https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/08/cliven-bundy-lavoy-finicums-widow-slam-fbi-award-for-agents-in-2016-malheur-standoff.html?gift=95eb21f0-db96-4048-b61a-32b024f106cb

“I’m a little stirred up by the award, Cliven Bundy told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “I can’t understand the reasoning why the award would be given nine years down the road. We sort of wanted to have faith in Kash Patel, but this throws his integrity away.”

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“Beyond words!” Jeanette Finicum wrote in a Facebook post. “How are we supposed to trust law enforcement, FBI in particular, when they … refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes … Mr. President, I had such hope that you would clean things up! But the government corruption continues. Just new lipstick on the same old pig!”

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“The Finicum family is both devastated and angry” by the award to Astarita and the other FBI agents involved in the stop, said Mark Herr, a family spokesperson. “This is like a scab being pulled off and a wound being reopened rather than being allowed to heal and close.”

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Cliven Bundy, involved in his own dispute with the federal government over cattle grazing rights on public land, said he had hoped Patel would “clean up” the FBI.

“We thought Kash Patel was going to be the honest part of the FBI here,” he said. “But now, as ranchers out here in the West, we look at him as being our enemy now.”

#lavoyFinicum #uspol #kashpatel #fascism #malheur #maga #ammonbundy

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/08/fbi-honors-agents-involved-in-lavoy-finicum-standoff-with-bravery-medal.html?gift=b9d3c372-9b7a-4935-bd55-137df74d94ec

The caption on the FBI award photo said they responded to a “violent extremist militia group’s armed takeover” of the refuge and helped stage a traffic stop to arrest one of the militia’s leaders and key members who “planned to meet clandestinely outside the refuge.”

But the caption’s description of what occurred next doesn’t square with testimony and evidence presented during Astarita’s three-week trial.

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I know these guys aren’t necessarily consistent, but I’m really not sure I understand the political calculation on this one.

#Oregon #malheur #ammonBundy #LavoyFinicum #fascism #enclosureOfTheCommons #primitiveAccumulation #accumulation #classwar #USPol #militias #threepercent #oathkeepers

Apparently I've been road-tripping past the #ammonbundy residence in #utah

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/27/fugitive-us-militant-ammon-bundy-geolocated-to-utah/

A new arrest warrant has been issued for former Gubernatorial candidate and full-time fascist Ammon Bundy after skipping the first day of trial in his case against St. Luke’s which was set to start on December 18, 2023.

According to court documents, this trial would have focused on contempt of court charges that were requested by attorneys representing St. Luke’s Health Systems, and several other medical professionals, who were awarded nearly $52 Million in damages on August 29, 2023.

St. Luke’s Systems sued Bundy, and his associate Diego Rodriguez and groups linked to them in a civil lawsuit for defamation, after a protest outside one of the health giants’ clinics in March of 2022.

When Bundy led a series of tense protests against the hospitalization of one of his associate’s infant grandchildren, who state social workers said was malnourished.
According to court documents, protesters, some armed, tried to force their way into the hospital’s locked exits. Some held “wanted” signs naming individual doctors and nurses and even blocked an ambulance entrance as car horns blared.

Ada County District Court Judge Nancy Baskin issued a warrant for Bundy’s arrest, and increased the bond amount to $250,000, as well as revoked Bundy’s $10,000 bond paid on his first arrest warrant issued by a previous judge.

Bundy has been charged with civil and criminal contempt for allegedly violating court orders issued by a previous judge in the lawsuit brought by St. Luke’s Health System requiring him to remove defamatory statements from the internet and not intimidate or harass witnesses.
#AmmonBundy #idaho
https://www.kmvt.com/2023/12/25/new-arrest-warrant-issued-ammon-bundy-after-he-was-no-show-court-contempt-charges/

#Militia Leader #AmmonBundy Hints At Retaliation After Losing $52M #Defamation Suit

https://www.mediaite.com/news/militia-leader-ammon-bundy-hints-at-retaliation-after-losing-52m-defamation-suit/

“DEATH”: Donald #Trump ramps up the GOP's attack on the military with call to execute top US general https://www.salon.com/2023/09/25/death-donald-ramps-up-the-gops-on-the-military-with-call-to-execute-top-us-general/

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz said, "In a better society, quislings like the strange sodomy-promoting General Milley would be hung."
This must stop.
When RW politicians & their followers threaten people we need to act.
I'm working on a case study of how St. Luke's Hospital in Boise successfully sued #AmmonBundy & his followers for their threats. https://www.spockosbrain.com/2023/08/27/judge-orders-permanent-injunction-against-ammon-bundy-to-stop-posting-defamatory-statements-about-st-lukes-its-employees/