Harry Reid, the Turtle and the Bundy's Ranch

If you think that the DNC and Hillary's pals in Broward county would NEVER frame an innocent autistic boy for the Commie gun grabbers, may I remind you how they tried to destroy the Bundy's for a big donor. They almost locked them up for years.

The Bundys are finally free, the Obama/Clinton administrations' blatant Federal land grabs are exposed, and Comey's FBI has been revealed once again as liars, bullies and frauds. Another nail in the coffin of the fake news narrative known as the "Obama scandal-free administration."

Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed all the charges against the Bundy men and accused the Obama administration's Federal prosecutors of “flagrant misconduct,” throwing out the case with prejudice, which means it cannot be brought again. Navarro had already declared a mistrial in December, having found the FBI and Federal prosecutors repeatedly withheld evidence that could have been favorable to the Bundys.

“The government’s conduct in this case was indeed outrageous,” Navarro said from the bench. “There has been flagrant misconduct, substantial prejudice and no lesser remedy is sufficient.”

Under BLM permits first issued in 1954, Bundy grazed his cattle legally and paid his grazing fees on the Bunkerville Allotment in Nevada until 1993. In 1989, the Federal government declared the desert tortoise an endangered species and began negotiating a habitat conservation plan in Clark County, NV to meet the needs of both the tortoise and the people, such as Bundy, who were using the land. In mid-1991, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service approved a short-term conservation plan that allowed for development of about 22,000 acres of tortoise habitat in and around Las Vegas in exchange for strict conservation measures on 400,000 acres of federal BLM land south of the city. This included the elimination of livestock grazing and strict limits on off-road vehicle use in the protected tortoise habitat. In 1993, a permanent conservation plan was put into place by the Clinton administration that more than DOUBLED the conservation area, and included the Bundy's Bunkerville Allotment.

Bundy refused to sell his grazing privileges back to the federal government and said the Federal Government had no right to seize this land. 21 years later, on March 27, 2014, the Obama administration ordered 145,604 acres of federal land in Clark County temporarily closed for the "capture, impound, and removal of trespass cattle." Obama BLM officials and law enforcement rangers began a roundup of Bundys livestock. On April 12, 2014, a group of protesters approached the BLM "cattle gatherer" and there was a 41-day standoff. Sheriff Doug Gillespie negotiated with Bundy and newly-confirmed BLM director Neil Kornze, who elected to release the cattle and de-escalate the situation. As of the end of 2015, Cliven Bundy continued to graze his cattle on federal land.

On February 10, 2016, Cliven Bundy traveled to Portland, Oregon. The Comey FBI arrested Bundy at the airport and he was incarcerated at the Multnomah County Jail. He was indicted for 16 federal felonies on February 17, along with Ammon and Ryan Bundy, militia leader Ryan Payne, and broadcaster Peter Santilli, who were already under arrest for their role in the standoff. Another 14 individuals were charged on March 3, 2016.

Each of the four defendants faced multiple felony charges including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, weapon possession, assault and threatening federal officers. Guilty verdicts could have resulted in decades-long prison sentences.

Federal prosecutors took two years to bring charges after the uprising at the family ranch near Bunkerville, Nevada. Then they attempted to bolster their case with an undercover operation in which FBI agents posed as a documentary film crew to secure interviews with the Bundys.

The FBI claimed that the Bundys tried to kill federal agents. But soon, the FBI's case began to unravel and they were proven liars — over a bag of shredded documents found in a dumpster at the federal staging area for the cattle roundup in 2014.

The shredded documents revealed from an FBI surveillance camera overlooking the Bundy ranch, and threat assessments from multiple agencies, that said the Bundys were not prone to violence, despite the prosecution’s argument that the men posed a danger to the community. If convicted of the multiple felony charges against them, they all faced decades in prison.

The prosecution’s case was also undermined by a document the FBI had snipers near the Bundy ranch in the days leading up to the standoff — a fact that the lead prosecutor had denied!

The Bundys’ fight began as a land dispute. But it quickly became a rallying cry for patriots across America. Cliven Bundy, the family patriarch who had declared a “range war” against the BLM, called himself a “political prisoner."

“I came in this courtroom an innocent man and I’m going to leave as an innocent man. I hope the message that standing is the right thing, and not being afraid — but also doing it peacefully. The Feds stuck guns down our throat. People need to recognize their rights and stand on them and use them, and then when it comes time to defend them, they need to defend them.”

A tortoise wasn’t the reason why BLM was harassing a 67 year-old rancher. They wanted his land. The tortoise wasn’t of concern when Harry Reid worked BLM to literally change the boundaries of the tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the development of his top donor, Harvey Whittemore. Whittemore was convicted of illegal campaign contributions to Senator Reid. Reid’s former senior adviser is now the head of BLM. Reid is accused of using the new BLM chief as a puppet to control Nevada land (already over 84% of which is owned by the federal government) and pay back special interests. BLM has proven that they’ve a situational concern for the desert tortoise as they’ve had no problem waiving their rules concerning wind or solar power development. Clearly these developments have vastly affected a tortoise habitat more than a century-old, quasi-homesteading grazing area. If only Clive Bundy were a big Reid donor. Whittemore was called "one of Nevada's most powerful men." In 2012, Whittemore came under grand jury investigation, initiated by the Federal Election Commission, to determine whether he should be indicted for breaking federal campaign contribution laws. He was charged with four felonies with convictions on three of the counts, and sentenced September 2013 to two years in prison. He was also given a $100,000 fine, along with two years supervision after his incarceration and 100 hours community service.

Whittemore was the president of Coyote Springs Investment, LLC, the land-development company behind Coyote Springs, a controversial $30 billion planned golf course community of 160,000 homes on 43,000 acres in the rural Nevada desert. Whittemore's close relationship with Senator Harry Reid came under scrutiny because of perceived legislative and political pressure favors allowing Coyote Springs to overcome regulatory problems.