Why get stuck choosing between the better of 2 evils this fall. Evil is evil.
Strongly look into Tim Aalders, visit his official site, speak with him, endorse him, support him, together we can send a Constitutional, Honorable, Utah'n to DC as a Strong US Senator.
This is how we Help Drain the Swamp!
it Starts with YOU - by not voting in Mitt Romney a member of the swamp! Just Say NO More Swamp members!
Nevada this is the Only person running with honor, liberty minded, and people minded. Worth Voting for! Visit the Official website below for all the details. take your state back from the swamp critters! You no longer need to vote the lessor of 2 evils, a 3rd choice has arrived! Choose Liberty or Tyranny. your move...s.huls
Ryan Bundy is a farmer, rancher, and entrepreneur. He's a 3rd generation Nevadan and a Battle Born Constitutionalist. At the young age of seven years Ryan miraculously survived an accident in which a vehicle ran over his head. This accident left Ryan with permanent nerve damage on one side of his face causing what he now causally refers to as his “crooked face”.
As a child Ryan learned how to deal with all of the normal difficulties of growing up; but, his asymmetrical features forced him to learn even more than the average child had to learn. Young Ryan learned early how to stand tall, proud and strong because he appeared different than his peers. He learned not only how to defend himself and his rights as a young boy; but he also learned to be patient and kind to those who would tease him for his outward differences.
In 1996 Ryan met Angela Huntington and he was soon very determined to make her his wife. Two years later, on November 20, 1998 Ryan married the only woman in the world who could ever knock the spurs off his boots and leave him breathless. Ryan and Angela went on to create eight little angels that completed their beautiful family and life. Even after twenty years of having Angela faithfully by his side, and under his wing, Ryan still thanks God everyday for giving him the only woman he has ever dreamed of as his forever bride.
Around 1993 Ryan’s father, Cliven Bundy, would find his family in a similar situation as the victorious young Ryan. The Bundy family was being bullied and pushed around by none other than greedy government. Ryan then found himself, drawing on the difficult experiences of his childhood combined with the strong character that his parents instilled in him, fighting all over again; but, this time it was a much more formidable foe and one that seemed unbeatable. This fight went on for twenty-five years before coming to a head in 2014 where the federal government slaughtered the Bundy’s pregnant cows, cows with newborn calves and prize bulls. Many of the calves would suffer, even later die, from the torture caused by the federal governments helicopters and the bullets fired upon them. All of this played itself out on local and national media, much of what was being told to the inquisitive viewers were deliberate lies to deter more people coming to stand with the Bundy Family. Ryan, Cliven Bundy’s first born son, would play a key role, in what would later be called “The Bunkerville Standoff”, along with his brother, Ammon, and many other family members. You can watch most of what happened at Bunkerville on YouTube.
In 2016 Ryan would again be in the local and national news; and, again the viewers were lied to about what was really going on. The Hammond family, of Oregon, was the victim of the same greedy and abusive government that the Bundy’s were fighting off. But the Hammond’s story was a heartbreaking story and the Bundy’s were compelled to come to their aid. The Bundy’s attemtpt to bring national attention to the plight of the Hammonds turned out, for the Bundys, to be the fight of and for their lives. The federal government was willing and determined to kill them all but they only succeeded in murdering the beloved Robert LaVoy Finnicum. To this day Ryan bears in his arm one of the bullets that were meant to kill him and others. While the story of the Bundy’s coming to help bring attention to the Hammond family’s situation has many sad twists and turns it also has many victories as well. The most important victory is that the people of The United States of America did learn about the Hammonds; and, the people cared more than the federal government ever thought they would. The people demanded a presidential pardon for the Hammonds. In July of 2018 the people’s President, Donald Trump, pardoned the Hammonds. You can watch most of what happened at “Malheur Refuge Takeover” on YouTube.
If elected as Nevada Governor, Ryan will stand for you and fight for your rights if you find yourself violated by oppressive and abusive government. How do I know this? Because having been the victim AND the victor, Ryan knows how to take on bullies and beat them; and, he has already proven that he will fight for a stranger when they are in need. Ryan will defend your rights when you elect him as your next governor. For a more detailed story about the Bundy family please watch the professional video below, The Bundy Story, narrated by Ryan’s brother, Ammon Bundy.
Thank you for voting on November 6, 2018.
Sincerely, jke and dls
The Bundy Story
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A message from Angela Bundy:
10/29/2018
To my Nevada friends...
Because of my husband’s prayerful decision to run for Governor, I’ve had the privilege of being by his side at many of his meetings and speeches. He has spoken in almost every town in this state and we have both shook many hands and listened to many concerns.
First of all, Mr Laxalt has lost all confidence in his rural voters. Not all, but a large portion. That fact has nothing to do with my husband’s decision to run. The reasons for this disconnect are many. As many of you know, there are more democrats than republicans, and we have a large portion of independents. In Washoe County 40% of the voters are independent. That being said, because of Laxalt’s loss of his rural voters, he has little to no chance of winning. So...in steps Ryan Bundy. He chose to run independent after a ton of prayer, and it makes sense. If Laxalt doesn’t carry all of the Republican votes, Ryan can pull the conservatives from the Republican Party, and the Independent parties and non partisans. His ideas on prison reform are appealing to many democrats too.
So my thoughts, after traveling the state, is that Ryan is our only chance of getting a conservative into office. If you’re scared of Sisolak then vote Bundy. He really is your only chance. Laxalt has lost the rural vote.
So I was asked about Todd ... here it is in his own words. I'm going to go get the restitution info from today's hearing and add it to the bottom I think it should be added. Here is the letter to send to the president please include a letter from yourself as well
A Long Train of Abuses By Todd C. Engel On April 5, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management commenced an operation to impound rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle. In the run-up to the operation, no less than five separate threat assessments were conducted to ascertain the threat that the Bundy’s may pose to law enforcement officers during the roundup. Each and every one of the assessments conducted by the FBI, JTTF, BLM, et.al., showed that the Bundy’s propensity for violence to be virtually nonexistent. With these findings, an appropriate course of action pertaining to a law enforcement presence should have been a few Las Vegas Metro PD officers on scene ensuring the safety of all involved. If that had been the case, the impoundment would likely have been completed without incident. Nevertheless, that would not be the case. The BLM brought in Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Daniel P. Love, who began to stage a small army at his incident command post in the week leading up to the scheduled impoundment. The list of men and material he brought in included: At least 138 heavily armed agents with level IV body armor, Kevlar helmets and assault rifles. Two FBI Swat Teams, one from Los Angeles, and one from Las Vegas with attached sniper teams and a F.L.I.R. equipped helicopter. A U.S. Park Service Special Event Tactical Team (SETT) with an attached sniper team. Multiple BLM sniper teams A Mine Resistant Armor Protected (MRAP) vehicle Drones and Airplanes Multiple German Shepherd attack dogs The BLM also set up two “First Amendment Areas” miles away from the impoundment operation for protesters to exercise their 1st Amendment rights. These areas were monitored by cameras and under cover agents who documented the license plates of people in the area.
On April 6th, the second day of the gather, agents encountered civilians taking pictures of the gather from the side of the road. For over an hour, BLM agents harass these citizens and attempt to herd them into the “First Amendment Areas.” They threaten them with citations and arrest until they are informed by the United States Attorney’s Office that they have “no arrest authority.” After Just a few short hours later, Dave Bundy is parked on the side of the road filming the gather with his Ipad. A BLM sniper team is deployed on the hill behind him and aim rifles at his back. Agents then approach him, body slam him, grind his face into the gravel and haul him off to jail, all with “no arrest authority.” He is released the next morning with no charges. His Ipad is confiscated and when it is returned, three years later, all video had been erased. As the impoundment continued, BLM agents began to shoot the Bundy’s cattle from helicopters, leaving many valuable bulls dead. They also systematically shot cattle they had corralled at the ICP and bury them in a mass grave. Simultaneously, the BLM and their contractors began to destroy Cliven Bundy’s State of Nevada deeded ‘waters’ that have been in his family for over a hundred years and are protected by Nevada State Law. It’s understandable why they wanted no pictures taken. Killing his cattle and destroying his waters are crimes under Nevada law. On April 9th, a spontaneous protest occurs whereby citizens were curious as to why a dump truck and backhoe are involved in gathering cattle. As the protestors attempt to look into the back of the dump truck, an attack dog is released on Ammon Bundy and he is tased three times. His fifty-nine year old aunt is grabbed from behind and violently body slammed to the ground. In the dump truck, they find torched pieces of their water tanks, evidence of BLM criminal activity. When SAC Dan Love is asked by reporter Pete Santilli, if the government is killing cattle, Dan Love states, “we are not killing cattle!” Multiple videos and photographs show different. (All of the information listed above was not allowed to be presented at my trial) On April 12th, a tense protest occurs with armed and unarmed citizens in a wash a few miles from the Bundy residence. As unarmed protestors arrived in the wash, the BLM immediately aimed assault rifles at them and stated over the loudspeaker that they would use lethal force. This precipitated a response from armed protesters who moved down the freeway towards the wash to defend the people from the BLM. During this protest, multiple agents are recorded saying such things as: “This is another Waco,” “This is a shoot first ask questions later type situation,” and after the protest is over, an agent says, “ Not one shot fired. They’re all fucking mouth. We should have ran units in there, smashed em and killed em.” Almost two years after the impoundment, nineteen of us would be arrested and put on trial in three separate tiers. The first tier went to trial on February 6th, 2017, of which I would be included in. Just six weeks before trial, due to my court appointed attorney being incompetent and unprepared, and not wanting another postponement by replacing him, I chose to represent myself pro se. During trial the Judge, Gloria Navarro, in open bias against the defense would not allow me to say the words “U.S. Constitution”, “1st Amendment Right”, “2nd Amendment Right”, “Right to keep and bear arms”, and in a moment of total frustration I asked her if I could say “freedom of speech” in her courtroom. She looked at me and said, “No, you may not.” When the defense got the case and attempted to call our first witness, the prosecution stated that all of our witnesses were “unindicted co-conspirators” and threatened to arrest and indict them if they testified. As a result, only two took the stand in our defense. Just prior to trial, it was discovered that SAC Dan Love had participated in some nefarious activities of which he was under investigation for and was ultimately relieved of duty. In a blow to the government’s case, they removed him as their star witness. No worries though as we would call him to the stand. When the defense attempted to call him, the government fought it and the judge ruled in their favor. The Special Agent in Charge of the entire operation and that agent whose Grand Jury testimony resulted in our indictments, would never take the stand. With Dan Love in a protected status and me completely discouraged at the ongoing conspiracy between the prosecutors and the judge, I asked a witness a single question about Dan Love and was immediately stripped of my pro se status and the ability to defend myself. My standby counsel took over but was completely clueless, knew nothing of the discovery, and continued to take his daily catnaps and e-bay shopping during the trial. As the trial came to a close, we were not allowed jury instructions of “self-defense,” “defense of others,” or “justification” as the judge stated we were unable to prove the presence of BLM “intimidation,” “provocation,” “over aggressiveness,” or the presence of “snipers.” Our only defense would be, “we didn’t do it.” I was ultimately convicted of Count 12, “Obstruction of Justice” and Count 16, “Interstate Travel in Aid of Extortion.” Seven months later, during the third trial in which Cliven, Ryan, Ammon Bundy, and Ryan Payne were defendants, a bombshell memo was sent to the prosecution, the Department of Justice, and Congress. The memo was eighteen pages of outrageous conduct by the BLM, FBI, and USAO and was written by the government’s own lead investigator, Larry Wooten who investigated this incident for almost three years. Wooten stated that on February 17th, 2017, two weeks into my trial, A.U.S. A. Steven Myhre, the lead prosecutor, entered into a conspiracy with Wooten’s direct supervisor, Kent Kleman, to have Wooten removed from the investigation because they didn’t like his findings. All records of his investigation were confiscated from his office and he was told not to discuss the case with anyone. His investigation reports have never been found. This is a classic example of witness tampering and is a crime of “obstruction of justice” as Wooten was on the witness list for my trial. In the spring of 2018, Wooten wrote a second eighteen-page report memo that is so revealing of the governments’ corruption that the judge placed an exceptionally strict protective order on it and to date, it has not been released. In December of 2017, the judge declared a mistrial due to over three thousand pages of ‘Brady’ material (information likely beneficial to the defense) was finally turned over. The new ‘Brady’ material showed: Five separate threat assessments that showed the Bundy’s were not a threat for violence. The BLM’s threat assessment showed that (the BLM) were looking to “face-off” and provoke the Bundy’s into a confrontation. An FBI Operations Order in which the FBI had deployed snipers. An aerial photograph showing the positions of at least two sniper teams perched above Cliven’s home on the nights of the 5th and 6th, prior to the arrival of protestors or militia. It also showed that the snipers had ranged the distance to his house, carried intermediate range rifles, night vision, thermal imaging devices, and infrared spotlights. A six man Quick Reaction Force two miles away on stand-by prepared to assault the Bundy residence on the nights of the 5th and 6th. The presence of live feed cameras above Bundy’s residence feeding real time video back to the ICP and Dan Love. Evidence that Dan Love, pre-operation, gave a pep talk to his agents telling them to go out there and “kick Cliven in the teeth.” Evidence that Dan Love sent an email telling his agents how to become “warriors.” Evidence that Dan Love carried a “kill book” wherein he bragged about being responsible for three suicides in Operation Cerberus Action in Blanding, Utah. FBI Agent Joel Willis, according to the judge, “hid” exculpatory evidence in his agency vehicle. He stated that he “finally found a thumb drive”, after three years, “on the floor of his vehicle”. On January 8th, 2018, the judge dismissed the case “With Prejudice” against Cliven Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Ammon Bundy, and Ryan Payne due to “Flagrant Prosecutorial Misconduct, Due Process Violations, and multiple Brady Violations.” The government filed a motion asking Judge Navarro to reconsider her decision and on July, 3rd, 2018 she denied their motion and stated that the ‘Brady’ material withheld was at least relevant to Count 5, Count 12, and Count 16; two of the charges of which I was convicted. Shortly thereafter, the government dismissed all charges on the defendants that had not gone to trial yet. My luck for being in the first group! We filed a motion for a new trial due to the multiple ‘Brady’ violations revealing new evidence, a motion for a “Judgement of Acquittal” as the elements of the charges were never met, and a motion to depose Larry Wooten under oath in order to get his story on the record and add additional new evidence to the mountain that already existed. On the day of my sentence hearing, just minutes before going into the courtroom, Judge Navarro denied all three motions stating that the ‘Brady’ violations were not relevant to me and that the new evidence did not reach the threshold for a new trial and deposing Larry Wooten was “moot.” The government had stated, in the indictment, that there were NO government snipers at the Bundy Ranch and therefore Cliven’s assertion of snipers was “false, deceitful, and deceptive” and that his call to the militia for protection was an “unnecessary escalation of tensions.” At trial, I contentiously argued that snipers were present but was continually objected to by the government and sustained by the judge. We now know that as I argued at trial, the government had, in it’s possession, reams of evidence showing that from April 5th through April 12th, snipers were present and active at the Bundy Ranch. On July 19th, 2018, I was sentenced to fourteen years in Federal Prison. But I was not sentenced for Interstate Travel in Aid of Extortion or Obstruction of Justice but was sentenced for actual Extortion, Assault on a Federal Officer, Threatening a Federal Officer, and Use and Carry of a Firearm during a Crime of Violence; all of the charges I faced at trial but was not convicted. So why was it so important and why so much effort to remove Cliven Bundy from his land? It certainly was not delinquent grazing fees of $1.3 million, as a government attorney testified in the third trial that Mr. Bundy only owed $8800 in back fees. The answer is quite simple really and could have been found on the BLM’s own website before they removed it. During the impoundment, the website stated that the “Gold Butte Solar Project was not compatible with feral cattle.” There it was for the whole world to see and it had nothing to do with grazing fees. So who were the main players behind this massive land grab? Evidence shows that Senator Harry Reid’s son, Rory Reid, had formed a partnership and signed contracts with a Chinese solar company to install this solar project in Gold Butte. But they still needed Bundy and his cattle off the land. Harry Reid had a plan. He took one of his high level advisors, Neil Kornze, from his staff and had him moved over to the BLM. From 2009 to 2014, Kornze moved up the ranks until in April 2014 he became the Director of the BLM. To anchor this conspiracy and ensure he had the courts in his pocket, Harry Reid recommended to Barack Obama the appointment of none other than Gloria Navarro as Chief Justice for the District of Nevada. I tremble to think what the outcome of this rogue operation may have been had protestors, armed and unarmed, not heeded the call of this besieged rancher and converged on his ranch from across the country. Would Dan Love have killed this family and burned their house down around them as they assaulted them with snipers and armored vehicles? I thank the Lord that we will never know that answer. From inside a Birmingham, Alabama jail, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere.” From inside a prison in Pahrump, Nevada, I couldn’t agree more.
RESTITUTION ORDERS The following transaction was entered on 9/20/2018 at 10:37 AM PDT and filed on 9/20/2018 Case Name: USA v. Bundy et al Case Number: 2:16-cr-00046-GMN-PAL Filer: Document Number: 3342(No document attached) Docket Text: MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS - Restitution Hearing as to Todd C. Engel held on 9/20/2018 before Chief Judge Gloria M. Navarro. Crtrm Administrator: Aaron Blazevich; AUSA: Daniel Schiess with FBI Agent Mike Abercrombie; Def Counsel: Warren Markowitz; Court Reporter/Recorder: Araceli Bareng; Time of Hearing: 9:20 a.m. - 10:01 a.m.; Courtroom: 7D; Defendant is present in custody with leg restraints. The Court makes preliminary statements. Mr. Markowitz makes arguments regarding his position on restitution. Mr. Schiess responds. The Court finds that restitution is mandatory in this case. The Court determines that the Defendant's ability to pay restitution will not be taken into consideration in this case. Mr. Markowitz makes arguments regarding the inability of government employee wages and costs to be imposed as restitution. The Court finds that the expenses were necessary to complete or attempt to complete the operation which is at issue in the indictment. The Court imposes the following amounts of restitution: BLM Costs: BLM Labor Costs: $518,955.97. BLM Contract Costs: $1,025,542.53. TOTAL BLM Costs: $1,544,498.50. FBI Costs: FBI Las Vegas Employee Costs: $62,255.31. FBI Los Angeles Employee Costs: $18,405.07. FBI Los Angeles Travel Costs: $11,631.45. TOTAL FBI Costs: $92,291.83. TOTAL Amount of Restitution Ordered: $1,636,790.33 The Court orders and imposes restitution and associated conditions. Amended Judgment to follow. Mr. Markowitz makes an oral motion to stay restitution pending appeal. The Court DENIES the motion. Mr. Markowtiz requests the Defendant be allowed to change his facility designation on the Amended Judgment to FCI Sheridan as Mr. Engel's family is moving closer to this location and Mr. Engel has allergies at the current facility. The Court will amend its recommendation to the US Bureau of Prisons on the Amended Judgment. The Court adjourns. Defendant is remanded to custody. What's missing is the over $160,000 a year interest on the restitution which would bring it over 5 million dollars by the time he's released.
My comments on this matter:
When the Bundy Stand or Hammond stand against Bad Government I sometimes hear, there are two sides to the story.
Unfortunately the Victims in these cases who continue to be abused were NOT allowed to tell their story in the Federalist Courts controlled by the Attackers of these American Patriot Citizens.
Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was the cause of Bundy Ranch for he sought all the lands around for personal profit. Bundy refused to be forced out by Sen Reids controlled agencies,, so Harry had appointed a wife of his friend who had a history of attacking the Bundys as the new Federal Court Judge in Nevada Navaroo, obama approved. few months later the Bundy Ranch Stand up to tyranny and marxist globalist agenda's took place. Navaroo was in position to Rail Road all the Victims, she continues to do so today. She has no previous judge experience, but does do Dingy Harry Reids bidding. You see Evil and wicked Are ruling us today, the Republic is all but dead and the Marxists run most if not all the federal agencies who were created to promote the take over of all our liberties, our resources, our lands, our water, our homes, our rights. This is what the Bundy and Hammond Stands were about. Saddly with the Fake Patriots, Fake Media news, SCARED conservative media aka. Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Fox news. who were SCARED by fake reports to NOT learn the truth of the matter. Neglected to learn the truth, and ran and hid when this great treason took place, continues to take place. Such is the state we face now. Unless the True Criminals are brought to justice, the innocent citizens FREED from their political chains, then given payment for the great evils done to them by these federal and local agencies and their Marxist leaders like Dan Love, Navaroo, Harry Reid and the list goes on and on. In the end truth surfaces. the Federals have conspired to destroy these Americans, steal their lands for personal gains, and then cover up their great wickedness by lies, control of courts, threats upon witnesses and other marxist KGB tactics. Oh if this land allows such evil to continue, then do not be surprised when the hand of a Just God, comes down upon this land, for the blood of the innocent doth cry from the ground for vengance and justice against their tyrants. When the wicked ripen in their wickedness then Gods Judgements and punishments take place. Justice will be served, in this life or the next.
he will soon go to meet his eternal rewards for his great wickedness towards the people of Earth.
You see we all die, we all will be resurrected, Judged, and be damned or rewarded to live in Heaven with Jesus Christ. No one is above Gods Law. Stephen Huls, Patriot, Christian, American.
Please
read the letter and then mail this letter to:
President
Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Attach
a note or letter asking President Trump to issue a
Full
Presidential Pardon for Todd Engel. Also, please add Greg Burleson's name
to the abuses. Todd has been sentenced to 14 years and Greg to 68 years
in prison for simply showing up to prevent the massacre of the entire
Bundy family.
They
exercised their 1st and 2nd amendment rights and were ultimately convicted
of charges wrongfully, due to Judge Navarro suppressing the majority of
the evidence and their entire defenses.
They
were then sentenced, not to the charges convicted, but to all the counts
in which they were accused of in a false indictment. This is unjust and
simply evil.
You
ask, "what can we do?" Well, this is what we can do! We can
flood the President with letters.
Have
your entire family send separate letters if you feel inclined. With
enough letters, someone will notice. We need to appeal to our President!
He has to hear us. Our cries are falling on deaf ears in Nevada but we
must keep trying. I myself will never accept these two angels, Todd and
Greg, spending the rest of their lives in prison for ensuring our
family's safety and protecting our rights.
Thank
You and please pray for these men and for this nation.
God
Bless you all and may
He
keep this land free through the work and sacrifice of good men and women.
On April 5, 2014, the Bureau
of Land Management commenced an operation to impound rancher Cliven
Bundy’s cattle. In the run-up to the operation, no less than five
separate threat assessments were conducted to ascertain the threat that
the Bundy’s may pose to law enforcement officers during the roundup. Each
and every one of the assessments conducted by the FBI, JTTF, BLM, et.al.,
showed that the Bundy’s propensity for violence to be virtually
nonexistent. With these findings, an appropriate course of action
pertaining to a law enforcement presence should have been a few Las Vegas
Metro PD officers on scene ensuring the safety of all involved. If that
had been the case, the impoundment would likely have been completed
without incident. Nevertheless, that would not be the case.
The BLM brought in Special
Agent in Charge (SAC), Daniel P. Love, who began to stage a small army at
his incident command post in the week leading up to the scheduled
impoundment.
The list of men and
material he brought in included:
·At least 138 heavily armed
agents with level IV body armor, Kevlar helmets and assault rifles.
·Two FBI Swat Teams, one from
Los Angeles, and one from Las Vegas with attached sniper teams and a
F.L.I.R. equipped helicopter.
·A U.S. Park Service Special
Event Tactical Team (SETT) with an attached sniper team. • Multiple BLM
sniper teams
·
A Mine Resistant Armor
Protected (MRAP) vehicle
·Drones and Airplanes
·Multiple German Shepherd attack
dogs
The BLM also set up
two “First Amendment Areas” miles away from the impoundment operation for
protesters to exercise their 1st Amendment rights. These areas were
monitored by cameras and under cover agents who documented the license
plates of people in the area.
On April 6th, the
second day of the gather, agents encountered civilians taking pictures of
the gather from the side of the road. For over an hour, BLM agents harass
these citizens and attempt to herd them into the “First Amendment Areas.”
They threaten them with citations and arrest until they are informed by
the United States Attorney’s Office that they have “no arrest authority.”
Just a few short hours later, Dave Bundy is parked on the side of the
road filming the gather with his Ipad. A BLM sniper team is deployed on
the hill behind him and aim rifles at his back. Agents then approach him,
body slam him, grind his face into the gravel and haul him off to jail,
all with “no arrest authority.” He is released the next morning with no
charges. His Ipad is confiscated and when it is returned, three years
later, all video had been erased.
As the impoundment continued,
BLM agents began to shoot the Bundy’s cattle from helicopters, leaving
many valuable bulls dead. They also systematically shot cattle they had
corralled at the ICP and bury them in a mass grave. Simultaneously, the
BLM and their contractors began to destroy Cliven Bundy’s State of Nevada
deeded ‘waters’ that have been in his family for over a hundred years and
are protected by Nevada State Law. It’s understandable why they wanted no
pictures taken. Killing his cattle and destroying his waters are crimes
under Nevada law.
April 9th, a
spontaneous protest occurs whereby citizens were curious as to why a dump
truck and backhoe are involved in gathering cattle. As the protestors
attempt to look into the back of the dump truck, an attack dog is
released on Ammon Bundy and he is tased three times. His fifty-nine year
old aunt is grabbed from behind and violently body slammed to the ground.
In the dump truck, they find torched pieces of their water tanks,
evidence of BLM criminal activity. When SAC Dan Love is asked by reporter
Pete Santilli, if the government is killing cattle, Dan Love states, “we
are not killing cattle!” Multiple videos and photographs show different. (All
of the information listed above was not allowed to be presented at my
trial)
On April 12th, a tense protest
occurs with armed and unarmed citizens in a wash a few miles from the
Bundy residence. As unarmed protestors arrived in the wash, the BLM
immediately aimed assault rifles at them and stated over the loudspeaker
that they would use lethal force. This precipitated a response from armed
protesters who moved down the freeway towards the wash to defend the
people from the BLM. During this protest, multiple agents are recorded
saying such things as: “This is another Waco,” “This is a shoot first ask
questions later type situation,” and after the protest is over, an agent
says, “ Not one shot fired. They’re all fucking mouth. We should have ran
units in there, smashed em and killed em.”
Almost two years
after the impoundment, nineteen of us would be arrested and put on trial
in three separate tiers. The first tier went to trial on February 6th,
2017, of which I would be included in. Just six weeks before trial, due
to my court appointed attorney being incompetent and unprepared, and not
wanting another postponement by replacing him, I chose to represent
myself pro se. During trial the Judge, Gloria Navarro, in open bias
against the defense would not allow me to say the words “U.S.
Constitution”, “1st Amendment Right”, “2nd Amendment Right”, “Right to
keep and bear arms”, and in a moment of total frustration I asked her if
I could say “freedom of speech” in her courtroom. She looked at me and
said, “No, you may not.” When the defense got the case and attempted to
call our first witness, the prosecution stated that all of our witnesses
were “unindicted co-conspirators” and threatened to arrest and indict
them if they testified. As a result, only two took the stand in our
defense.
Just prior to trial, it was
discovered that SAC Dan Love had participated in some nefarious
activities of which he was under investigation for and was ultimately
relieved of duty. In a blow to the government’s case, they removed him as
their star witness. No worries though as we would call him to the stand.
When the defense attempted to call him, the government fought it and the
judge ruled in their favor. The Special Agent in Charge of the entire
operation and that agent whose Grand Jury testimony resulted in our
indictments, would never take the stand.
With Dan Love in a protected
status and me completely discouraged at the ongoing conspiracy between
the prosecutors and the judge, I asked a witness a single question about
Dan Love and was immediately stripped of my pro se status and the ability
to defend myself. My standby counsel took over but was completely
clueless, knew nothing of the discovery, and continued to take his daily
catnaps and e-bay shopping during the trial.
As the trial came to a close,
we were not allowed jury instructions of “selfdefense,” “defense of
others,” or “justification” as the judge stated we were unable to prove
the presence of BLM “intimidation,” “provocation,” “over aggressiveness,”
or the presence of “snipers.” Our only defense would be, “we didn’t do
it.” I was ultimately convicted of Count 12, “Obstruction of Justice” and
Count 16, “Interstate Travel in Aid of Extortion.” Seven months later,
during the third trial in which Cliven, Ryan, Ammon Bundy, and Ryan Payne
were defendants, a bombshell memo was sent to the prosecution, the
Department of Justice, and Congress. The memo was eighteen pages of
outrageous conduct by the BLM, FBI, and USAO and was written by the
government’s own lead investigator, Larry Wooten who investigated this
incident for almost three years.
Wooten stated that on February
17th, 2017, two weeks into my trial, A.U.S. A. Steven Myhre, the lead prosecutor,
entered into a conspiracy with Wooten’s direct supervisor, Kent Kleman,
to have Wooten removed from the investigation because they didn’t like
his findings. All records of his investigation were confiscated from his
office and he was told not to discuss the case with anyone. His
investigation reports have never been found. This is a classic example of
witness tampering and is a crime of “obstruction of justice” as Wooten
was on the witness list for my trial.
In the spring of 2018, Wooten
wrote a second eighteen-page report memo that is so revealing of the
governments’ corruption that the judge placed an exceptionally strict
protective order on it and to date, it has not been released. In December
of 2017, the judge declared a mistrial due to over three thousand pages
of ‘Brady’ material (information likely beneficial to the defense) was
finally turned over. The new ‘Brady’ material showed:
·Five separate threat
assessments that showed the Bundy’s were not a threat for violence.
·The BLM’s threat assessment
showed that (the BLM) were looking to “faceoff” and provoke the Bundy’s
into a confrontation.
·An FBI Operations Order in
which the FBI had deployed snipers.
·An aerial photograph showing
the positions of at least two sniper teams perched above Cliven’s home on
the nights of the 5th and 6th, prior to the arrival of protestors or
militia. It also showed that the snipers had ranged the distance to his
house, carried intermediate range rifles, night vision, thermal imaging
devices, and infrared spotlights.
·
A six man Quick
Reaction Force two miles away on stand-by prepared to assault the Bundy
residence on the nights of the 5th and 6th.
·The presence of live feed
cameras above Bundy’s residence feeding real time video back to the ICP
and Dan Love.
·Evidence that Dan Love,
pre-operation, gave a pep talk to his agents telling them to go out there
and “kick Cliven in the teeth.”
·Evidence that Dan Love sent an
email telling his agents how to become “warriors.”
·Evidence that Dan Love carried
a “kill book” wherein he bragged about being responsible for three
suicides in Operation Cerberus Action in Blanding, Utah.
FBI Agent Joel Willis,
according to the judge, “hid” exculpatory evidence in his agency vehicle.
He stated that he “finally found a thumb drive”, after three years, “on
the floor of his vehicle”.
On January 8th, 2018, the
judge dismissed the case “With Prejudice” against Cliven Bundy, Ryan
Bundy, Ammon Bundy, and Ryan Payne due to “Flagrant Prosecutorial
Misconduct, Due Process Violations, and multiple Brady Violations.” The
government filed a motion asking Judge Navarro to reconsider her decision
and on July, 3rd, 2018 she denied their motion and stated that the
‘Brady’ material withheld was at least relevant to Count 5, Count 12, and
Count 16; two of the charges of which I was convicted. Shortly
thereafter, the government dismissed all charges on the defendants that
had not gone to trial yet. My luck for being in the first group!
We filed a motion for a new
trial due to the multiple ‘Brady’ violations revealing new evidence, a
motion for a “Judgement of Acquittal” as the elements of the charges were
never met, and a motion to depose Larry Wooten under oath in order to get
his story on the record and add additional new evidence to the mountain
that already existed. On the day of my sentence hearing, just minutes
before going into the courtroom, Judge Navarro denied all three motions
stating that the ‘Brady’ violations were not relevant to me and that the
new evidence did not reach the threshold for a new trial and deposing
Larry Wooten was “moot.” The government had stated, in the indictment,
that there were NO government snipers at the Bundy Ranch and therefore
Cliven’s assertion of snipers was “false, deceitful, and deceptive” and
that his call to the militia for protection was an “unnecessary
escalation of tensions.” At trial, I contentiously argued that snipers
were present but was continually objected to by the government and
sustained by the judge. We now know that as I argued at trial, the
government had, in it’s possession, reams of evidence showing that from
April 5th through April 12th, snipers were present and active at the
Bundy Ranch.
On July 19th, 2018, I was
sentenced to fourteen years in Federal Prison. But I was not sentenced
for Interstate Travel in Aid of Extortion or Obstruction of Justice but
was sentenced for actual Extortion, Assault on a Federal Officer,
Threatening a Federal Officer, and Use and Carry of a Firearm during a
Crime of Violence; all of the charges I faced at trial but was not
convicted.
So why was it so important and
why so much effort to remove Cliven Bundy from his land? It certainly was
not delinquent grazing fees of $1.3 million, as a government attorney
testified in the third trial that Mr. Bundy only owed $8800 in back fees.
The answer is quite simple really and could have been found on the BLM’s
own website before they removed it. During the impoundment, the website
stated that the “Gold Butte Solar Project was not compatible with feral
cattle.” There it was for the whole world to see and it had nothing to do
with grazing fees. So who were the main players behind this massive land
grab? Evidence shows that Senator Harry Reid’s son, Rory Reid, had formed
a partnership and signed contracts with a Chinese solar company to
install this solar project in Gold Butte. But they still needed Bundy and
his cattle off the land.
Harry Reid had a plan. He took
one of his high level advisors, Neil Kornze, from his staff and had him
moved over to the BLM. From 2009 to 2014, Kornze moved up the ranks until
in April 2014 he became the Director of the BLM. To anchor this
conspiracy and ensure he had the courts in his pocket, Harry Reid
recommended to Barack Obama the appointment of none other than Gloria
Navarro as Chief Justice for the District of Nevada.
I tremble to think what the
outcome of this rogue operation may have been had protestors, armed and
unarmed, not heeded the call of this besieged rancher and converged on
his ranch from across the country. Would Dan Love have killed this family
and burned their house down around them as they assaulted them with
snipers and armored vehicles? I thank the Lord that we will never know
that answer.
From inside a Birmingham,
Alabama jail, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat
to Justice everywhere.” From inside a prison in Pahrump, Nevada, I
couldn’t agree more.
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