The feds changed the grazing rules in 1993 to protect the Desert Tortoise and Bundy and other ranchers disputed the changes, starting the problems with dozens of western ranchers. The changes resulted in severe restrictions to grazing rights for the ranchers in Clark County, Nevada.
The Bundy family was raising cattle for a decade before the BLM was formed.
BLM used the Desert Tortoise excuse to cover for Harry Reid's greedy deeds.
The protestors were armed in Oregon but the Bundy ranch protestors were peaceful. Bundy ranch protestors were armed with FLAGS. Then the Arizona Militia arrived.
The BLM had no legal right to shoot the cattle or to run them to death with helicopters. BLM claimed only 6 cattle were killed but evidence proved they buried (tried to hide the evidence) dozens. BLM also lied claiming the Bundy cattle were being mistreated WHERE WAS PETA when you need them?
Add in the FAKE FBI Documentary where FBI agents posed as filmmakers to extort information from Bundy and his supporters. FBI pressed set up a fake website for the production company and deploying cameras, lights, sound equipment — everything they needed to appear professional — for the operation. The working title of the FBI’s documentary was “America Reloaded.”
Associated Press and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, representing 25 other news organizations, wrote letters to FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Eric Holder objecting to the practice of impersonating journalists in criminal investigations.
“We want the American citizens to know that for the first time in almost 200 years, normal, average citizens, hardworking Americans, stood up, and they stood up against, you know, the tyrannical government, and they were able to get the government to back down”. BS given to Bundy supporters to get interviews by FBI agents.
Ryan Bundy is suspicious and began to investigate Longbow Productions.
“I just want to be straight forward with you,” Ryan told her. “With your company, there’s been a bunch of red flags go up in our mind. And that hasn’t happened with a lot of other companies.”
“OK,” Anna said.
“Now, we looked up your address, and it looks like your business is being run out of a federal building,” Ryan said. “Is that correct?”
“What?” Anna said, her voice rising.
“Is your address to your main company a federal building in Nashville, Tennessee?”
“No,” Anna said, giving Ryan an address to an office building about a mile from Vanderbilt University.
“But that’s not a federal building?” Ryan asked.
“No,” Anna insisted. (LIED)
“I’m not a liar,” Anna replied.
But Anna was a liar, and a good one, skilled enough to undercut Ryan’s suspicions and persuade him, his father, and his brothers to sit for interviews. Three weeks after this phone call, Cliven Bundy arrived at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
The FBI scheme was to get the Bundys to admit to collusion between them and the Arizona Militia, but the Bundys never invited the AZ Militia, period!
How an Undercover FBI Agent Ended Up in Jail After Pretending to Be a Journalist
Cliven has 14 children and 60 grandchildren who are running the ranch today. The Bundys are not wealthy Texas ranchers, just a hard working family who all live on the ranch.
Karma: Johnson was arrested in Glendale, Colorado doing undercover work without a license. Anyone doing contract investigations work needed to be licensed as a private investigator in the state.
When he was arrested, Johnson was carrying three different state identification cards, from Tennessee, Hawaii, and Florida, as well as expensive camera equipment. He also had a business card identifying himself as an “investigative consultant” and listing the same Nashville, Tenn., address and phone numbers as Longbow Productions, the fake documentary company the FBI set up to film the Bundys and their supporters. Johnson maintained his innocence, pointing out that there was an exemption in Colorado law for journalists and that a journalist had hired him to ask questions in Glendale. BOTTOM LINE: You can't pretend to be a journalist in CO. while doing private investigative work.
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