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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