Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Giving up is unforgivable.

The National Guard is not Batman.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

No one could have predicted…

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

You are here: Home / Gun Issues / Ammosexuals / Snack Team Six Trial Day 3: The Political Prisoner is in Court Your Honor

Snack Team Six Trial Day 3: The Political Prisoner is in Court Your Honor

by | 68 Comments

This post is in: , , , , ,

 

Slide1

Today, Ammon Bundy the leader of Snack Team Six, appeared in court wearing his prison scrubs to make the point that he is a political prisoner.

“Mr. Bundy desires to appear as he is, a political prisoner not free to dress as if presumed innocent,” attorney J. Morgan Philpot said, reading his client’s statement. “He would prefer to drop the facade and appear as the political prisoner he has been made.”

U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown asked Bundy to stand. She inquired whether it was his choice to appear in jail attire, and if anyone took his suit away.

“Your honor, I have no comment,” he replied.

The judge told him she must know if his decision was voluntary.

“I have no comment,” he repeated.

Philpot interjected, “Mr. Bundy feels he really has no choice — that that’s been taken from him.”

It appears that Mr. Bundy and the rest of Snack Team 6 seem intent on turning Judge Brown’s court into a circus to suit their own purposes. It remains to be seen just how successful they will be.

Reader Interactions

68Comments

  2. 2.

    Feebog

    They really love playing the victim, don’t they? Tough guys when armed, not so much when faced with the consequences of their actions.

  8. 8.

    Patricia Kayden

    Rachel Maddow just said that Trump is now refusing to say that President Obama was born in the US. More Black outreach, I guess.

  9. 9.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Patricia Kayden: He’s off his leash now that the polls look good for a few days.

    talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-doubles-down-on-birtherism

    ByJOSH MARSHALLPublishedSEPTEMBER 15, 2016, 8:42 PM EDT
    In an interview late Wednesday evening on the tarmac in his private jet in Canton, Ohio, Donald Trump doubled down on history of birtherism. Speaking to The Washington Post’s Robert Costa, Trump suggested he is not inclined to soften his pitch of his positions, even as he tries to appeal to voters outside of his base. He also struck a defiant tone, trumpeting his rising poll numbers, attacking CNN’s Anderson Cooper and claiming the Clinton campaign had made up the phrase ‘alt-right.’

    When pressed on whether he continues to believe the long-refuted claim that President Barack Obama is not a US citizen and was not born in Hawaii, Trump replied, “I’ll answer that question at the right time. I just don’t want to answer it yet.”

    From the Post …
    When asked whether his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was accurate when she said recently that he now believes Obama was born in this country, Trump responded: “It’s okay. She’s allowed to speak what she thinks. I want to focus on jobs. I want to focus on other things.”
    He added: “I don’t talk about it anymore. The reason I don’t is because then everyone is going to be talking about it as opposed to jobs, the military, the vets, security.”

    Later in the interview when pressed on whether his continued birtherism “hangs” over his candidacy and efforts to build support with African-American voters, Trump replied, “I think it hangs over the reporters.”

  10. 10.

    LAO

    I understand Mumford moved for a mistrial at the end of the day based on his cross examination of the director of the refugee. Judge wouldn’t let him cross on adverse possession. This is really insane.

  12. 12.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    “Though your brother’s bound and gagged, and they’ve chained him to a chair”

    Maybe the Bundy Bunch figures that if it worked for the Chicago Eight Seven, it will work for them.

  13. 13.

    piratedan

    @Adam L Silverman: you know, I kind of like chocolate chip cookies, can I humbly suggest that we replace it with a cheezit? for some reason, I think that would be entirely appropriate….

  16. 16.

    Redshift

    Federal judges don’t take any crap. Not do they care if slapping wingnuts with contempt of court citations makes them heroes in the eyes of their wackadoodle brethren.

  20. 20.

    Adam L Silverman

    @raven: I thought about it. Unfortunately that would be “ita ut semper laborum” So “munch hard” seemed appropriate.

  22. 22.

    Miss Bianca

    Oh, the FUG is up with these clowns – I feel like Malvolio:

    My masters, are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do you make an alehouse of my lady’s house, that you squeak out your coziers’ catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

    Did da bwave liddle martyr at least get to wear his cowboy boots with his orange jumpsuit? Cuz, you know, that really makes a statement, there.

    ETA: Did you design their crest? Nice!

  24. 24.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: I forgot nothing. I went through a number of possible images: cake, banana split, fries, potato chips, Cookie Monster, dessert fork. I spent over a 1/2 hour on that crest. It is bespoke. The kind of attention to detail everyone should come to Balloon Juice for!

  25. 25.

    Soylent Green

    Everything about the Bundy gang is 50 percent cosplay. They think they are starring in a John Wayne movie.

    I’m still working in the federal building a block away. Every day this week there’s been a handful of Bundy supporters across the street, waving flags. Some are dressed in cowboy duds. One of them has a horse with him. From time to time, he gallops down the street past the courthouse.

    My bosses have put us all on security alert, but the flag wavers are not gun-toting, outside agitating militia types. They are just a few local rednecks who are playing the part of extras in the Bundy movie.

  28. 28.

    Miss Bianca

    @Gin & Tonic: Ah, The Fugs…heh. For some reason, they didn’t get a lot of airplay back in the day.

    Oh, Ammon was wearing blue today, evidently, not orange. A much wiser cosplaying choice – I’m not sure orange would suit his complexion.

  30. 30.

    Soylent Green

    This is some local guy, with his horse saddled up all day. The other day I was lucky enough to see his daily gallop down the street when I went out for lunch. He has mounted a flag bracket to the saddle so his horse can spare him the task of holding up a big flag all day. I’ll try to get a photo tomorrow.

  31. 31.

    James E Powell

    It appears that Mr. Bundy and the rest of Snack Team 6 seem intent on turning Judge Brown’s court into a circus to suit their own purposes. It remains to be seen just how successful they will be.

    In the United States, the government, including the courts, has a long history of bending over backwards to be accommodating to right wing interests. After all, their only fault is that they love American too much.

  34. 34.

    Schlemazel

    @srv:
    He should be forced to paint a portrait of every soldier that died in Iraq and then one of their family. He should have to live with those eyes looking at him every day of his ugly little life.

  38. 38.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Ruckus: I think I bruised a couple of ribs laughing at the leader of Snack Team Six for that bullshit. Then I got pissed; motherucker’s never even heard of Leonard Peltier and yet has the nerve to call himself a political prisoner. I am not thinking kind – or even civilized – thoughts about Ammo, crown prince of Y’all Quaeda.

  44. 44.

    J R in WV

    How are we so beloved of FSM to have a Balloon-Juice commenter working right down the street from the clown circus judiciarat??

    I’ve been juror at capital murder cases, state criminal court in a rural county. Never attended a Federal court case, although Mrs J has been to many of them. None of the cases either of us has attended has ever been close to as theater of the absurd as this looks to be.

    Really, no one here is accused of murder, only of criminal conspiracies of the absurd. The idea that the District of Columbia is the only ground the Federal Government is allowed to own is too foolish. Where would they test those atom bombs, build those air force bases, manage that fleet of air craft carriers?? Next to the White House?

    I hope the real occasion for laughter is after these yahoo-quaida nuts are convicted and sent away for a long time, while also attending their trial for more serious crimes down in Clitus [sic] Bundy’s fortress of stupidity country.

    Keep up the jolly fun, Adam! I really think the crest needs at least one – oh, uh, well, frankly, and to be exact, a big ole dildo, rampant. With Studly white horse, also rampant. Maybe Betty Cracker could help…

  45. 45.

    Chris

    @Soylent Green:

    That seems to be the nature of the militia movement: 90% of them are just posturing tough guys winding each other up about all the badass things they’re totally GONNA do WHEN the government finally goes too far… whenever that is. Any minute now…

    Most of the violence seems to be lone wolves of very tiny groups of people.

  46. 46.

    Epicurus

    Methinks Bundy should lay in a good stock of those jumpsuits. He’s going to need them where he’s going.

  48. 48.

    Mike E

    @Schlemazel:

    He should be forced to paint a portrait of every soldier that died in Iraq and then one of their family. He should have to live with those eyes looking at him every day of his ugly little life.

    Make it so.

  55. 55.

    MobiusKlein

    @Schlemazel: Bush should paint portraits of every dead Iraqi child, mother, and soldier killed.
    Not sure there is enough oil in the world for that. Perhaps in the next.

  57. 57.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Trump suggested he is not inclined to soften his pitch of his positions, even as he tries to appeal to voters outside of his base.

    Marshall errs here. Drumpf isn’t making the slightest effort to appeal to voters outside his base. He knows the MSM will not make a big deal about this, but he does know it further inflames the rabble that supports him, and, most importantly, they’ll give him the feedback he craves, that he lives for, at his rallies.

  59. 59.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Villago Delenda Est: My take is Trump has decided since the polls are showing a virtual tie and that gave him the confidence to knuckle his advisors and slip their lead. As long as the polling is like this he will be off the lead. Of course that is going to bring the numbers back down. And given that the polling has switched to likely voter models and those have some interesting assumptions for the initial runs last week and this week, based on the sample assumptions they’ll stay tight for another week and then the polling outlets will begin to tweak the model to more accurately capture what the 2016 electorate will likely look like rather than the 2004, 2008, or 2012 electorates they’re basing their sampling on now. Until then I expect Trump to be Trump. Additionally, there have been news reports that Lewandowski is once again on site with Trump at events and seems to be giving instructions to campaign staffers. He is the creator and greatest advocate of the “Let Trump Be Trump” strategy. He is, essentially, Trump’s Trump. If he’s gotten Trump’s ear again, then this could get very, very interesting.

  61. 61.

    JAFD

    Being one of those who “studied Latin in high school, many decades ago…”, that heraldic motto sent me to the dictionary. Found, from the Wiktionary,
    “Adjective
    lacteus m ‎(feminine lactea, neuter lacteum); first/second declension
    Of or pertaining to milk; milky.
    (poetic) Full of milk.
    Milk-drinking, suckling.
    Milk-white.
    (figuratively) Pure.”

    and, with ‘durum’ usually translated as ‘hard’, came up with the colloquial translation, “tough titty”

    Anyway, recently acquired a small army of mounted warriers of the Medieval era, Real Soon Now will get them painted and based and organized, paint the Snack Team Six Crest upon their shields, and send them into battle with Mozart playing in the background…

  62. 62.

    joel hanes

    @LAO:

    Judge Brown has displayed remarkable judicial restraint.

    So far.
    I have a feeling that the judgments and sentencing memoranda in this case will be delicious reading for connoisseurs of a particular flavor of shadenfreude.

    Treating a Federal court as a stage on which to act out your problems is seldom a winning tactic.

  64. 64.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    @Mike E: Please no! I work for a federal collection of museums involved with traveling exhibitions. We’ve already managed to escape a suggestion that we travel that “art”.

  65. 65.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Adam, sorry to be so late to this convo, but your magnificent heraldic design needs tweaking. My understanding of the rules for coats of arms is that a quartered shield has to be at least two colors. Your shield is only the metal silver(aka white). Two of those quarters need to be red, blue, yellow, or green.

  67. 67.

    Humboldtblue

    Speaking of wheat, I picked up a loaf of bread at the co-op last Sunday because I had no idea what “spelt” was. Turns out that “spelt” wheat — triticum spelta — is an old-timey wheat that was pretty much replaced by the modern bread-making wheat and is now making a comeback. I didn’t notice a huge difference in flavor or texture but it did toast up wonderfully.

Comments are closed.