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turbinetree

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Sat Nov 5, 2022, 08:50 PM Nov 2022

'The promised land': Inside the religious ideology that inspires the Bundys

By Bob Brigham
Published November 05, 2022

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There are generations of history that culminated in Ammon Bundy's campaign for governor, an expert on the family explained in an interview with the Idaho Statesman.

Ian Max Stevenson interviewed historian Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of the 2019 book American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West.

Quammen explained the history of settlement by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).

https://www.rawstory.com/ammon-bundy-lds-idaho/

Hey Bundy......you do realize that the "land" that you basically squatted on use to belong to which First Person Nation....give you a hint it starts with the letter U.....and its not Utah.....

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'The promised land': Inside the religious ideology that inspires the Bundys (Original Post) turbinetree Nov 2022 OP
USSC cases have recognized extremists such as Bundy as having the right to no_hypocrisy Nov 2022 #1
K&R UTUSN Nov 2022 #2

no_hypocrisy

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1. USSC cases have recognized extremists such as Bundy as having the right to
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 06:19 AM
Nov 2022

THEIR BELIEFS. Their right to PRACTICE THEIR BELIEFS is qualified or outright banned by federal and state law if there is a conflict.

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