Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues The Legal Forum Let's check in on the cattle abusers, deadbeat grazers, wildlife squatter Bundys

via TV12 Portland

Whoo boy, Friday was a day in Federal court in Las Vegas for the Bundy Cabal because of their armed standoff two years ago with the Bureau of Land Management at Cliven Bundy's ranch in Bunkerville, NV. (Great name for a paranoid conservative Sovereign Citizen to live! )

Despite their best sovereign-citizen legalomancy attempts, they were not set free and commended for patriotism. Instead, Magistrate Judge George Foley Jr. entered not guilty pleas for all five men after they refused to do so (among the many dumb things that sovereign citizens believe is that they can evade court authority by not saying certain phrases). Then everyone had to sit around for an hour and a half listening to the 16-count indictment being read, at the defendants’ insistence.

There was some entertaining stupidity, too. While Ryan Bundy is acting as his own lawyer ( ) in Nevada, Ammon’s attorney from Oregon was in court until he got himself thrown out for using his cell phone while the indictment was being read. Hey, it was boring!

Fellow goofballs Blaine Cooper, Ryan Payne and Brian Cavalier (aren’t those great porn names?) had the same complaints for Judge Foley. Then they added some SovCit nonsense about proper jurisdiction, and tossed a pocket constitution onto the prosecutor’s table. This isn’t your normal pocket constitution, btw; part of the mystique of the Branch Dildonians is their fetishization of an insane annotated version by John Bircher and all around loon W. Cleon Skousen.

So now all 19 of the jerks who pointed guns at the BLM (ALLEGEDLY) have been indicted for their 2014 gun-pointing, while seven face trial in Oregon (including these five).

Meanwhile, the poor cows who are the cause of all the trouble continue to suffer because none of the Bundys are better at ranching than they are at constitutional law. Hundreds of the half-starved, completely undomesticated beasts are still wandering untended on federal land because...again, none of the Bundys are very good at ranchin'.