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| Bundy Mistrial Highlights Why the Right Distrusts the Feds |
| 2017-12-27 |
| [American Spectator] Once again, federal prosecutors are seen at their worst. As Washington conservatives question whether partisan FBI officials working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller have stacked the deck against President Donald Trump, a criminal case in Las Vegas points to the sort of federal prosecutorial abuses that give the right cause for paranoia. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the infamous 2014 Bunkerville standoff case against rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and co-defendant Ryan Payne, on the grounds that federal prosecutors improperly withheld evidence. The standoff, in which both sides were armed, was a national news story that pitted a Western rancher against federal officialdom. Bureau of Land Management officials had tried to seize Bundy’s cattle following a decades-long dispute over grazing fees. The rancher had stopped paying federal grazing fees in 1993 to protest a BLM directive that he cut back on cattle grazing in order to accommodate the threatened desert tortoise. In the course of the trial, Navarro found that prosecutors failed to share video surveillance, maps, and FBI interview reports with defense attorneys. "A mistrial in this case is the most suitable and only remedy available," Navarro explained. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Things started to go downhill during the period 1890 and 1910. The election of Woodrow Wilson sped the downhill slide by a factor of three. Coolidge managed to stop the slide, but not to rebuild the trust necessary for Representative government to thrive. It's been all downhill ever since. The destruction of the unelected bureaucrats and their fiefdoms is the only thing that will save the US. What Trump is doing is a beginning, but it's going to take a LOT of hard work to succeed. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2017-12-27 22:31 |
| #5 #1 I haven't trusted the government since LBJ was president. Do you mean the "i will have these niggas voting democrat for the next 200 yrs" lbj? |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2017-12-27 18:59 |
| #4 And no one seems to want to mention how BLM essentially had a militarized team with all kinds of weaponry far in excess of that needed for law enforcement. While I agree the local police departments need heavier weapons for dealing with our "little buddies" from the ME and their moon god, I don't agree with giving IRS, BLM, and other departments APC's, M2's, and full body armor...the militarization of the Executive branch under Obama was a precursor to what we would have had with Hillary...a national security force sort of like the old KGB or the new whatever they call themselves now, they are STILL the old Stalinist NKVD as far as I'm concerned. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-12-27 12:26 |
| #3 And why defending the 2nd amendment is so important. Without the fact the feds were outgunned on every corner, we had have never known about how the feds kicked him off his land, starved his cattle to death, and tried to sell the land to china so the senator from Nevada could get rich.... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2017-12-27 11:01 |
| #2 'Trust' must be earned. I've seen little evidence of the gov't earning anything of late. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-12-27 10:38 |
| #1 I haven't trusted the government since LBJ was president. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-12-27 10:34 |