Be mindful, please, particularly of the last 2 paragraphs.
ZitatLAS VEGAS — A rancher's son now campaigning as an independent for Nevada governor filed a lawsuit Wednesday against current and former U.S. government officials, alleging malicious prosecution after a 2014 armed standoff with federal land agents.
Ryan Bundy and his father, Cliven Bundy, said outside the U.S. courthouse in Las Vegas that prosecutors tried to wrongfully convict them for peacefully stopping a roundup of Bundy cattle by U.S. authorities from federal land near the family ranch in Bunkerville.
"The federal government unlawfully retaliated against my family for defending our rights by stacking criminal charges against us" and others, Ryan Bundy said of the five Bundy family members and 14 supporters who faced charges that could have brought decades in federal prison.
Charges were dismissed in January against most defendants by a federal judge in Las Vegas who found intentional and willful prosecutorial misconduct.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro said the government failed to disclose to defense lawyers evidence that Bureau of Land Management agents and the FBI had provoked the Bundy family into calling supporters to their defense by acts including "insertion and positioning of snipers and cameras surveilling the Bundy home."
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #1Be mindful, please, particularly of the last 2 paragraphs.
ZitatLAS VEGAS — A rancher's son now campaigning as an independent for Nevada governor filed a lawsuit Wednesday against current and former U.S. government officials, alleging malicious prosecution after a 2014 armed standoff with federal land agents.
Ryan Bundy and his father, Cliven Bundy, said outside the U.S. courthouse in Las Vegas that prosecutors tried to wrongfully convict them for peacefully stopping a roundup of Bundy cattle by U.S. authorities from federal land near the family ranch in Bunkerville.
"The federal government unlawfully retaliated against my family for defending our rights by stacking criminal charges against us" and others, Ryan Bundy said of the five Bundy family members and 14 supporters who faced charges that could have brought decades in federal prison.
Charges were dismissed in January against most defendants by a federal judge in Las Vegas who found intentional and willful prosecutorial misconduct.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro said the government failed to disclose to defense lawyers evidence that Bureau of Land Management agents and the FBI had provoked the Bundy family into calling supporters to their defense by acts including "insertion and positioning of snipers and cameras surveilling the Bundy home."
Additional info of note: "the lawsuit filed by conservative activist attorney Larry Klayman in U.S. District Court in Washington."
THanks for the update.
Time for Nifonging.
I noted who is being sued:
ZitatNamed defendants are U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his predecessors Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder, former Bureau of Land Management chief Neil Kornze and former FBI Director James Comey.
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misinformation:
ZitatCliven Bundy refused for decades to pay government grazing fees for his cows on federal land in what is now Gold Butte National Monument.
The only reason the grazing fees were not paid is that the BLM would only accept the fees if Bundy would sign a contract that in essence turned over the running of the ranch to the BLM.
Illegitimi non Carborundum
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it - Orwell