FBI arrests Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in Portland
ASSOCIATED PRESS / JAN. 27
Rancher Cliven Bundy is photographed near his Nevada ranch in late January. Bundy was arrested by authorities after he arrived at Portland International Airport.
PORTLAND, Ore. >> Cliven Bundy, the father of the jailed leader of the Oregon refuge occupation and who was the center of a standoff with federal officials in Nevada in 2014, was arrested in Portland, the FBI said.
Authorities arrested the 74-year-old Nevada rancher after he arrived at Portland International Airport from Las Vegas Wednesday night. He was booked into the lockup just before 11 p.m., according to Multnomah County Jail records. No charges were listed and his projected release date was listed as unknown.
The FBI confirmed Bundy was taken into federal custody but declined to provide a reason or other details, saying further information would be released by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Las Vegas, which did not respond to a phone call early Thursday.
The Oregonian reported Bundy will face a conspiracy charge of interfering with a federal officer related to the stalemate at his ranch in 2014.
In March of that year, Bundy clashed with federal officials over grazing rights on government land. Federal officials eventually backed away from seizing his cattle, but the dispute remains unresolved.
The Bureau of Land Management says the family has not made payments toward a $1.1 million grazing fee and penalty bill.
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In the 2014 showdown, Cliven Bundy justified his actions in religious terms, saying that he decided to challenge federal agents after praying for guidance.
Armed group leader Ammon Bundy had been demanding that the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon be handed over to local control for ranching, mining, logging and other uses and that that two jailed ranchers in the area be freed.
Authorities arrested Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and other group leaders as they traveled to a community meeting Jan. 26 north of the refuge when authorities set up a road block.
Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, the group’s spokesman, was killed in a confrontation with the FBI and Oregon State Police on the remote road.
Bundy and others arrested in conjunction with the standoff face felony charges of conspiracy to impede federal officials in their official duties through the use of force, intimidation or threats.
13 responses to “FBI arrests Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in Portland”
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So Clive Bundy claims to have direct access the some god, who directed him to not pay grazing fees and penalties, essentially claiming that he has a god-given right to occupy federal land, which belongs to the American taxpayers, for free. Wow! What a deal! Give me a break!
Bundy is a thief who fooled Fox news into thinking he was a hero. Jail the fool!
God told me not to pay my bills. Lol.
God told me to make meth on public lands. Don’t tell me what I can’t do Federal government.
Q: What’s the difference between Clive Bundy and his buddies proclaiming that they are doing God’s work and the ISIS/Taliban thugs claiming making the same claim? A: Nothing.
They should be charged for Lavoy’s death, because it happened as a consequence of their felony. In other cases on the mainland, people have been charged for the death of other persons killed by police because, legally, they are responsible for any death that results from their felony behavior. In one case a robber was charged with murder when police shot and killed his accomplice. And recently the father who pulled a gun on a process server was charged with the death of his daughter, who was killed when the process server defended himself. The same principles should apply here. Charge the who group for Lavoy’s death.
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I know many ranchers in the West who are glad to rent grazing land on publicly-owned pastures and consider this guy a poor rancher and a thief! With this land there is a measure of local control by an elected board, to prevent things like over-grazing. It’s a system that’s worked well for many years until these publicity-hounds came along.
Bundy is a flawed individual who took a heroic stand against the Federal Govt.’s capricious expansion of fees and regulations on what were once public lands for the use of the public. Poorly-informed posters who compare him to Isis or attack his admittedly odd religious views are really missing the point.
No, Bundy is a WELFARE KING who refused to pay the low fees that everyone else did.
And we all know what happens when there is zero regulation of common goods. It’s like you never went to school and have no understanding of the “Tragedy of the Commons.”
His son, if this was back in the 1700s or 1800s would have been shot and buried by now for insurgency.
He was, for a short time, useful to Fox News as a prop for their propaganda and entertainment. They boosted him to national fame until he opened his mouth to reveal his evil racism and low intellect. Fox News quickly wrote him out of their script.
Have you any evidence of Bundy receiving welfare?
I’m not sure if you understand the concept of the tragedy of the commons. It requires depletion of a common resource, something never alleged in this case and clearly not germane.
Who, exactly, would have shot the younger Bundy in those past centuries when there was no heavily-armed Bureau of Land Mgmt. aiming semi-automatic weapons at US citizens?
Tell me how Bundy wasn’t being subsidized when he refused to pay the grazing fees literally every other rancher did. You clearly have no problem when your ideological counterpart is getting welfare.
And you just proved you don’t understand the tragedy of the commons. By removing the entity that PREVENTS the tragedy of the commons, as you are arguing for, the conditions of depletion occur because there is no one to prevent each user from taking whatever they want from the public good.
You clearly are unaware of the outcome of the Whiskey rebellion.