For anyone who thinks this is just another Bundy Ranch update, think again. This is a note from Ammon Bundy describing exactly what's going on in the real world of overblown, abusive government in the 21st century.
This guy hits the freedom nail right on the head. He describes in just a few short sentences the whole concept of the reason for America to exist in the first place. It’s this kind of response to unethical government that needs to be repeated again and again, till "they" get the idea that we mean business and we take our rights and sovereignty seriously.
We must all stand up for EVERY right we have a right to. When they drag us through their mud, we must fight back and make them pay. Don't ever assume they are automatically allowed to do what they do.
Read the Constitution; know by heart what it says and when it says IT, (the Constitution), is the "Supreme Law of the Land", we should all know how to defend that. Their actions should always have to follow the Constitution. “We” need to MAKE “them” do it. We are at a crossroads where we must now decide on which path we will go. There is no more time to wait or decide. We must decide TODAY! Decide!
August 6, 2014
To: Sheriff Doug Gillespie, Clark County Nevada Sheriff's Department,
In a recent press conference, you mentioned
1) the BLM lied to you and:
2) Bundy brought armed men to the ranch for protection.
While I can't speak to the validity of your first claim, we unequivocally take issue with the second. We never asked for armed men to come to our aid. In fact, everyone who arrived at the Bundy ranch (men, women, armed & unarmed) voluntarily came to support the constitutional rights that you failed to defend. Had you not neglected your duty to defend our rights, the rights of the very people for whom you swore a solemn oath to defend, there never would have been a standoff in the first place.
So while you chastise my family and pontificate about how "Bundy should be held accountable for crossing the line", let it be known that the responsibility for this escalation rests primarily at the doorstep of the Clark County Sheriff's office.
Please allow me a moment to remind you of some of the history leading up to that day:
- Hundreds of militarized agents invaded our community and terrorized us.
- They seized the land by gunpoint, claiming it as their own.
- They not only threatened, but actually inflicted bodily harm on anyone who stepped onto the land. Remind you, this land was cared for, cultivated and improved upon by my family and the community for many generations.
- A 57 year old cancer surviving woman was body slammed by a federal agent, for doing nothing more than exercising her first amendment rights.
- As we sat in the sniper's cross-hairs, federal agents shoved M-16 rifles into the faces of our wives who were holding our infant children.
- Dave was, kicked, beaten, battered, loaded into a federal truck and taken to the BLM compound to become the BLM trophy. They paraded him around in the sun, cruelly ridiculing him for hours, tightly bound (without water). After they had their fun with him, they dump him out on the road and covered up any legal proof that they even took him.
These are just a few of the atrocities that were inflicted upon my family and the community - who was peacefully protesting. The only thing we pointed at those agents, were cameras to capture their atrocities for the world to see. In return, they released dogs on us, they tazed us, they beat us and they abused us in order to intimidate us.
When our first amendment rights were stripped down to a 20'x50' box, you did nothing. When armed men trampled my brother, beat him and nearly took his life, you refused to protect. When women, infants, and children were held captive at gunpoint by angry and violent men, our cries for help fell on deaf ears.
When men and women literally wounded and bleeding were in need of emergency assistance, because you allowed these heavy hands to afflict us, you then refused the emergency medical services to be dispatched for our care.
When we called, you said, "there wasn't anything you could do". You said, "this fight was between the Bundy's and the BLM". However, you commanded your deputies to stand by while their own families and community members were being inflicted upon and threatened with lethal weapons.
Sheriff, your response demonstrates that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of your place in our government. You have more authority and responsibility than any federal agency, and yet you cowardly forced the people to defend themselves.
Evidence in your power and responsibility was never more apparent than at the standoff. When your deputies told the federal agents to back down - the federal agents backed down. They backed down because your deputies who had constitutional and jurisdictional authority from the people, finally did what the people hired you and them to do, and insisted that these federal agents stop their abuses.
In the end, your deputies did the right thing, but Sheriff, you should have never let it come to this. While the BLM was willing to shoot my family over land and power, we were willing to die for our families, our livelihoods and our constitutional rights. You should have been defending these rights for us. That's what we elected you to do.
Thankfully, the American people came to our defense. They came to our defense because you failed to do your duty. For that you should be grieved and held accountable.
I offer warning to you and other government personnel that lead or follow your example. The people are in unrest because of these types of egregious actions. The purpose of government is to protect and uphold the unalienable rights of the people, not to infringe upon them. It is our duty and obligation to defend our God-given rights if our government representatives fail to do so, or tries to discard them. We as citizens desire to live in peace and tranquility, but will defend our freedoms if necessary, in order to do so. I call upon you Sheriff Gillespie, and all civil servants, to honorably effectuate the true purpose of government, to uphold the oaths and duties of your sworn offices-to truly be representative of the people, by the people and for the people.
I leave you with the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson:
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Sincerely,
Ammon Bundy
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It is my prayer that this man's resolve to stand for what is right and just in the sight of God and those who profess to be His will inspire the uninitiated to do likewise and support the other CLEO's who have re-affirmed their oath of office. Though it's been months since I congratulated our sheriff for honoring a writ of demand for release (twice) for lack of sufficient warrant, this will be forwarded to her office for further encouragement. May God bless the Bundy's and all who preach the gospel of liberty we have in a resurrected Christ. - Kevin Smith
Well said! The sheriff knew he held the right to remove the federals from the land, and he has violated his oath of office. It's too bad when you have someone who is too afraid to do their job, but one good thing is, he is not running for reelection!
From what I've seen, there are lots of Clark County officials, including judges, care nothing about their oath of office. When judges intentionally refuse to rule on motions, ignore defendant's constitutional rights, and stand by allowing corrupt attorneys to bring fictitious litigation, knowing the attorney committed fraud in filing the action and went as far as violating the Rules of the Court, and the judge covers up motions to dismiss for cause, how can you expect John Q. Public to stay within the laws.
Corruption begets corruption and the only way to stop it is to have a sheriff like Joe Arpaio.
I have sent this far and wide - We, the People ARE of one body, one mindset...and that is about our freedom and liberty.
... and when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government...' Declaration of Independence.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice !
Well said Doc,
It's time to break out the big words and make these guys tow the line, so we don't have to throw them in jail or even worse shoot them down where they stand. Corruption is the root of rebellion.