Burns, Oregon, Is Not Bundy Ranch

By Chuck Baldwin January 7, 2016

Let me be clear: the situation in Oregon does not remotely compare to the events that took place at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada. In Nevada, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was the aggressor, which included a very real threat of violence against the Bundy family. The Bundy family appealed to their neighbors and friends for help. And help rightly arrived. The legal nuances of the Bundy situation notwithstanding, BLM gave the appearance of preparing another Waco incident that just could not be tolerated. Over 80 innocent Americans, including elderly men and women and small children, were murdered by our federal government during that unconscionable raid. There must NEVER be another Waco in this country.
The decision of Ammon Bundy (Cliven Bundy’s son)--and the men who are with him--to mount an armed takeover of the remote, empty Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in Harney County outside Burns, Oregon, is unwise, careless, and downright foolish. There is no just cause for such action.
Previous to the move to take over the federal building, a peaceful protest in support of the Hammond family had taken place in Burns. This protest was commendable and well-conducted. Hundreds of local residents took part in that peaceful protest. The local community of Burns was very sympathetic to the plight of the Hammonds and rightly angered by the federal government’s treatment of them.
Dwight Hammond, Jr. and his son Steven had been arrested, tried, and convicted of arson for the burning of federal land that adjoins Hammond land. The Hammonds say they were burning their land for agricultural purposes and the fire inadvertently spread to federal land. The feds say the Hammonds burned the land to cover up poaching. The two men were found guilty by a jury and sentenced to five years in prison. A district court judge found the sentences to be excessive (and therefore unconstitutional) and sentenced the men to less time; but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overruled the lesser sentence and the five year prison term was reinstated.

Open Swim for Lawyers!

By Anna Von Reitz

It's Late, Past Midnight Again.....

I just want to send out a little LOVE to all the Bar Association Members out there who are feeling like I really hate their guts and want to bash their rice bowls and do all sorts of mean, bad, and nasty things to them. (It's probably just an overactive guilty conscience, indigestion, or the flu.)

Of course, putting a huge commercial obligation lien on their organizations and reminding everyone that they are out of compliance with the Bar Association Treaty that allows them to be on our soil at all and that they have functioned as licensed privateers on our shores and helped defraud the American people and deny us remedy we are owed and generally been heavy contributors to the rotten state of the world in general....yes, I can see why you think that I despise members of the BAR.

What I really think is that many of you, more than half, have been kept as ignorant as your victims. I think that there are plenty of patriotic, God-fearing, decent, hard-working American Lawyers out there, who just need to do one thing to be reinstated as Americans and loyal members of Decent Society: tear up your BAR cards.

Just tear them up and set yourselves free. And then join us in the biggest housecleaning in history! Join the American Common Law Court System founded 1602, by far the oldest and most honorable Court System in the country, the most powerful, the most interesting, and by far the sweetest to work for.

Go to bed at night and sleep like a child (which I am about to do). Have a spotlessly clean conscience. Smile at all the poor sots that are being pelted with rotten eggs by outraged citizens. Be a hero instead. Best of all, actually do what you have been trained to do, and do it in an honorable way and for an honorable cause--- to save the country of your birth, to protect your family and friends and neighbors.

Don't stand around worrying that you won't be able to work in the courts. Pretty soon all the Special Admiralty courts in this country are going to be shut down. Pretty soon, the Federal Courts are going to be reduced to arguing over how many bales of hay were filched by Department of Agriculture employees last year. Pretty soon the only "Admiralty" cases you will ever see or hear about, will be actual cases in Admiralty--- you know, with real ships and real cargo? Imagine it.

Do you all realize that the Bar Associations that have indulged in all these crimes against America and Americans are also in violation of all sorts of Federal Law? They have been operating closed union shops for decades in open defiance of the Taft-Hartley Act and the Smith Act--- and getting away with it. They've been cracking the whip and controlling appointments and threatening you whenever you aren't politically correct? They've been increasing the fees and the penalties until its like dealing with the Gestapo and there is that really UNSAVORY "political" feeling to all of it?

Yup.

Whether you are a rat or not, it's time to jump ship and start swimming.

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A Reply to Stewart Rhode's Recommended Honorable Exit Strategy For Ammon Bundy From Judge Anna

You can see Stewart Rhodes recommended exit strategy at this link:
https://www.oathkeepers.org/a-recommended-honorable-exit-strategy-for-ammon-bundy/

By Anna Von Reitz   January 7th 2016



This is certainly a principled argument that speaks well of Stewart Rhodes and his approach to self-government at the local level.  

In our system of things, the true power stays with the individual who delegates to the county who delegates to the state who delegates to the federal government. 

Not the other way around. 

It is true that the local people have got to have the cajones to take a stand and until they do, you can lead a horse to water, but can't make him drink. 

You can prove that their property rights are being violated by thugs----commercial mercenaries acting under color of law----and you can offer to stand with them, but until they find the courage and conviction to free themselves, nobody else can do that for them. All that is perfectly true. 

However, there is a bone to pick with the Oathkeepers as an organization and with Stewart Rhodes; I have already picked it once and I shall pick it again.   It does not remain for any one small group of people to determine whether our Constitution and our Law of the Land is respected or not.  

That kind of thinking leads to "sanctuary cities" and armed bands of thugs holding mountain passes and robbing travelers while claiming that is okay because that is the "law" of Harney County.