Justice Is Blind
Bundy's and cohorts acquitted!!!!!!!!!!
This won't make the TV media, but it's all over the written media and internet:
Bundy Brothers Acquitted in Takeover of Oregon Wildlife Refuge By Courtney Sherwood and Kirk Johnson
It must have made the New Times staff and CNN quite ill to report this story.
I'm amazed, but shouldn't be, knowing the character and mettle of the Western citizen. I'm waiting the analysis from both sides of the Law. This, to me, is the people speaking out against the Federal and State gov't. Period. The local sheriff was rather reluctant to intervene, but pressured by State and Federal officials. I think, too, the killing of Rob LaVoy under the specter of questionable use of deadly force by the FBI. All the defendants were denied bond. Cameras were forbidden from the court room.
The charges of terrorism and subversion were dropped by the prosecutors. It was very difficult to characterize the squatters as terrorists, certainly in these times. Especially when Oregon has been on the front lines of terrorism as the Feds rounded up members of Islamic terrorist training camps; so, the analogy of these Americans being compared to islamo-nazis is beyond the imagination. And counter chargers that the Feds paid infiltrators to provide intelligence and incite violence is resounding. I can't wait for those transcripts as well.
- Matt Caldwell
