If you go.
Go big.
Participant in Cliven Bundy standoff sentenced to 68 years in prison
The weight of a heavy sentence landed in the quiet federal courtroom Wednesday morning, leaving Gregory Burleson occasionally stroking his graying beard and his attorney pleading unsuccessfully for leniency.
The 53-year-old Burleson was the first to be sentenced for his role in the 2014 standoff between federal agents and supporters of Cliven Bundy near his Nevada ranch.
He got 68 years in prison.
U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro did take into account his blindness and frailty — he sat in a wheelchair during the hearing — but she also reminded Burleson of his crimes, which included threatening a federal law enforcement officer, obstruction of justice and interstate travel in aid of extortion.
She said agents — who hunkered down in a wash while Bundy supporters trained guns on them, recorded them and shouted at them — were scarred from the experience and suffered mental trauma.
“That isn’t something that heals over with a scab,” Navarro said. “You can’t put it in a cast or stitch it up.”
Yelling shouting and pointing guns at folks is normal operating procedure for the government.
But that's different I guess.
Murderers get less time than that.
Just goes to show they are better than you and you better not fucking forget it you serfs.
What a country.
Go big.
Participant in Cliven Bundy standoff sentenced to 68 years in prison
The weight of a heavy sentence landed in the quiet federal courtroom Wednesday morning, leaving Gregory Burleson occasionally stroking his graying beard and his attorney pleading unsuccessfully for leniency.
The 53-year-old Burleson was the first to be sentenced for his role in the 2014 standoff between federal agents and supporters of Cliven Bundy near his Nevada ranch.
He got 68 years in prison.
U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro did take into account his blindness and frailty — he sat in a wheelchair during the hearing — but she also reminded Burleson of his crimes, which included threatening a federal law enforcement officer, obstruction of justice and interstate travel in aid of extortion.
She said agents — who hunkered down in a wash while Bundy supporters trained guns on them, recorded them and shouted at them — were scarred from the experience and suffered mental trauma.
“That isn’t something that heals over with a scab,” Navarro said. “You can’t put it in a cast or stitch it up.”
Yelling shouting and pointing guns at folks is normal operating procedure for the government.
But that's different I guess.
Murderers get less time than that.
Just goes to show they are better than you and you better not fucking forget it you serfs.
What a country.