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Bundy Ranch Political Prisoner to Court after denying His Release: “I’m a Journalist. This is what they do in Communist China!”
Can't let those who participated in the BUndy Ranch stand off go unpunished.
Bundy Ranch Political Prisoner to Court after denying His Release: “I’m a Journalist. This is what they do in Communist China!” Pete Santilli's co-host, Debra Jordan, set the record straight on what Santilli actually said as he left the courtroom, "I’m a journalist. This is what they do in COMMUNIST China.” Tim Brown — May 10, 2016
Reporter Pete Santilli had his hearing in Nevada on Monday on trumped up charges he is facing for his reporting on the Bundy Ranch Siege in 2014. As he left the courtroom in chains, he cried out, "I'm a journalist. This is what they do in Communist China!"
The Law Vegas Review Journal reports:
Zitat Peter Santilli, a conservative Internet talk show host, lost another bid for freedom Monday while he faces felony charges in the criminal case stemming from the Bunkerville standoff.
Following a hearing, Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro said she did not buy Santilli's argument that he was a journalist covering the April 12, 2014, armed confrontation between the Bundy family and law enforcement. He hosts the Internet-based "Pete Santilli Show" from Cincinnati on YouTube.
Navarro ordered Santilli to remain behind bars after finding that he is a danger to the community and that he cannot be relied on to make his court appearances.
His lawyer, Chris Rasmussen, argued that Santilli's free speech rights were being violated and sought the defendant's release with conditions.
But First Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Myhre countered that the case was not about free speech, but rather about the armed assault of federal agents.
Sadly, Myhre is fantasizing about what he claims. There was no assault on federal agents. In fact, it was federal agents who assaulted protesters at Bundy Ranch. It was federal agents who attempted to corral citizens into "First Amendment Zones" to squelch their rights protected under the First Amendment. It was federal agents who burned property and cattle. It was federal agents who killed cattle that belonged to the Bundys. It was armed federal agents and snipers who surrounded the protesters in Bunkerville. Here's just some of the video evidence.
Bundys need support in fight against Obama, Reid Exclusive: Larry Klayman urges Americans to help rancher family in battle against feds Published: 04/24/2016 at 4:03 PM
More than two years ago, the nation was spellbound as the family of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and other cowboys who supported the patriarch’s God-given right to defend his land at Bunkerville, Nevada, stood down a tyrannical Obama administration bent on seizing the Bundy homestead.
The false excuse used by Obama’s Bureau of Land Management, or BLM: The federal government, rather than the state of Nevada, owned the land that the Bundy family’s cattle grazed on, that the Bundys thus owed grazing fees to the federal government, and, incredibly, that this ranching was killing a so-called endangered species tortoise.
Of course, these excuses were little more than a front for Obama’s ally and henchman, the evil, dishonest and corrupt senator from Nevada, the one and only Harry Reid. It turns out that Reid, with the assistance of his equally sleazy Las Vegas lawyer son, was seemingly doing a back-door, under-the-table deal with the communist Chinese or some other nefarious enterprise to acquire the Bundy ranch for profit, and using the goons of Obama’s BLM to take it forcefully.
To effect this takeover, the BLM and other Obama and Reid government agents raided the Bundy’s ranch at gunpoint, sending sharpshooters and marksmen, brutalizing Bundy family members with assault, beating and injuring them, and threatening even to kill them if they did not forfeit the land upon which their livelihood depended. Reminiscent of the tyranny that King George III foisted upon the American colonies, the Obama-Reid government “gestapo” simply came and pillaged, even killing scores of the Bundys’ cattle, including a number of bulls that are necessary to grow the herd, burying them secretly in a mass grave as Hitler had done with Jews.
Not to be “bullied” (pun intended), armed but peaceful cowboy militias on horseback, authorized by the Second Amendment to the Constitution, stood down the Obama-Reid government goons, and the cowards were forced to flee. This citizens’ defensive insurrection was so remarkable that Fox News and other cable channels in particular covered what at the time appeared to be the first modern-day use of the Second Amendment to defeat government tyranny. Our Founding Fathers, and particularly George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, would have been proud. This was exactly why they had created in the Constitution the God-given right to bear arms and to commission militias to defend the people against the dastardly likes of King George III – now embodied in our modern-day Muslim-American King Barack Hussein Obama and his slimy “court jester,” Harry Reid.
To defend Cliven, and thus the family, I was asked, along with my local Las Vegas legal partner in the defense, Joel Hansen, to step in. Not surprisingly, Judge Navarro, knowing of my reputation for fearlessly taking on the likes of Harry Reid and Obama, and tyrannical government in general, denied my application to enter the case an out of state attorney “pro hac vice.” This denial, which is legally unjustified, will be challenged, as Joel cannot because of lack of manpower and financial resources defend Cliven alone without my participation. Navarro has a conflict of interest and has shown extreme unethical bias and prejudice fostered by her patrons, Reid and Obama. We are confident that she will now be removed legally from the case as the presiding judge and that a new judge or the appellate court will grant my application to appear.
The bottom line is this: Joel Hansen and I took on the defense of Cliven and the family because we believe American citizens have a God-given right to bear arms and be protected by peaceful militias under the Second Amendment when a tyrannical government tries to take away their homestead and “terrorizes” them. This is a fine God-fearing family, and Joel and I will not rest until justice is done and Cliven, who is being indefinitely detained in solitary confinement out of vindictiveness and payback, wins his freedom.
This case is not just about the Bundys but also you and your loved ones. What happened to Cliven and his family can happen to you, particularly given the likes of Harry Reid, Barack Obama and judges like Navarro. As of now, Cliven and his sons are in prison, and the women in the family are valiantly having to tend to the ranch under great emotional distress, financial pressure and hardship, much like Abigail Adams when Founding Father John Adams was away during the first Revolutionary War. They are all true patriots!
We need your immediate prayers and strong support, as the family lacks the financial resources to carry on this fight alone against these forces of Obama-Reid government evil. See ClivenBundyDefenseFund.com.
"Navarro ordered Santilli to remain behind bars after finding that he is a danger to the community and that he cannot be relied on to make his court appearances."
Really??? community safety??? flight risk???
He committed his act against the Obama PTB and he must be punished to the full extent of the law. They're tough on certain crime, they look the other way for other flight risks.
******* "I need some muscle over here!" Melissa Click
ZitatFollowing a hearing, Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro said she did not buy Santilli's argument that he was a journalist covering the April 12, 2014, armed confrontation...
And just how is she qualified to determine if he is a journalist and thus protected by his 1st Amendment rights? It appears she was selected for the sole purpose of making sure anyone connected with Bundy is crushed, legalities be damned. (See also TM's preceding post).