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AG Sessions orders examination of Bundy case after mistrial over prosecution bungling by Doug Knowles AG Sessions orders examination of Bundy case after mistrial over prosecution bungling Government failed to turn over evidence By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times Thursday, December 21, 2017 Attorney General Jeff Sessions stepped into the Bundy prosecution after Wednesday’s mistrial, ordering a third-party examination of the case in light of the latest government snafu. “The attorney general takes this issue very seriously and has personally directed that an expert in the [Justice Department’s] discovery obligations be deployed to examine the case and advise as to the next steps,” said Ian D. Prior, the department’s principal deputy director of public affairs, in a late Wednesday statement. The decision to intervene came after Chief U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial over the government’s “willful failure to disclose information” to the defense, saying it would have been “impossible” for the four co-defendants to receive a fair trial. SEE ALSO: Mistrial bolster’s Bundy’s claim of federal persecution, gives prosecutors black eye “Failure to turn over such evidence violates due process,” Judge Navarro said in the courtroom, the Arizona Republic reported. “A fair trial at this point is impossible.” Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and Ryan Payne of Montana have been charged with 15 felony counts stemming from the 2014 armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management at the Bundy ranch near Bunkerville. The examination represents the first direct public intervention by the attorney general in the Nevada case, which began last year under then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre, who oversees the prosecution, said he welcomed the input from D.C. “We respect the ruling of the court and take very seriously our discovery obligations,” Mr. Myhre said in a statement. “The office welcomes the assistance of the attorney general as we continue to evaluate the case in light of the court’s ruling.” No deadline was given for the attorney general’s examination, but Judge Navarro set a Jan. 8 hearing on defense motions to dismiss the case. The next trial is tentatively scheduled to begin Feb. 26. The case, which involves 19 defendants spread over three tiers, has been riddled with setbacks for the prosecution, including a previous mistrial, hung juries and acquittals on lesser figures in the April 2014 armed confrontation with BLM agents. Judge Navarro said the prosecutors had willfully failed to disclose key evidence in the case, including FBI records about surveillance and government snipers at the Bundy ranch, activity logs, law enforcement threat assessments showing the Bundy family posed no threat of violence, and internal reports about BLM agent misconduct. She dismissed the jury after seven weeks in the latest trial involving the second of the three tiers of co-defendants. All four in the latest trial are considered leaders of the confrontation with the BLM, which began after agents tried to impound the ranch’s cattle following Cliven Bundy’s refusal for years to pay grazing fees in a protest over federal land management. Doug Knowles | December 21, 2017 at 1:09 pm | Categories: Ammon Bundy, BLM, Bundy Ranch, Cliven Bundy, Court, FBI, III%, Jeff Sessions, Land, Las Vegas, Militia, News, NYT, Ryan Bundy, Ryan Payne | URL: https://wp.me/p8bCbd-162

Dan Love had a kill list given to him by the Department of interior.

John Lamb

· 1 hr ·

Lies, Deceit, Murder and the Kill List

(A Must Share)

Steven Myhre, the lead prosecutor in the Bundy trial in Las Vegas has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Along with his assistants,
Nadia Ahmed and Daniel Sheess, who have been working overtime at withholding evidence of innocence in the case, as far back as before the indictment was ever even handed down.
...

The (BLM) Bureau of Land Management sent special agent Dan Love and his militarized goons to do the unthinkable on American soil.
Dan Love had a kill list given to him by the Department of interior.

With orders to kill/murder a long list of people that had gotten in the so called way.

This attack on Americans was so well planned that these very government agents cleaned up all their crimes by destroying and shredding any and all documents covering up all of their emails and conversations of criminal misconduct against the Bundy family.
Now we know that actual sniper teams were deployed to murder members of the Bundy family and supporters, and the department of justice has successfully kept all of this sealed in secret sealed court procedures up until now. With even judge Gloria Navarro being a accomplice by sealing the prosecution's misconduct from the people.

If it wasn't for a Department of Justice whistle blower who was fired by Steven Myhre, we still wouldn't have known.

Sealed secret court hearings only benefit the government and have no benefit for the defense team at all.

Steven Myhre, Dan Love and a picture of the I-15 bridges over the was wash

 

Brand Thornton

· 4 hrs ·

Whistle blowers coming out, please share!!

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You folks remember these rumors, I do. maybe more to it than we thought back in 2014. I remember Oathkeepers warning those on the ground. just in case. http://www.thedailysheeple.com/breaking-eric-holder...

BREAKING: Eric Holder ORDERS DRONE STRIKE ON BUNDY RANCH

April 29, 2014 | Secrets of the Fed | Secretsofthefed.com | 254

 
Story at this link:
http://warningsforamericasfuture.blogspot.com/2016/06/remember-senator-harry-reid-obama.html

Special Agent Wooten, Exposes Criminal behavior by Feds - Bundy Trial

Published on Dec 15, 2017

US Dept of Interior, BLM Special Agent Wooten, Exposes Criminal behavior, Cover up and Conspiracy to commit murder, abuse, hide criminal behavior of Federal Agents concerning their Assault on the Bundy Ranch

PDF copy can be seen at the link below:
http://static.ow.ly/docs/Larry%20Woot...

http://warningsforamericasfuture.blogspot.com/2017/12/special-agent-wooten-exposes-criminal.html

Ryan Bundys Opening Statement at the trial of the century in Las Vegas Nevada.

Ryan Bundys Opening Statement at the trial of the century in Las Vegas Nevada.

 

11-15-2017

 

Thanks the jurors for being here.

  I Told you a little about myself at voir dire, but I'd like to introduce myself a little more, and tell you about my heritage and how that affects my case. (Projects a picture of his family - AND leaves it up throughout his statement!)



This is my ID!
Not my driver's license.
This is who I am, a man with a family and I'll do whatever it takes to provide for them.

I want you to picture in your minds...you're out on the land...I'll take you to our ranch, you can see all the beauty of the land, the fresh air, sunsets and sunrises, the brush, you're on a horse in front of the cattle - place yourself there - feel the freedom - out of the congestion of the cars - that's how I was raised, playing in the river, we were called river-rats and that is where my life began and I hope ends.

My family has been on that land 141 years, my pioneer ancestors settled there in 1877 - there was nothing there.
They carved out a living...they brought a horse and wagon and some provisions...

this case, the gov mentioned is "not about rights", but it is - those rights do mean something - rights are created through beneficial use.
When my ancestors arrived, undoubtedly the horse would need a drink, so they lead him to the water and that is beneficial use.
The horse and perhaps a cow that had been lead behind the wagon need eat some brush in the hills, that is beneficial use.
 That established rights. The water rights are real!

So real, the State of NV has a water rights registry including livestock watering rights.
 A law was created to protect those rights.
The water rights that my father owns were first registered in 1891 by the State of NV - the State of NV is important, a sovereign state, it's own unit, which entered the union in _____ It entered equal to the original states, it is it's own entity and state laws are important.
 
My family and I are charged with some grievous things and they are not true and evidence will show they are not; force, manipulation, extortion, violent - my family is not a violent family and I am not a violent man.
For 20+ years we turned to local law enforcement.
 Rights are real property.
The fact is that we create gov to protect rights.

To have rights you must claim, use and defend...man only has rights he is willing to claim, use and defend.

 There is a difference between rights and privileges.
Rights you own.
Privilege is afforded. Like renting or owning a house.

 Gov asserts there are no rights, only privileges and unless we pay, we can't be there.

The State of NV says differently.
These are my father's rights. Everything we have comes from the land. That is wealth, not the dollar bill. The things we use all come from the land. Who controls the land, controls the wealth.

We create gov to preserve and serve us.
 These are some of the beliefs of my family. That we have said we will do whatever it takes to defend is not a threat, it is a statement.
Being right here before you today is part of doing whatever it takes.

 The Founding Fathers pledged whatever it would take...their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to defend rights.
 With the evidence you will see that is what we were doing; there was no conspiracy to impede, to harm...but, to protect our heritage that our pioneer ancestors established.

 We were attacked, surrounded by what appeared to be mercenaries, snipers pointed directly at me. You will hear a report from a sniper that he was keeping watch of me in my van with my wife and two of my daughters with me.
 
Our ranch - children are always welcome - it is a place to play, play in the river, the pond, chase or hunt rabbits, burn your toes in the hot sand in summer - always free.
Never before did we feel like someone was always watching.

 In early spring of 2014 we felt like someone was always watching...the dogs were watching the hills, when you are always with a dog you get to know what they are saying with their bark...you can tell by their bark what they are seeing...surveillance cameras on one hill, but the dog looking at another and growling...(tearfully)
 This is not what America is supposed to be. Supposed to be a land of liberty.
 The Founding Fathers fought and bled so we wouldn't have to and now we find ourselves in a similar situation.
 
They say this issue is over grazing fees...it's terrible, terrible, he must be a freeloader - it's only rhetoric - I'll tell you why - You don't pay rent when you own your home! We own those rights! Not the land, I know we don't own the land, but access...you and others have rights on that land. We own water and grazing rights. We don't pay rent for something we own.

The BLM was formed in 1960.
 Our rights were established in 1877, long before BLM.
 The original states own 100% of their land and all states were to come in on equal footing.

 The crux of the issue is are we a state or not?

They say grazing is a privilege they can revoke and charge fees.
 If it is only a matter of money it is no problem.
  In fact, Mr. Whipple showed a copy of a check made out to Clark County.
If the whole purpose is to show we owe a fee, then we'll pay to the proper owner of the land. That was not the only check written to Clark County, we sent several.
 Also, in Clark County, there were 53 ranchers who owned rights.
There is only a single one still out on the range.
The BLM is not gaining revenue, it's not important to them.
My father could see they were there to manage him out of business.
 It's not about grazing fees.
 In the BLM office there were signs that read: No more Moo by '92 and Cattle Free by '93!

 If it were only about the grazing fees, the fees would have been under $100,000 over 25 years. It is rumored, it may not be seen in evidence, but it is rumored that they spent $6 million on the operation. Who spends that and court costs rumored to be over $100 million to collect $100,000?

What is this about? The court orders.
  They say my father had and opportunity in the courts. The court wouldn't consider states rights.

 They have forgotten they are servants of the people.
We the people are the sovereign and ultimately, we the people are the gov formed to meet needs that are better met by a group than by individuals.
 We are not slaves.
We need to remember that. I think that's forgotten.
The definition of freedom is lost in America.
When we have to have a license or ask permission to do everything, we are subjects.

Back to the charges - they claimed I went to Richfield and that the sheriff had to be called because we were causing such a ruckus - evidence will show otherwise - we boycott to influence to change ways - we protest to cause a change - these are first amendment rights - we do not get rights from the Bill of Rights - we have rights to begin with - it should be called the Prohibition of Gov - we have freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, we can petition for a redress of grievances - rights we don't want the gov to mess with.
 
A redress is to find an answer, find a solution - one way to protest. The BLM put up first amendment zones - not much bigger than this courtroom - we called them pig pens - by creating that area, they were denying our right everywhere else - that's what they used to arrest my brother - he was outside the pig pens.
 The first amendment has been protected over and over again in our history.
There's lots of media in the gallery today, they wouldn't be happy to have their right to free speech taken.
First amendment was put in the Supreme Law of the land, the Constitution - they shall make no law restricting these things...as you saw in the video yesterday, my brother was not impeding, not blocking, he was on a state road, on it's right of way, simply to take pictures with his ipad of them stealing our cattle - they attacked him, threw him to the ground, rubbed his face in the ground. (emotional) The American public saw this and came not to impede or do harm.

 They came because they felt the spirit of the Lord, spirit of freedom and felt "we the people are not going to put up with that behavior".
 It was not pointed out there were snipers on the hill, I witnessed that through binoculars and the evidence will show this.

Back to Richfield, UT, evidence and witness testimony will show there was not a ruckus there that disrupted or shut down that auction.
 I called the sheriff - that's the pattern - the local LE and state brand inspectors in NV, AZ and UT and I had contact with the hwy patrol, county commissioners in several counties and state officials - not all face to face, but some through phone calls.
 Is this what a criminal does? No.
We were there protecting life, liberty, property.
You saw the video of them hip chucking my Aunt Margaret, 50+ years of and just finished with cancer treatments, the mother of 11 children.
 They call these BLM guys LE, but they are just BLM employees.

All authority comes from we the people, we delegate authority to the county sheriff who we elect and he hires deputies and we then have a sheriff's department to protect our life, our liberty, our property. Choosing for yourself is freedom and we have no right to impede or harm others. That's God's law.

 Man-made law is to follow that. Man is supposed to be free, not controlled, serfs or slaves.
  Gov is to be our servant.
The gov went in and shut down 600,000 acres - not one of us ever went into their enclosed area and never impeded them.
Even my brother driving into the dump truck...isn't that impediment?
The court order did not allow destruction of water infrastructure.
What was a dump truck doing out there?
Since that was beyond the scope of the supposed court order, we had a right to know.
 
They could have stopped and answered our questions, but no, they set out attack dogs and tazers and threw Aunt Margaret to the ground.
 Every incident they are charging us with happened on property that belonged to the State of NV.

 Even if BLM had authority to close public land, they have no authority to close State of NV public land.
The fence was on the State of NV land. Except by invitation, you will not see one of us breach that fence or impede the gather. We did not violate the court order.
 Dave went over the fence by the invitation of Dan Love and then the sheriff took over and asked for our help to take down the fence and then the cowboys, led by sheriff's squad cars went to release the cattle. The sheriff honored his oath and did his job. He should have done it sooner.

I love my family. I love them. I love this land. I love freedom. I am from the State of NV. I'm a true Nevadan.
 I mentioned before that NV became a state on Oct. 31st and we always got out of school on that day...I always thought we got out because it was my birthday. I'm a true Nevadan. I believe you are, too and love freedom as much as I do.

 Freedom's not being lost overseas - it's lost right here at home in our back yards, our front yards. Until we are willing to do whatever it takes, liberty will be, is being lost.

 We are not anti-government! Gov has it's proper place and duties to perform. I want gov to do it's job. Nothing more. Nothing less.
 When gov does more or less than it's job, it becomes the criminal.
 When gov damages our rights, it becomes the criminal.
When someone harms or damages another's life, liberty or property that is the definition of a criminal.
Extortion, violence, pointing guns - everything we are charged with, they were doing and 1000s came running - the world knew about this - China, Ireland (they sent us a flag), New Zealand and other countries - why?
Because America stood for freedom and has for years and the world is interested in seeing how America (emotional) will deal with freedom. The world wants to know.

 The American people said, "yes, we will stand for freedom. Gov, you've gone too far and we will put a stop to it."

The courts have a place. It is said that We the People are the fourth branch of gov. I say we are the first. The legislature to make laws, the executive to execute laws and the judicial to judge.
 All three branches are to protect your rights, our rights, freedom, liberty.
Gov does not have the authority in and of itself - man creates gov to fulfill and protect rights.

 We the people give gov the authority through the Constitution. The tenth amendment insures state's rights.
 
Evidence will show my father and my brothers are innocent men.

 We need you to put on that paper that we are not guilty.
You are the twelve to represent us, peers, equals, people...we the people.

Guns...lots of guns...scary...camo...freedom of speech...also, the right to bear arms, the second amendment...a militia was necessary.
 What is a militia?
 It is defined in the law. U.S. Code defines militia: "all able bodied men 17-45 years of age".
 How many of you are a member of the militia? State of NV extended that and includes men up to the age of 64.
How many of you now are a member of the NV militia?
There is the organized militia, the National Guard and the unorganized militia - everyone else.
Why did the Founding Fathers include the second amendment?
Was it for duck hunting? No...no!
Militia is mentioned six times in the Constitution. Such a small document and few things are mentioned more than the militia; the central gov of this union and yet media or whatever wants to put a bad face on militia.
 Why did militia come to Bundy Ranch?
To peacefully assemble, redress of grievances. No one was harmed except Davey, Ammon and Margaret. You will not see in evidence that we ever harmed anyone!

They attack and we turned the other cheek. We were peaceful - insistent? Yes! And, Yes! Demanding. These men, these people did not come to seek and opportunity to point guns at gov. Hundreds, even thousands of people we didn't know. That's exemplary.

 These people came to do good. To protect me, to save my life. I had a sniper pointing at me, 200 armed men surrounding my home, my family (tearfully) Ryan Payne has been portrayed as a bad man. Evidence will show otherwise.
 He saved my life. He saved my life.
Others came. I didn't even meet most of them until I was in jail with them, may have seen them in passing, but I didn't know them until jail. I honor and thank them now! I thank all who came. We only have rights we are willing to fight for.

 You'll see evidence that I was nearly always with the sheriff or a deputy - always in communication with them - I was side-by-side with Lombardo.

Thank you for coming, for being here. I will still do whatever it takes. This is not a threat, it is determination.
 I love my freedom.
Listen to the still small voice to discern between truth and error.
The indictment and grand jury testimony is full of lies.
Truth has been blocked in previous trials.
Listen closely - we will try to get you the truth.
The truth will set me free and I'm counting on you to help me see that.

I invite you to our ranch.
I recognize your right to use the land.
We want you to come and enjoy it.
 I thank you for this time.
 Please find me not guilty and these other men not guilty.
Stand up for freedom.
  Thank you.

Ryan Bundy
 

Nevada Bundy Trial - Jury cant see Witnesses, Please Share, total corrup...

Communist Federal Court Refuses the Defense,



Witness's are blocked from the Jury.

Judge will decide if any defense witness's can even testify in front of the jury.

If she does not like what they say, they WONT be able to testify before the jury.

This is USSA...

and DC / White House seems To Defend such Federal Tyranny in Nevada!  

Lawless courts, lawless feds, Huge Conspiracy against the Bundys, Patriots, Vets, Constitutionalists, and families, all to Profit from the hundreds of millions being paid to the prosecution, and all involved including the public defenders controlled by the feds.

NO Justice left it seems in ANY Federal Tyrannical Anti American courts.

 

 

https://stonecoldtruth.com/pardon-the-bundy-family-and-their-supporters/

 

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Pardon the Bundy Family and their Supporters

August 8, 2017August 9, 2017 staff 13 Comments bundy family, petition

The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. – James Madison (Federalist Paper No. 47)

 

On January 20th, 2017, when President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, newly sworn-in President Trump gave a stirring and passionate speech about the new day that was coming to the USA now that power would be transferred from Washington, D.C. back to the American People. He said:
“For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished — but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered — but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation’s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.”
-President Donald Trump Inauguration Speech 2017
No more well-defined example of the injustices wrought by the hands of an out-of-control Federal Government can be found than the case of the Bundy Family from the State of Nevada, whose multiple family members rot in a Federal Prison on this very day.

Go visit this site for a whole more education on this Tyranny in America!    https://stonecoldtruth.com/pardon-the-bundy-family-and-their-supporters/

 

Ammon Bundy Call From NSDC Pt 2 - NCDC Cuts Phone Privileges -

Ammon Bundy Call From NSDC Pt 2 -

NCDC Cuts Phone Privileges -

Jeremy Green - 8/7/17

 

 

Published on Aug 7, 2017

Well, this was almost a full Q & A with Ammon, but noooooooo.
Ammon Bundy Live 8/7/17 Interviewed by Jared Green.
Ammon answers your questions in part 2 of 2 of this Q&A session

***Note, Ammon was not able to call back in after the first call because all prison phones were shut down for the past 90 min with out explanation.
He apologizes for the interruption.

#stand

Ammon Bundy - https://www.facebook.com/pg/ammonbund...

FREE OUR PATRIOT POLITICAL PRISONERS!
STOP ABUSE IN FOR PROFIT PRISONS!

God Bless America!

America Lost the Cold War- Communist Courts Active and Strong! In USA

America Lost the Cold War- Communist Courts Active and Strong! In USA

 

This is the goal of the Empire to Send a Message..
Do Not Stand up to us, we shall destroy you and make an example of you so others will not Dare to stand against our powers of darkness, lies, perjury, conspiracies, and lawlessness,

When Tyranny rules this is what happens folks.

The True enemies are the Radical socialist/commies in power who have been abusing usa citizens for generations now, and when they expose you, they destroy and even murder you, and then join together to hide their sins and punish their victims.

So like USSR, N. Korea, Cuba, Islam, and Luciferian ideologies.
A sign of Evil in our days.
When Commie Judges can rule as all powerful, and have the protection of other criminals in power. such is lawlessness in our times.

This is socialism/communism entrenched into our nation over the last 50yrs,

We might of won the cold war on the surface, but the commies Won!

 

In the USA Federal agencies, schools, and have been able brainwash generations into a socialist / commie mentality.

Thus these courts are just that, Illegal, lawless, unconstitutional and all parties on the prosecution should be held to account for their wickedness and evil designs.

They not only have Lied before humankind, but before God, their courts are a farce of pergury, fiction, lies, conspiracy to do harm and as Sen Harry Reid said, he would have his Revenge!

 

This is targeted political assasination of lives, families, all due to a wicked greedy follower of lucifer Harrry Reid and his allies of Hell.

Their should be a grand jury upon these lawless officials, and then a lifetime with out parol in a max sec CCA prison.

God will punish them, however a message must be sent to others who desire to use their secret combinations to destroy lives in this nation, that We the People shall not allow it to happen anymore.

 

 

The Judge G. Navarro appointed by Sen Harry Reid and Obama as a fed Judge to oversee the upcoming punishment upon Cliven Bundy and his American supporters. A political radical appointee. Who serves her master well.

 

Her court Prohibits the Defense from defending their clients

Her court Prohibits the US Constitutional Law, Bill of Rights, Bible to be mentioned.

Her court Prohibits a true public trial.

Her court Threatens Witness's with imprisonment if they come to testify.

Her court sends US Marshalls and FBI agents to harass and intimidate the families and witness's of these defendants.

Her court promotes the harassment and torture of these unconvinced 19 in detention jails.

Her court Promotes the shut down of free speech, thought, and truth.

Her court Promotes Perjury by the prosecution teams, lawyers, witness's, and total fictional stories to be created to attack the defendants with.

Her court has hand picked the jury in favor of the radical communist court.

Her court has Tampered with the jury in the last trial and may do it in this one as well.

Her court threatens, harasses the civilians and family members who come to witness the Terror and power of this Radical Communist Judge.

Her court kicks out anyone who shows emotion in the court room.

Her court has thrown out copies of the US Constitution.

Her court is so wicked and evil, this is just a sample of her corruption.

 

Judge Brown of Oregon court dealing with the Malheur Refuge / Hammond stand  are the same type of Federal Communist Courts active and strong in America today.

The 9th Circuit Supreme court is also as wicked and supportive and protects these other radicals and workers of darkness and evil in America.

 

How long will the People who are the ultimate power of this Nation Allow such wickedness, such tyranny, such destruction of lives, family, business, futures of the people.

How long must we suffer the Rule of wicked and conspiring men and women who have been seduced by the enticements of the devil, Lucifer, their master. Who promises them power, control, riches.

How long will God of Heaven and Earth restrain his punishments upon these wicked people?

 

You the People must awaken to the facts of your nation is no longer a land of the Free or of Liberty.

But of communist Federal Agencies whos goal from birth was to create a police state as communist empires have. the EPA, IRS, USFS, BLM, FDA, FCC, FBI, Homeland Security, DCFS, NEA, list goes on.   These were the seeds of socialist communism in America, and they have succeeded very well.

Now We the People Suffer under their Wickedness.

We the People must stand, and we must unite to do so.

 

S.T.Huls

 

 

It Matters How You Stand

· 8 hrs ·

Gregory Burleson, a member of Arizona militia groups who participated in the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville, was sentenced Wednesday to more than 68 years in federal prison.
Burleson, 53, was photographed with a long gun during the standoff, moving around the sandy wash where federal agents were headquartered. The Bureau of Land Management was in Bunkerville to carry out a court order to round up rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle from public lands. The operation was unsuccessful after hundreds of protesters, many armed, descended on the small rancher town in southwest Nevada.
“Yes, I was down in the wash. I went down there with the intention to see what was going on,” Burleson said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.”I did not go down there with the intention of assaulting or killing anyone.”
After the standoff, Burleson, posted incendiary, anti-government messages to his Facebook page.
“I was hell bent on killing federal agents that had turned their back on we the people,” he told an undercover FBI agent who posed as a documentary filmmaker in order to interview him. During the sentencing hearing, Burleson, a Phoenix resident, acknowledged some of his previous errors.
“Yes, I said a lot of crazy things. I’m ashamed of them actually,” he said to U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro. “Looking back at them, it’s like, ‘wow, obviously I shouldn’t drink.’”
Federal agents gave Burleson two alcoholic drinks prior to his undercover interview. He told the judge several times Wednesday that he has a drinking problem and that even small amounts of alcohol can affect his cognitive ability.
Before imposing her sentence, Navarro gave lengthy — and at times emotional — remarks about the effects of the armed protesters actions on the law enforcement officers stationed in the wash. Though no shots were fired, she said, “in some ways a physical injury is better than a mental injury because it scabs, it heals.”
During the trial, prosecutors called numerous law enforcement witnesses to testify about their fear on the day of the April 12, 2014, standoff, as well as the lasting psychological effects of the event. The night before the standoff, Navarro said, one law enforcement agent had to dig a foxhole and sleep in the ground because federal intelligence suggested the hotel where they were staying may be targeted by protesters.
The protesters’ movement was driven by a libertarian faction of the conservative party, considered extremist in mainstream political circles. The movement generally unites behind principles of individual liberties and freedoms, and places a high value on the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Comparing Burleson and other protesters to “playground bullies,” Navarro said, “You don’t just go to the tax office and threaten them to not collect taxes.”
The sentence she imposed of 68 years and three months was markedly lower than the 87 years prosecutors had requested.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Dickinson said Burleson failed to show any remorse for his actions in Bunkerville, and that he came to the town with a small arsenal of weapons, knives, and swords. Dickinson urged the judge to impose a harsh sentence to deter copy-cat offenders.
“It’s not going to change everyone’s mind, but they’re going to think twice about doing that because they’re going to know there are consequences to those actions,” he said.
Burleson’s health has deteriorated since the standoff. He is blind, suffers some seizures, and requires the use of a wheelchair.
Navarro took into account Burleson’s physical impairment and his alcoholism in reaching her decision. The term exceeds the sentence requested by defense lawyer Terrence Jackson, who asked for a sentence lower than the mandatory minimum of 57 years. Jackson characterized his client as a troubled man who, immediately after the standoff, became obsessed with his “15 minutes of fame” and went to great lengths to maintain his image as an anti-government militiaman.
Burleson also was ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution to the government, to reimburse taxpayers for the labor and contractor costs of the failed cattle operation. A jury convicted in April of eight counts, including assault, threats, extortion, obstruction of justice, and multiple gun charges.
 

 

Bundy supporter Burleson sentenced to 68 years in prison
 

Gregory Burleson, a member of Arizona militia groups who participated in the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville, was sentenced Wednesday to more than 68 years…
 

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