Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher

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Paula Hart asks why? What makes these evil persons spend years setting up a good family in order to steal thier land? Or pulling the trigger and killing an innocent man with his hands in the air.

I have been wondering why too.


Paula Hart

January 28 at 9:27pm ·

I Can't Help But Wonder
It has been four years now since the stand-up in Bunkerville and two years since the Hammond's were sent back to prison, LaVoy Finicum was murdered, and the protestors were arrested and tried.

I can't help but think of all those involved in these events - the Judges, Federal Prosecutors, LEO's, FBI, BLM, FWS, and Refuge employees - and there are many things that I can't help but wonder about.

I wonder if any of you involved in these events feel any guilt, shame, embarrassment, or regret AT ALL? I wonder what kinds of families you come from. Were you raised in happy, loving homes? Taught right from wrong? Or, were you bullied and abused growing up and that is why you now think it's okay to bully and abuse others? What happened in your lives that has allowed you to justify to yourselves the horrible things you have done to your fellow man? I'd really like to know.

The Bundy Ranch-
I wonder about the kind of person you have to be to spend years setting up a good family in order to steal their land. To get hundreds of men, women, and children down in a wash, pointing your guns at them, and being ready to pull the triggers at someone elses go-ahead. You were seriously ready to end countless lives over some cows? Some land that Harry Reid wanted for his own?! Were you really at peace in your own heart over slaughtering innocent people to satisfy someone elses greed?!! That day, you crossed the line from being BLM agents to paid assassins. You're good with that?! Really?

Burns, Oregon-
I wonder about those of you who spent years trying to steal the Hammond's ranch so you could add it to the refuge holdings. You did everything you could to send them to prison for years. When a judge stated that sending them to prison for 5 years would shock the conscience, he gave them 6 months and 1 year, instead. You weren't satisfied. You went above and beyond the call of duty to see that the Hammond's were sent back to prison.

Was the time they already served not enough for you? Why? Was it the fact that your goal hadn't been fully accomplished? You still hadn't got their land? Were you promised a raise, bonus, or promotion when it was accomplished? When you saw all the people who came to Burns to protest what you'd done to them, did you feel bad at all? When you saw the tears in Dwight's eyes, did you think of your own fathers or grandfathers? Wonder what if this had been done to them?

The murder of LaVoy Finicum-
What went through your minds as you were told to go out and set up an illegal kill-stop in the middle of nowhere? When you were waiting with your fingers on the trigger as LaVoy was being chased into it? When the bullets you fired were ending the life of an innocent man who had his hands in the air? Were you high on the rush of adrenaline or were you trying not to throw up at what you'd just done to a great man? At what you'd become?

I wonder if you, for even a second, wondered why you were being asked to hunt down your spent bullet casings and told to hide them. What thoughts did you have as you stood there and watched your bosses do a live conference on national news and played the grainy, edited video while stumbling through some half-assed story that didn't match up at all? Were you embarrassed that they honestly thought people would be stupid enough to believe them?! Were you feeling satisfied with yourselves for a job well done? Were you feeling sad that you just helped in covering up an evil act with your co-workers? Were you planning what you were going to spend your hard eaned money on?

I wonder what went through your minds as you held several sham trials geared towards locking these people away for life, all the while knowing that they never committed the crimes they were charged with...but YOU did commit. Were you able to look these people directly in the eye as you lied under oath, hid evidence, and did all you could to keep the truth of YOUR actions from coming to light? Or did you lack the courage to make eye contact at all? Did your gut clench at all when you lied under oath or ignored your own oath, altogether? Did you feel bad for even one second or are you so far gone that you have no conscience at this point? Do you feel humiliated that because of your actions, the public was made aware of who the criminals really were- you? That now everyone knows just how corrupt and truly evil you all are? That we all now know just how low you will go for a few dollars?

I wonder how all of you feel when you pass Carol Bundy, Susie Hammond, or Jeanette Finicum on the street or see them on T.V. Do you smile to yourselves, proud of what you've done to try and destroy their loved ones and the lives they worked hard- and honestly- to build? Do you hang your head in shame and look away? When you see all the children crying for their daddies or holding signs outside the courthouses and prisons, what do you feel? Do you feel nothing? When you are sitting at home each night with your own wives and children, do you picture those women and children eating alone? In tears and heartbroken because their husbands and fathers are absent from their lives because of you?

These are just some of the things I wonder about each and every day. Mostly, though, I wonder why you all seem to feel so safe and secure in your corruption, lies and greed. Does it ever cross your mind that if your bosses pay YOU to do these evil and awful things to your fellow Americans, that they can just as easily hire someone else to do the same things to you or someone you care about one day? I wonder how you all can trust each other after seeing what you're each capable of doing to another human being.

I wonder why you are ruining your own reputations, being publicly exposed for your dirty deeds, and destroying innocent lives for someone else's gain? Do you personally get a piece of the Bundy's or Hammond's land? Do you personally get a cut of whatever your bosses have planned for it? Do you personally benefit from seeing innocent people locked away and families destroyed? No, you don't, yet you, PERSONALLY, are committing the evil acts that gain others what they want so badly. WHY and HOW is that okay with you?!!

I wonder if you realize that somewhere out there, in another town, city, or state, is another BLM or FWS agent being told to go after your family member's ranch. There is another cop pointing a rifle at someone you love- finger on the trigger. There is another corrupt judge ready to look away from the very law they were sworn to uphold so they can lock one of your family members away on trumped up charges.

Somewhere out there is another dirty politician willing to shell out money to anyone willing to further their interests and the number of victims is limitless. Somewhere out there is another YOU. You okay with that?

More often than not, I find tears rolling down my face as I look around the world today and wonder when and why so many people have traded their honor, integrity, morals, values, and compassion for a paycheck. What happened to caring about each other? Helping each other? Standing up for each other? When did we stop caring about right or wrong? Good and bad? Truth and lies? When we reach a point that we no longer feel shame, guilt, embarrassment, or regret for our actions, we have reached a dangerous place as a society. Have we really gone so far that we have lost our humanity? Can we turn this around or have we reached a point of no return?

Sadly, I can't help but wonder.






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