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Re: Bundy dismissal - Flagrant Prosecutorial Misconduct [TheRef65]
Rhetorical question: Given you're suspecting snipers have been positioned around you and your home which sits adjacent to that public park -- or better still, positioned against you specifically -- do you then have a credible claim of self-defense to arm yourself against them?

That was the Bundy position as to why they decided to arm up, and the fact that BLM did indeed position them before the Bundys took to greatly increasing the amount of firepower they carried in response (or so they claimed) was a key piece of evidence that tended to support said Bundy defense against the charges levied against them by the feds and which was deliberately withheld by the government's prosecutors.

I have no sympathy for Cliven Bundy as regards the original cattle grazing issue. He seemed like a willfully obtuse freeloader to me. But it also appears as if the decision to go in and conduct a seizure of his cattle in such an initially heavy handed manner was evidence of BLM's desire to get its gun off, so to speak. There weren't less-confrontational and less potentially deadly means of dealing with Bundy (who has now become a hero within certain anti-government circles)?

People could have easily been killed just because some fool didn't pay the fees (either inadvertently or willfully) required so that his cattle could graze on public lands. BLM made a figurative martyr of Cliven Bundy. Fortunately, the agency didn't make him a literal one.

"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
Last edited by: big kahuna: Jan 10, 18 0:19

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  • Post edited by big kahuna (Dawson Saddle) on Jan 10, 18 0:19