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Bundy seeks ‘idiot’
protection in court
Declares himself
sovereign citizen
of ‘bundy society’
By RYAN HAAS
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Malheur
National
Wildlife Refuge occupier
Ryan Bundy iled a series
of court motions late
Thursday, declaring himself
a sovereign citizen who isn’t
subject to federal laws.
Bundy, who is repre-
senting himself in the
conspiracy case against the
refuge occupiers, declares
himself an “idiot of the
‘Legal Society’” and not
subject to federal law,
according to the documents.
“I, ryan c, man, am an
idiot of the ‘Legal Society’;
and; am an idiot (layman,
outsider) of the ‘Bar Associa-
tion’; and; i am incompetent;
and; am not required by any
law to be competent,” Bundy
wrote in a motion iled to
U.S. District Court Judge
Anna Brown.
The ilings are the latest
in increasingly deiant
and strange behavior from
Bundy, including an alleged
escape attempt from the
Multnomah County Deten-
tion Center.
As justiication for the
ilings separating himself
from U.S. laws, Bundy iled
Bundy
a motion declaring himself
a sovereign citizen of the
“bundy society.” Within that
iling, he declared himself a
creation of God rather than a
“person” as deined by legal
dictionaries, and therefore is
not subject to laws.
Bundy also wrote that
his wife and children are
members of the Bundy
society, Brown is guilty of
perjury, and that he believes
his home state of Nevada
and the state of Oregon are
not within the United States.
Instead, Bundy said both
states are “sovereign union
states” that are not within
the jurisdiction of the U.S.,
which he said is limited to
the District of Columbia.
Bundy’s declaration of
sovereign citizenry is signed
by his brother and fellow
occupier, Ammon Bundy,
as a witness. Both Bundys
were leaders of the 41-day
occupation of the wildlife
refuge near Burns, Oregon.
Self-declared “sovereign
citizens” have a long, if
unsuccessful, history of
declaring themselves not
subject to federal laws.
Bundy also told the
court in the ilings that any
past signatures by him are
now invalid and that U.S.
marshals and other law
enforcement are illegally
holding him in jail. He
wrote that he should be paid
$1 million to ill the “role”
of defendant in the case.
Bundy muses in the
iling that he is “willing to
consider” playing the role of
judge or bailiff in the case if
the court pays him a similar
sum.
“I, ryan c, man, will
charge
$100,000,000.00
if any man or woman or
PERSON places another
order for [me] to come
before the court again
regarding this matter,”
Bundy wrote.
Bundy additionally said
the federal government
tried to kill him when he
was arrested Jan. 26 during
a trafic stop, and he should
be paid $800 million “to
restore i to the wholeness i
enjoyed prior to begin taken
and carried away.”
Bundy is scheduled
to return to court next
Wednesday for a status
hearing.
Kitzhaber talk won’t veer from health care
By NICK BUDNICK
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — Former
Gov. John Kitzhaber will
speak in Portland Monday,
continuing his effort to
reenter public life since
resigning his elected ofice
more than a year ago amid
a federal inluence-peddling
probe.
But if you go hear him
speak at First Congregational
Church in downtown Port-
land, don’t count on hearing
a lot about Kitzhaber’s
departure from Mahonia
Hall. The public’s questions
at the City Club forum called
“Healthcare in the U.S.
— Are we ready for more
reform?” will be limited to
the topic at hand, says Mike
Marshall, the City Club’s
executive director.
“It’s out of deference to
all of the panelists and all of
the people coming who want
to talk about health care,”
Marshall said.
Other
speakers
at
the 3 p.m. event include
Don
Berwick,
former
administrator of the federal
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services; Alisha
Moreland-Capuia, executive
director of the Avel Gordly
Center for Healing at OHSU;
and Dr. Paul Gorman, an
OHSU professor and single-
payer advocate who will
serve as moderator.
Kitzhaber and his partner
Cylvia Hayes continue to be
the subject of a joint FBI-IRS
investigation, though no
charges have been iled. At
issue: whether federal laws
were broken in Kitzhaber
making Hayes an inluential
energy adviser even as she
accepted outside payments
from advocacy groups
seeking to inluence state
policy.
Kitzhaber, who was
largely invisible during the
year following his resig-
nation, has become more
public of late. In March he
released a video on Facebook
and, in an interview with
Oregon Public Broadcasting,
expressed conidence the
probe would clear him. He
told OPB reentering public
life is part of his plan to
become a consultant, saying,
“If you’re going to do some
consulting, people need to
know you’re alive and well.”
Given Kitzhaber’s reputa-
tion in health care circles, his
appearance is “a real coup”
for City Club, Marshall
said. The former governor is
known for his role fostering
the creation and evolution of
the Medicaid-funded Oregon
Health Plan, which provides
services to low-income
Oregonians and relies on
rationing, privatization and
Kitzhaber
the pursuit of alternative
payment models to reduce
waste.
Kitzhaber
is
“very
excited” to speak about an
issue he is passionate about,
according to Marshall, who
managed Kitzhaber’s reelec-
tion campaign.
In limiting speakers’ ques-
tions, the Monday event will
differ from the City Club’s
regularly scheduled Friday
Forums, where attendees
have a great deal of freedom
to ask questions of speakers.
Marshall
says
the
limitation on questions at
the forum is not a matter
of giving his former boss
special treatment. Rather, he
says, it is standard practice
for the issue forums the City
Club holds, which are orga-
nized by volunteers and draw
a more specialized audience.
Organizers of the event
have already had to change
locations twice to accommo-
date the expected crowd.
Typically, the City Club’s
Friday forums draw no more
than 450 attendees, Marshall
said. The more specialized
issue forums tend to be much
smaller. For Monday’s event,
he added “we have over 500
RSVPs.”
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Security around Gov. Brown
tightened in wake of threats
PORTLAND (AP) —
After a series of hostile
threats this year, state
oficials have increased Gov.
Kate Brown’s security detail.
Security has been tight-
ened in the wake of the armed
occupation of the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge
and threats the governor has
received since calling for
tighter gun laws, The Orego-
nian reported.
While not all security
measures have been shared,
some are visible, such as the
additional member of the
Dignitary Protection Unit.
Brown’s ofice has also
increased its unwillingness
to release her public calen-
dars in advance.
Kristen
Grainger,
Brown’s communications
director, said threats to the
governor are not new, but
this year, comments have
been more threatening than
usual.
“Instead
of
voicing
passionate opinions or
dissent as part of exercising
free speech, they express
intent to cause her harm, ugly
threats of physical violence
and death,” Grainger said.
“Potentially
dangerous
individuals have attempted
to breach security perimeters
on more than one occasion.”
Brown’s ofice has been
in regular contact with the
FBI, which is investigating
threats, Grainger said.
Former governors and
their aides said they recall
serious threats, though
nothing came of them. Former
Gov. Barbara Roberts, the
irst woman elected to the
state’s top ofice, said she had
one man threaten to kill her.
He sent ive dates on which
he was going to assassinate
her, though Roberts said she
didn’t know what he was
mad about.
“Of course, nothing
ever happened, but it’s not
unusual for a governor to be
threatened simply because
their views on almost every-
thing are so public,” she said.
Grainger said policies
to protect Brown are
constantly being reviewed
for changes and that threats
are not going to slow the
administration down.
“She has had cause to feel
apprehensive on occasion,”
Grainger said of Brown.
“But it’s clear she’s not going
to let anything stop her from
doing her job.”
BRIEFLY
Small medical
plane goes missing
in California
ARCATA, Calif. (AP)
— A small medical transport
plane with four people aboard
went missing early Friday
after the pilot reported smoke
illing the cockpit, setting
off a search across a densely
forested mountain range in
Northern California.
The pilot of the Piper
PA31 declared an emergency
around 1 a.m. as he lew a
light nurse, a transport medic
and a patient about 360 miles
from Crescent City, near the
Oregon border, to Oakland,
oficials said.
The plane lost contact
early in the light path,
the Federal Aviation
Administration said. The pilot
planned to return to Crescent
City before vanishing from
radar 5 miles north of the
Arcata-Eureka Airport on
the far northern coast, FAA
spokesman Ian Gregor said.
A crew on the ground is
combing a remote area owned
by a private timber company
until thick fog lifts in the early
afternoon. That’s when a
U.S. Coast Guard helicopter
will assist in the search, said
Lt. Wayne Hanson of the
Humboldt County Sheriff’s
Ofice, which is leading the
pursuit on the ground.
The plane is part of
Cal-Ore Life Flight, a
small company of about
six planes that transports
patients throughout Northern
California and Oregon. Flights
at night are common, said Don
Wharton, a spokesman for
parent company REACH Air
Medical Services.
High lead content
found at Springield
elementary school
SPRINGFIELD
(AP) — A Springield
elementary school will
have its underground water
system replaced after six
classrooms were found
to have higher-than-safe
levels of lead in their sinks
and drinking fountains.
Tests at Page Elementary
showed sinks and fountains
in the west wing with lead
ranging from 27 to 180 parts
per billion. The standard for
acceptable amounts of lead
in drinking water is 20 parts
per billion.
The school district’s
chief operations oficer,
Brett Yancey, tells The
Register-Guard that the
plumbing project will cost
$95,000.
The school was built in
1953.
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