Posted on 06/28/2017 6:06:01 AM PDT by Nextrush
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"......
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When the leaders of the protest like Ammon Bundy were acquitted by a jury last fall, Brown was "shocked" on her bench even before Ammon's lawyer was shocked by a taser out in the courtroom.
She's worked ever since as she goes into retirement and "Senior Judge" status next month to rig the second trial and get convictions and punishment for others in the case.
What is the complaint? 2 years probation and home detention is a sweet deal compared to a life sentence or getting shot for armed insurrection. He should count himself VERY LUCKY and go home.
I’m just curious about one thing: How do you get food, or exercise, or earn money to pay your rent and RE taxes, if you are confined to your home for two years? How does this work in practice?
The FBI needs to be confined.
Waging armed insurrection has its consequences. Bet he was given choice, jail or home, else his attorney suggested home detention. I suspect he told the government he had means to stay home, else they would have put him in jail.
Speaking of jail, Dwight and Steven Hammond remain in jail on five year mandatory terrorism sentences for lighting that backfire to protect their land in Oregon.
Insane utterly insane. When do they get out of jail?
The police state isn’t the answer.
And as you know the FBI fired the first shot and only the FBI used violence against the “armed insurrection” you speak of regarding the Oregon Standoff protest on the Hammond’s behalf.
Yep.
They took up arms against the US and occupied (and vandalized) our government facilities. They are lucky to be alive, should have been shot dead, all of them. I have no more sympathy for them than for BLM or others that might take up arms or urge armed insurrection against our United States. Since they are alive, let them rot in jail. Respect for the U.S. demands no less.
The FBI needs to be shut down.
Vandalism = shot dead?
That lacks proportion.
Illegal occupation,?, so any protest, as this was, should be illegal? They had arms, but they did not use them or threaten anyone. They were protesting the unjust jailing of the Hammonds. If vandalism is the measure, there should be a lot of folks in jail who protested the pipeline. This is also about the inappropriate taking of public lands, and there seem to be some financial interests driving the FBI reaction to that.
The Hammonds were trying to protect their “facilities” as in their land from “vandalism” as in fire.
And the feds jailed them as terrorists because their backfire touched the federal lands.
There’s a pecking order out West and wherever the Feds own the land its Federal rules and regs, especially environmental ones plus big business use of land under federal auspices come first.
The small farmers and ranchers get the short end of the stick just like black people did down south during the “Jim Crow” Era of segregation and marginalization.
I have no problem with non-violent protest to stop the wrongdoing by the federal government.
Its needs to be as good and better protest than Martin Luther King and others inspired down South in the early 1960’s.
It has to evade crazy people who show up and FBI informants who also come to create notions of violence at protests as was proven during the Oregon Standoff and during the Civil Rights Era the FBI informants were in the CR protests and inside the KKK creating turmoil and violent tendencies.
And the insurrectionists, let them rot in jail or wherever. No one should be allowed to raise up arms against the US.
They brandished arms, by some accounts made threats, and they encouraged others to arm themselves and join them. That is way, way beyond civil disobedience or protest. This was no peaceful sit in. They were armed.
Yep, unlike those BLM and occupy and antifa folks who were/are PEACEFUL protestors who NEVER incited others. The Malheur protestors pretty much went to meetings and non-violently occupied buildings that were unoccupied for the winter at the time. I am glad to see the FBI guy indicted. If you trust the govt or the FBI version, you are clearly not paying attention my friend.
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