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Bombshell: Vegas Shooters Jerad & Amanda Miller were Vegas Police Informants

Tim Brown 54 mins ago

Jerad and Amanda Miller, the Vegas shooters, have tried to be attached to the Patriot Movement, in an attempt to smear law abiding, small government minded Americans. We've known that the media made attempts to put them directly in line with those that gathered to protest the Bureau of Land Management's takeover of Cliven Bundy's ranch. However, the Bundy's clearly kicked Jerad out when they discovered who he was, realizing that he was not a patriot, but a known "felon." Interestingly enough, many have yet to report something buried in a Reuters report dated June 11, 2014. Jerad and Amanda Miller were informants for the Las Vegas Police earlier this year.

According to Reuters:

According to police, the Millers had cooperated with Nevada law enforcement twice this year to provide witness testimony, but detectives did not receive any indication that the couple had anti-police sentiments.

We are not told what they were informing about and calls to the Las Vegas Police Department yielded no information either. However, consider the fact that earlier this year the Bundy Ranch standoff was taking place and Miller was there briefly. This should cause us to question whether or not he was providing evidence to the police regarding what was taking place there.
It also raises the question of whether or not this was the individual that many in the militia, who stood along the side of Cliven Bundy, questioned as an infiltrator. Was Jerad Miller a government mole, whose leash was tied to the LVPD and as a result used by the federal government as an informant, not once, but twice?
One thing is for sure, Miller was no patriot. In fact, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports extensively on his criminal activity, family dysfunctions and alleged "awakening."
At least the LVRJ had the courtesy to state in the first sentence that the Millers "weren't Oath Keepers, sovereign citizens or militia members." Instead, as the LVRJ reports, they "fashioned themselves as revolutionaries, but they weren't accepted by anyone — not even their own families."

Jerad was the son of conservative Christian parents, who clearly disagreed with him to the point where they would even rebuke him on Facebook for his vote for Barack Obama in 2008. His father, Tod Miller, who on Facebook, said, "Remember who followed and campaigned for Obama! Your rebellion has no limits my son."
Miller claimed to not be "awake" at the time of voting for Obama. Clearly, he was still asleep when he engaged in his 30 minute revolution that left him and his wife dead, along with policemen.
I'll give credit to his father for calling his son out. Most dads these days would be coddling their kids, accepting all sorts of rebellion and perversion. This father wouldn't do that.
Miller was also arrested for dealing marijuana. However, after convictions in 2007 and 2010, his family continued to offer little sympathy for him, continually pointing out that he should take responsibility for his own actions.


His grandmother, Carol Webberly, wrote "Shame on you Jerad!!!! And WHY are they testing your pee??? did they FORCE you to do drugs???? and the actions from drugs???? take responsibility for YOUR OWN actions and quit blaming others….. please!!!"
Instead of listening to his grandmother, he treated her with contempt, bashing her for being "ignorant," and a part of a "brainwashed and indoctrenated (sic) generation." Amanda stood by him in his rant too.
After his second conviction, Miller would write, "hopefully we can achieve freedom without killing the older generations off. it may come to that," referencing the legalization of marijuana.
Nevada gubernatorial candidate David VanDerBeek said, "After meeting me and listening to me I am sure it was obvious to them that I was not violent. I will never know their reasons. They were not political killers, they were simply insane people who wanted to kill."
I agree with VanDerBeek's assessment, and I also see how these people have nothing in common with law abiding citizens that simply want the government to stay within the constraints of our founding document. It also makes me wonder if Miller's prior convictions and ideology was his vulnerability to be used by LVPD as an informant. Remember, he was not an informant at the time of either of his convictions, but earlier this year.
More can be read at the Law Vegas Review Journal.
There is a difference between "small government" and "anti-government." People like the Millers are "anti-government." True patriots are those who seek to defend, not engage in violent, preemptive strikes. That is light years away from those of us who believe in small government and the media needs to tell the truth about this. Sadly, they won't, so we must define it for them.
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Feds Threatening ‘Third Wounded Knee’ with Eminent Domain Land Grab on Sioux Indian Reservation

June 25, 2014 By 21wire 5 Comments
Patrick Henningsen | Feds are now targeting Indian land in Washington’s latest massive land grab, in an effort designed to kill off Indian cattle ranchers.

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Feds Threatening ‘Third Wounded Knee’ with Eminent Domain Land Grab on Sioux Indian Reservation

June 25, 2014 By 21wire 5 Comments

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
SPECIAL REPORT

In the wake of a Bundy Ranch crisis sparked by a militarized federal land-grab effort in Nevada, it seems that the Department of Interior has set its sights on a new prize - this time targeting once protected Indian reservation land on Pine Ridge in South Dakota.
The Oglala Sioux and Lakota Sioux of the reservation have been told by the Federal Government that the National Parks Service will be taking land that comprises the South Unit of the Badlands National Park as a new ‘Tribal National Park’, only the wording in the bill clearly indicates that it will be a federally managed national park under the Department of Interior, giving mere lip service to its tribal title. The Congressional bill has already been written, and if passed through Congress, both tribal members and non tribal members will be stripped of their deeded land – at a price set by the federal government. If owners do not accept Washington’s offer (expected to be a meager one), the land can be acquired at no cost because the measure has waived all appraisal rights and stipulates that Washington can simply take Indian land by force under ‘eminent domain’.
Thousands of tribe members will be affected by the land-grab. Some residents will be forced to relocate, and many more others will lose their income from grazing allotments on the land – a result which will ultimately force any remaining independent cattle ranchers out of business. In addition to all this, Tribal members will lose their share of income from entrance fees collected at the adjacent North Gate of the Badlands National Park – a punitive measure which will further compound the existing economic depression on a reservation where the average annual income is around $8,000 per year.

Washington may be pining for yet another ‘Wounded Knee’, as many residents and tribal members are prepared to stand their ground in the face of a federal imperialist policy inside US borders - a trend which many Americans have experienced first-hand, particularly in western states like Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
Pine Ridge and Sioux cattle rancher Bud May with father Avery (Photo credit: Bud May)


Tribal member and local cattle rancher Bud May believes the issue is not confined to Pine Ridge.

May states, “There is a feeling of common cause between attached parties on this issue – namely tribes and other reservations. The bottom line is we’ll all be under dictatorial control if something is not done quick”.

The federal move initially gained traction after a Tribal Ordinance passed by the Tribal Council in the spring of 2013. Many Tribal members have been frustrated with the tribal council, which has gone against the will of the people to back the park. All 9 districts on the reservation have passed unanimous resolutions against the park along with the Shannon County Commissioners and several South Dakota State legislators.
Badlands’ located on the Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota (Photo Credit: Bud May)


To add insult to injury, it appears that all landowners were only notified of the measure until after it had passed, with their first news of the federal plan coming in the form of eviction notices issued by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Land Operations department in the fall of 2013.

The Tribal Council of 19 has yet to allow a democratic referendum on the federal takeover, although sources confirm that the referendum option is on the agenda for next month’s council meeting.

‘Cowboys and Indian’ in Common Cause
The federal land-grab crisis was elevated to national news in April when Nevada independent rancher Cliven Bundy and his supporters stood toe to toe in an armed standoff with the the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over Bundy’s private property and land rights which trace back to 1870′s.

Lory Storm, a Nebraska radio host who has been following recent developments at Pine Ridge describes the synergy now happening between what were previously strange bedfellows. Storm explains, “The difference between this situation and the Bundy Ranch conflict? It will be the first time in the history of our Country that the Cowboys and Indians pose a united front against a federal government that is used to winning battles by first dividing and then conquering.”
Already, many land owners are taking the position that they will not comply with the latest order from the government – leaving many to wonder whether this potential standoff will become the third ‘Wounded Knee’ incident involving a standoff between the Sioux Nation and the US Federal government.
June 25^th is the anniversary of the infamous conflict at the Little Big Horn between General Custer, the Northern Cheyenne and the Lakota Sioux, and this year’s anniversary will see residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation along with other protesters gathering again Wounded Knee to protest the theft of their land by the Federal Government.
Crowds will gather to protest and a symbolic ride will take place today, where tribal riders will be joined by riders from ranches in Nebraska and South Dakota in the afternoon at the Gordon Legion in a show of solidarity on the issue of private property rights and grazing rights.
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Friday, June 27, 2014

New Study Promotes Agenda 21-Style "Land Grabs"

Kevin Samson
Activist Post

When one thinks of "redistribution of wealth," one would typically understand that to mean a system designed to take from the wealthy and give to the poor. Controversial in its own right. However, with the United Nations' Agenda 21 it's even worse: the redistribution of wealth means taking resources from poorer populations and opening up those resources for wealthy private interests to collude with government - fascism, essentially.

A shockingly honest new study from the Institute of Physics (IOP) journal Environmental Research Letters entitled "Food appropriation through large scale land acquisitions" makes the case for literally disenfranchising local populations in service to the greater multi-national good through "land grabs" - a hallmark of all Agenda 21 propaganda.

Agenda 21's "Green Mask" of sustainability and rectifying global hunger is being used to hoodwink compassionate people's interest in the environment, as well as pander to legitimate concerns over dwindling food and water resources. In reality, Agenda 21 is an enormously complex and multi-faceted stealth program that is creeping into every corner of the world, including the U.S., which is thought to be immune from land grabs due to well-established property rights. However, one look at our Agenda 21 archives is enough to dispel that notion.

Any place where Agenda 21 has arrived under the following snapshot of its methods of intrusion, it has resulted in loss of land, loss of resources and anything but a balanced re-distribution of that which is appropriated:

Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, STAR Sustainable Communities, Green jobs, Green Building Codes, “Going Green,” Alternative Energy, Local Visioning, facilitators, regional planning, historic preservation, conservation easements, development rights, sustainable farming, comprehensive planning, growth management, consensus. (Source - Agenda 21 in One Easy Lesson)

Nevertheless, the findings which are being published by the Institute of Physics state simply:

Crops grown on "land-grabbed" areas in developing countries could have the potential to feed an extra 100 million people worldwide, a new study has shown.

The improved infrastructure brought about by foreign investment could increase the productivity of subsistence farmlands in countries such as Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and could mean these lands can feed at least 300 million people around the world. This is compared to about 190 million people that could be fed if the land was left tended to by the local population.

The following graphic is offered:

Figure 3. Number of people who could be fed by the acquired land in the case of 'balanced diet', assuming a 50% biofuel use for oil palm and sugarcane, and considering different yield gap closure scenarios. (Calculations are based on land deals data as reported by Land Matrix 2013 dataset, accessed on 20 June 2013).

On top of the zero respect for the sovereignty of these areas, and the suggestion that they are all but obligated to outsource their production to "foreign governments and business," we need to consider who might be at the helm of such an initiative.

The press release focuses on the notion that modern techniques, industrialized agricultural methods, and land-grab deals are the potential saviors in the equation to provide food for the planet. Naturally, when we hear about "modern techniques" we are really talking about biotech, and Monsanto primarily. The biotech industry continues to assert that modern-day farming must be driven by genetic modification in order to provide more consistent crop production in ever higher yields, thus we can conclude that this is the direction that will be taken with the stolen acquired land.

When it comes to food production, it is one of the many myths of GMO; GMOs do not provide more food, but do offer Big Ag companies increased profits on the need for more pesticides, herbicides, and patented seeds - all of which are guaranteed to show up on this newly acquired land. For purely propaganda purposes we are often shown images of starving people in Third World countries who presumably need to be saved by corporate conglomerates. However, there are many real-world examples (and studies) illustrating the exact opposite.

If we dig a bit deeper into the IOP statements, we see statistics that form a lot of moving parts showing potentialities and the people who "could be fed," but it's the conclusions which unequivocally state the goals hidden in plain sight:

The results also revealed that the most targeted countries for land grabs are Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and the former Sudan. Altogether, these nations account for around 82 per cent of the total food calories that can be produced by acquired croplands worldwide.

It has been reported in previous studies that around 32.9 million hectares of land have been acquired by large-scale international investors for different purposes. A total of 22 million hectares were acquired for agriculture.

The authors, Maria Cristina Rulli from Politecnico di Milano and Paolo D'Odorico from University of Virginia, said: "Our study has provided a comprehensive assessment of the amount of food that can potentially be produced in land acquired by foreign investors in countries such as Sudan and Indonesia."

Accordingly, "Policy makers need to be aware that if this food were used to feed the local populations it would be sufficient to abate malnourishment in each of these countries even without investments aiming at the closure of the yield gap. Such investments would lead to substantial improvements in crop yields mainly in African countries.

"At the moment there are still open questions which would help inform the debate over what happens to acquired land such as, what happens to food produced? Is it shipped abroad? Were these lands already used for agriculture prior to the acquisition, and (if so) for the cultivation of what crops? With what yields? Answers to these questions would allow us to quantify the decrease in food available to the local communities, and come up with management strategies to mitigate possible negative impacts on the local communities of large scale land acquisition." (emphasis added)

This is nothing short of an open admission that foreign governments and international investors are seeking the most profitable ways to get their claws into sovereign territories, while using the "Green Mask" to shroud their true intentions.

When this is fully understood, we can look at the U.S. government's pledge of billions of dollars to boost Africa's infrastructure in a whole new light. Africa is, in fact, a multi-level resource, as is much of the developing world. The agreements that are being signed by these nations with multi-national corporations are at worst being coerced through UN guidelines, and at best deals with the devil initiated by petty government officials in developing areas.

For additional specific mechanics behind these land grabs, I would refer you to the following articles:

• Agenda 21: Food Is The New Gold. Land Is The New Oil.
• UN BioTrade Turning Africa into Financial Resource for Global Governance
• UN Guidelines Use Corporations in African 'Land Grab'

Full Institute of Physics report available here:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/6/064030/article

Source:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...p-gc062414.php

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/06/...tyle-land.html

Bundy Ranch Documentary Under Way – Crowdfunding for Freedom

July 7, 2014
By 21wire 7 Comments

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Our own 21WIRE journalist and road reporter has taken on an important new project…

Around one month and a half ago in mid-May, after a lengthy discussion with a US production team, journalist and 21WIRE founder Patrick Henningsen took the initial steps with Free State Films to create a new documentary film about the Bundy Ranch standoff which took place in Nevada this past spring. Pre-production planning began that day and Henningsen organized a local crew in the US, and spent the following weekend researching and 48 hours editing a concept trailer for the project.


The following Monday, a trailer for the film – with the working title, ‘The Last Rancher’, was released on YouTube and a GoFundMe page was set up to help get the production started. See their trailer here:
The immediate response allowed Henningsen and crew to be on location the following week with director of photography Shannon Bushman and a GMN support bus in Bunkerville, Nevada.
Time was of the essence for two reasons. Firstly, in July and August it can get very hot in the Nevada desert, and September seemed too long to wait, so a window of opportunity was open in June to film at Bundy Ranch. Secondly, even though the federal government left Bundy Ranch on April 12^th, as anyone connected to the story will tell you – they could return at any moment. The Nevada location filming is finished and the team has split up to film set-pieces in Utah, Arizona and California. Here’s a production update from Patrick in Nevada…

http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/07/0...e66fe-72209589

Once the secondary location filming is finished, post-production planning will begin and they may launch another more public appeal campaign to help raise awareness and attract more support.

FOR DAILY UPDATES ON THE FILM PRODUCTION CLICK HERE

“This story is a piece of American history, and I really felt it was important to tell it properly and in the right spirit of what really took place that day in April. Beyond that, this is also a story about a fight to preserve America’s unique rural and independent ranching culture – which is now under threat of extinction”, says Henningsen.

To get to the next step they will need your help. It’s a story well worth telling…

Support this project at: www.GoFundMe.com/freestatefilms

MORE ON THE BUNDY RANCH CRISIS: 21st Century Century Wire Bundy Ranch Files

USA Today Says Federal Government Made Arrogant Mistake with Bundy Ranch



Maybe things are turning around in the la-la land of mainstream media.

USA Today recently published an article in which the author accuses the U.S. federal government of making an arrogant mistake in the way they handled the Bundy Ranch situation last spring.

The author, David Livingston, said the U.S. government has grown so oppressive that it has led Americans to taking a stand (even an armed stand) in an effort to rebuff the growing forces contained within U.S. borders.

Though Bundy maintains (and rightly so) that he has lawful access to the land his cattle graze on, that didn’t stop the federal government from forcibly invading the ranch when a simple tax lien would have forced Bundy’s hand and made him show up in court.
As Livingston notes:

Even the sheriff recommended against the federal action, but acting with predictable arrogance, an overly aggressive and militarized federal law enforcement action prompted a predictable response from ordinary citizens.

Then a news media frenzy ensued that encouraged more people to come from far and wide to take a stand.

At the end of it all, federal authorities had to back off, but not before promising that they would return to finish what they started.

What a mess.

It really was a mess.

And when federal authorities do come back (as they have said they will), do they expect things to go more smoothly than the last time?

The way the federal government treated Bundy reveals how little respect they have for due process and the laws they’ve sworn to protect and uphold.

Due process and equal treatment under the law is supposed to be given to all Americans, not just those who happen to have extra deep pockets or those elected to office.

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U.S.A. TODAY - OPINION

David Livingston is a Republican state representative from Arizona.

Federal mess at Bundy Ranch: Opposing view

David Livingston 7:55 p.m. EDT July 13, 2014
This dispute needs to return to the courts.


(Photo: John Locher, AP)

Our federal government has become so overtly oppressive in so many ways that ordinary citizens have decided that enough is enough, and they are prepared (and in some cases anxious) to take a stand somewhere. Anywhere.

The federal mismanagement of the events at Bundy Ranch has created a difficult and dangerous situation for everyone going forward.

OUR VIEW: Festering dispute invites more trouble

Federal authorities were eager to strap on the body armor, load up the armored vehicles and literally invade a cattle ranch, when the appropriate course of action would have been to place a legal lien on the rancher's cattle or use local law enforcement officers such as the county sheriff.

Even the sheriff recommended against the federal action, but acting with predictable arrogance, an overly aggressive and militarized federal law enforcement action prompted a predictable response from ordinary citizens.

Then a news media frenzy ensued that encouraged more people to come from far and wide to take a stand.

At the end of it all, federal authorities had to back off, but not before promising that they would return to finish what they started.

What a mess.

Another push by heavily armed federal agents is an invitation to violence, yet we cannot have a situation where citizens decide for themselves which laws they feel like following, or when and if they will recognize their own government as legitimate.

Today, Cliven Bundy is a celebrity who can raise large sums of money to fight for his cause in the courts. That is where this matter needs to return. Once a court reviews Bundy's claims as well as those of the federal government, a decision will be rendered that will need to be enforced.

When the time comes for that enforcement, local law enforcement is best suited to handle the task.

We remain a nation of laws and due process.

Bundy deserves to be heard, and in return he has a moral and legal obligation to peaceably abide by the results of a fair and impartial process.

But this process needs to begin afresh if it is to enjoy the confidence of our nation's citizens.

David Livingston is a Republican state representative from Arizona.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...ates/12604287/

U.S.A. TODAY - OPINION

Rancher Cliven Bundy can't win: Our view

The Editorial Board,7:58 p.m. EDT July 13, 2014

How long are he and his militia going to get away with rejecting the rule of law?


(Photo: Jason Bean, AP)

Government authorities were wise to back off in April when scofflaw Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy surrounded himself with armed supporters to avoid paying more than $1 million in grazing fees and penalties he had accumulated over two decades.

As infuriating as it was that Bundy had repeatedly defied court orders and insisted he could graze his cattle wherever he pleased, he wasn't worth a bloody confrontation.

Three months later, though, Americans who obey the law and pay their bills might wonder how long Bundy and his gun-toting pals are going to get away with rejecting the rule of law.

OPPOSING VIEW: Feds created the mess

It's bad enough Bundy is thumbing his nose at courts and government officials. Allowing armed paramilitaries to back down the government at gunpoint is worse.

In a nation awash in firearms, where a small but heavily armed fringe seethes with anti-government paranoia, that just invites more trouble. Indeed, a report released late last week by the Southern Poverty Law Center says the Bundy Ranch incident was carefully planned by armed right-wing groups, which have been galvanized by their perceived victory.

Both the Bureau of Land Management and the sheriff of Nevada's Clark County agree that Bundy crossed a line and should be held accountable.

How that might happen is a mystery, however. The only obvious sign of action is an unseemly finger-pointing spat between the BLM and the sheriff over who let the Bundy affair get out of control. The BLM says it "continues to pursue the matter aggressively through the legal system."
Most of Bundy's political supporters abandoned him after he was recorded venting racist views. Even so, Bundy says about two dozen armed defenders are still idling at his ranch, and his supporters tell him "they could have thousands more in a matter of hours," according to the Los Angeles Times.

That might be an exaggeration, though not by much, judging from what happened in April, when Bundy became a magnet for angry, armed men and women from all over the country. (For a time, Bundy's militia included Jerad Miller, who a couple of months later gunned down two Las Vegas police officers.) Photos and video from those tense days in April show self-described "patriots" shielded behind highway abutments, pointing rifles in the direction of BLM officials who had rounded up hundreds of Bundy's cattle, as a federal judge had authorized them to do.

Bundy clings to the discredited theory that the federal government has no authority over public land in Nevada, despite the state's having written that authority into its constitution. However loony his legal theories, he's tapping into longstanding anger over federal control of Western lands. That's a legitimate topic of discussion, though not one that can be resolved at gunpoint.

Americans should hope there's more going on behind the scenes to make the point that this sort of behavior cannot stand. There's some virtue in a cooling-off period, but the longer the case runs without resolution, the more dangerous a message it sends.

USA TODAY's editorial opinions are decided by its Editorial Board, separate from the news staff. Most editorials are coupled with an opposing view — a unique USA TODAY feature.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...ates/12604087/

Ammon Bundy to Sheriff: “You have more Authority & Responsibility than any Federal Agency, yet Cowardly Forced People to Defend Themselves”

Published on: August 9, 2014

We all watched earlier this year as the federal government showed just how tyrannical it has become as they surrounded the ranch of Cliven Bundy in Nevada. We saw hundreds of armed federal agents sent to deal with the rancher and those who came to support him. We also saw the after math of what those agents left behind. However, in the process, we also saw the people take a stand together and the alternative media stand with them to expose exactly what was going on at the ranch and behind the scenes with corrupt politicians. In the end, the people prevailed.
During that time, Ammon Bundy, Cliven Bundy’s son, gave a patriotic statement to the Clark County Sheriff’s office, in which he said, “Men must decide if their rights and freedoms are God-granted or are assigned by a federal government. We believe in the rule of laws and sustain a limited government. May God bless us to protect this sacred instrument.”
This week, Bundy issued an open letter to Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie. Here’s what he wrote:

August 6, 2014

To Sheriff Doug Gillespie, Clark County Nevada Sheriff’s Department,

In a recent press conference, you mentioned 1) the BLM lied to you and 2) Bundy brought armed men to the ranch for protection.

While I can’t speak to the validity of your first claim, we unequivocally take issue with the second. We never asked for armed men to come to our aid. In fact, everyone who arrived at the Bundy ranch (men, women, armed & unarmed) voluntarily came to support the constitutional rights that you failed to defend. Had you not neglected your duty to defend our rights, the rights of the very people for whom you swore a solemn oath to defend, there never would have been a standoff in the first place. (emphasis mine)

So while you chastise my family and pontificate about how “Bundy should be held accountable for crossing the line”, let it be known that the responsibility for this escalation rests primarily at the doorstep of the Clark County Sheriff’s office. (emphasis mine)

Please allow me a moment to remind you of some of the history leading up to that day:

Hundreds of militarized agents invaded our community and terrorized us.
They seized the land by gunpoint, claiming it as their own.
They not only threatened, but actually inflicted bodily harm on anyone who stepped onto the land. Remind you, this land was cared for, cultivated and improved upon by my family and the community for many generations.
A 57 year old cancer surviving woman was body slammed by a federal agent, for doing nothing more than exercising her first amendment rights.
As we sat in the sniper’s cross-hairs, federal agents shoved M-16 rifles into the faces of our wives who were holding our infant children.
Dave was, kicked, beaten, battered, loaded into a federal truck and taken to the BLM compound to become the BLM trophy. They paraded him around in the sun, cruelly ridiculing him for hours, tightly bound (without water). After they had their fun with him, they dump him out on the road and covered up any legal proof that they even took him.

These are just a few of the atrocities that were inflicted upon my family and the community – who was peacefully protesting. The only thing we pointed at those agents, were cameras to capture their atrocities for the world to see. In return, they released dogs on us, they tased us, they beat us and they abused us in order to intimidate us.

When our first amendment rights were stripped down to a 20′x50′ box, you did nothing. When armed men trampled my brother, beat him and nearly took his life, you refused to protect. When women, infants, and children were held captive at gunpoint by angry and violent men, our cries for help fell on deaf ears.

When men and women literally wounded and bleeding were in need of emergency assistance, because you allowed these heavy hands to afflict us, you then refused the emergency medical services to be dispatched for our care.(emphasis mine)

When we called, you said, “there wasn’t anything you could do”. You said, “this fight was between the Bundy’s and the BLM”. However, you commanded your deputies to stand by while their own families and community members were being inflicted upon and threatened with lethal weapons.

Sheriff, your response demonstrates that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of your place in our government. You have more authority and responsibility than any federal agency, and yet you cowardly forced the people to defend themselves. (emphasis mine)

Evidence in your power and responsibility was never more apparent than at the standoff. When your deputies told the federal agents to back down – the federal agents backed down. They backed down because your deputies who had constitutional and jurisdictional authority from the people, finally did what the people hired you and them to do, and insisted that these federal agents stop their abuses.

In the end, your deputies did the right thing, but Sheriff, you should have never let it come to this. While the BLM was willing to shoot my family over land and power, we were willing to die for our families, our livelihoods and our constitutional rights. You should have been defending these rights for us. That’s what we elected you to do.

Thankfully, the American people came to our defense. They came to our defense because you failed to do your duty. For that you should be grieved and held accountable. (emphasis mine)

I offer warning to you and other government personnel that lead or follow your example. The people are in unrest because of these types of egregious actions. The purpose of government is to protect and uphold the unalienable rights of the people, not to infringe upon them. It is our duty and obligation to defend our God-given rights if our government representatives fail to do so, or tries to discard them. We as citizens desire to live in peace and tranquility, but will defend our freedoms if necessary, in order to do so. I call upon you Sheriff Gillespie, and all civil servants, to honorably effectuate the true purpose of government, to uphold the oaths and duties of your sworn offices-to truly be representative of the people, by the people and for the people. (emphasis mine)

I leave you with the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson:

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”

Sincerely,

Ammon Bundy

Amen! God give us more men like Cliven and Ammon Bundy!


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