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Sat Oct 8, 2016, 10:16 AM Oct 2016

Ammon Bundy as Inkblot: What Will Jurors See in His Words? - #BundyTeaParty

By KIRK JOHNSON
OCT. 7, 2016

... At one point during his testimony, Mr. Bundy compared himself to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

“This has nothing to do with refuge employees or their duties,” he said under questioning by his lawyer ...

In his brief cross-examination, Ethan D. Knight, an assistant United States attorney, suggested that Mr. Bundy had benefited from a federal program and might not be the philosophical purist of strictly limited government that he seemed ...

In a comment in open court but out of the jury’s presence, Ryan Bundy, who is representing himself in the case, said he thought Judge Brown’s instruction on the terrorism language was “intended to make us look stupid” ...


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/ammon-bundy-case-as-inkblot-test-what-will-jurors-see-in-his-words.html?_r=0

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