representative government has gone to fudge, lie, cheat, manipulate, falsify, withhold, deny, cover up, doctored, abuse and misuse their positions at our expense and go so far as they did to do whatever it took to see these people imprisoned and jailed for literally two years....."
Grant County, Oregon Sheriff Glenn Palmer "Facebook" post December 22, 2017
Before the Oregon Standoff protest began at Harney County's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last year, Sherfif Glenn Palmer of neighboring Grant County had gained a reputation as a Constitutional Sheriff.
Palmer refused to sign a "joint agreement" with federal law enforcement patrolling the federally owned lands in Grant County and had spoken out in the media about his position.
Then came the Oregon Standoff protest with Palmer calling for a negotiated settlement and release of the Harney County ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond jailed as "terrorists" (five year mandatory sentence) for lighting a backfire to protect their property.
The Oregon State Sheriff's Association then rallied around the FBI's aggressive and deadly policy in dealing with the protest.
Armored vehicles were sent by the various sheriff's departments in Oregon to assist with operations in Harney County.
The ambush "felony traffic stop" that killed LaVoy Finicum and injured Ryan Bundy on January 26th, 2016 occurred as Sheriff Palmer and a crowd were awaiting the arrival of the "leaders" of the protest for a rally in John Day, Oregon as they attempted to extend the reach of their non-violent protest.
The local police chief in John Day and the 911 call center director there filed complaints against Sheriff Palmer alleging misconduct but an investigation found no wrongdoing. Those complaints came last year during Palmer's re-election year, but Palmer won anyway.
Palmer had more to say in his post in the aftermath of recent revelations about the Bunkerville Standoff case and here it is.
"......This maneuver and tactics utilized should have us all outraged. It leaves an err of questioning as to what else and who else before has had to go down this road and wonder of who else has been falsely and wrongly prosecuted and convicted.
When we are at a time in society that our government will break the law to enforce the law, and where people will not unite to ensure that this shall never happen to another single citizen, I have to wonder if we are still a free nation. These actions are what you would expect to see or witness coming from a Third World Country or a foreign nation. Not the United States of America.
Allowing this to happen and condone that fellow citizens were treated as they were treated as they were and locked away for two years is literally horrid. Our Judicial system failed these people and there has got to be accountability."
Will there be accountability for what happened?
That should be the only question on the table right now and Jeff Sessions better move in along with Ryan Zinke at Interior to clean house at the US Attorney's Office, the FBI and the Bureau of Land Management over this matter and how it was handled.
They are both just business as usual Republicans IMHO and are not going to upset the criminal justice-law enforcement bureaucracy that the Republican Party depends on for support and promotes each election cycle with its "law and order" mantras.
"Big Government" salaries and pensions aren't just about education and list goes on departments which need to be dealt with, its also about the expensive law enforcement salaries and pensions, too.
Trimming at the edges like Nikki Haley is being touted for at the UN is such a joke.
The permanent dismantling of institutions from the EPA to the UN to the Bureau of Land Management with no replacement bureaucracies is what we really need in this world.
There is still hope for Zinke.
For statist Rip van Sessions? Not so much...
Rip? Hey Rip, its not 1776 anymore. The Liberty Tree needs some pruning, watering and fertilizing. Rip?
“How far our representative government has gone?” Our representative government has “gone” nowhere. Certain individuals have attained power and have abused it. They and not the government need to be held accountable. Our government is filled with these creatures, Look at the FBI. Don’t sue the taxpayer. Sue the individuals who have abused their power.
It took this sheriff two years to figure out what happened on day one. Let that speak for itself. He should be ashamed of himself.
I was watching Andrea Parker’s video on You Tube the other week and she described the behavior outlined in the Wooten Memo from the BLM agent as “sociopathic”.
Federal law enforcement is just as drugged up as the rest of the population was one thought I had.
Wooten Memo Link:
https://redoubtnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Larry-Wooten-Communication_77PI.pdf
He is a Constitutional Sheriff who tried to help by suggesting release of the ranchers and negotiations during the protest in Oregon back in 2016.
He came under attack and now that he’s come through the attack he’s speaking out again.
Good for Sheriff Glenn Palmer.
Unless “We the People” are sufficiently outraged, there aren’t enough of us to “have the backs” of good officials like Sheriff Palmer.
I believe that there is a transcription error here with 'err' being misused for 'air'. English and its homophones, a headache for many.
As for the actual topic, there has been, and still is, an 'air' of government power that has pervaded the 'big state' for the past several Presidential Administrations. It may have been WACO or the Ruby Ridge that showed to me that the concept of Public Servant has morphed into Public Master, a very bad thing indeed! Yes, we have the horror of Terrorism like we have seldom seen before but these attacks have the odor of prejudicial malice against exercise of Constitutional Rights.
Robert A Heinlein (1907-88) "Time Enough for Love" (1973) ""In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'" [Notebooks of Lazarus Long]
bkmk
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