Posted on 10/13/2022 1:59:26 PM PDT by Twotone
Ammon Bundy mystifies many Idahoans. To them his opposition to authority is over the top. The media has presented him as a troublemaking, radical, gun-toting, militant, criminal, anti-government buffoon – or at best an ignorant cowboy.
Whatever he is, he is tiring.
One may ask: What could motivate a person to behave as he has?
The answer to that question begins in 1877, when Ammon Bundy’s ancestors settled the Virgin River country in southern Nevada. Upon arriving, they dutifully obtained legal water and grazing rights from the state. In the 1870’s the great American explorer, John Wesley Powell, proclaimed these desert lands “inhabitable.” Within ten years the Bundys and thousands of other ranchers and farmers proved Powell’s assertion correct. Their success played a large part in convincing Congress to create the Bureau of Reclamation in 1902 and later the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), further opening the West to settlement. Initially these agencies’ relationships with ranchers were simple and symbiotic. However, with the “environmental movement” of the 1970’s, the government began citing environmental exigencies that required federal “ownership” and administrative “control of the public domain” within the Western states. Over the next fifty years, the BLM moved from being the beneficiary of the ranchers’ accomplishments to a persecutor of their everyday existence.
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https://idahodispatch.com/op-ed-demystifying-ammon-bundy-part-2/
Living in Idaho, I have learned one thing that I dislike about Bundy. He is a big rancher who wants open borders for cheap labor.
No way I would ever want him in any office that could effect border security.
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Yep. For later study.
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Bundy very possibly represents the only hope left for those of us that still love America ! This out of control bureaucracy will not stop unless we stop it . Lavoy Finicum was unavailable for comment as was Ashli Babbitt .
You like open uncontrolled borders with Mexico so farmers can have cheap labor?
There is a reason he loses big when he runs for office, and it isn’t because he is a liberal. He is rather conservative.
He is actually more libertarian with a belief we should have open borders. He was against Trump’s border policies.
This is why he loses overtime he run’s for office up here. We do have many RINOs up here, we do not need more open border politicians.
Many farmers with crops to pick are open border types because they can’t see past the cheap labor and are mostly unaffected by the criminals who gravitate to cities.
Then they wonder why everything is falling apart and don’t see that they live downhill from culture and sh!t rolls down hill.
He doesn’t address borders or immigration on his website (at least that I can find). I haven’t heard him speak on that. But as a governor, that isn’t in his bailiwick. Controlling the border is a Federal problem.
Most of what’s in his plan wouldn’t be implemented without a very different legislature, in any case. But he has certainly put himself on the line on freedom issues & I’ll support him based on those. Gov. Little is just another petty tyrant & he needs to be shown the door.
I need to see concrete proof of his administrative skills before I would consider him. He may have the right attitude but does he have the skills to run the governor’s office? My impression is that he would be more of a bull in a china shop and therefore not be able to advance his agenda.
He comes across as a very humble man to me. I truly doubt that ‘bull in a china shop’ is his attitude toward anything. I DO know what our current gov is like & his attitude toward freedom. I’ll try something new, but that’s just me.
The problem with Bundy is that he won’t get the southern Idaho vote, but will pull enough of Brad Little to allow the Dem to win. Our best bet to get rid of rhino Little was during the primary. I voted for the Lt Gov (Mc Ceachen ? spelling) as she is a conservative.
These Federal claims over state lands is truly absurd. I don’t know the case law, but the obvious in turning a territory into a sovereign state is glaring.
Thanks for your response. I guess I meant “bull in a china shop” more like “clumsy” or unskilled than “oafish.” Honestly, I think the level of contention in our legislature is a far bigger issue right now than who is governor.
Exactly, in the 31 years I lived in Ca from “88” to “19”, I witnessed first hand what the big farmer money and their RINOS in the state house did to hurt the state.
Now look, they have no water and the left is in complete control of the state.
I dislike Little also, but I voted for Janice McGeachin. Bundy is running as an Independent. He doesn’t have a chance.
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