Posted on 06/10/2018 6:03:54 AM PDT by Nextrush
Behind the scenes politically connected forces have been working on the matter of a pardon for Oregon ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond, who were forced to return to federal prison in January 2016 to serve out five year mandatory sentences as terrorists for lighting a backfire to protect their land.
Portland television station KATU has learned that a 'request for clemency has come under review in recent weeks by the office of White House Counsel Don McGahn'. They were told this by Dave Duquette of the group "Protect the Harvest".
It was the plight of the Hammonds that brought Ammon Bundy to Harney County, Oregon to launch the Oregon Standoff and Bundy's efforts have made their case nationally known.
The politically connected forces at work on the pardon are disdaining and distancing themselves from the Bundy's even as they work for the pardon.
The Portland media outlet says that the Oregon Cattlemen's Association Executive Director Jerome Rosa met in April with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
"Zinke told Rosa he would give his blessing to have the Hammonds released"
KATU Portland report 6/6/2018
If a pardon for Hammond materializes in the weeks and months ahead, we can thank President Trump but also thank those who put the case of the Hammonds on the map in the first place.
Those who brought the case to the world's attention were those who showed up at the Oregon Standoff protest.
Inspired by Cliven Bundy's concern for the Hammonds, his son Ammon Bundy conceived the idea for the protest and came with his brother Ryan and others including Shawna Cox, Ryan Payne and David Fry and yes, LaVoy Finicum who gave the ultimate sacrifice to let the world know about the Hammonds.
Those people I mentioned and others who joined the protest like Ken Medenbach, Blaine Cooper and Duane Ehmer plus Jake Ryan and others not mentioned, Quite a few of these people I mentioned are jailed right now in connection with the protest after guilty pleas or the rigged second trial.
The protest leaders were acquitted by the jury in the first trial.
The Oregon Standoff protesters should be thanked profusely for any presidential pardon, if it materializes.
They forced the hand of the political machine in this country to act just like Dr. Martin Luther King and 2400 people (1100 of them children) who were arrested in Birmingham in the spring of 1963 forced the hand of President John F. Kennedy to support civil rights.
Link at top of page.......
Great news if true !
Posted the other day... Will NEVER happen. They have conflicting admissions and denials about their poaching and burning of public lands. They are where they belong.
Thanks for this update NR! Give ‘em hell Mr. President!
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The POTUS is Donald Trump and anything can happen so I would disagree but this post actually details information I was not aware of in the first with actual names of people who have knowledge of the situation and commented.
Their story is that Ryan Zinke at Interior is not objecting to release of the Hammonds from prison and that the matter has reached the office of the White House Counsel.
The notion of a pardon for the Hammonds now has some “legs to it” as journalists used to say in a bygone era.
Finally!
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