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Posted on 04/08/2016 3:23:18 PM PDT by george76
Attorney Joel Hansen referred to Bundy as a "political prisoner" and said the government does not want to release him for fear it would lose if the case is ever heard before a jury.
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"The government seems to be afraid that it might lose in a jury trial, so it wants to keep him in prison, in solitary confinement, as long as it can because he, like Nelson Mandela, is a political prisoner," Hansen wrote. "There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution allowing the federal government to hold political prisoners without a trial. Nothing."
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Does Mr. Bundy have the right to raise a constitutional question about the legality of the high-handed tactics of the BLM?" Hansen asked. "Of course he does — and particularly by making statements about the actions of the BLM and by the exercise of people's First Amendment right to peacefully assemble and the people's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms
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The only shots that actually occurred came from the Oregon State Police and the FBI in the cold-blooded murder of LaVoy Finicum. Not one protester fired their weapons. Even at Bundy Ranch, it was only federal agents that tasered law-abiding citizens, killed cattle and infringed on their right to peacefully protest and address their government for grievances.
However, the claims of the government being scared to actually go to court against Cliven Bundy have their roots in a April 2014 Bureau of Land Management claim that they are worried that Bundy may just have prescriptive rights and that his defense may just use that should his case see the inside of a courtroom.
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Full title : Attorney Files for Cliven Bundy to be Released: Claims Govt Afraid of Losing to “Political Prisoner” in Jury Trial
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomoutpost.com ...
There is that word again - constitution - what is that?
Exactly. There is no rule of law in this country anymore.
If it goes to a jury I'm betting on Bundy.
Don’t count out the possibility of a hand-picked, pro-government stacked jury.
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I fear he’d die of a ‘heart attack’ (think Breitbart, Scalia, etc) should he win the right to a jury trial -
Imagine, a rancher used to the wide open being kept in solitaire all this time - under WHAT freaking right?
I pray for their right to get their day in court.
The leftist DOJ is all about letting the lawless BLMs run roughshod over the public.
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