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After the Oregon Occupation Journalist Arrested
Washington Post ^ | 2-20-2016 | Leah Sotile

Posted on 02/21/2016 9:29:13 AM PST by azkathy

PORTLAND — On Wednesday, a federal grand jury in Nevada indicted rancher Cliven Bundy for an armed standoff at his ranch in 2014. The indictment lists charges against Bundy, his two sons and another man authorities say helped recruit followers so that the rancher could defy agents trying to remove cattle they said Bundy was illegally grazing on federal lands.

The same indictment also charged Peter T. Santilli, host of a right-wing YouTube show. When the Nevada indictment came out, Santilli, like Bundy’s sons, sat in an Oregon jail, having been indicted earlier this month on felony charges due to the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge.

Santilli’s case has attracted the support of groups as disparate as the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon and the Oath Keepers, a citizen militia. While other people indicted have argued that seizing the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was an act of political protest, the case made by an attorney for Santilli and the 50-year-old Marine’s supporters is that he was there as a new media journalist and a “shock jock.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: bundy; constitution; finicum; oregon; oregonstandoff; petertsantilli
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Congress shall make no law concerning the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Have you noticed how many ways the First Amendment was trampled with the situation in Oregon and the killing of LaVoy Finicum?

1 posted on 02/21/2016 9:29:13 AM PST by azkathy
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To: liberalh8ter; Nextrush; LucyT; StonyBurk; WildHighlander57; Faith65; Nachum; Travis McGee

Ping to this.. The Washington Post and the ACLU are figuring out it sets a bad precedent to allow a journalist to be locked up.


2 posted on 02/21/2016 9:32:27 AM PST by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: azkathy

Thank you for the ping. Most appreciated!


3 posted on 02/21/2016 9:41:10 AM PST by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: azkathy

Are you kidding me.

Look, the authorities are BEGGING for revolution.


4 posted on 02/21/2016 9:42:46 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: azkathy

...when they came for the journalists, I looked around and there was no one left to defend me.


5 posted on 02/21/2016 9:43:33 AM PST by null and void (This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)
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To: Lazamataz

They are


6 posted on 02/21/2016 9:45:16 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

They should wait until they have police robots and lots of drones, especially miniaturized ones. To beg for revolution right now might now work out too well for them.


7 posted on 02/21/2016 9:47:02 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: azkathy

Funny. Since when did the Bolshevik Left care about journalists being arrested and the First Amendment being shredded?


8 posted on 02/21/2016 9:51:37 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Lazamataz

They should. Anger is palpable.


9 posted on 02/21/2016 9:56:01 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

As LaVoy Finnicum’s daughters sing in their tribute to their Dad, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rZAvI1sQ8A
“Are you, are you going to agree?
Our Freedoms are waning and we’ll lose our liberty.
Slipping one by one until there’s nothing left to see.
Are you, are you willing to stand with me?
Are you, are you just going to let it be?
The Ranchers are first but brother next it may be me.
‘We all stand together or we’ll hang separately.’
Are you, Are you going to the tree?
Are you, are you willing to be free?
It won’t get any easier to regain lost liberty.
Strange things are happening in this land that once was free!
So Brother I ask you
Are you, are you going to stand by me?”


10 posted on 02/21/2016 10:01:42 AM PST by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: azkathy

Yes-—the WHOLE Constitution is literally REMOVED. There is NO Individual Natural Rights from God......There is ONLY “permission” from the satanists who control all our corrupt, unconstitutional institutions that literally worship Satan and practice Satanism/sacrifice and sodomy of the innocent). (Prison is their “re-education” camps for Christians only to normalize dehumanizing acts for demoralization and destruction of Soul).

These were grown masculine moral males (True Patriots) exercising Constitutional Rights and these men had been ABUSED and KILLED by UNCONSTITUTIONAL takeover of Land by the Federal Government to sell to foreign agents/corporations. These Satanists (CIA,BLM, FBI goons) have to put under their Domination true masculine males or they kill them like they did Scalia if they can’t “bribe” them. (Libido Dominandi)....(Franklin Cover-Up).

Christianity is being forced OUT of the public square and our US “Justice” System has been removed for a true Vice System of Satan.

We need to take back our Constitution and our lands.


11 posted on 02/21/2016 10:05:31 AM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: azkathy

Thanks


12 posted on 02/21/2016 10:06:04 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: null and void

They are coming for the Constitutional Sheriff’s too, From Nevada Assemblywoman Shelly Shelton
February 19 at 12:34am ·
We need to stand behind Sheriff Palmer. He is the only constitutional Sheriff left in Oregon. The others are trying to kick him out of their association.

The same dispatch who betrayed him hung up on us twice when we called and asked if an officer was available to escort us partway through Grant County as we were trying to get to the rapidly deteriorating scene on the night the FBI moved within 50 feet of the final four protesters.

We had hoped an officer could guide us through the winding mountain roads safely and help us get to the scene if the reports of roadblocks had been true.

But she hung up on us telling us they only take calls from within Grant County. We told her we were currently in the county and were requesting safe passage through it. And she hung up on us. Twice.

What we have is a constitutional Sheriff with a Judas in his staff.”


13 posted on 02/21/2016 10:06:18 AM PST by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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Very disturbing development yesterday not a surprise.

The Stasi, KGB and NKVD, People’s Commisariat for Internal Affairs, used these economic, physical, murderous, and intimidation tactics against their own citizens. It is common in Russia for the journalist to be imprisoned and the political agitator to be shot to death.
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14 posted on 02/21/2016 10:08:36 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Faith65

Did you see this? http://southernutahlive.com/video/view/Congressional-Listening-Session-2016-01-22

I called Rep Stewart’s office in DC 202-225-9730. I called to thank him for holding the listening session in St. George Utah on Jan 22, 2016, Holding federal land agencies accountable.
The topics that were to be discussed at the listening session include:
BLM Law Enforcement
Federal Agency Actions Against Ranchers
Potential Collusion between Federal Agencies and Environmental Groups
Introduction of the Mexican Wolf
Monument Designations
I am trying to get a hold of the testimony that was provided here. I politely asked the Gentleman named Mark who answered the phone to please ask Congressman Stewart to speak about the 3 innocent Americans who were in LaVoy’s truck when the “authorities” opened fire on them.
The evidence and the courts will tell us whether LaVoy was shot with his hands up or down. I asked him to please discuss what happened to the 3 innocent Americans in that vehicle. The FBI through their own admission acknowledge that Ryan Bundy was shot while in the vehicle. (All of our elected officials should be encouraged to understand that we the people do NOT think this is OK.) I believe what happened to LaVoy was terrible and should never be allowed to happen again. If we can get them to acknowledge that Shawna Cox and Victoria Sharp exist and were assaulted illegally it will help get all the Patriot’s stories out there for the public.


15 posted on 02/21/2016 10:09:49 AM PST by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: azkathy

No- I did not see that yet. I will look at it today. Thanks, Kathy.


16 posted on 02/21/2016 10:12:43 AM PST by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: azkathy

When liberal groups got their way on the Fairness Doctrine with ‘right-wing’ radio preacher Carl McIntire in 1973 and the Federal Communications Commission shut his radio station down, the Radio Television News Directors Association and the editorial page of “Broadcasting” magazine were on his side.

A liberal federal appeals court judge, David Bazelon, expressed his disgust with the preachers radio station and its programming, but said the First Amendment was more important and supported the preacher’s right to broadcast with a dissenting opinion.


17 posted on 02/21/2016 10:14:27 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS:REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: azkathy
Also trampled in the Twin Peaks bikers cases.

Has Lois Lerner been arrested yet?

18 posted on 02/21/2016 10:16:25 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (u)
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To: MileHi

See post 15. The anger is palpable. One of the witnesses Mike Noel, at this Congressional listening session actually said, “ What’s going on in Utah and the West has to be stopped or there will be bloodshed.”


19 posted on 02/21/2016 10:16:40 AM PST by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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20 posted on 02/21/2016 10:17:29 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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