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Anti-government extremist Ammon Bundy, speaking on the steps of the state Capitol building in Boise, Idaho, on Saturday, compared government measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus to the Nazis genocide of Jews during World War II.
Bundy, a notorious militia leader who once organized an armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge, made the absurd comparison while speaking at an Idaho Is Open For Business rally ― one of several anti-lockdown demonstrations held across the country demanding that governors allow businesses to reopen despite the urgent warnings of public health experts.
The Boise rally appears to have been organized, in part, by an anti-vaccination conspiracy group called Health Freedom Idaho, together with the Idaho Freedom Foundation, a powerful far-right libertarian organization in the state with ties to right-wing billionaire Charles Koch.
In a speech at Saturdays rally, Bundy compared the temporary closure of nonessential businesses in America to the systematic torture and murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ammon-bundy-holocaust-jews-anti-lockdown-rally-idaho-183423232.html
muntrv
(14,505 posts)The Magistrate
(95,243 posts)'Bundy argued Saturday that Jews essentially let themselves be murdered by Nazis because they thought that putting their head down and trying to not be noticed was the better way. They thought that compliance would get them through it, and it was just a period of time that they might just pass through and end up better on the other end.
And that is a decision that we have to make right now, Bundy said. Are we better to just comply? '
And sensible comment on the matter....
'That Bundy was given a platform to speak at the Boise rally highlights how the anti-lockdown protests have been organized and attended largely by far-right extremists, including heavily armed militias, neo-fascist street gangs, anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists and neo-Nazis.
These arent protests, right? Ward* said. These are calls for future violence. And I think we should all be very clear about whats happening, and what Ammon Bundy is helping to support in this moment. '
*Eric Ward, executive director at the Western States Center, a civil rights organization that monitors extremists.
The media needs to start covering these poisonous gatherings for what they: far-right, extremist insurrectionists gathering in penny-packet numbers, who seek by threat of arms to impose their perverted will on the vast majority of our citizens.
Caliman73
(11,725 posts)That was fundamentally absurd. He is comparing public health agencies ordering people to stay away from large gatherings for the sake of not spreading a deadly disease to the Nazi regime actively hunting and arresting Jews for the purpose of murdering them. How do you even make that leap?
maxrandb
(15,297 posts)when they siezed a national park at gunpoint.
FreeState
(10,570 posts)Hypocrite.
Articles of Faith 12:
We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Faith_(Latter_Day_Saints)
captain queeg
(10,096 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,667 posts)KKK Conservative boasting:
We killed six million Jews the last time, he answered. Eleven million is nothing.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article167939222.html
Behind the Aegis
(53,921 posts)In the movies, this is called foreshadowing.