05-10-2016, 09:08 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Sonoma County, CA
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Originally Posted by finnbow
Jailed cattle rancher Cliven Bundy claims President Barack Obama, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid and others have stifled his constitutional rights as he sits in solitary confinement on charges stemming from a 2014 federal standoff, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Bundy, 70, is seeking $50 million for the "illegal, unconstitutional, intentional and malicious acts" of the defendants, and wants an indictment against him quashed and his immediate release from jail in Portland, Oregon.
Bundy added that he's been in solitary since his arrest earlier this year — which constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment," claims the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Nevada.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...-cruel-n571496
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It's not only cruel and unusual punishment but, according to the UNHCR, it's torture.
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