What the Bundy Bunkerville standoff foreshadowed

Ten years after the impasse between the Bundy family and the BLM, the doctrine of white oppression is widely embraced.

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Utah Candidate Has Family Ties to Extremists

Celeste Maloy (R), who is running in the special election to replace Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), is first cousins with Ammon Bundy, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Her uncle is anti-government extremist Cliven Bundy.

#NeverCelesteMaloy #Utah #CelesteMaloy #ClivenBundy #NoMoreExtremists #VoteBlueIfYouWantToLive

@kegill

"#BLM attempted to corral the cattle in 2014 and was outnumbered by armed [ #ClivenBundy ] vigilantes, foreshadowing January 6th."

From my Twitter archives, my local file date Dec 3 2015

I had no idea.
WTF?

#ClivenBundy, the infamous rancher who should be in prison (along with his son) is STILL running cattle “with seeming impunity” on protected federal land (a national monument).

#BLM attempted to corral the cattle in 2014 and was outnumbered by armed vigilantes, foreshadowing January 6th.

In 2014, he owed an estimated $1,100,000 in fees and fines.

#GiftArticle #GiftLink #nytimes
https://nyti.ms/46bHxqi

Opinion | Cliven Bundy Still Defies the Federal Government

Why hasn’t the federal government stepped in to remove his cattle from federal land?

The New York Times
Opinion | Cliven Bundy Still Defies the Federal Government

Why hasn’t the federal government stepped in to remove his cattle from federal land?

The New York Times

If you are going to mitigate development around Las Vegas by protecting other lands, you're supposed to, you know, PROTECT them.

Paving over mitigation lands for industrial-scale solar projects and allowing decades of #ClivenBundy's trespass #livestock grazing in #GoldButte isn't how you offset habitat loss elsewhere.

New lawsuit filed. More info at link: https://westernwatersheds.org/2023/09/conservationists-challenge-failure-to-deliver-desert-tortoise-protections-in-southern-nevada/

@markjacob It's been more than 9 years since the Bundyites used guns to halt the round-up of #ClivenBundy's illegally grazing livestock. - the govt backed down that day to avoid bloodshed and hasn't been back. (It's been 30 years that Bundy has been illegally grazing on public lands.) "Working on it" isn't good enough on either front, and in the meantime, more people are feeling inspired to flout the law. (See https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/01/armed-occupation-of-malheur-refuge-was-dress-rehearsal-for-violent-takeover-of-nations-capitol-extremist-watchdogs-say.html). It's depressingly glacial.
Armed occupation of Malheur refuge was ‘dress rehearsal’ for violent takeover of nation’s Capitol, extremist

"You can draw a straight line from the Bundy Ranch standoff and Malheur takeover to the Trump insurrection in Washington,'' said Jennifer Rokala, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities.

oregonlive
Briggs Land 2: Lone Wolves, in which Jim Briggs tries to seize control with neo-Nazi funding https://boingboing.net/2018/03/09/dysfunctional-families.html #graphicnovels #happymutants #clivenbundy #alt-right #giftguide #rubyridge #Feature #Reviews #Comics #guns #waco
Briggs Land 2: Lone Wolves, in which Jim Briggs tries to seize control with neo-Nazi funding

In the first volume of Briggs Land, DMZ-creator Brian Wood set up a gripping scenario: a leadership struggle in a far-right separatist cult whose leader has languished in prison for decades. Now, …

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