{"id":10177,"date":"2017-11-03T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=10177"},"modified":"2017-11-05T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T02:37:03","slug":"images-of-government-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/images-of-government-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of Government Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Images of Government Abuse<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Scott Michael Rohter, November 2017<\/p>\n

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There are no cameras\u00a0permitted in the courtroom. All cell phones are confiscated before you\u00a0are allowed to\u00a0pass\u00a0through the doors. There is no way to\u00a0record the\u00a0images of government abuse going on\u00a0inside of Judge Gloria Navarro’s courtroom… No one can photograph the spectacle of innocent Americans being treated as if they were guilty criminals.\u00a0\u00a0There is only an artist\u2019s sketchbook or a writer\u2019s pen to record the events.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Every morning at around 9am a rather frail looking, harmless old man is led into the courtroom in shackles and chains. Along with Federal marshals he is accompanied by his two sons, and one other man. All four of them are bound at the ankles in shackles and chains. As they make their way to their\u00a0places in front of the judge there is no way to capture these disturbing images for the rest of the nation to see.. The only ones who can actually see the shackles on their feet are the judge, their attorneys and the other officials of the court.<\/p>\n

Cliven Bundy, Ammon Bundy, \u00a0Ryan Bundy, and Ryan Payne are all being treated as if they are some kind of dangerous criminals. In reality all of these men are law abiding citizens who believe in the Constitution,\u00a0but they have one thing that most\u00a0of the other men and women in that courtroom probably\u00a0don’t have.\u00a0They have\u00a0faith and\u00a0determination that allows them to put their lives on the line for a cause they\u00a0believe in.\u00a0\u00a0For this we should all be\u00a0grateful to them. Their cause is\u00a0also our cause… It is a cause that\u00a0is enshrined in\u00a0the Declaration of Independence. It\u00a0is the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness not just for the defendants in that courtroom, but\u00a0for all Americans\u2026 Those men\u00a0are fighting for our right to live our lives as free men and women too, free of\u00a0 excessive government interference. That is why they have spent the last two years of their lives in jail.<\/p>\n

The jurors are not present as the defendants\u00a0enter the courtroom and take their places. After everyone is\u00a0seated the judge\u00a0gives\u00a0the order for the jurors to enter the room. The men and women of the jury are never allowed to see the shackles on the defendants\u2019 feet nor the chains that hold them captive. \u00a0One by one the jurors enter the room while everyone\u00a0else stands.\u00a0\u00a0They are all\u00a0oblivious to the\u00a0spectacle that just occurred…\u00a0It is the spectacle of innocent Americans\u00a0who are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but\u00a0instead are presumed to be guilty\u00a0at their trial\u00a0and forced to wear shackles and chains as if they have already been convicted.<\/p>\n

Our entire judicial system is based on the premise that you are innocent until proven guilty,\u00a0but it has not worked that way for the defendants in this trial . They have all been denied bail, and incarcerated for\u00a0nearly two years waiting for their day in court, and this trial\u00a0has\u00a0been anything but speedy.\u00a0These men have\u00a0already been punished\u00a0for a crime that they have not been convicted of. They have only been\u00a0accused of committing a crime.<\/p>\n

Not a single juror may know that the defendants\u00a0in this trial have already been prisoners for nearly two years, held captive against their will\u00a0were it not for the fact that they have chosen to wear prison clothes to\u00a0their trial,\u00a0but the abuse of these good men does not just end with the denial of bail. Pretrial release is not the only right they have been deprived of. Two of them have been beaten, starved, and placed in solitary confinement for extended periods of time. It is the second time that three of them have been prosecuted for their\u00a0alleged crimes., and it is the second time that two of them have\u00a0stood before\u00a0a jury of their peers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two other defendants who have been charged in the same Bunkerville Standoff which occurred in April 2014 are set to go on trial\u00a0next year for the third<\/strong>\u00a0time<\/strong>. Their first two trials resulted in mistrials being declared after hung juries in both trials refused to deliver any convictions. The United States Constitution clearly states that, \u201cNo man shall be twice put in jeapordy of life or limb.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>How many times does the Justice Department think it can retry the same\u00a0men in the same case for the same crimes? How many foul balls does the government think it can hit before someone calls strike three and says you’re out? This isn’t a baseball game. Men’s lives are at stake. It is said that justice is blind, but in this case justice is not only blind. \u00a0It is also deaf and dumb. and extremely unfair.<\/p>\n

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There are no cameras permitted in the courtroom. All cell phones are confiscated before you are allowed to pass through the doors. There is no way to record the images of government abuse going on inside of Judge Gloria Navarro’s courtroom… No one can photograph the spectacle of innocent Americans being treated as if they were guilty criminals. There is only an artist\u2019s sketchbook or a writer\u2019s pen to record the events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[701,849,718,848,723,823],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10201,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177\/revisions\/10201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}