{"id":343578,"date":"2018-01-13T06:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nevada-bundy-prosecution-collapses-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-01-13T06:03:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:03:13","slug":"nevada-bundy-prosecution-collapses-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nevada-bundy-prosecution-collapses-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Bundy Prosecution Collapses &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) obtained federal court orders authorizing the agency to \u201cseize and remove to impound\u201d hundreds of Cliven Bundy\u2019s cattle on the public ranges around Bunkerville, Nevada.\u00a0 \u00a0The agency interpreted these court orders broadly, and descended on the area in April 2014 with some 200 body-armor-wearing agents, semiautomatic weapons, sniper teams, undercover informants, and surveillance cameras aimed at the Bundy residence.<\/p>\n<p>The BLM brought more than corralls and horse trailers.\u00a0 They brought backhoes, dumptrucks and earth-moving equipment to tear up water lines and other infrastructure that had been built by Bundy and his ancestors over decades.\u00a0 Defying county officials, the federal officers chose calving season\u2014the very time when cows and newborn calves are most physically weak and vulnerable\u2014to execute the court orders.\u00a0 They orchestrated a paramilitarized roundup operation using helicopters to terrify the cattle into stampeding to the point of exhaustion in extreme heat. At least 40 cows either died from the ordeal or were shot by BLM employees and contractors.<\/p>\n<p>The Feds even used the impoundment order to establish \u201cFirst Amendment Zones\u201d limiting freedom of speech in a 600,000-acre area to two small isolated parcels in the desert.\u00a0 It was almost certainly the largest infringement of First Amendment rights (by area) in American history.<\/p>\n<p>When Bundy\u2019s son Dave stopped on a state highway to photograph BLM snipers on local hillsides, BLM agents threw him down, ground his face into asphalt and falsely arrested him.\u00a0 And when other family members stopped a BLM dump truck to inquire if the truck was carrying dead cows, BLM agents erupted in a flurry of violence.<\/p>\n<p>In response,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/roger-roots\/nevada-bundy-prosecution-collapses-the-federal-government-spent-a-quarter-billion-dollars-but-couldnt-convict-the-bundys-of-a-single-crime\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013 the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) obtained federal court orders authorizing the agency to \u201cseize and remove to impound\u201d hundreds of Cliven Bundy\u2019s cattle on the public ranges around Bunkerville, Nevada.\u00a0 \u00a0The agency interpreted these court orders broadly, and descended on the area in April 2014 with some 200 body-armor-wearing agents, semiautomatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}