The Bundys are in the same league as the people who released the Pentagon Papers? LOL. That's rich.
Any reader here who thinks that the BLM is seeking revenge for their embarrassing loss at Bundy Ranch in 2014 can compare that imagery with the outrage which possessed Richard Nixon when the NYTimes came out with the Pentagon Papers. Fact ? government always hates dissent against government?s desired policies. Fact ? governments throughout history have been known to punish severely any who dare dissent. Fact ? government always thinks it knows best, and dissent is a tool of ?the enemy?.
And now we?re at the point wherein the analogy of the prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg matches the prosecutorial antics of the government in seeking revenge for our cowboys? victory at Bundy Ranch. Quite some time after the Ellsberg trial had been completed, the infamous ?Oval Office Tapes? surfaced. The relevant tapes are reproduced in Ellsberg?s book, and they are not pretty to contemplate. Nixon, for one thing, had a ?potty-mouth?. His sessions with Kissinger were marked with profanity, some too horrendous to reprint here. He wanted Ellsberg badly, and was wildly upset that the FBI could not find Ellsberg. But during some of the tapes Nixon set himself up to finally be Ellsberg?s liberator. He literally ordered Howard Hunt to organize the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg?s psychiatrist?s office, a fact which, as truth so often does, came out in court. He had the CIA organize a hit squad to come from Miami to Washington to physically teach Ellsberg a punishing lesson. And that crew of CIA ?assets?, those thugs for hire, got reassigned to burglarize the Watergate Hotel where the DNC headquarters was housed. Nixon also ordered the illegal wiretapping of various people inside government positions in his effort to locate Ellsberg and also to try to learn if Ellsberg was holding any further damaging top-secret information which might come out later.
Not necessarily associated with Nixon?s drive, other elements of government decided to destroy or ?lose? papers which the court wanted in Ellsberg?s trial.
Each of those crimes were documented in their planning stage once Nixon?s Oval Office tapes went ?public?. But the release of the Oval Office tapes was much later than the trial, which was where these presidential crimes were first discovered.
Here is the now-famous statement by the Honorable Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr.
Case Dismissed: Judge Matthew Byrne?s Ruling in the Trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo (May 11, 1973)
Here are the reasons Judge Byrne dismissed the case with prejudice. The government had lost or destroyed relevant papers.