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The person in this video is Melvin Lee, a friend of Mark McConnel. He posted this video in facebook on Feb. 8
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Burns Confidential - Feb 8 - MNWR - MLee - Patriotic WarriorsValley Forge Network 31 viewsSUBSCRIBE1,58924Published on Feb 26, 2017Repost from Facebook for Posterity, + Research Purposes - Patriotic Warriors Melvin Lee, published on February 8th. I am reposting so others can see what was being said at the time. I hope it helps in your research.
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Re: 150 Militia Take Over Makhuer National Wildlife Preserve Headquarters
Valley Forge Network ~ Trial of remaining Malheur defendants
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VFN Trial Update for Oregon - For Defense of Final Four
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Published on Feb 26, 2017Video short for Oregon Trial. I have had to wait until now to offer some of my research up. The prosecution has switched their tactics to adjust to the First Oregon Trial and I couldn't risk this getting out before the prosecution showed their hand. People are being threatened by the Prosecution, this stuff is real people. This isn't fun, and is not something I signed up for (I really just wanted to make some videos to support them and its turned into this, thank you for all your support and views it has meant the world to me to keep doing this) I will go into more as the trial goes on , but I want to let things run their course. I will publish all info to counter the prosecutions lies, as they come out in court. The information which came out Thursday and Friday allowed me to make this video rather confidently, all people need to do is speak up and tell the truth, its not my fault all of this info is available to the public. I post this cause I feel it is the right thing to do. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant' This is the microwaveable version, since time is short. Check out the 'Burns Confidential' Series for an extended look at Burns , Oregon from another persepctive than what I initially believed.
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Kelli Stewart *URGENT Oregon Trial #2 Blaine Cooper Testimony Update by Kelli (Not Good)
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Monrty
Always fight the good fight !
But also know the difference !
Peace..
Call me someday.
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Lazaro Ecenarro ~ A Very Important Message from Oregon trial
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Felon Blaine Cooper testifies for prosecution Malheur trial #2. Reading this report which sounds like much of what he says is not true it shouldn't be difficult to for the defense to impeach him as a witness. The jury surely can see through the lies.
Felon Blaine Cooper Testifies for Govt in Malheur II
I INTEND TO DO ANYTHING I HAVE TO TO GET HOME TO MY KIDS.”
February 27, 2017 BLM, Featured, Oregon
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Convicted Felon Blaine Cooper Testifies for Government
by Shari Dovale
Shuffling through in jailhouse shackles and shoes, Blaine Cooper took the stand to testify against the final defendants on the Malheur Protest Trial in Portland.
In a deal brokered by the Federal prosecutors, he testified he has not been promised a reduction in his sentence, but he is hoping for one. He also said that he was not asked to testify today, rather that he offered to do so.
Cooper described himself as becoming a type of celebrity, with over 30,000 followers on his YouTube Channel by 2014. He seemed to thrive in believing he was a public figure. He talked about the various ‘operations’ he was a part of, from Bunkerville to Sugar Pine Mine, Oregon, and Big Sky in Montana.
His testimony included describing a meeting on December 29, 2015 in a private home in Burns, Oregon, naming several people as attendees, including BJ Soper, Joseph O’Shaughnessy, Ryan Payne, Ammon Bundy, Jon Ritzheimer, Jason Patrick and Corey Lequieu. He testified that the attendees were directed to leave the phones and computers in another room during the meeting.
This meeting, he said, was where the taking of the Refuge was first discussed. They were not expecting to meet any employees, but if they did they were to politely ask them to leave. If they refused, “we would have probably removed them, I believe,” Cooper said.
Cooper also stated that BJ Soper and Joseph O’Shaughnessy were against the plan, with Soper clearly saying he wanted nothing to do with it, though O’Shaughnessy was willing to stay in town and offer moral support.
Blaine then told of Jon Ritzheimer wondering if someone “Let the cat out of the bag” when they passed police on the way to the Malheur Refuge on January 2nd. He also told of Brand Thornton playing his Shofar as they arrived at the Refuge. Cooper described the sound of the Shofar as ready for “Battle, and God is with us.”
“The idea was to stay there as long as it took” to redistribute the land to the people of Harney County.
On cross examination, Andrew Kohlmets, Jason Patrick’s standby attorney, questioned the government’s witness extensively. Kohlmets pointed out several discrepancies in Cooper’s direct testimony, including the statement that he never carries a firearm due to his felony convictions.
When Cooper was arrested February 11, 2016, he admitted to an FBI agent that he had carried an AR-15 at Bunkerville in 2014. Additionally, he fired a handgun in a video made at his home, in front of his wife and daughters, while wearing a mask.
It was also pointed out that Cooper was never in the military, though he liked to wear military gear. He explained that he wears “militia” clothes and gear at these events.
Kohlmets also played a 4 and a half minute clip of a video where Cooper desecrated a Quran by tearing out pages, wrapping them in bacon and throwing them on a fire. He then shoots arrows into the remainder of the book before adding it to the fire, as well.
Kohlmets continued to point out inconsistencies, including statements made on several jail-recorded phone calls that Cooper made. During one phone call with a friend, when asked who’s idea it was to go to the refuge, he responds that he didn’t know. He didn’t think it was any one person's idea.
In another call to his wife, Blaine tells her that he did not know they were going in [to the Refuge]. In describing some of the statements in the phone calls, he tried to say that “disinformation” was not really a lie.
Caught in several contradictory statements, it was made clear in front of the jury that Cooper would do anything to reduce his time in jail. In a letter to Ammon Bundy, he wrote, that God sent him two crappy attorneys that manipulated him. “I intend to do anything I have to to get home to my kids.”
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I have felt from early on in the Malheur Protest that Bundy's were set up by the government. This man ks posting on facebook that it is coming out in the trial they were set up. My gut feeling is Harry Reid was behind it.
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Blaine Cooper becomes first Malheur protester to testify for govt.
Blaine Cooper becomes 1st occupier to testify for government in refuge takeover trial
Posted on February 27, 2017 by Doug Knowles
By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive updated February 27, 2017 at 8:07 PM
Ammon Bundy called a clandestine meeting around the dining room of their host’s home in Burns on Dec. 29, 2015, and directed the six other men there to leave their cellphones and laptops behind in a separate room.
Bundy then discussed his idea of taking over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said occupier Blaine Cooper, called as a government witness on the fifth day of the second Oregon standoff trial.
Cooper’s testimony about the dining-room sit-down marked the first time anyone in court has referenced a late December meeting between Bundy and the other men about seizing the refuge before the Jan. 2, 2016, occupation.
During his three hours and forty minutes on the stand, Cooper also became the first cooperating witness to testify against fellow refuge occupiers.
Four defendants — Jason Patrick, 43, of Bonaire, Georgia, Duane Ehmer, 46, of Irrigon, Darryl Thorn, 32, of Marysville, Washington, and Jake Ryan, 28, of Plains, Montana — are in the midst of trial, charged with conspiring to impede federal employees from carrying out their work at the federal refuge through intimidation, threat or force.
During cross-examination, defense lawyers sought to impeach Cooper’s testimony by citing contradictory statements Cooper made on jail phone calls, including one to his wife on April 5, 2016, saying “I didn’t know they were going in there” in reference to the refuge.
They also played inflammatory videos that Cooper made, including one when he tore out pages of the Koran, wrapped them in bacon, threw them into an outdoor fire pit and then shot arrows at the Koran. They pointed out that Cooper, despite being a convicted felon, was seen with an AR-15 rifle at the Bundy ranch in 2014 in Nevada. And they elicited testimony that Cooper had spent time in institutions because of behavioral and mental health problems earlier in his life.
Cooper, his hair disheveled, shuffled into the courtroom, his ankles chained together, wearing an ill-fitting dark suit, blue-striped dress shirt and tan jail slippers – a stark contrast to the confident, camouflage-clad figure he portrayed on his Third Watch Videos that he distributed on social media during the refuge occupation.
Cooper, 37, has entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to impede federal workers in the Oregon case and guilty pleas in Nevada to conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and assault on a federal officer.
He acknowledged that he agreed to cooperate with the government in the hope of reducing a recommended six-year prison sentence. Cooper has been described by prosecutors as a recruiter, calling men to come to the Oregon refuge with guns and to Bunkerville, Nevada, in April 2014 during a standoff with federal agents outside the ranch of patriarch Cliven Bundy.
The December 2015 meeting lasted about a half-hour in the Burns home of Patty Overton with Cooper, Ammon Bundy, Ryan Payne, Jason Patrick, Joseph O’Shaughnessy, Corey Lequieu and B.J. Soper, Cooper said.
They talked of going into the Malheur refuge with guns, Cooper said, and if they encountered any refuge staff there, they’d ask them to leave politely. If not, “we’d probably remove them at that point,” Cooper said.
They spoke of having security checkpoints at the front gates, he said, and discussed logistics, such as food and power at the facility and what to do if counter-protesters came.
The refuge seizure, Cooper said, sprung from frustrations born out of having Ammon Bundy’s redress of grievance and petitions, distributed through legal avenues, ignored by local, state and federal officials. Bundy wanted the sheriff to prevent the return to prison of Harney County ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and son Steven Hammond, who were set to surrender on Jan. 4, 2016, to serve out mandatory minimum five-year sentences for setting fire to public land.
“The idea was to stay there as long as it took” to redistrict the refuge land and give it to the people of Harney County, Cooper said.
Everybody in the group favored the takeover except O’Shaughnessy and Soper, Cooper said. O’Shaughnessy agreed to be a “buffer,” provide medical support on the outskirts.
“He thought we could go to jail,” Cooper said.
But the consensus “to me was to make sure nobody came in, whether it be the FBI, BLM.”
“And U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service?” Assistant U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Barrow asked.
“And Fish & Wildlife Service,” Cooper added.
After the Jan. 2 rally in Burns to support the Hammonds, Cooper said he returned to Overton’s house to get into “militia gear,” including body armor, camouflage clothing and boots.
He said others had assault rifles; he brought a GoPro and camera. As they drove to the refuge, he noticed some law enforcement vehicles and heard occupier Jon Ritzheimer say, “Somebody let the cat out of the bag.” But a good omen, he testified, was spotting a bald eagle on the drive to the refuge.
Cooper identified the type of guns that each of the men who arrived first at the refuge carried in sweeps of the property. At one point, he stood in the witness stand and showed how the others cleared the refuge building, stretching out his left hand in front of him while making believe he was pointing a rifle in his right hand.
He testified that Patrick had an AR-15 rifle during the initial sweep. According to Cooper, the men would say as they went building to building, “Is anybody in here? The militia is here … hello?”
Occupier Brand Thornton blew a shofar, a symbol “for battle — that God is with us,” Cooper testified.
Cooper admitted that he cut part of a barbed-wire fence on the refuge boundary during the occupation, saying that was an act of civil disobedience, a symbol that “we were taking the land back for the people.”
Cooper left the night of Jan. 26, first driving with others east out of the refuge until they encountered several law enforcement SUVs. They headed back west and then drove south to Cedar City , Utah, through Nevada, he said.
Barrow asked Cooper why he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
Cooper said his tearful phone calls with his daughters convinced him to make amends.
“My little girl Sissy,” Cooper said. “She cries to me a half hour a day … how she wants her Daddy to come home. She tells me I shouldn’t have gone to the refuge, and should come forward and tell the truth.”
After he entered guilty pleas, Barrow asked Cooper, why did he record messages that were posted on social media, claiming he wasn’t guilty.
“Ethically, morally, spiritually, I felt like I did the right thing. I had a duty to God to do that, under the Constitution,” Cooper said, referring to his role in the refuge occupation. At first, he said he didn’t understand the law of conspiracy, but after consulting with his attorney, he realized, “I did in fact commit a crime and I have to accept responsibility.”
When Cooper was arrested Feb. 11, 2016, defense lawyer Andrew Kohlmetz pointed out that he admitted to an FBI agent that he had carried an AR-15 at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada and also fired a handgun while wearing a mask in a video filmed outside his Arizona home in front of his family – both while a felon.
Cooper said he didn’t remember, so Kohlmetz played the recording of the FBI interview. The agent asks Cooper why he carried the weapons if he was prohibited from possessing them. Cooper responded “The Second Amendment says I have the right to bear arms and says it shall not be infringed.”
Cooper, on the stand, denied that he ever possessed a gun, outside of the Bundy Ranch in 2014, since his felony convictions.
Kohlmetz, standby lawyer for Patrick, asked Cooper what his jail experience has been like. Cooper described it as “horrible.”
“Is it true you told folks on the phone while you’ve been in jail you would do anything to shorten that experience?” Kohlmetz asked.
“Yes sir I may have said that,” he answered.
Under questioning by Kohlmetz, Cooper acknowledged that he had tried in 1997 to join the U.S. Marine Corps, but was rejected because of an arrest warrant. In 2006, at age 27, he changed his name from Stanley Hicks Jr. to Blaine Cooper. Cooper said he took his stepfather’s last name because his father was physically abusive.
Kohlmetz asked if Cooper took the name of Jesse Ventura’s Blain Cooper character in the movie “Predator,” and Cooper said he didn’t know the last name of Ventura’s character.
Of the Dec. 29 meeting, Kohlmetz said: “You never told this story until today.”
Cooper responded: “My attorney had this information from the beginning.”
Kohlmetz played an April 5, 2016, jail phone call between Cooper and his wife. “Because phone calls are recorded, I can’t say a lot,” Cooper said on the recording. “I can tell you I didn’t know they were going in there.”
Under additional questioning from defense lawyer Jesse Merrithew, Cooper said in the Dec. 29, 2015 meeting with Bundy and others, taking over the refuge “was agreed upon but not when.”
Kohlmetz, citing another phone call Cooper made to his wife, said Cooper suggested he was going to destroy computer evidence in the case. The lawyer asked what happened to a video Cooper took of the initial sweep of the refuge. Cooper said he had his GoPro and a camera, but the memory cards were missing.
Kohlmetz also played a video of Cooper from jail, when he said Cooper “lied under oath” when pleading guilty in Nevada.
Asked about social media posts in which he first expressed interest in withdrawing his guilty plea but then changed his mind, Cooper said, “A lot of people thought that Trump would pardon us.”
He also said he had his attorneys tell Ammon Bundy and his brother, Ryan, about his guilty pleas before he entered them in court because he didn’t want to “go behind their back.”
“I thought I had a duty and obligation to let them know that,” he said, getting emotional. “I love the Bundys very much. They’re some of the best friends I have.”
Cooper also wrote to Ammon Bundy before he testified Monday.
“I wanted to let you know I decided to do whatever I have to do to get home to my kids,” Cooper wrote. He said he couldn’t justify sitting in prison for six years if he could do something to cut that time in half. He also said “God sent me two crappy attorneys,” who manipulated him into the plea deals.
Ammon Bundy’s wife, Lisa Bundy, was in court with her sister-in-law Angie Huntington Bundy, Ryan Bundy’s wife. When Cooper took the stand, Lisa Bundy waved to him, and mouthed, “We love you.”
After his testimony, Lisa Bundy said, “I’m so sad that he’s lying. He’s a pathological liar.”
Bundy said her husband was home with her and their family in Idaho between Christmas 2015 and Dec. 31, 2015, and couldn’t have been at the meeting Cooper testified about in Burns. There could have been a meeting, but not on the date Cooper said it occurred, she said.
— Maxine Bernstein
mbernstein@oregonian.com
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@maxoregonian
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