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Ammon Bundy is at it again [1]
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Date: 2023-05-03
x #BBQStandoff Day 9. This morning, County Sheriffs Deputies arrived at Ammon Bundy's property to serve arrest warrant. Robert Jones and his III% truck barricade the entrance to the property. Jones refused to answer about Bundy's whereabouts. Deputy set papers down and drove off. pic.twitter.com/jZKNOd2GUV — Devin Burghart (@dburghart) May 2, 2023
In March 2022, Bundy was arrested after he tried to take a 10-month-old child who was receiving treatment for malnutrition out of St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center. Bundy and his outfit claimed the hospital was holding the infant in a “medical kidnapping.” The child was apparently related to one of Bundy’s associates, Diego Rodriguez, and had been brought to the hospital by Child Protective Services.
According to all factual reports, the 10-month-old had been hospitalized a few weeks earlier for malnutrition, but released back to the parents. After the parents failed to show up for two follow-up appointments, the child was placed in the state’s care. Bundy and Rodriguez’s antics, including protests at various St. Luke’s properties, resulted in St. Luke’s downtown Boise campus being locked down, putting people’s safety in jeopardy.
Since then, Bundy’s defense has been that St. Luke’s is trying to ruin his life because they’re a big business. It isn’t a legal defense but with the kind of blind following people like Bundy enjoy, it certainly serves as a fundraising tool. The legal process has been met with increased threats from Bundy, and Gem County Sheriff Donnie Wunder has claimed to be too afraid to serve Bundy with legal notices in general.
Wunder wrote the court before the arrest warrant was issued, saying that over the past few weeks, Bundy has become “more and more aggressive with his behavior” and that he was concerned for “the safety of process servers and my deputies. I do not want to risk harm over a civil issue.” But, according to KTVB, “after St. Luke's went to the Idaho Supreme Court, Sheriff Wunder had a change of heart” and said he would start doing his job.
Bundy has been doing all of the things you’d expect from most right-wing charlatans with ambitions of running for office, including:
It’s important to remember that people like Ammon Bundy seem to have a real blind spot when it comes to how much their entire livelihood depends on the federal government and the “handouts” they rail against. Whether it’s the unauthorized free grazing on federal land for his dad’s cattle or the money the SBA gave his small business, Bundy sure does love free money.
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