Still waiting for justice
Posted date February 6, 2016 - 8:36am
By Steve Sebelius
Las Vegas Review-Journal
... back at his Bunkerville ranch, Bundy patriarch Cliven Bundy is insisting (despite an FBI video released to the public) that Finicum was murdered in cold blood. He's written to the sheriff, the governor of Oregon and President Barack Obama, saying that "we the people" will keep the federal reserve property.
Pretty mouthy for a welfare cowboy who stopped paying his grazing fees 20 years ago and now owes more than $1 million to the federal government. Authorities are supposedly still investigating the 2014 standoff at Bundy's ranch near Bunkerville, which was lousy with well-armed pretend soldiers after Bundy called for a "range war" as the Bureau of Land Management moved in to seize his illegally grazing cattle.
The question has been asked repeatedly since that standoff ended, mercifully without bloodshed: When will Cliven Bundy and his merry band face charges similar to those his sons now face in Oregon? ...
Where's justice for Cliven? And where's the federal government when its officials in rural areas are reportedly harassed and even fired upon by persons unknown? The occupation of the Malheur refuge was merely annoying and even comical (up until Finicum's death, at least) compared with Bundy's huge unpaid tax bill and the lawlessness that continues to rage on the range in Nevada ...
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