Bundy Trial General

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Latest news:

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2017/08/10/bundy-retrial-drama-judge-scolds-defendant-orders-him-off-stand/558082001/

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/judge-cuts-defendants-testimony-short-in-bunkerville-retrial/

https://redoubtnews.com/2017/08/parker-ripped-witness-stand/

https://redoubtnews.com/2017/08/misdirection-discovery-bundy/

Quick Rundown:
-ordinary American ranchers abused by Feds for decades
-Feds try to drive them out of business from land that has been in their family for over a century
-comes back to Federal government illegally passing massive regulations on grazelands rather than returning them to states
-Cliven Bundy is constitutionalist, pays grazing fees to local gov instead of feds
-spring 2014, Fed goons decide to slaughter his cattle, use violence against his family
-militia shows up from all over the west, protests Feds
-literal freedom fighters against evil empire
-both sides point rifles at each other
-almost start civil war
-Feds back off from media pressure

-fast forward to winter 2016
-Bundys do a big protest thing in Oregon
-get arrested, some of them under fraudulent promise of safe passage from feds
-one of their supporters gets shot, police say he was reaching for a gun
-only police cam of shooting was from helicopter

-Bundys and supporters get acquitted by jury of Oregon stuff
-unconstitutionally denied bail despite no murder charges
-denied speedy trial for 2014 standoff
-meanwhile FBI agents related to both standoffs accused of perjury, mishandling events
-mexican female judge(Obama appointed) starts kangaroo trial vs supporters, shutting down any testimony from anyone that would make the feds look bad
-mistrial, hung jury
-she tries again
-Bundys themselves havent been tried yet for 2014 standoff

-Trump does nothing
-Sessions says he isn't taking sides
-Dept. of Interior head calls Bundys "lawless", refuses to hear petition from wife of imprisoned man