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I posted this because it depicts what happens in the colleges and universities across our country.
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Yesterday at 7:15am
The Enemy in Front of Me
The meeting that Never happened in John Day, Oregon on January 28, 2017 was quite enlightening to say the least. I was lucky to be among the 4-500 people present, listening to Trent Loos, Master of Ceremonies, announcing the next speaker. I’m sitting in the third row below the podium where investigative reporter and radio show owner, Kate Dalley, would be speaking next. She announced that among us were federal agents dressed up like cowboys to blend in with the ranchers and others that had traveled from many states coming to support Jeanette Finicum, LaVoy Finicum’s wife. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ8TdkZIdV0
A real cowboy from Burns, Oregon, who had stood by LaVoy, Ammon and Ryan Bundy at Malheur approached a man in front of me during the mid program break, a professor, Peter Walker, from the University of Oregon. The cowboy is pointing over to a cordoned off area where Mrs. Carol Bundy is standing, and lets the professor know that he owes her an apology for an article that he had written for the University of Oregon. The cowboy also asked the professor why he would state so many untruths about LaVoy, Ammon and Ryan and wondered while reporting, why he didn’t ask where PETA was when the federal government was stampeding the Bundy’s cows with a helicopter and separating the newly born calves from their mothers? The cowboy also let the professor know that he didn’t appreciate how professors brainwash their students with propaganda. He explained how it only took three generations to fill the mind with propaganda and totally change one over from what is truth to what is not truth.
I went up to the cowboy to get his story. He told me to go to the University of Oregon website and look at Peter’s articles, especially his second one. What I found was a picture of a smiling man, very comfortable in shaking LaVoy’s hand but propagandizing LaVoy making the stand at Malheur into something that it wasn’t. Breeding fear and hate, even going so far as to say that the people in Burns are suffering from PTSD, if you can imagine. http://around.uoregon.edu/…/bundys-did-damage-burns-well-re…
The picture in the article seemed so typical, Professor Walker shaking LaVoy’s hand with one while putting a proverbial knife in his back with the other. Propaganda filled articles like Peter Walker’s, profiling by FBI, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Southern Poverty Law Center putting people on “lists” is how hate and discontent is spread. The federal government needs to only look in a mirror to see where the virus is that they so willfully accuse Constitutionalists of spreading.
Having the honor to rub shoulders with the Finicum’s and Bundy’s doesn’t take long for one to see the propaganda that is spread certainly isn’t from the People but from the enemy in front of me choosing to be a mouthpiece for the federal government’s propaganda. It would behoove people to know definitions:
* indoctrinate - to instruct in doctrines, beliefs, principles, or theories (can be good or bad)
*doctrine - something taught as beliefs, usually associated with religion or political parties
* propaganda - est. by Pope Gregory XV; a committee of cardinals in charge of propagating the faith of foreign missions
- any systematic, widespread indoctrination
- the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
- ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause
fact - a thing that has happened or is true
opinion - a belief not based on certainty or knowledge but on what seems true or probable
from Webster's dictionaries.....collegiate 1977 and students' new world 1966
Respectfully, Barbara Hulet
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Kate Dalley had her own show on Canyon Media in St. George, Utah. https://www.facebook.com/kate.h.dalley
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First day of jury selection brings clashes between anti-Bundy protestors and Bundy Supporters.
The biodiversity communist Kieran Suckling was leading the protestors.
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Bundy Supporters & Anti-Bundy Protestors Clash at Beginning of Trial in Las Vegas
February 6, 2017 - Government/Politics, Public Lands - Tagged: BLM, Bundy, Bunkerville, federal, Nevada, Range, RANGEfire, trial - no comments
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Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, and environmental activist organization, leads Anti-Bundy protests in Las Vegas as the first Bunkerville trial begins.
By JENNY WILSON — Reposted from the Las Vegas Review-Journal
Constitutional issues took center stage Monday when the first trial in the case against rancher Cliven Bundy and his supporters opened with jury selection in Las Vegas.
The selection process at times resembled more of a political discussion than a courtroom proceeding, as lawyers grilled potential jurors about constitutional rights, marches and protests, federal authority, police conduct and news media. The extensive questioning provides defense attorneys and prosecutors the opportunity to identify people they do or do not want on the jury. Later this week, each side will be allowed to dismiss a limited number of jurors without showing cause.
Federal prosecutors have portrayed the six gunmen standing trial as militant, anti-government extremists who put authorities and the public in danger during an armed confrontation against law enforcement officers in 2014.
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The defendants contend they were patriots who exercised their constitutional rights to freely assemble and to bear arms during protests in Bunkerville over the seizure of Bundy’s cattle from federal lands. As a result, defense attorneys focused on ideological themes in questioning potential jurors.
Todd Engel, a defendant representing himself, asked the jury pool to imagine a group of gun enthusiasts who held a protest in front of a courthouse, each of them with a “pistol on hip, rifle on shoulder, yelling and screaming, ‘Give us our Second Amendment rights.’”
“If somebody went to a protest for Second Amendment rights … if nobody got hurt, would anyone have a problem?” Engel asked potential jurors.
No shots were fired during the armed standoff near Bundy’s ranch three years ago.
Engel prefaced some questions with his own commentary, and U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro reminded him several times he was not allowed to make arguments.
One defense attorney asked potential jurors if they felt scared or uneasy around guns. None said they did.
“If the women that marched right after the inauguration were carrying weapons, would that be considered a violent protest?” defense attorney Terrence Jackson asked the group, referring to the Women’s March on Washington that followed President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The six people charged as gunmen traveled to Bunkerville upon learning of the protests online and later became entangled in the standoff against Bureau of Land Management authorities. The government’s evidence includes Facebook posts and blogs published by those involved in the case, and potential jurors were asked about their news consumption and social media habits, as well as whether they think the media are reliable.
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FBI POSED AS A MOVIE COMAPANY - Now it could hurt their case.
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FBI posed as journalists to get evidence on Bundys. Now it could hurt their case
Trial stemming from a 2014 standoff could be derailed by a ploy to pose as a ‘fake film company’ and an ethics scandal involving a BLM officer and Burning Man
Cliven Bundy and 16 others are preparing for trial over their roles in the standoff with federal agents at Cliven’s ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada. Photograph: John Locher/AP
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Tuesday 7 February 2017 10.00 GMTLast modified on Tuesday 7 February 2017 10.02 GMT
FBI agents posed as journalists and tricked the Bundy ranching family and their supporters into giving on-camera interviews that prosecutors may use in upcoming trials, according to defense attorneys and court records.
The FBI’s “fake film production company” and “wide-reaching deceptive undercover operation”, as lawyers described it in a court filing, is one of multiple controversies that some say could derail the government’s prosecution of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his four sons and a dozen of their followers. A recent Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ethics scandal involving tickets for the popular Burning Man festivalcould further hinder prosecutors in the high-profile trial, which began this week in Las Vegas federal court.
The case stems from the Bundy family’s infamous 2014 standoff with federal agents at their ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada. The 70-year-old patriarch became a hero to conservative cowboys in the west when he publicly refused to pay grazing fees to the federal government, arguing that the BLM has no right to regulate lands by his property.
When federal agents attempted to seize his cattle, hundreds of supporters, some heavily armed, flocked to the ranch to defend the family. The government eventually retreated and only filed conspiracy, firearms and assault charges two years later – after his sons were involved in a similar standoff in Oregon.
In January 2016, Ammon and Ryan Bundy spearheaded a takeover of the Malheur national wildlife refuge to protest the government’s treatment of Oregon ranchers, leading to federal conspiracy charges against more than two-dozen participants. In a surprise verdict in October, a jury found the Bundy brothers and their supporters not guilty, which some say could foreshadow the government’s failure in Nevada.
A total of 17 men are preparing for trial in Las Vegas over their roles in the Bunkerville case, including Cliven, Ammon and Ryan and their brothers Mel and Davey. The Bundys have long argued that they were engaged in peaceful protests against federal overreach while prosecutors and environmental groups have alleged that the men executed a coordinated, violent attack on agents and have damaged public lands with their defiance of regulations.
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Ammon Bundy, who lead an armed anti-government militia in their takeover of the Oregon wildlife refuge, speaking at a news conference. Photograph: Rob Kerr/AFP/Getty ImagesThe underlying conspiracy allegations aside, some actions of individual FBI and BLM officers could cause problems for the government’s case.
Attorneys for Cliven and defendant Gregory Burleson have alleged that the FBI created a bogus film company called Longbow Productions, tricking many defendants into making “boastful, false and potentially incriminating statements” in interviews. Masquerading as journalists, agents paid defendants for their testimony, and in Burleson’s case, gave him alcohol with the intent of extracting incriminating admissions, according to defense attorneys.
In one filing, prosecutors admitted that FBI agents “acting in an undercover capacity as independent documentary filmmakers” interviewed Burleson, though the full extent of the Longbow operation remains unclear.
“When the jury finds out this is a tactic they used, none of them will think it’s okay,” said Daniel Hill, Ammon’s lawyer, adding, “It shows the lows the government was willing to go to.”
In the Oregon militia trial, the role of paid FBI informants hurt the government’s case, according to one juror.
“The jury did not like hearing there were undercover agents,” said Lisa Bundy, Ammon’s wife. “They’re using yours and my tax dollars to hurt other Americans.”
Bret Whipple, Cliven’s attorney, said when the FBI poses as reporters, it has a chilling effect on free speech. “The government is going to an extreme when they claim to be the free press and are trying to manipulate you to say things.”
Press advocates argue it’s never appropriate for police to impersonate journalists given how it can damage the public’s trust in the media.
“If you think every reporter you meet could be an agent of law enforcement, it really has an immediate impact on any journalist coming to try and cover that story,” said Gregg Leslie, legal defense director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
The US attorney’s office declined to comment.
In a separate matter, federal investigators recently announced ethical misconduct and violations by a BLM supervisory agent, who is accused of using his influence to obtain tickets and special passes to the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. The agent, who officials did not name, also allegedly used BLM resources for his family’s benefit at Burning Man and intervened in hiring to benefit a friend.
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Though the investigators did not name the agent, the Salt Lake Tribune and Reno-Gazette Journalidentified him as Dan Love, who held the position outlined in the government’s report during the period in the inquiry.
Love oversaw the BLM’s handling of the 2014 Bundy standoff, and given his role as a key witness, Bunkerville defense attorneys have saidthe misconduct case could unravel the prosecution.
“He has a history of intimidation and bullying,” said Chris Rasmussen, attorney for defendant Pete Santilli, arguing that the agent heightened tensions at the standoff. “Instead of de-escalation, he tried to escalate the situation.”
Love did not respond to an inquiry. BLM spokesman Michael Richardson declined to identify the agent who was investigated, but said he is currently an employee, adding: “These types of allegations do not align with our mission or the professionalism and dedication of our 10,000 employees doing essential work for America’s public lands.”
Lisa Bundy said it was unfair the men have been forced to wait behind bars for more than a year for their trials, claiming that Cliven’s health has taken a toll.
“Jail is not for a 70-year-old man who has never been too far from his childhood ranch.”
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Today in Las Vegas was an eventful day video of Joshua Martinez before and during arrest
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Lazaro Ecenarro from Las Vegas at the federal courthouse
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Has tyranny become law?
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Court Sidesteps Defendant’s Rights
… will fully protect and conceal identify of FBI undercover employee
Chief Judge Gloria Navarro ruled in favor of the Government in their motion to place a protective order on the identity of an FBI undercover employee (UCE). Defendants argued that this constitutes a violation of Brady / Giglio material rights (see explanation here). Navarro found that the identity protection for the UCE outweighs the rights of defendants. Effectively, the court sidesteps defendant’s rights.
Extraordinary measure?
Not only is the identity of the UCE under general protective order, it is also not available to defendants or their counsel. The UCE will testify under the pseudonym “Chris Johnson”. Defendants will not be able to ask any questions that might personally identify the UCE. Because of this, defense counsel cannot investigate the UCE to determine if he has:
- prior criminal history
- history of substance abuse
- workplace ethics violations
- social media or other communications that might reveal prejudice
OK for the Government… not any one else.
The Government relied heavily on social media and other means of communication. Memorandums in support of pretrial detention were rife with quotations and screenshots from FaceBook, YouTube, and Email accounts. The Government’s exhibit list shows over 1/3 of the evidence to have come from social media and e-mail. Consequently, a large portion of the case against the defendants will come from things said both publicly and privately.
The Government can pursue an effective life sentence and have a substantial amount of evidence come from the medium of the internet, but a key witness is apparently not subject to the same scrutiny. Defendants have a well-established right to look for impeachable evidence (evidence that might harm credibility) against Government witnesses. Had it not been for a leak by the Salt Lake Tribune, the misdeeds of the Bundy Ranch Tyrant would probably remain unknown. It is therefore imperative for the Government to supply defendants with the information they need to investigate witnesses.
Court Sidesteps Defendant’s Rights
When the Court moves to allow such a broad restriction on the identity of a witness, a scenario where the court sidesteps defendant’s rights plays out in full. Consequently, judiciary rulings that strip the rights of defendants to look for impeachable evidence on a Government witness injures, if not cripples, due process.
The reasons for order aren’t congruent with reality. First, online threats occurred in the immediate wake of the Bundy Ranch incident; the argument that the UCE is in danger is stale at best. Second, while the UCE’s other unrelated investigations are materially irrelevant, prior conduct during past investigations could yield impeachable evidence. Finally, the UCE’s date of birth is materially irrelevant to the case, but very much necessary to conduct an investigation.
One has to wonder: since it is OK for the Government to leave no stone unturned, why is the same privilege not extended to defendants. Has tyranny become law?
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Free Range Report - Custer Museum Director details suicides, human cost of BLM raids.
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FREE RANGE REPORT IS MISTAKENLY SUPPORTING JASON CHAFFETZ H.R.-622 another feelgood piece of legislation.
H. R. - 622 will effectivley make the locally elected county sheriff a contract policemen for the BLM/USFS.
It will force him to enforce FEDERAL LAW on public lands where Congress lacks constitutional authority to legislate.
H. R. - 622 will do this by providing federal block grants to prop up the county sheriff. The sheriff will be bound by the contract attached to the grant. State sovereignty goes out the window.
Of course it already has, Congress figured out how to entice the states into passing laws Congress wanted passed but couldn't because the constitution wouldn't allow by using grants, federal highway funds, and as time passed grants for sewer and water projects, bullet proof vests etc. and etc.. Now, in total disregard for the constitution they want to force federal laws into the states. In Nevada that is 87% of the land area.
This is exactly opposite what Ammon Bundy was protesting and Lavoy Finicum gave his life for.
PRESS RELEASE: Custer Museum Director details suicides, human cost of BLM raids
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In 2005, and again in 2008, Chris Kortlander, Founding Director of the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen, MT, was the victim of similar Nazi Gestapo-like raids by overzealous, unprofessional Bureau of Land Management law enforcement agents intent on proving that Kortlander was involved in the illegal trafficking of artifacts. Following the 2005 raid, no proof of wrongdoing was found and no charges were filed. The 2008 raid resulted in the same outcome, but the damage had been done. Kortlander’s Historical Rarities collectibles business was left in shambles and his good reputation as an upstanding member of the antiquities field was tarnished.
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Christopher Kortlander
February 7, 2017
Founding Director
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BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT THREATS, INTIMIDATION, AND BULLYING CONTINUE TO CLAIM INNOCENT LIVES
GARRYOWEN, MT Following a fourth suicide subsequent to bullying and harassment by Bureau of Land Management law enforcement agents, Christopher Kortlander, the Founding Director of the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen, MT, is speaking out. Kortlander, himself the victim of two unwarranted Bureau of Land Management raids, says the intimidation and threats by teams of heavily-armed BLM law enforcement agents must end.
“The Bureau of Land Management has a long track record of aggressive harassment, unwarranted raids, and heartbreaking suicides to answer for,” said Kortlander. “Their questionable assertions of criminal behavior and unchecked aggression must be exposed and those involved must be investigated.”
Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, said, “We need to be more Andy Griffith and less Rambo.” In a January 24th press release, he announced his plan to do just that. Chaffetz reintroduced the Local Enforcement for Local Lands Act, or H.R. 622, which will strip the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service of their law enforcement authority, with the aim of bringing these agencies into line. “It’s time to get rid of the BLM and US Forest Service police,” Chaffetz says, “If there is a problem, your local sheriff is the first and best line of defense. By restoring local control in law enforcement, we enable federal agencies and county sheriffs to each focus on their respective core missions.”
Kortlander recounts, “In 2014, I was asked by an elected official to submit written testimony to the House of Representatives subcommittee that investigates this type of harassment and intimidation by federal law enforcement, but nothing has come of it. It’s time to get the public involved to end this kind of harassment of private, law-abiding citizens.”(See Congressional Hearing- Threats, Intimidation and Bullying by Federal Land Managing Agencies – The attached 56-page document, submitted at this congressional hearing on July 24, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 1324 of the Longworth House Office Building, is very important because it reveals WHY the Custer Battlefield Museum Raids, the Four Corners Raids, and the Gibson Guitar Raids occurred.)
Federal Raids Lead to Suicides
On June 9, 2009, 17 teams of fully-armed Bureau of Land Management agents raided the southeastern Utah homes of two dozen casual Indian artifact hobbyist-collectors. When the over-the-top militaristic raids concluded, 24 people were charged with felonies and misdemeanors under the 1979 Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) which prohibits removing archaeological resources, including Native American artifacts from tribal or federal lands.
The day after the excessive raids, following hours of aggressive interrogation by Bureau of Land Management agents spearheaded by Dan Love, Dr. James D. Redd – one of those charged under the ARPA law – committed suicide. A week later, Steven Shrader, another man charged in connection with the Four Corners raids, killed himself. Eight months later, Ted Gardiner, the man the Bureau of Land Management agents had paid $244,000 to supply them with (unverified) information about Indian artifact hobbyist-collectors, also killed himself.
The Most Recent BLM-Related Suicide
On December 1, 2016, after months of harassment and bullying by federal law enforcement, half a dozen Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service agents, accompanied by a federal Social Security investigator, raided the Cody, Wyoming home of Robert Weaver, a rock hound who collected fossils. Weaver underwent eight long hours of brutal interrogation and bullying by BLM agents and the Social Security investigator; following his release (no charges were ever filed) federal agents continued to interrogate, harass, and intimidate Weaver for an entire month. On December 31, 2016, Robert Weaver took his own life, tragically becoming the fourth suicide in connection with an over-the-top Bureau of Land Management raid.
Raids at Garryowen
In 2005, and again in 2008, Chris Kortlander, Founding Director of the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen, MT, was the victim of similar Nazi Gestapo-like raids by overzealous, unprofessional Bureau of Land Management law enforcement agents intent on proving that Kortlander was involved in the illegal trafficking of artifacts. Following the 2005 raid, no proof of wrongdoing was found and no charges were filed. The 2008 raid resulted in the same outcome, but the damage had been done. Kortlander’s Historical Rarities collectibles business was left in shambles and his good reputation as an upstanding member of the antiquities field was tarnished. The fight to restore his life and livelihood has left Kortlander exhausted, frustrated, and disheartened.
The recent news of yet another suicide of someone connected to raids led by the Bureau of Land Management has steeled his resolve to end this federal law enforcement nightmare. “I’m not willing to let another day go by without bringing the Bureau of Land Management’s outrageous actions and unprofessional behavior to the attention of the American people, the Department of the Interior’s office of the Inspector General, and the Department of Justice,” insisted Kortlander. “The law enforcement unit of the Bureau of Land Management may be able to live with being connected to the suicides of law-abiding citizens, but I cannot, and neither should any other American.”
“The Bureau of Land Management and other Department of the Interior law enforcement agencies have developed a ‘Rambo’ type attitude and they’ve been running amok, threatening and raiding innocent private citizens and respected businesses like Gibson Guitars and Custer Battlefield Museum with impunity. No one is stopping them and our elected officials cannot sit on the sidelines any longer.”
A single suicide in connection to a Bureau of Land Management raid should alone be enough to warrant an investigation into the especially aggressive tactics used by the BLM. The aforementioned federal agency’s law enforcement division is now linked to foursuicides, all of which could have possibly been prevented had it not been for the threats, intimidation, and bullying at the hands of the Department of the Interior law enforcement agents.
Kortlander is working on a book that documents his personal experience with the abuse and aggression at the hands of the Bureau of Land Management’s law enforcement division; the projected release date is late 2017. Furthermore, Kortlander has contacted each member of Montana’s congressional delegation asking them to rein in the terrorist tactics of the Bureau of Land Management. He has also contacted Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who reintroduced his bill in Congress on January 24, 2017.
We the People of the United States must contact our Congressional delegation (find your representative here) and urge them to cosponsor Representative Chaffetz’s bill, H.R. 622, to demilitarize the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service (read more about this bill here).
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USA v. Bundy et al (Nevada) case update. At 5:11 PM PST United States District Court Chief Judge, Gloria M. Navarro just granted the defendants' motion to compel government disclosures related to BLM SSA Dan Love. The judge further ordered that if the government "intends to call SSA Love as a witness" they "must disclose" to the defense the full, unredacted OIG report recently released and noted by the national media. Lisa Bundy Carol Bundy Angie Huntington Bundy
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John Lamb and Lazarro Encenarro Exposing the Swamp in front of the Las Vegas Federal Courthouse
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