(Just found this update and am passing along - Sad people want to sue the weak instead of those at fault = Feds / BLM / their hired guns.)
Friday, September 26, 2014
NEWS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bundy Family Statement on Neglect Charges
against Cliven Bundy Last week, in the Clark County District Court, Danielle
Beck filed a lawsuit against Cliven Bundy for “recklessly, carelessly and
negligently allowing his cows to enter onto Interstate 15. Danielle reportedly
ran into a distressed cow on I-15 the night of April 13th. As we learn more
details of Danielle Beck and her accident we are grateful that she was not
injured further. We are also thankful that she has returned to work and hope her
life is back to normal. As for the charges against Cliven, they are ironic,
humorous and come with questionable motives. On March 25th, The Bureau of Land
Management along with at least 4 other federal agencies came onto the Bundy
Range and set up a military like compound. On April 5th they locked down the
range surrounded the ranch with sniper and heavily armed federally hired
mercenaries. Placing armed militants and advanced surveillance equipment on ever
entry point of the range. They verbally and physically threatened the community
(especially the Bundy's) with their lives if they left the paved roads. The
Bundy family and community members were gang beaten, captured and tortured,
thrown to the pavement, tasered multiple times with dogs siced on them, all
simply for expressing their first amendment rights in distaste for the excessive
display of force by our federal government.
During
this historical week we were unable to freely go on the range to check the
cattle's whereabouts or their condition. The federal agencies were gathering the
cattle by helicopter, shooting them by air, scattering them and separating the
mother's from their calves (many calves and cattle were killed). The Bundy
cattle that lived were put in extreme distress and disorientation. It was not
until April 12 (Saturday) after over a thousand protesters went up to the
compound and forced the flight of the federal agencies and returned the captured
cattle, that we could freely get on the range to check the damages and the
remaining herd. It was the very next night that Danielle Beck hit one of the
distressed cattle. By this time the surviving cattle had been scattered by air
into areas they normally may not have gone, shot at, sore footed, many captured
and held inhumanly. They were looking for their calves and looking for water. So
here is the irony, Cliven's life would have been taken by federal agents if he
would have checked on the cattle, yet he is charged for neglect, carelessness
and recklessness for not doing so. We do not have to point out who was reckless,
careless and negligent? If Bob Apple, Danielle Beck's lawyer cared for his
client more than just getting his name in the paper, he would go after the
federal agencies who caused the cattle to be distressed enough to go through a
State maintained fence and onto the freeway. Or, he would go after the State of
Nevada who bears the responsibility in maintaining the freeway fences and gates.
The humorous part is that both the State and the feds have more funds to pay out
than some poor rancher driving a 13 year old beat up pick up, living in a 1200
square foot home (without air conditioning) a home that he has primarily lived
in since he was 4 years old. But the lawyer knows Cliven cannot defend himself
as well as the State and feds can, so who does he sue? We do not blame attorney
Bob Apple for going after the easy prey, it is some lawyer's nature to do so.
This whole incident is just another example of what happens when the federal
government oversteps it's bounds and tries to meddle in matters that they do not
have jurisdiction or authority over. Sincerely, The Bundy Family
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