Cowboy in custody
A jury has ordered anti-government extremist Ammon Bundy and associates to pay more than $50 million in damages to Idaho’s largest hospital in connection with armed protests last year that led to a security lockdown.
Remember him? The violent lunatic who invaded a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, and violently stayed there for a couple of weeks, and got one of his followers killed, all because he thinks he should be allowed to graze his cattle on federal land for free?
The decision handed down late Monday follows a ten day civil trial in which Bundy was a no show and where attorneys with St. Luke’s Hospital outlined what they called an extensive campaign of bullying, intimidation and disinformation directed at doctors and medical staff that they say continues today.
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The drama goes back to March of 2022 when Bundy led a series of tense protests against the hospitalization of one of his associate’s infant grand[children] 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.
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Ammon Bundy, who ran for governor in Idaho in 2022, receiving some 90,000 votes, routinely attacks the state’s Republican leaders, including its conservative governor, on social media. Bundy and his followers frequently spread Q Anon conspiracy theories that St. Luke’s and its staff who cared for the infant grandson were part of a global child sex trafficking cabal.
Well never mind all that, let’s talk about the real fascists: feminist women who know that men are not women.
Bundy of course has no intention of paying.
In a new lawsuit, St. Luke’s Health System has accused Ammon Bundy of fraudulently transferring his assets to other people in order to avoid paying damages owed to the hospital following the anti-government activist’s jury trial.
Bundy and his associate, Diego Rodriguez, were ordered by a jury to pay over $52 million in damages to the hospital and doctors due to a days-long protest over a child protective services case outside the St. Luke’s Boise and Meridian locations in March of 2022.
Ammon Bundy, the anti-government provocateur, has been arrested according to the Gem County dispatch service.
Bundy has had an active arrest warrant since mid-April after an Ada County judge found him in contempt of court for refusing to show up to legal proceedings for nearly a year over a civil lawsuit filed by St. Luke’s Health System.
He should run for president.
He probably will. Only question is: of what?
Possibilities include: the West Idaho Lunatic Asylum; the East Idaho Lunatic Asylum; the South Idaho Lunatic Asylum; the North Idaho Lunatic Asylum, and Idaho Central Lunatic Asylum.
And that’s just for starters.
I know a cowboy when I see one, and he ain’t one. Hat and boots notwithstanding.
Yes he is. He’s a cattle rancher.
Well I won’t split hairs, because in colloquial terms I’m wrong.
But in technical terms you’re right?
I don’t get it. Is “cowboy” a term of honor in some way? It’s a word for cattle-herder, and it can be a pejorative meaning clueless amateur, but is there more? Taken literally I don’t see how anyone could be more cowboy than Ammon Bundy.
It’s just that I have known some actual cowboys (not the pejorative, the profession), and Ammon Bundy may have the silhouette, but lacks the substance, behaviorally speaking. I also know people who can write that would not be described as writers. Hell, I might even be one of those. ;)
If he is a cowboy, he’s not a shining example to say the very least.
Then again:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-13/top-end-data-cowboy-transforming-cattle-yards/102715012
Cowboy is (or used to be) a job description. Even back when I was in school they were calling it ‘large animal husbandry’ (yes, you can (or used to be able to) take classes in cowboying) and the work is much different than the overly romanticized depictions. I don’t know if I’m being too technical, but the term has become vague.
I know, but Ammon Bundy is a large animal husbandry guy: he’s a cattle rancher.