A Broken Justice System Rears Its Ugly Head Yet Again

[Anonymous]

https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/27/us/oregon-standoff-ammon-bundy-acquittal/index.html

Seven people who were among the armed occupiers of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon earlier this year were acquitted Thursday of charges related to the 41-day standoff.

Ammon Bundy; his brother, Ryan Bundy; and three other people were found not guilty of firearms charges and conspiracy to impede federal workers. Two others who were acquitted were charged only with conspiracy. The federal jury couldn't reach a verdict on a theft charge against Ryan Bundy.

There was a bit of drama in the courtroom after the decision, CNN affiliate KOIN reported. Ammon Bundy's attorney, Marcus Mumford, was taken down by US Marshals who reportedly used a stun gun on him after the lawyer argued with the judge that his client should be set free. Mumford spent a brief time in custody, KOIN reported.

and on the other you got this....

https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/us/dakota-access-pipeline-protests/

South of Bismarck, North Dakota (CNN)The standoff over the Dakota Access Pipeline is heating up, and protesters say they won't back down.

Long-brewing tensions over the controversial project boiled over Thursday, as police in riot gear faced off with protesters on horseback. After hours of clashes, law enforcement officials arrested 141 people.

A court decision allowing construction of the $3.7 billion pipeline across four states hasn't dampened demonstrators' furor over the project. The developer calls it an economic boon that will make the US less dependent on imported oil. But protesters say it threatens the environment and will destroy Native American burial sites, prayer sites and artifacts.

It's unclear whether Thursday's arrests will slow protest efforts at the construction site in Morton County, North Dakota.

But the message from law enforcement was clear as Humvees and helicopters flooded the area to break up an encampment near the pipeline's path.

Now we look at both cases. and why do I bring up Trumpisms...

Eminent Domain

The power to take private property for public use by a state, municipality, or private person or corporation authorized to exercise functions of public character, following the payment of just compensation to the owner of that property.

Federal, state, and local governments may take private property through their power of eminent domain or may regulate it by exercising their Police Power. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires the government to provide just compensation to the owner of the private property to be taken. A variety of property rights are subject to eminent domain, such as air, water, and land rights. The government takes private property through condemnation proceedings. Throughout these proceedings, the property owner has the right of due process.

Eminent domain is a challenging area for the courts, which have struggled with the question of whether the regulation of property, rather than its acquisition, is a taking requiring just compensation. In addition, private property owners have begun to initiate actions against the government in a kind of proceeding called inverse condemnation.

The pipeline is on PRIVATE PROPERTY and its being SEIZED for a pipe line. Seems like a reoccurring theme...

Now what is the issue with this? As you can see in the above link the TRUMPETeers are cheering because they believe what they did was right. What gives them the right to take over a federal land?

NO RIGHT. But if you want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN you gotta break the rules.