Idaho hospital locks down amid far-right call for protest

[turbinetree]

Source: Associated Press

By REBECCA BOONE 15 minutes ago

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A major Boise hospital went on lockdown for about an hour Tuesday after far-right activist Ammon Bundy urged supporters to go the facility in protest of a child protection case involving one of his family friends.

St. Luke’s Health System put the Boise Medical Center on lockdown and began diverting incoming patients at about 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

“Safety is our top priority,” the hospital said in a statement. “At this time, anyone in need of care should seek alternative health care providers and options. We ask that people please avoid the area near the Boise hospital until further notice.”


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/idaho-boise-ammon-bundy-9ca80359db4918dc79a59e373aff9796

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Why is this not a form of intimidation and blackmail....and basically threatening anyone associated with the hospital....which I think is against the rule of law if they have any in Idaho anymore....

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Shithole State nt

[dutch777]

4. Yep!

[BlueIdaho]

5. You know there are plenty of hard working Democrats

That live in Idaho. But I suppose you could say the same thing about SoCal if you’re in the wrong spot - right?

[Rebl2]

6. You can say

that about pretty much any state these days. I’m in SH MO. At least it’s in a more Democratic leaning area-a little bit.

[BlueIdaho]

7. So true!

Idaho gets a bad wrap but we Democrats need to be changing minds everywhere, all the time.

[SoCalDavidS]

12. Presidential Elections

The last time a Democrat got more than 51% in a Presidential Election, was in 1940, when FDR got 54%.

The last time a Democrat won the Electoral votes there was LBJ in 1964 with 50.92%.

President Biden got 33% to TFG's 63.84% in 2020. Hillary managed 27.5% in 2016.

I'm obviously not going to change your mind about just how far gone your home state is, so I'll bow out of this discussion. The numbers don't lie, and the #'s for Democrats in your state is a wasteland.

[BlueIdaho]

14. So I'm guessing your not a 50 state strategy guy.

Thanks for letting me know.

[SoCalDavidS]

16. The Democrats Have Limited Money To Spend

I think that putting money into a state where the highest % a Democratic candidate for President has received since 1964, was 37% in 1976, is unwise. Where LBJ is the only Democrat since Truman to win the electoral votes.

If you could show me that there is any chance for a Democratic victory in Idaho, then I would totally support spending money there. That money could be spent in bubble states like AZ or GA, where the Democrats can get needed victories.

[Warpy]

18. The problem is this

First, there are races other than that for president. Most candidates for that job have come up through the ranks and that means running for lesser jobs and winning the races, something they can do in a few places in Idaho.

Second, sending party money only to races that are considered easy to win shrinks the pool of such races every election cycle, as races a Democrat has lost are no longer considered easy to win and therefore worthy of party investment.

There are currently 7 state Senators and 12 serving in the Idaho House. Idaho isn't a totally lost cause and shouldn't be treated as such.

[BlueIdaho]

20. Yet another reason for a national popular vote

And an end to the EC.

[SoCalDavidS]

36. Too Bad That Will Never Happen

The repub states would Never allow that to happen.

[SoCalDavidS]

8. I Sure Do, CA Absolutely Has Shithole Counties

McCarthy is from here, as is Nunes.

And of course there are Democrats in Idaho. There are Democrats in Every state. That doesn't mean there will come a time when a state like Idaho is voting for a Democrat, or awarding it's Electoral votes to a Democrat.

The highest % a Democrat has received in the last 12 Presidential Elections, was Carter in 1976, with 37.1%.

It's certainly not your fault that you live there, but your state is what it is. Don't you have a large concentration of White Supremacists there? I don't think we have that here in So Cal.

[Juneboarder]

11. Your post is a waste of everyone's time

Calling Idaho what you have and then claiming a large concentration of white supremacists is quite the broad brush. Don't throw stones in a glass house. Unless of course you're here trolling.

[raising2moredems]

15. Whether explicit or implicit

ID is advertising itself as a haven for "conservatives" and I use that term loosely. Ruby Ridge/Randy Weaver was 30 years ago and given Ammon Bundy and others of his ilk, things have not gotten better.

[BlueIdaho]

19. Thanks for your support.

Imagine how many Democrats you’re disenfranchising. Maybe it would be best if I stopped giving $1,000+ a year to Democrats.

[BlueIdaho]

13. Correction...

Idaho was a Democratic state. One of our democratic governors went on to become Jimmy Carters Sec. of the Interior - Cecil Andrus. One of our democratic Senators held hearings on CIA abuses and later ran for President - Frank Church. Our state also had one of the first unions in America protecting the rights of miners back in the 1880s. So what happened? We became a democratic flyover state. The party fed us to the wolves financially. Then republicans rolled in - a thousand UHauls at a time from… California.

As for White Supremacists - they’re mostly gone. We sued their asses right out of the state, own their name and their “compound” property which is now a peace park. I’ll bet their are more white supremacists in California than there are in Idaho now. Trumpers - now that we got.

Idaho has its problems but there are folks working hard to change that. Will it happen in a month or a year. Probably not. But somebody’s got to be here to push back against the same forces we see nation wide.

[SoCalDavidS]

17. I'm Not Sure When It Was A Democratic State

But the stats show that in the last 80 years, only 1 Democrat has won the Electoral votes, and that was barely with 51%.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

22. SoCal is a haven for Neo Nazi skinheads.

Has been since I can remember.

[cab67]

28. what do the dots represent -

location of a group, location of a hate crime committed by such group.....?

[ForgoTheConsequence]

37. activity like recruitment.

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2021/02/01/flyering-remains-recruitment-tool-hate-groups

https://www.adl.org/resources/profiles/nazi-low-riders

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/by-state

Link to tweet

[NullTuples]

2. This IS terrorism. The use or threat of violence for political gains.

[area51]

35. +1 n/t

[keithbvadu2]

3. So he wants to kidnap the baby.

[atreides1]

9. Not really

He wants the baby returned so the parents can continue to deny the child food!!

[Demsrule86]

33. Bundy wants to let the parents kill the child because he is pro-life and all...

These people are nuts!

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Domestic terrorism. DOJ should have had more meaningful sentences after illegal occupation.

There is a small portion that will continue with sedition and conspiracy. Does our justice system have the resolve?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

21. Bundy running for Governor despite being banned from state Capitol

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article258499428.html

[demtenjeep]

23. Hah

The stupid

[cab67]

29. He's since backed out of the race entirely.

It's a disgrace that he's not in prison.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

31. I don't see that he has.

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/idaho-press/marching-me-to-the-gallows-bundy-defends-himself-lack-of-authority-mantra/277-1ed57766-8a30-40b1-be14-87b76dcc67c1

[cab67]

32. my bad

I think I saw a headline, misinterpreted it, and assumed it was more recent than it was.

[MissMillie]

24. How many people won't get care because of this?

And what the hell does the hospital have to do with it?

Sounds to me like he has a beef w/ CPS, not the hospital and certainly not the people going to the hospital to get care.

[Ford_Prefect]

25. As I said before Bundy is a Jim Jones in training looking for the opportunity...

He shouldn't be on the street after what he pulled in Oregon, and elsewhere. The principle difference is that Jones focused his efforts on killing his own cult members whereas Bundy intends to use his followers to accomplish violence towards the rest of us.

For those who don't quite get the reference:

James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader, political activist, preacher, and faith healer who between 1955 and 1978 led the Peoples Temple, a new religious movement. In what he described as "revolutionary suicide", Jones and his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder–suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Jones and the events at Jonestown have had a defining influence on society's perception of cults.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

[Vinca]

26. The Bundy gang seems to be as Teflon as the Trump gang. It's time for people to be

arrested, charged and locked up. Enough is enough.

[leftyladyfrommo]

27. The Bundys belong to some offshoot Mormon group.

I read that the LDS church is having real problems with about 20% of their members belonging to these outliers.

I guess if you believe in all the strange stuff in the Book of Mormon believing in QAnon stuff isn't much of a stretch.

[lonely bird]

30. This is not about which states are shitholes

This is about the disintegration of the concept of the United States of America and “a society”.

This isn’t, never was and never will be about “freedom”. It is about the abdication of any responsibility and then the demand that government burst fully formed from the brow of Zeus.

This is about “my rights” and fuck you when “my rights” collide with yours.

Time to break up the country. Do it civilly or it will get done violently.

And don’t say “young people will do better”. Gen X is just as shitty as the Baby Boomers ( I am a Boomer) and so on. Stupidity, hatred and ignorance have always existed and will always exist.

Finally, if the country is not broken up then until the constitution is changed or a new one created money needs to be spent everywhere to try and stem the tide of evil.

[ck4829]

34. K&R