{"id":9401,"date":"2016-10-07T03:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T10:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=9401"},"modified":"2017-11-20T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:33:02","slug":"the-trial-of-the-century-the-occupation-trial-of-the-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/the-trial-of-the-century-the-occupation-trial-of-the-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trial of the Century – The Occupation Trial of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Occupation Trial of the Malheur National Wildlife\u00a0Refuge<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Why was\u00a0this the Trial of the Century ?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Scott Michael Rohter<\/p>\n

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“To watch someone brave adversity is to know someone worthy of respect.”<\/em> – Seneca (Roman philosopher)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Worthy of Respect<\/h1>\n

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Notes from the courtroom for the week of October 3 through October 7, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

The national mainstream media doesn\u2019t want to talk about this.\u00a0\u00a0Maybe it’s because they think it is\u00a0just too dangerous to talk about. I\u2019m not sure, but I\u00a0do know this. The most important aspect of the occupation trial of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge\u00a0will never be discussed\u00a0in\u00a0the courtroom. It won’t be debated\u00a0in the jury\u2019s presence because the judge won\u2019t allow them to hear anything about it.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless the Ocupation\u00a0Trial of the\u00a0Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is really the trial of the century. It is a political trial that isn\u2019t supposed to be a political trial. It is supposed to be a criminal trial, but all of the underlying issues which led to the occupation of the Refuge… they\u00a0are all political in nature and they all began back in 1976 when Congress passed the Federal Land Policy Management Act and rewrote 200 years of American history and precedent.. This changed the way that Congress administers public land.\u00a0The\u00a0policy\u00a0went from\u00a0maintaining a temporary, custodial stewardship over the land until it could be disposed of to a permanent confiscation of all public land in the United States as a result of this one law.<\/p>\n

The occupation of over seven hundred million acres of land in twelve Western States will not be discussed in\u00a0the courtroom during the trial. That is the real occupation, not the\u00a0one that occurred at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon\u2026 The amount of land occupied by the Federal Government consists of an area bigger than the size of most countries.. Only eight countries in the whole world are\u00a0larger in size\u00a0than the amount of land owned and\u00a0controlled by two agencies of the Federal government, the Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service.\u00a0The federal government’s occupation\u00a0of State land is\u00a0completely unconstitutional, notwithstanding what the Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 says.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0seven defendants in this trial are accused of a conspiracy to impede federal officers from doing their job through the use of threats and intimidation. The defendants are: Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Shawna Cox,\u00a0Kenneth Medenbach, Jeff Banta, Neil Wampler and David Fry. There are seven other defendants who are also waiting trials on the same charges and they will be tried separately at a later date. Eleven other defendants\u00a0have plead guilty in order to avoid\u00a0harsh punishments which is\u00a0just another way of saying that the Justice Department extracted a plea of guilty from them while they were under duress. Those guilty pleas were not freely given\u00a0therefore they are not an admission of guilt. They were only offered in order to avoid stiffer penalties, but who cares about the truth anyway in a court of law? Certainly not the government…They just want to win.<\/p>\n

The Occupation Trial of the Malheur National Wildlife\u00a0Refuge\u00a0may be the most intensively managed trial that Americans have ever seen. It is certainly the most\u00a0intensively managed trial that I have ever seen. Every aspect of it is tightly controlled by the judge from the moment that the jury enters the courtroom to the moment that they leave. The judge acts more like an explosives expert than a referee between the prosecutors and the defense attorneys. She handles this trial like it is some kind of a ticking time bomb or a lighted stick of dynamite. Sometimes she puts her hands on her face and rolls her eyes and acts like she is exasperated. I know I am exasperated by what I see going on in the courtroom. It’s\u00a0 frustrating to see so much corroborating\u00a0evidence being excluded from the jury’s consideration.<\/p>\n

All of the video evidence submitted by defense attorneys is scrutinized right down to the\u00a0last nano second and most of it is tossed out by the judge so jurors will not be allowed to see it or get comfortable with the soft going,\u00a0gentle nature of the man who is at the center of this trial.. Ammon Bundy, and his\u00a0older brother, Ryan. These two men are modern American heroes who have been locked up by the government without bail\u00a0since their arrest in January of 2016 for organizing and participating in a protest\u00a0designed to cast light on\u00a0the federal governments unconstitutional occupation of State land. The protest only began after all other avenues for a redress of grievances had been exhausted, Ammon Bundy testified in court.<\/p>\n

The Constitution only allows Congress\u00a0to manage\u00a0public lands\u00a0for a\u00a0limited period of time\u00a0until they are ultimately disposed of, but Congress has decided not to dispose of\u00a0any more public land. That has been the position of Congress ever since 1976 when the Federal Land Policy Management Act was passed. The problem is that Congress wants to hold on to these lands forever instead of disposing of them as required\u00a0in the Constitution.<\/p>\n

In order to eliminate a lot of what Judge Anna Brown calls cumulative evidence, but what\u00a0many observers\u00a0believe to be corroborating evidence, she has consistently sustained almost four thousand objections raised by federal prosecutors since the trial began. They want to keep as much exculpatory evidence from the jury’s ears as they can. \u00a0Every time Mr. Mumford opens\u00a0his mouth\u00a0to offer proof of the defendant’s innocence another government prosecutor\u00a0gets back\u00a0on his feet and raises another objection.\u00a0 Perhaps he should just keep standing. Much of the time in court is spent in stating and restating the following words: \u00a0\u201cobjection\u2026 \u00a0cumulative\u2026 sustained… \u00a0The objection is sustained Mr. Mumford.\u00a0Now move on please\u201d.<\/em> This happens so many times that\u00a0you just want to scream.<\/p>\n

The government is not trying to win this case by presenting clear and convincing\u00a0evidence against the defendants. They are trying to win\u00a0this case \u00a0by preventing\u00a0defense attorneys from\u00a0presenting clear and convincing evidence on behalf of their clients. This isn’t justice. It isn\u2019t even fair.<\/p>\n

Neither the defense attorneys nor the prosecutors\u00a0want to talk to each other so the judge\u00a0reluctantly tries to act like an\u00a0intermediary between both sides.\u00a0Several times she has expressed her frustration\u00a0over having to do this. The Occupation Trial of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is a\u00a0trial is\u00a0like no other and the conspiracy that Ammon Bundy and the others are accused of committing is\u00a0\u00a0a conspiracy like no other<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Normally you can\u2019t have a lawsuit unless you can show damages, so where are these damages I ask myself? Well, the FBI and the Department of Justice have compiled a list of so called damages which\u00a0they created after most of the defendants had\u00a0been arrested and removed from the Refuge. They are attributing\u00a0the so called\u00a0damages to all of the defendants collectively. The government alleges that these defendants trashed the Refuge, but numerous eye witnesses who were there during the occupation have stated under oath that they always saw it neat and tidy and never saw any damages to the place. If there are no damages, there is no basis for a lawsuit. That is the usual rule, but there has been nothing usual about this trial, so we will just have to wait and see what the jury decides…<\/p>\n

Federal arms charges were dismissed against Shawna Cox this week. It also came out during the trial that the\u00a0Fish and Wildlife\u00a0district manager for Harney County actually closed the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on or about the same time it became known that the\u00a0government had\u00a0obtained a first right of refusal on the Hammond Ranch. This\u00a0indicates that the reason\u00a0the Refuge was closed\u00a0actually had\u00a0nothing\u00a0to do with the defendants. It was more about the fear\u00a0of repercussions\u00a0over something that the government itself had done.. The BLM also filed a civil lawsuit against the Hammonds to cancel their grazing rights so they could never graze their cattle on public land again.<\/p>\n

Many witnesses testified that they never felt threatened or intimidated by any of the defendants at the Refuge. That included Pat Harlacher, a seven year resident of Burns who visited the Refuge six different times while the defendants were there, another man from Las Vegas named Brand Thornton who supported the occupation, a local rancher named Travis Williams, another local rancher named Melody Rae Molt, and Sheriff David Ward. The sheriff also said that he didn\u2019t ever recall\u00a0hearing about any threats made to Federal employees by the defendants. He did say though that he felt like\u00a0he had been given an ultimatum\u00a0at one point by Ammon Bundy, but he failed to show any evidence of that under cross examination.<\/p>\n

Judge Brown ruled that no one could discuss the Constitution in her courtroom unless they were a lawyer because only a lawyer was qualified to properly understand and explain it… Since she wasn\u2019t about to do that,\u00a0 it isn\u2019t going to\u00a0get done\u2026 and to be sure she isn’t going to\u00a0let any of the defendants especially Ammon Bundy\u00a0read it in the courtroom, After all he isn’t a lawyer…\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not only did Federal prosecutors object to the Constitution\u00a0being read in the courtroom…\u00a0 they also objected to the\u00a0Bible being read in the courtroom, and they objected when the\u00a0defendants tried to\u00a0read from the Book of Mormon. God was ruled to be inadmissible in court, but\u00a0the judge did allow someone to mention the devil in their testimony. She\u00a0allowed that.\u00a0It wouldn’t be incorrect to say that it was\u00a0one hell of a trial.. but there is one more thing that is Verboten\u00a0Judge Anna Brown’s courtroom… No one can ever talk about the death or murder\u00a0of Lavoy Finicum. That is absolutely and totally forbidden\u2026 along with any discussion of how 700 million acres of land in twelve western states has come to be occupied by the Federal Government and controlled by Congress.\u00a0 This trial is so\u00a0restricted as to what the defense can and cannot say that it is\u00a0becoming a theatre of the absurd.<\/p>\n

Out of\u00a0nearly four thousand objections raised by the prosecutors during the course of the trial about 99% of them\u00a0have been\u00a0sustained.<\/p>\n

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The Hammond family of Burns,Oregon<\/p><\/div>\n

There was a brief discussion in court about whether or not prosecuting the Hammonds under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1976 (AEDPA) was actually the same thing as calling them terrorists\u2026 The judge said that it wasn\u2019t.. but Ammon\u00a0basically said it was a difference without a distinction. Judge Anna Brown then stated for the record…the official court record pertaining to the Hammonds as follows\u2026<\/p>\n

On June 21 2012 Dwight and Stephen Hammond were convicted of arson. Dwight was sentenced to three months in jail\u00a0on one count, while Stephen was sentenced to twelve months in jail on two counts. On February 5, 2014 the Ninth Circuit Court of\u00a0Appeals overturned the lower court sentences. Upon further appeal the United States Supreme Court refused to hear their\u00a0claim for relief and subsequently they were returned to jail\u00a0to spend the remainder of a five year mandatory minimum prison sentence under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. <\/em><\/p>\n

You decide whether the government considers the Hammond’s\u00a0to be\u00a0terrorists or not. It is perfectly obvious to me that it does.<\/p>\n

Ammon Bundy\u00a0took the witness stand this week in his own behalf and his testimony lasted for\u00a0the better part\u00a0of the week. It was interrupted from time to time by other defense witnesses who had come to\u00a0 Portland to testify, but\u00a0had to leave\u00a0at a certain time. I can tell you this. No one was a better witness for\u00a0the defense than Ammon Bundy himself. I don’t think anybody could have made a better witness. You could almost see Jesus\u00a0in the way\u00a0that Ammon conducted himself on the stand.<\/p>\n

Ammon described all of\u00a0the efforts\u00a0he went through in\u00a0an\u00a0attempt to have\u00a0his concerns\u00a0about the Hammond family\u00a0regarding the problems they were having with the BLM and the Justice Department addressed. He appealed\u00a0to local,\u00a0state and federal authorities at\u00a0various levels and\u00a0in numerous ways before he finally felt led to take what he called a “hard stand”.<\/em> They were just not listening to me. “No one was responding”,<\/em> he said. “Nothing ever changes unless someone is willing to take a hard stand so that’s what we did. That\u00a0is what Martin Luther King did. He took a hard stand against injustice.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Ammon explained that he mailed an Official Notice for a redress of grievances\u00a0containing the signatures of thousands of individuals\u00a0which was\u00a0supported by many\u00a0organizations to\u00a0Oregon Governor Kate Brown, Attorney General Eleanor Rosenblum, and the Harney County Commissioners. The Petition for a Redress of Grievances asked the\u00a0authorities to\u00a0convene an Evidentiary Hearing Board to look into the matter concerning the Hammonds. “They did not respond.<\/em> No one\u00a0ever got back to me”…\u00a0<\/em>he said. <\/em>Later he found out that those authorities were specifically told by officials in the Federal government not to get back to\u00a0him.<\/p>\n

Ammon rejected the idea that the petition he drafted and mailed to the local authorities regarding the Hammonds represented\u00a0any kind of a threat. I\u00a0was\u00a0just exercising my rights\u00a0as a citizen and going through all of the\u00a0proper legal channels. “I promised\u00a0myself that I would not take any\u00a0action on behalf of the Hammonds until I first\u00a0exhausted every available legal\u00a0avenue to help them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>When he was asked under oath about the reason for his proposal to form a Committee of Safety he explained, “That is what the Founding Fathers did\u00a0when the British government\u00a0refused to address their<\/strong> legitimate\u00a0grievances.”<\/em> In his explanation of why he\u00a0thought it was necessary to form\u00a0a Committee of Safety he\u00a0asked if he could read from the Declaration of Independence, but\u00a0of course Judge Anna Brown prohibited him from doing so.<\/p>\n

Ammon testified under oath that his brother Ryan was not involved in any of his decisions or activities on behalf of the Hammonds\u00a0before the\u00a0exact day of the occupation of the Refuge so there was\u00a0no\u00a0conspiracy of any kind. \u00a0Neither had Lavoy Finicum or Shawna Cox or any of the other defendants known anything about his plan to take over the Refuge until that very day. He said\u00a0it was his own idea\u00a0and he kept it to himself until the\u00a0very last minute\u00a0just prior to the rally\u00a0which was held in Burns on January 2, 2016.<\/p>\n

There is nothing like meeting someone who is braver than you\u00a0are, and kinder than you are, and more dedicated than you are to give you a\u00a0good understanding of just how insignificant and unimportant you really are in the world. I have learned just how unimportant I am by watching the courage, and\u00a0the\u00a0kindness, and the determination of Ammon Bundy.<\/p>\n

Concerning\u00a0the rally on January 2,\u00a0Ammon said that he\u00a0tried to hold it in the parking lot at the fairgrounds, but Judge Steve Grasty of the County wouldn’t give him permission to hold it there so\u00a0he decided to hold it\u00a0instead in a parking lot across the street from the Safeway.\u00a0A parade\u00a0was supposed to start\u00a0there after the rally was over and proceed down the street to the County Courthouse where they were going to toss pennies on the sidewalk. Ammon is clearly heard in a video\u00a0clip describing\u00a0both the rally and the parade as a peaceful protest.<\/p>\n

During over three hours of testimony on the witness stand Ammon Bundy wanted to read from the Constitution on more than one occasion. Each time\u00a0he tried government attorneys objected and the judge sustained their objections. She specifically prohibited Ammon from\u00a0reading from Article 1 Section 8 Clause 17 where it\u00a0places limits on the federal government’s ability to own and control land within the United States. He was only allowed to give a brief discussion about property rights, how they can be sold, gifted, or transferred through a legal process called adverse possession. He described how this\u00a0process works and said\u00a0that he was trying to\u00a0do that by occupying the Refuge.. He said he was laying\u00a0the foundation for an adverse possession claim. That is why <\/em>we performed work at the Refuge to improve the place. That is why\u00a0we changed the name on the sign at the entrance to the Refuge. That is why we tried to get the utility bills transferred to\u00a0our name.\u00a0<\/em> They were following the\u00a0legal procedure to\u00a0file\u00a0a claim\u00a0for adverse\u00a0possession. It was all for the purpose of\u00a0starting the process by which he hoped to transfer\u00a0the title\u00a0of\u00a0the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge back to the people of Harney County.<\/p>\n

He said he expected the federal government\u00a0to serve him with trespass papers or an eviction notice, and he welcomed either one for the opportunity it\u00a0would provide to\u00a0try to resolve this matter\u00a0in court. He never expected the occupation of the Refuge\u00a0would end the way that it did\u00a0in an ambush,\u00a0with the fatal shooting of his friend, Lavoy Finicum and with everyone\u00a0who was at the Refuge being arrested on conspiracy charges. He\u00a0assumed that the government would follow the law just\u00a0like they expected everyone else to follow the law,\u00a0 but of course the government doesn’t follow the law…\u00a0It just makes the law.<\/p>\n

The legal recourse to a claim of adverse possession is a Notice of Trespass issued by\u00a0the proper\u00a0court. “I was never given a Notice of Trespass”,<\/em>\u00a0Ammon Bundy\u00a0stated under oath.<\/p>\n

At one point Mr. Mumford asked Ammon Bundy if he knew of any other case\u00a0where someone had initiated a claim of adverse possession against the\u00a0United States\u00a0government.\u00a0The prosecutors immediately objected to the question. Their objection was sustained by the judge,\u00a0and the witness was directed not to answer the question.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I wanted to get a massive amount of media attention on what had happened to the Hammond family”,<\/em> Ammon\u00a0testified. “and on what we were doing at the Refuge to help them.” <\/em>\u00a0We didn’t do anything in secret so there wasn’t any conspiracy.\u00a0 Everything we did was out in the open in pubic meetings\u00a0and in front of many people.” It was covered by media from around the world. The whole world knew what\u00a0we were doing.\u00a0 That’s what we wanted.<\/p>\n

About thirty people showed up at\u00a0the January 2nd\u00a0meeting where\u00a0Ammon\u00a0Bundy\u00a0proposed\u00a0his idea of staking a claim to the Refuge through\u00a0a process of adverse possession. He told people who came that he wanted to\u00a0give the courts\u00a0the opportunity to decide the matter. That was the first time his brother Ryan\u00a0had ever heard anything about\u00a0his plan\u00a0or Lavoy Finicum as well… Up to that point Ammon had kept his idea all to\u00a0himself. No one knew anything about it except him. After he made his proposal\u00a0at the rally on January 2 “the people\u00a0at the meeting were about evenly divided”,<\/em> he said. Some of the people\u00a0supported his idea and some didn’t. Those that did\u00a0drove out\u00a0to the Refuge to take a look at the place while Ammon\u00a0remained\u00a0behind at the rally to lead the parade.\u00a0“I don’t know where\u00a0everybody else went\u00a0who disagreed with\u00a0my plan. Maybe Sheriff Ward knows,\u00a0but the people who\u00a0drove out to the Refuge found the place\u00a0to be\u00a0unoccupied and deserted.”\u00a0<\/em> Ammon\u00a0made it\u00a0perfectly clear that if there was anyone at the\u00a0Refuge they\u00a0had\u00a0no plans to intimidate or threaten anybody, but nobody was\u00a0there. “They\u00a0are not the problem”,<\/em>\u00a0he told others. The problem is government officials at a much higher level.<\/p>\n

As the Refuge was unoccupied it was decided on the spot to go ahead with the plan.\u00a0It had already\u00a0been established in\u00a0court that the BLM district manager had\u00a0decided to close\u00a0the Refuge on or about the same\u00a0time that it became known that the federal government had obtained a first right of refusal to purchase the Hammond Ranch.<\/p>\n

Instead of arguing whether or not the defendants\u00a0actually prevented any federal officers from\u00a0doing their job which is clearly not the case\u00a0what they really should be arguing in court is whether or not the federal government has the constitutional authority to own 700 million acres of land in twelve western\u00a0States. That is what this trial is really about…\u00a0and it is not even\u00a0being discussed in the courtroom.<\/p>\n

While he was on the witness stand the government asked\u00a0Ammon Bundy if he was the\u00a0leader of the occupation. “You have been described as a leader Mr. Bundy. Are you the\u00a0leader of this occupation ?”\u00a0 <\/em>His answer was a\u00a0testimony to his personal integrity, “Yes<\/em> it was\u00a0my idea, but I want to make it clear… I never tell anyone what to do. I believe in teaching correct principles and letting other people govern themselves.”<\/em> I was sitting in the front row of the overflow courtroom\u00a0in Portland, Oregon\u00a0when I heard\u00a0Ammon Bundy\u00a0admit that occupying the Refuge was his\u00a0idea. I\u00a0had tears in my eyes. I never stop being amazed\u00a0at the\u00a0personal integrity of the man who is at the center of this government vendetta… the man\u00a0the government\u00a0calls a\u00a0conspirator and has placed on a terrorist watch list.<\/p>\n

So this is what I learned\u00a0after spending a week observing this trial. You cant read from the Declaration of Independence in the courtroomo. You can’t read from the United States Constitution in the courtroom. You can’t\u00a0discuss\u00a0these documents because only a lawyer is qualified to understand them..\u00a0No one\u00a0else is even remotely capable. You can’t read from the Bible, and you certainly cant quote from the Book of Mormon in court. You cant mention God’s name in the courtroom, but\u00a0you are\u00a0free to\u00a0mention\u00a0the Devil…\u00a0and one more thing…. A\u00a0lawmaker from the State of Nevada, Michelle Fiore\u00a0who is actually a member of the Nevada State Legislature\u00a0was\u00a0not permitted to speak about the law either…\u00a0
\n The judge stopped her too Perhaps she is not an attorney.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0Ammon and the others had established their presence at the Refuge, Congressman Greg Walden of Oregon made a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives\u00a0about all of the turmoil that was going on in his district. In that speech\u00a0he\u00a0expressed sympathy for the Hammonds and\u00a0anger over the way they had been treated.\u00a0Under oath Mr. Bundy\u00a0testified that Walden’s speech on the floor of the House of Representatives encouraged him to\u00a0remain\u00a0at the Refuge.\u00a0 He said, “It made me feel like what we were doing was working.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Today Ammon and Ryan are in jail. They have been in jail since January 26, 2016.\u00a0 They have been denied the presumption of innocence. They have been denied bail. Ryan was beaten up and placed in solitary confinement by prison guards for not allowing the government to remove the bullet from his shoulder. Everyone who was at the Refuge is indicted on conspiracy charges, and Dwight Hammond and his son are both in a federal penitentiary in southern California serving out the remainder of a mandatory minimum five year jail sentence. He is an old man and his neighbors say he will probably die in jail. His wife is living in a small house in\u00a0Burns and a hired hand runs their ranch, what’s left of it which is located about sixty miles away. Many of their cattle have been sold since the government began its campaign of intimidation to drive them off their land. Their ranching business is just barely hanging and it won’t be too long before the government gets their hands on their ranch. Please contact your Senators and Representatives\u00a0and ask them to push hard for a full and complete\u00a0pardon for the\u00a0Dwight and Stephen Hammond\u00a0both now and\u00a0after the election.<\/p>\n

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