Seriously, can anyone really see Trump getting involved in this and undermining the authority of law enforcement and the courts? I sure don't.
We shall see if you are right but as I said in my comment Ammon and Ryan Bundy were thrown in the hole at the Southern Nevada Detention Center the other day.
Activist Gavin Seim put out a video Thursday night on his Facebook page saying the black female in charge of the facility is deliberately singling them out because she perceives media that was at the prison is ‘racist’.
He spoke of ‘insanity’ motivating her.
Perhaps part of the ‘mass insanity’ that has accompanied Trump’s election as POTUS.
I kinda agree....I don’t think it serves Trump’s public stance to get involved in this. Now, that said...he could ensure the weakest prosecutor of the Justice Department is chosen to prosecute all three cases.
Well, I think it’s in Trumps often demostrated character to help individuals who need help. Here we have an old man in his seventies that the Feds have thrown in jail along with his two sons for extremely dubious reasons.
So, yes, I think he might.
If we were still a Nation of Laws and and not men [I believe that was a Hillary Roddam quote from the days of Watergate/Nixon] Hillary Clinton would be on trial or in prison having already been tried and convicted. If we were a Nation of Justice, Hillary Clinton would be hanged for the traitor that she is.
But if that had happened, we would still be a Nation of Laws and not men and the mighty and not so mighty received the Justice due them, jackboot lickers such as yourself who worship those in positions of power and authority would not have any jackboots to lick,. would you?
Really?
The Feds stole the land of 50 ranchers to give to China.
The Bundys were the last brave souls standing.
The Bundys are heros and dissidents.
You are correct, legally and morally.
This is getting much like the actions of Sovereign Citizens who claim the power to decide which laws to obey and which to ignore.
My expectation is that a President Trump would treat armed invaders of federal lands or federal buildings the same way President Reagan dealt the Air Traffic Controllers, and the same way Citizen Trump would treat any armed occupiers of one of his buildings.
I would expect him to say they have 24 hours to leave, or the marshals go in. He would say that the occupiers are the ones who “picked up the gun” and if violence occurs, it’s on their heads.
We are a nation of laws, and the minute we succumb to violence or threat of violence, from either the Left or the Right, we have all made ourselves subject to armed insurrection.
Washington was right to put down the Whiskey Rebellion, and the courts are right to deal with the Bundys are they are.
We may not like the intrusion of the Federal government onto land, but the answer is electing a new government, not threatening to shoot people.
Looks like all "the usual leather-breathed suspects" are out in force on this thread.
Most of them were kind of quiet after the Oregon acquittal, though...
“Seriously, can anyone really see Trump getting involved in this and undermining the authority of law enforcement and the courts? I sure don’t. “
Well, I do. My wife’s father started his early career in farming in the Moapa Valley in Southern Nevada (near Bunkerville). If he were alive today, he’d be standing alongside the Bundys. Sometimes, resisting the unjust laws that have been promulgated with respect to “public lands” needs to happen. It’s my fervent hope that stopping all the litigation of the Bundys and the men in Oregon will occur with Donald Trump’s inauguration. Further, I want to see ALL manner of weaponry taken away from the BLM. They are simply a pack of Nazis just like the BATFE and several other agencies that have no real constitutional authority for their existence. There would be an immediate benefit to this action since if these assholes had not been allowed to have guns, Kate Steinle (who was killed by an illegal alien who used a stolen BLM “agent”s gun) would be alive today. I really find it hard to believe that anyone who lives in Reno would be supporting this $hit! You must be a transplant!