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John Lamb and Brand Thornton with the end of the day recap, Malheur Protest Trial 2 March 6
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Judge Brown Throwing a Fit ~ Prosecution discredited in Malheur II?
Prosecution Discredited in Malheur II ?
“WE THOUGHT HE WAS TRYING TO GET A SHOT ON US,” FISHER EXPLAINED OF THE HELICOPTER.
March 6, 2017 FBI, Featured, government, Oregon
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One of the protester's signs outside the Federal Courthouse in Portland, OR
Prosecution Discredited in Malheur II ?
by Shari Dovale
Today’s court testimony brought to light many of the government’s shenanigans. At least 15 witnesses testified today, some of them for just a few minutes, as Judge Anna Brown tried to limit everything the defense was presenting.
But she did not keep everything out, as much as she seem to try.
BJ Soper, a founding member of the Pacific Patriots Network, more than contradicted the testimony of Blaine Cooper. Soper was at the meeting on December 29, 2015 that Cooper testified was where the plan of taking over the refuge was discussed.
Soper said that the people attending were bouncing around different ideas and ways of bringing more attention to the Hammond family’s issues. Protesting at the refuge was just one of many ideas brought up that day, with no special emphasis put to it.
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Nick Fisher riding Lady Liberty in front of the Federal Courthouse.
Also testifying to discredit Cooper were his parents, Stanley Hicks, Sr. and Linda Hicks. They confirmed that Cooper had a reputation for lying. “He’s prone to lie when it serves his purpose,’ Hicks said.
Nick Fisher took the stand as an eyewitness to the fear that the protesters faced after the murder of LaVoy Finicum. Fisher, from Kansas City, Missouri, told of how they heard the Apache helicopters coming in and how the protesters were told they had “52 minutes” left.
“We thought he was trying to get a shot on us,” Fisher explained of the helicopter. “It was flying crazy.” Fisher choked up when he thought of the pure fear that raced through him.
Assistant US attorney (AUSA) Ethan Knight tried to minimize his fear by asking him if the helicopter could have been from a local FOX affiliate out of Seattle. “It was my understanding, “Fisher countered, “that it was a No-Fly Zone.”
Acquitted defendant from the first Malheur Protest Trial in October 2016, Jeff Banta, testified today of details during the final days at the refuge. Banta arrived for his second visit on January 25th, the day before Finicum was murdered.
The prosecutors tried to make light of his testimony by asking him if he ever claimed to be a television reality star. “I’m not? Ok.” Banta replied sarcastically.
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Sandy Anderson, who was at the refuge as one of the “Final Four” until February 11th, testified to how terrified the protesters were after Finicum’s death. “How could we leave?” she said.
She explained that Jason Patrick brought a reporter to them and that made her feel better because there would be a record proving they were not the aggressors. They were just defending themselves.
When asked if she was armed, Anderson replied “We always have our Second Amendment with us.”
Rancher Duane Schrock described the atmosphere at the refuge as that of a “family reunion.” He also said that he never saw a gun unholstered. When the prosecutors asked Schrock if he saw US Fish & Wildlife employees at the refuge, he said that he didn’t know everyone, but it was an ‘Open Door Policy’.
Terri Linnell, also known as “Mama Bear” took the stand and explained how she was paid $3,000 plus expenses by the FBI to inform on specific personnel at the refuge.
Linnell was asked if she felt like the protest was illegal. She said No, as an informant she was not allowed to do anything illegal. “There are rules to keep from entrapment,” she explained.
She tried to provide information and context on several of the points brought out, but the prosecutors continued their objections. “Stop! Stop!” Judge Brown finally told her.
Some off the biggest concerns for Linnell were the men pretending to be a Judge and US Marshals. She said they were Sovereign Citizens and she was afraid that protesters might actually believe them.
Brand Thornton did not testify, however, his prior testimony was read into the record for the jury.
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Former Assemblywoman Michele Fiore came in from Nevada to testify about the meeting held early in January with members of the Coalition of Western States, otherwise known as COWS. Fiore always connects with the people as she has an outgoing and bright personality. Walking out of the courtroom, Judge Brown stared daggers at her as she waved to the jury and even said “Bye, Your Honor,” as she walked out of the courtroom.
The biggest news today came about the 2 men posing as Navy Seals. The defense team presented evidence that suggested self-described U.S. Navy Seal Danny Williams, of Burns, was cooperating with the FBI while at the refuge.
Investigator Mark Robertson testified that Williams made several phone calls to the FBI from the refuge, and played an audio recording proving it.
Todd Bethel took video at the refuge which had Williams saying he was a Navy Seal, rank E-18, and had been a Seal for eight years. When asked how he got past the FBI checkpoint, he replied “What do you expect out of a U.S. Navy Seal?”
(To those that do not understand the military rankings, there is no such thing as an E-18)
The prosecution had previously tried to discredit any mention of these ‘navy seals’, even suggesting they were a fabrication. Now, the truth has come out and the government’s version is, again, discredited.
Judge Brown is not too happy with how thing went today.
The prosecution will put on a rebuttal case tomorrow, including questioning Chad Karges again, as well as FBI Agent Ronnie Walker.
It is expected that the jury should get the case sometime tomorrow afternoon.
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SSgt. Moe, Maureen Peltier facebook video end of day March 6 Malheur Protest Trial 2
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SSgt. Moe's March 6 update, both videos combined
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John Lamb with his mid-day report for The Malheur Protest Trial2 March 7
The judge allowed the prosecution to re-call the Fish & Wildlife manager and the biologist so the could testify how fearful they both felt. To me, I think their feelings should be irrelevant since they had zero contact with the protesters. Their fear was perpetrated by false media hype and Dave Ward's perconceived worries.
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John Lamb with his mid-day report for The Malheur Protest Trial2 March 7
The judge allowed the prosecution to re-call the Fish & Wildlife manager and the biologist so the could testify how fearful they both felt. To me, I think their feelings should be irrelevant since they had zero contact with the protesters. Their fear was perpetrated by false media hype and Dave Ward's perconceived worries.
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It also shouldn't matter because they were on "holidays" weren't they? The facility was closed for seasonal reasons?
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It also shouldn't matter because they were on "holidays" weren't they? The facility was closed for seasonal reasons?
That has been reported by some witnesses.
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John Lamb ~ End of Day Malheur Trial 2 March 7 video says opening arguments, should be closing arguments
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SSgt. Moe with a detailed report on Malheur Trial 2 for March 7
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The jury has the case, meanwhile the obviously biased judge is going to preside over the misdemeanor bench trial. There is truly somthing wrong here.
Case Goes to the Jury in Malheur II
THE BENCH TRIAL FOR THE REMAINING MISDEMEANOR CHARGES WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW.
March 7, 2017 BLM, FBI, Featured, Oregon
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Case Goes to the Jury in Malheur II
by Shari Dovale
Malheur Protest Trial II in Portland began with a rebuttal case by the prosecution.
Chad Karges, manager of the Malheur Refuge took the stand and said that he was so afraid when he heard of militia being in town that he put loaded guns next to every door in his house. He also told his children and grandchildren in late December not to visit Burns.
The fact that there hadn’t even been a rally as yet, let alone moving the protest to the refuge, when this took place suggests that Karges was afraid of Ammon Bundy just being in his county.
Karges admitted that he preempted Bundy by telling his employees not to return to work 2 days before the rally took place. However, he went to the refuge on January 1st and found nothing unusual taking place.
Linda Beck also took the stand again and explained how she was afraid for her life before the rally took place. During the first trial, and again in the second, she testified that she took a regular vacation on December 17th. During today’s testimony, Beck claimed she would not normally have taken a vacation and only did so, two weeks before the rally, because she was afraid of the people in her town.
The point was made by the prosecution that the idea of occupying the refuge was not even brought up until December 29th, nearly two weeks after Beck left on vacation.
Beck also said that, as she was so afraid of these gun-toting militia, that she went out and bought a gun herself. However, she did not learn of the takeover until after it happened.
It does seem a bit odd that neither of these witnesses mentioned any of this during the first trial.
AUSA Knight also managed to play part of the OPB/John Sepulvado interview with Ryan Bundy. This was allowed by Judge Brown without any authentication being provided.
When the rebuttal case was finished, AUSA Knight went into his closing statements, “This case is about 4 defendants that went too far.”
He spent quite a bit of time explaining, even stressing, to the jurors that the government does not have to show any formal agreement to have a conspiracy. The government does not have to show that anyone was even threatened. The jurors were told to only worry about an agreement, and that could be implied or inferred.
Knight also reminded the jurors that acts by Ammon or Ryan Bundy can be used against these four defendants, as that is part of the conspiracy.
Knight also showed the video, again, of the protesters firing guns at the boat launch. This has already been discussed to have been orchestrated by the FBI Informant Fabio Minoggio, aka John Killman. But, AUSA Knight would like everyone to believe that their were no Informants in the video.
Knight’s narrative did not fit the testimony.
Knight stated that Ammon Bundy, Blaine Cooper and BJ Soper all testified that they discussed AND AGREED to the takeover of the Malheur Refuge on December 29th.
That is not what BJ Soper testified to, as he stated it was tossed out as one of many ideas, however, it was not agreed upon.
Knight also made the stretch that since Jason Patrick was sitting in a chair that did not belong to him he was obviously a leader in the conspiracy.
Each of the defense attorneys were given time to make their case to the jury. They all hit their stride and made good points in favor of their clients.
The highlight of the day was Michele Kohler, attorney for Duane Ehmer. She pointed out a video introduced by the prosecution. The video depicts Blaine Cooper, Ammon Bundy, LaVoy Finicum, as well as several others. They are talking about making a hard stand at the refuge and wanting others to join them.
What is interesting is what most people did not see on the video.
Behind the men talking at the refuge is a US Mail vehicle driving onto the refuge property and delivering the mail. Amazing! This Federal Employee is NOT afraid to come onto the refuge property and do their job!
When Ethan Knight returned for his rebuttal closing arguments, he told the jurors that if they had any doubt, “It is not a reasonable doubt.”
In discussing the two ‘Navy Seals’ he reminded the jury that they “are instructed” that informants cannot be a part of a conspiracy. Basically, he is telling the jury that the informants are to be considered a non-issue.
He continued to hit at the points made by the defense attorneys. The exception was the US Mail vehicle that Kohler brought up. This is the only issue that Knight could not refute.
It sounds like this woman hit a home run.
The case is officially with the jury and their deliberations will begin in the morning.
The Bench Trial for the remaining misdemeanor charges will also take place tomorrow.
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Brad Steffy, Oregon Wide Open, message for Oregon's governor, Kate Brown. He doesn't mince words. I wonder if Dave Ward is feeling any guilt?
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March 1 at 2:15pm
WHEN A GOVERNOR IMPOSES DEATH
Brad Steffey
February 2016
Congratulations Governor Kate Brown, you're famous!
People from all over America are speaking of you. I'm sure you're not bothered in the least by this Southern sentiment because they're beneath you but if you weren't so beyond the average American you might hear some wisdom in his scathing review of your ridiculous strategies.
It's prophetic how someone 3,000 miles away called you out on your decision well before the eventual outcome but yet so many right here cheered you for your haste and intolerance.
Now as you begin to realize your error in judgement and wonder how to undo what you have done you begin to recognize you may have imposed a life sentence upon yourself. A life of guilt and regret.
By now you have learned of the man you killed. You didn't bother to look into who he was before you killed him. He was simply a target. Someone you were told was a threat. A hostile Militant causing fear in Burns. You were played like a fiddle and now it's becoming real to you. You've seen his Children mourning, you've learned what an amazing, kind, peaceful and gracious Man he was.
Alone at night, it's starting to haunt you. You're trying to justify it and align your excuses but you're beginning to realize you can't convince even yourself.
You've recently started wondering, what if? What if you had allowed it to end peacefully? What if you actually made an effort to talk with them and understand or even sent someone to learn what reality was? What if you trusted your own police agency to deal with it and to address the issues that were causing the problem?
What if the Redress of Grievance were considered and it was found that there indeed WAS a miscarriage if justice. You probably haven't even looked at it. That these peaceful Men and Women were simply crying out for those who were YOUR Citizens and who were under attack by a ruthless monster.
You allowed your own good people to be abused, tormented, and victimized. Then you called upon the same thugs that so brutally attacked your Citizens to kill those who came from afar to render aid.
You put your own law enforcement officials at risk. First with a hidden roadblock. They were all huddled behind the trucks blocking the path of a Man desperately trying to find safe harbor in John Day. Your boys had already fired upon him and the 18 year old young lady in his truck. You saw to it that he ran for his life and into the awaiting funnel of death and destruction.
You saw to it that he had no options of peaceful resolve. You left him only one option, carnage.
Were it not for his integrity and quick thinking, you would have several of your own to add to the those who perished, as he could not stop. Had he not swerved to avoid the collision you assured would occur, all who were behind those trucks would have perished.
Whomever orchestrated this roadblock did so with mass casualties in mind. They were willing to sacrifice their own officers to get the end result they wanted and needed. They wanted LaVoy Finicum to be a villain and to finish the narrative that he was a risk and a danger to society.
The men who were ordered to stand their ground behind those trucks should be calling for your resignation. They were victims of your scheme as well.
What do you expect them to do when a speeding truck rounds the turn headed right for them and with no ability to stop. Maybe they were eager to kill or maybe they were just taking orders and put in harms way. Maybe they were victimized as well and used as pawns to carry out your orders. Maybe they're starting to realize what you've done to THEM as they now have to face scrutiny and reconcile their actions.
I don't believe that they wake up in the morning with the intent and desire to kill a saintly man,a young girl, a cowboy and a Mother. But yet you placed them in an impossible situation. You sacrificed them and you killed Mr. Finicum with intent.
There is no plausible deniability. You made your intent clear with the letters you sent to the white house. Why were you in such a hurry? Why were you so intolerant of peace? Why couldn't they spread their message of freedom? What is the harm in spreading a message of peace and freedom Ms. Brown? If that is so offensive to you as to take a life to stop it, what is your scheme?
Where there is concealment and intolerance, there is evil, just like where there is smoke there is fire. Those who were killed and incarcerated were transparent, sharing and peaceful.
You and your crew were and are hostile, covert, and refuse to give us access to the evidence. You won't give us audio of the scene, video from the numerous helmet cams, access to the truck or photo's of it's riddled shell. You pretend to give us an "unedited" video but even that is a lie and has been badly dubbed.
You even try to pass a bill concealing the names of those who killed!
You have only one option and that is to own your mistake, or your vindictive intent. Accept that you erred and ask forgiveness.
Undoubtedly, you will not do so and try to stand on the crumbling ground of your lubricious and decaying foundation.
As you filter all of this, you may find temporary solace in denial and your paid mistresses who assure you.
But at the end of each day you no doubt wince when the reality of your condemnation sweeps over you, and you realize there is no escape. I wonder what it's like to suffocate in your own fear as you realize you have the blood of a saint on your hands and you wonder, what is to happen to me now?
