Today is the 10th anniversary of the standoff at Bundy Ranch. It was likely the most significant act of American armed civil disobedience in 160 years. And no one at the time could have predicted how it would end up.
I don't expect everyone to agree with my conclusions but I'm weighing in on the matter from a position of mild authority as an eye witness to much of what took place leading up to the event and what followed.
Here is a column I wrote in April 2014 for St. George News about The Bundys vs. the Bureaucracy.
This was a column about a visit I made to Bundy Ranch two days before the standoff.
The initial trials of those who were at Bunkerville in 2014 were a mockery of the concept of justice.
I had the privilege of attending and reporting from the trial of Cliven, Ammon and Ryan Bundy and Ryan Payne in late 2017.
Once the federal government's false narrative began to unravel, the judge had no choice but to declare a mistrial.
Here is my column of what happened in the courtroom the day the case against the Bundys was dismissed with prejudice.
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