Discussion: Cliven Bundy Requests Court-Appointed Attorney At First Court Appearance

teenlaqueefa · February 12, 2016, 3:05pm

Larson was the best.

ajaykalra · February 12, 2016, 3:05pm

The Tyranny: I want medicare prescribed/covered medications and then get an attorney paid for by govt to fight govt so that I can continue using govt land for free for grazing.

k_in_va · February 12, 2016, 3:05pm

He hasn’t paid me (and other owners of Federal land) our rent for years, and now he wants us (me and all other taxpayers) to hire him an attorney?

tecmage · February 12, 2016, 3:06pm

Hey Cliven, why don’t you explain to other guests there in jail what you know about the Negro, and then explain why you are in jail and why your sons are in jail. They might laugh you into administrative segregation, but you probably like segregation.

tecmage · February 12, 2016, 3:07pm

And don’t forget, it’s a government he doesn’t recognize.

dommyluc · February 12, 2016, 3:07pm

Please, please let it be a black judge, with Cliven representing himself, and the first words out of his mouth are, “Sir, let me tell you about the Negro…”

castor_troy · February 12, 2016, 3:09pm

Irony. The very definition of irony.

misterneutron · February 12, 2016, 3:12pm

Always entertaining when magical thinking meets reality. “Yes, indeedy, if I just recite these magic phrases, thereby proving that I’m not subject to its authority, the court will be struck powerless, and they’ll have to cut me loose. Yeah, that’s it…”

captaincommonsense · February 12, 2016, 3:14pm

Until he’s referred to as “Bundy, CLIVEN D.” with emphasis on the capital letters, he will refuse to answer as he does not answer for his Straw Man that the non-recognized “Government of the Federal United States” (Important: NOT the same thing as the United States of America, which is in abeyance) should be addressing.

antisachetdethe · February 12, 2016, 3:15pm

Cloven is going to have to fill out all kinds of financial disclosure forms, under penalty of perjury

http://www.uscourts.gov/rules-policies/judiciary-policies/cja-guidelines/chapter-2-ss-210-representation-under-cja#a210_40_10

Has to list all assets. That would include his ranch, his pickem up trucks, his guns (Guns are not considered normal household furnishings)

http://www.uscourts.gov/forms/cja-forms/financial-affidavit

teenlaqueefa · February 12, 2016, 3:17pm

I knew a guy who tried the yellow fringe BS when appearing in court for a traffic violation. The judge told him he could either pay his fine or go to jail.

He paid his fine.

georgeh · February 12, 2016, 3:17pm

Shouda been named “Craven” instead of “Cliven”

machoneman · February 12, 2016, 3:17pm

This whole trial, on his side, will be a total joke. Watch him try, as he’s already done, to make a mockery of the process. He’ll refuse to give up financials, claiming that’s his freedom to do so. Then, like these idiots usually do, claim the court has no jurisdiction over him or his actions. On and on and on…

Just keep him in the slammer until he plays ball.

mattinpa · February 12, 2016, 3:19pm

It’s like the Car Guys say, “It’s the cheap guy who pays the most.” If the dumb SOB had just paid his grazing fees to begin with he wouldn’t owe a million bucks in fines plus the costs of criminal trials for himself and his idiot sons.

jootjoint · February 12, 2016, 3:23pm

Bend over and spread your cheeks wide old man!

charliee · February 12, 2016, 3:24pm

Why can’t Bundy pay his lawyer with the fortune he’s saved in grazing fees?

austin_dave · February 12, 2016, 3:26pm

I hope this winds up putting an end to the ridiculous AgriBiz handouts and other farming payout nonsense.

sniffit · February 12, 2016, 3:28pm

Give him top-notch medical treatment, please. I want him to live long enough to enjoy at least the first several years of his prison sentence.

expfcwintergreen · February 12, 2016, 3:31pm

Wait, what? But Cliven Bundy is an expert on the Constitution, just like all these self-anointed “patriots” and FOX News yappers who breathlessly proclaim that Obama is “violating” the Constitution and pass sweeping verdicts of unconstitutionality on everything from Social Security to personal income tax to immigration law to health care! Why would he need a lawyer? The man’s a dad-blamed EXPERT on all things legal! I smell conspiracy! False flag! Someone got to Cliven!!!

rodnchance · February 12, 2016, 3:35pm

I always hated having to do this silly piece of twaddle when I was in Elementary school, still do, but I can finally get a laugh out of it.