Gordon, Nebraska, felon, gambler, and white supremacist Rudy “Butch” Stanko is retiring—not from white supremacy, as far as we know, but from agriculture. Alas, such retirement and the proceeds from his auction may only give Stanko more time and money to clog the courts with frivolous lawsuits.
SDAuctions.com lists numerous items up for bid tomorrow, Monday, June 15, starting at 1 p.m. Mountain, from Rudy’s stockpile of farm and trucking equipment tools, hay in Gordon, Nebraska, the site of the 1972 torture, public humiliation, and murder of Oglala Lakota worker and artist Raymond Yellow Thunder at the hands of two redneck sons of a wealthy Gordon rancher.
The most symbolic items up for bid are a BOZ bunk blower, a couple of creep feeders, and Stanko’s brand, registered in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Idaho, as B-S:
Little good comes from a redneck like Stanko… but I do notice that one of his most recent litigical forays may enlighten judges considering Governor Kristi Noem’s huff-and-puff over tribal coronavirus checkpoints. In January 2017, Stanko sued the Oglala Sioux Tribe for daring to pull him over on the reservation for speeding, arrest him, and take him to jail. Stanko claimed the tribe had no authority over good white folks like him. District Court Judge Jeffrey Viken and the Eighth Circuit said yes, the tribe does have such authority:
“Indian tribes retain inherent sovereign power … to exercise civil authority over the conduct of non-Indians … within its reservation when that conduct threatens or has some direct effect on the political integrity, the economic security, or the health or welfare of the tribe.” Montana, 450 U.S. at 565-66, 101 S.Ct. 1245; see Strate v. A-1 Contractors, 520 U.S. 438, 456-59, 117 S.Ct. 1404, 137 L.Ed.2d 661 (1997). Whether tribal officers violated the civil rights of a non-Indian traveling on the reservation unquestionably has a direct effect on the political integrity and welfare of the Tribe [United States Eighth Circuit, opinion, Stanko v. Oglala Sioux Tribe, 2019.02.19].
Hmmm… Marty Jackley might want to check that precedent in his defense of tribal-checkpoint runner Wayne Hepper. Stanko’s court loss to the Oglala Sioux Tribe says pretty clearly that if tribal cops tell you to stop, you’ve got to stop.
Good find Cory! No matter what Marty Jackley finds out, he already knows that the penis with a hat he is representing, is guilty as charged. Marty just hopes he can string this out until the virus is over and he can plead it down…all the while collecting a big old check and having more campaign cash directed to the rest of the cabal in Pierre.
I also note that the brand for the white supremacist is B S that is so true,
I don’t read any notice that in that ruling that says if an archeologist, or even a pretend archeologist, tells you to stop, you must.
Jerry, “penis with a hat”?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What’s with all the vulgar talk about Butch Stanko? Disagree if you must, but he filed a number of worthwhile, logical lawsuits. If your native tribe wants to uphold dignity, then practice it. Why don’t you clean up your Reservation settlements many of which are littered with trash, in SW South Dakota? I see no trace of traditional living there according to your legacy. You adopt the “white” man’s gambling casinos and then refer to “gamblers” like Butch with a sarastic slur? I mean no offense. Just practice what your preach and drop the name-calling.