Posted on 11/19/2017 6:16:19 AM PST by Nextrush
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 US Senate, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, urged President Trump to nominate Williams to the post.
Williams was also endorsed by the Oregon State Sheriff's Association that backed the FBI led law enforcement efforts that became deadly and aggressive during the non violent Oregon Standoff protest.
(LaVoy Finicum was killed and Ryan Bundy injured in the January 26, 2016 "traffic stop" on US Route 395 in Harney County, Oregon and on February 10, 2016 FBI armored vehicles assaulted the parking lot of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge where the last four unarmed protesters were camping)
The sheriff's organization took a stand when one sheriff known as a "Constitutional Sheriff", Glenn Palmer of Grant County, urged a negotiated settlement of the protest including the release of jailed ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond.......
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He shows his true colors often.
Spot-on in part.
My .02:
From a guy who’s lived in this toxic state for decades, there is no changing it. Certainly not by a US Attorney. Better to use the Hill for nominees who will make a difference. I cannot argue the decision to keep the existing POS as it’s what this state deserves (and worse).
Big suck on this one
JBTBLs here will love it though
Oh you need to examine that posters history
Race baiter extraordinaire
South basher from jump street.....
He’s a retread troll from some Jonah Goldberg neocon cesspool
We’re all Nazis and racist you know
I’m sure he sees Bundy as a Christian Identity Posse Comitatus sort
Because the law says they had to pay for grazing cows on public lands. They broke the law by failing to pay.
Do I agree that it was basically a land no one was using, so there was no need to bill the ranchers? Yes! But that does not change the existing law.
As for the fierce response by the government, the protesters showed up with arms, IIRC. That gave the Obama gov’t to respond dis-proportionately.
We all know Obama gov’t tolerated & tacitly encouraged BLM behavior. But the BLM crowd did not show up with rifles, IIRC.
Correct my memory if wrong.
Moral of the story....You can not defeat government with firearms. It is best to work on changing the gov’t leaders instead.
The ranch was surrounded at least three days PRIOR to the Bundy response with gov’t snipers, armed gov’t agencies, road blocks...that was when the call for help went out. I was on the receiving end of that call. I had indirect contact with boots on the ground on site.
Two years of the lives of these people has been destroyed, with family lost and money wasted on both sides. Armed patriots showed up to stop another “Waco”. The fed agencies couldn’t just “shoot” them as another poster wanted, so now they have to make sure everybody sees what happens when you stand up and say enough.
The grazing fees are to fund the BLM to maintain the land for... grazing. The were using the funds to destroy grazing and run the ranchers out.
The post I refer to was a news story regarding Ammon Bundy’s lawyer Marcus Mumford. It was not a blog post. I posted a link to it at “Oregon Live” earlier in this thread.
Hey, 50% of my income taxes every year (as high as $30k in some years) go to support welfare of one form or another. I have not collected one nickel in government benefit in the last 5 decades. It sucks, but people elected those spread the wealth congress critters, and I will not stand in front of the IRS building with shotgun in my hand. It is our system. If I don’t like it, I am free to move somewhere else. Going to war with the government who has the military with cannons is not a smart option.
I am guessing the government had known there would be armed resistance 3 days prior? To protest was the right thing to do. Because that gave it publicity. But a shooting war with government is just suicide/harakiri. No one has won that battle since George Washington was president.
Well, tell that to the founders. And then just be quiet and be glad for your gruel.
You go ahead, and confront the US law enforcement & military with your firearms. Let me know how it worked out?
You showed me, didn’t you? Sheesh.
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