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Ryan Bundy Beaten Up by Prison Guards and Placed in Solitary Confinement until Trial<\/strong><\/h1>\nBy Scott Michael Rohter, August 2016<\/p>\n
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DATELINE: August 9th, Portland Oregon<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"lavoyhands\"](\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lavoyhands.jpg\")
Ryan Bundy, the eldest son of rancher Cliven Bundy of Nevada was beaten up by Multnomah County Detention Center prison guards for refusing to allow the government to remove a bullet lodged in his upper right arm. \u00a0Mr. Bundy was a passenger in Lavoy Finicum\u2019s truck on the day it was indiscriminately fired upon by FBI agents and Oregon State Police officers. Mr. Bundy was wounded in that incident,\u00a0and six months later his wrist and thumb were both dislocated\u00a0by prison guards and his head was smashed into a wall for refusing to allow government\u00a0to remove that bullet in his arm.. During jury selection he was present in the courtroom and\u00a0it looked like he had two black eyes according to eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n
The bullet which is lodged in his arm was one of the shots randomly fired into Mr. Finicum\u2019s truck on the day that Mr. Finicum was murdered by two Oregon State Police officers. It is one of the bullets that was unaccounted for and not reported by FBI agents in the aftermath of the investigation into the shooting death of Mr. Finicum. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Ordering prison guards to beat up Mr. Bundy and put him in solitary confinement until his trial isn\u2019t going to break his spirit or persuade him to confess to something he didn\u2019t do. It isn\u2019t going to convince him to plead guilty to fabricated charges of a conspiracy to impede federal officers. A conspiracy includes the element of secrecy and the intent to do harm, and neither of these two things was ever present in the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n
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Everything that Ammon and Ryan Bundy did was out in the open. Most of the time it was in front of\u00a0television cameras for the whole world to see. They were trying to focus the Nation\u2019s attention on the important issue of public land management. They were motivated by good principles and their love and respect for the Constitution. There was no vandalism at the Refuge during the entire time they were there. \u00a0Nothing was taken. Nothing was stolen, and there was no intent to do harm. \u00a0The conditions\u00a0for a conspiracy were not met and the proof is that although some of the codefendants did have guns at the Refuge for the sole purpose of their own personal protection, none of them ever fired a single shot. The FBI and Oregon State Police fired the first shots, the last shots, and they fired the only shots.<\/p>\n
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The bullet which is lodged in Ryan Bundy\u2019s arm is the only evidence that implicates\u00a0the FBI agent who randomly fired into Lavoy Finicum\u2019s truck. It is evidence of professional misconduct\u00a0not only because he fired his weapon randomly<\/strong> into the truck while there was at least one innocent passenger (Victoria Sharp) inside, but also because he failed\u00a0to disclose\u00a0that he had fired his\u00a0weapon to\u00a0police investigators after the shooting.\u00a0It might even be the tip of an iceberg of evidence\u00a0that clearly demonstrates\u00a0a government plot to murder\u00a0someone in Mr. Finicum\u2019s\u00a0truck that day\u2026 before Mr. Finicum ever stepped out of the truck and he was shot in the back. None of\u00a0the passengers in the truck\u00a0were resisting arrest at the time\u00a0the unreported bullet was fired. Ryan Bundy wants this bullet to remain in his possession until he can be sure that it will be used to\u00a0convict the people who murdered his friend. Ultimately he wants to give it to the Finicum family so they can use it in their lawsuit against the FBI and the Oregon State Police.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Mr. Bundy is a husband and the father of eight precious little children. He is a man of outstanding moral character and the same thing is true of his brother Ammon. Together they participated in a peaceful demonstration at the unoccupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in order to focus the Nation\u2019s attention on the mis-management of America\u2019s public lands. Their demonstration was peaceful until the FBI and Oregon State Police opened fire upon them.<\/p>\n
The protest\u00a0 began as a response to the unjust incarceration of two Oregon ranchers who were sentenced to jail for setting a controlled burn on their ranch land to manage weeds. The fire spread to adjacent land which they leased from the Bureau of Land Management and it burned about 130 acres of worthless scrub. There is a Bill currently before Congress sponsored by Representative Greg Walden of Oregon which would prohibit any future prosecutions of ranchers like Dwight and Steven Hammond for such an accident like this. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Hammond family of Burns, Oregon<\/p><\/div>\n
The Hammonds of Burns Oregon had already served time in jail for their alleged crime, but a year after their release Attorney General Loretta Lynch appealed the lower court decision which imposed the original sentences. \u00a0The\u00a0Obama Justice\u00a0Department\u00a0wanted a stiffer penalty than the one\u00a0 imposed by U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan. As a result the Hammonds were sent back to jail for an additional five years each. The obvious injustice of this\u00a0second sentence is the reason that the Bundys came to Oregon and why they launched their protest at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n
The longer jail term imposed on the Hammonds was mandated under strict federal guidelines contained in an anti-terrorism act signed by Bill Clinton. This law was never intended to apply to unintentional acts of negligence, and it offends the conscience to think that it was. It offended the conscience of the original trial judge to impose more jail time than he originally did, and it offended the conscience of Ammon and Ryan Bundy when the Hammonds were sent back to jail to serve additional time.<\/p>\n
The Bundys are good people. They were all brought up to believe in God and to love their neighbor as themselves. When they heard that the Hammonds were being re-incarcerated for the same offence\u00a0twice they decided that they had to do something. They decided to stage a protest at the unoccupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near the Hammond ranch and the little town of Burns, Oregon. \u00a0It was the middle of winter. This protest grew to a thirty day occupation of the deserted Refuge, and the purpose of the demonstration just naturally grew to include the\u00a0entire question of the administration of our public lands by Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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News crews from all over the world converged on the little town of Burns, Oregon to cover\u00a0this\u00a0modern day story\u00a0of David and Goliath, but this time it looks like\u00a0Goliath is winning.. The big government killed Lavoy Finicum with three shots to the back and just allowed him bleed to death in the snow. Then it arrested little David and all of his supporters. In the process Ryan Bundy was hit in the shoulder\u00a0by bullet fired from a gun, not a rock launched from a slingshot. Then the\u00a0FBI agent who fired his gun failed to report\u00a0that he had fired his gun. Then the government Goliath locked them all up in jail without a trial, without bail, and without the presumption of innocence which is even guaranteed to murderers like the men who shot Lavoy Finicum in the back.<\/p>\n
The Bundys\u00a0still remain locked up behind bars six months later where they are still waiting for trial. Ryan Bundy was placed in solitary confinement where he gets just fifteen minutes a day outside of his cell and no visitors at all. Prisoners at Guantanemo Bay are treated better than this.. If he became a Muslim he would be taken out of solitary, given a Quran and probably invited to the White House to meet with President Obama.<\/p>\n
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Ryan Bundy before car accident<\/p><\/div>
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Ryan Bundy after car accident that left his face partially paralyzed<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
Ryan has always faced negative stereotypes. When he was just seven years old he was run over by a car. That\u00a0car drove right over his head and\u00a0damaged the\u00a0nerves in his face.\u00a0That is why he always looks like he is scowling.\u00a0The nerves which control the muscles in his face are actually damaged from the accident and the right side of his face is permanently paralyzed. It is a miracle that he is even alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If being run over by a car didn\u2019t kill him, then being run over by a team of government attorneys led by Loretta Lynch isn\u2019t going to convince him to accept a\u00a0plea bargain. Ordering prison guards to beat him up and put him in solitary confinement isn\u2019t going to break his spirit nor persuade him to confess to something\u00a0he didn’t do. His faith has provided him with all of the character he needs to resist temptation, and the adversity he has experienced in his life has taught him the value of determination.<\/p>\n
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Ryan Bundy has been fighting adversity since he was a little boy. People who know him well say that he is\u00a0exceptional. When he was\u00a0eleven years old he raised a pet steer which he entered\u00a0in a competition at the County Fair. The steer was named Big Boy. It won the blue ribbon that year. When a very proud little boy took his\u00a0blue ribbon home to show it\u00a0to Big Boy, the\u00a0steer\u00a0was so impressed with the ribbon that he proceeded to eat it, leaving\u00a0a very sad little boy nearly in tears. The judges gave him another ribbon and he\u00a0decided not to show it to Big Boy ever again.<\/p>\n
As a young boy Ryan was always doing things that were remarkable. Every year along with his father and his younger brothers he delivered potatoes and firewood to all of the widows and the elderly in his community. As a boy scout he won awards for bravery and for his swimming skills. One day he even saved someone\u2019s life that was drowning.<\/p>\n
For a grown man with eight children you can bet that money\u00a0is always tight around the house\u2026 One year Ryan\u00a0needed a new pair of boots. On a ranch boots are a very necessary thing. His old boots were barely\u00a0held together\u00a0by duct tape, but when Ryan heard that other people in his community had needs that were even greater than his own he gladly donated the money he had been saving for a new pair of boots to his church so that it could be used to help others. That is the kind of man that Ryan Bundy is. He came to Oregon to help the Hammond Family. He is a Godly man and a goodly man.<\/p>\n
The United States government doesn\u2019t have the slightest clue about the man they are prosecuting. According to people who know him well, Ryan Bundy is always motivated by higher principles. He has survived\u00a0the misfortunes of life to become a husband and the father of eight children. He is not\u00a0the kind of\u00a0man that can be\u00a0easily intimidated,\u00a0and neither does he\u00a0try\u00a0to intimidate anyone else. None of the members of the Bundy family are awed by\u00a0all of the secular power of the Federal government which is arrayed against them. Rather they fear\u00a0God\u00a0who made\u00a0Heaven and Earth. We can learn a lot from watching\u00a0Ammon and Ryan Bundy brave their moments of adversity. I have no doubt that no one will be able to coerce\u00a0either\u00a0 one of them to plead guilty to something they didn’t do, and quite frankly neither one\u00a0of them would\u00a0even consider doing something wrong in the first place. They lead exemplary lives which many Americans can learn from, and they live by a set of principles\u00a0which are far greater than those of the government prosecutors\u00a0who are trying to convict them.<\/p>\n
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Ryan Bundy, the eldest son of rancher Cliven Bundy of Nevada was beaten up by Multnomah County Detention Center prison guards for refusing to allow the government to remove a bullet lodged in his upper right arm. \u00a0Mr. Bundy was a passenger in Lavoy Finicum\u2019s truck on the day it was indiscriminately fired upon by FBI agents and Oregon State Police officers. Mr. Bundy was wounded in that incident,\u00a0and six months later his wrist and thumb were both dislocated\u00a0by prison guards and his head was smashed into a wall for refusing to allow government\u00a0to remove that bullet in his arm.. During jury selection he was present in the courtroom and\u00a0it looked like he had two black eyes according to eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n
The bullet which is lodged in his arm was one of the shots randomly fired into Mr. Finicum\u2019s truck on the day that Mr. Finicum was murdered by two Oregon State Police officers. It is one of the bullets that was unaccounted for and not reported by FBI agents in the aftermath of the investigation into the shooting death of Mr. Finicum. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Ordering prison guards to beat up Mr. Bundy and put him in solitary confinement until his trial isn\u2019t going to break his spirit or persuade him to confess to something he didn\u2019t do. It isn\u2019t going to convince him to plead guilty to fabricated charges of a conspiracy to impede federal officers. A conspiracy includes the element of secrecy and the intent to do harm, and neither of these two things was ever present in the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n
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Everything that Ammon and Ryan Bundy did was out in the open. Most of the time it was in front of\u00a0television cameras for the whole world to see. They were trying to focus the Nation\u2019s attention on the important issue of public land management. They were motivated by good principles and their love and respect for the Constitution. There was no vandalism at the Refuge during the entire time they were there. \u00a0Nothing was taken. Nothing was stolen, and there was no intent to do harm. \u00a0The conditions\u00a0for a conspiracy were not met and the proof is that although some of the codefendants did have guns at the Refuge for the sole purpose of their own personal protection, none of them ever fired a single shot. The FBI and Oregon State Police fired the first shots, the last shots, and they fired the only shots.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The protest\u00a0 began as a response to the unjust incarceration of two Oregon ranchers who were sentenced to jail for setting a controlled burn on their ranch land to manage weeds. The fire spread to adjacent land which they leased from the Bureau of Land Management and it burned about 130 acres of worthless scrub. There is a Bill currently before Congress sponsored by Representative Greg Walden of Oregon which would prohibit any future prosecutions of ranchers like Dwight and Steven Hammond for such an accident like this. \u00a0<\/p>\n The Hammond family of Burns, Oregon<\/p><\/div>\n The Hammonds of Burns Oregon had already served time in jail for their alleged crime, but a year after their release Attorney General Loretta Lynch appealed the lower court decision which imposed the original sentences. \u00a0The\u00a0Obama Justice\u00a0Department\u00a0wanted a stiffer penalty than the one\u00a0 imposed by U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan. As a result the Hammonds were sent back to jail for an additional five years each. The obvious injustice of this\u00a0second sentence is the reason that the Bundys came to Oregon and why they launched their protest at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n The longer jail term imposed on the Hammonds was mandated under strict federal guidelines contained in an anti-terrorism act signed by Bill Clinton. This law was never intended to apply to unintentional acts of negligence, and it offends the conscience to think that it was. It offended the conscience of the original trial judge to impose more jail time than he originally did, and it offended the conscience of Ammon and Ryan Bundy when the Hammonds were sent back to jail to serve additional time.<\/p>\n The Bundys are good people. They were all brought up to believe in God and to love their neighbor as themselves. When they heard that the Hammonds were being re-incarcerated for the same offence\u00a0twice they decided that they had to do something. They decided to stage a protest at the unoccupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near the Hammond ranch and the little town of Burns, Oregon. \u00a0It was the middle of winter. This protest grew to a thirty day occupation of the deserted Refuge, and the purpose of the demonstration just naturally grew to include the\u00a0entire question of the administration of our public lands by Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Bundys\u00a0still remain locked up behind bars six months later where they are still waiting for trial. Ryan Bundy was placed in solitary confinement where he gets just fifteen minutes a day outside of his cell and no visitors at all. Prisoners at Guantanemo Bay are treated better than this.. If he became a Muslim he would be taken out of solitary, given a Quran and probably invited to the White House to meet with President Obama.<\/p>\n Ryan Bundy before car accident<\/p><\/div> Ryan Bundy after car accident that left his face partially paralyzed<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n Ryan has always faced negative stereotypes. When he was just seven years old he was run over by a car. That\u00a0car drove right over his head and\u00a0damaged the\u00a0nerves in his face.\u00a0That is why he always looks like he is scowling.\u00a0The nerves which control the muscles in his face are actually damaged from the accident and the right side of his face is permanently paralyzed. It is a miracle that he is even alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n If being run over by a car didn\u2019t kill him, then being run over by a team of government attorneys led by Loretta Lynch isn\u2019t going to convince him to accept a\u00a0plea bargain. Ordering prison guards to beat him up and put him in solitary confinement isn\u2019t going to break his spirit nor persuade him to confess to something\u00a0he didn’t do. His faith has provided him with all of the character he needs to resist temptation, and the adversity he has experienced in his life has taught him the value of determination.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ryan Bundy has been fighting adversity since he was a little boy. People who know him well say that he is\u00a0exceptional. When he was\u00a0eleven years old he raised a pet steer which he entered\u00a0in a competition at the County Fair. The steer was named Big Boy. It won the blue ribbon that year. When a very proud little boy took his\u00a0blue ribbon home to show it\u00a0to Big Boy, the\u00a0steer\u00a0was so impressed with the ribbon that he proceeded to eat it, leaving\u00a0a very sad little boy nearly in tears. The judges gave him another ribbon and he\u00a0decided not to show it to Big Boy ever again.<\/p>\n As a young boy Ryan was always doing things that were remarkable. Every year along with his father and his younger brothers he delivered potatoes and firewood to all of the widows and the elderly in his community. As a boy scout he won awards for bravery and for his swimming skills. One day he even saved someone\u2019s life that was drowning.<\/p>\n For a grown man with eight children you can bet that money\u00a0is always tight around the house\u2026 One year Ryan\u00a0needed a new pair of boots. On a ranch boots are a very necessary thing. His old boots were barely\u00a0held together\u00a0by duct tape, but when Ryan heard that other people in his community had needs that were even greater than his own he gladly donated the money he had been saving for a new pair of boots to his church so that it could be used to help others. That is the kind of man that Ryan Bundy is. He came to Oregon to help the Hammond Family. He is a Godly man and a goodly man.<\/p>\n The United States government doesn\u2019t have the slightest clue about the man they are prosecuting. According to people who know him well, Ryan Bundy is always motivated by higher principles. He has survived\u00a0the misfortunes of life to become a husband and the father of eight children. He is not\u00a0the kind of\u00a0man that can be\u00a0easily intimidated,\u00a0and neither does he\u00a0try\u00a0to intimidate anyone else. None of the members of the Bundy family are awed by\u00a0all of the secular power of the Federal government which is arrayed against them. Rather they fear\u00a0God\u00a0who made\u00a0Heaven and Earth. We can learn a lot from watching\u00a0Ammon and Ryan Bundy brave their moments of adversity. I have no doubt that no one will be able to coerce\u00a0either\u00a0 one of them to plead guilty to something they didn’t do, and quite frankly neither one\u00a0of them would\u00a0even consider doing something wrong in the first place. They lead exemplary lives which many Americans can learn from, and they live by a set of principles\u00a0which are far greater than those of the government prosecutors\u00a0who are trying to convict them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nThe bullet which is lodged in Ryan Bundy\u2019s arm is the only evidence that implicates\u00a0the FBI agent who randomly fired into Lavoy Finicum\u2019s truck. It is evidence of professional misconduct\u00a0not only because he fired his weapon randomly<\/strong> into the truck while there was at least one innocent passenger (Victoria Sharp) inside, but also because he failed\u00a0to disclose\u00a0that he had fired his\u00a0weapon to\u00a0police investigators after the shooting.\u00a0It might even be the tip of an iceberg of evidence\u00a0that clearly demonstrates\u00a0a government plot to murder\u00a0someone in Mr. Finicum\u2019s\u00a0truck that day\u2026 before Mr. Finicum ever stepped out of the truck and he was shot in the back. None of\u00a0the passengers in the truck\u00a0were resisting arrest at the time\u00a0the unreported bullet was fired. Ryan Bundy wants this bullet to remain in his possession until he can be sure that it will be used to\u00a0convict the people who murdered his friend. Ultimately he wants to give it to the Finicum family so they can use it in their lawsuit against the FBI and the Oregon State Police.<\/p>\nMr. Bundy is a husband and the father of eight precious little children. He is a man of outstanding moral character and the same thing is true of his brother Ammon. Together they participated in a peaceful demonstration at the unoccupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in order to focus the Nation\u2019s attention on the mis-management of America\u2019s public lands. Their demonstration was peaceful until the FBI and Oregon State Police opened fire upon them.<\/p>\nNews crews from all over the world converged on the little town of Burns, Oregon to cover\u00a0this\u00a0modern day story\u00a0of David and Goliath, but this time it looks like\u00a0Goliath is winning.. The big government killed Lavoy Finicum with three shots to the back and just allowed him bleed to death in the snow. Then it arrested little David and all of his supporters. In the process Ryan Bundy was hit in the shoulder\u00a0by bullet fired from a gun, not a rock launched from a slingshot. Then the\u00a0FBI agent who fired his gun failed to report\u00a0that he had fired his gun. Then the government Goliath locked them all up in jail without a trial, without bail, and without the presumption of innocence which is even guaranteed to murderers like the men who shot Lavoy Finicum in the back.<\/p>\n
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