August 26th | written by Ammon Bundy (This post was originally posted on here Facebook, and has been posted here on the Freedom Man website with permission (and with additional videos and images captured by Freedom Man staff). I was arrested on Tuesday, August 25th, and then again, the following day, on August 26th, at the Idaho State Capitol.
On Tuesday, August 25th, I was seated near the back of the Lincoln Auditorium to participate in the committee hearing process regarding RS28049, the bill regarding civil liability immunity, to which I am opposed. While seated, I noticed an Idaho State Police officer speak to two citizen journalists seated at the front in the press section of the committee room.
As always, circumstances must be placed in their proper context. In this case, the events of Tuesday, August 25th, must be placed within the context of the previous day, Monday, August 24th. Monday was the very first day of the special (aka extraordinary) session of the Legislature called by Governor Brad Little.
Much has already been said about Chairman Greg Chaney, his character, and his past. I have no interest in adding to that conversation, but I will state that it was clear that Chaney was chosen to ensure that this legislation, as written by IACI, get rammed through the house and ultimately adopted into Idaho State Law.
It was evident that on Tuesday, the Idaho State Police needed to both save face, and put themselves back in the IN CHARGE position in the eyes of the people. They couldn’t allow the people to feel like they were the ones in charge and that they did not have to obey the police. All tyrannical agencies respond this way.
Unfortunately, I have been through this all before. I know, as well as anybody, how the government uses and manipulates the media and controls the narrative in order to abuse its own people.
Who is more dangerous—a citizen with a cell phone camera filming a public event in a public building paid for by citizen’s tax dollars, or an abusive and angry police officer who will grab that same innocent woman by the neck, and violently throw her into a room in order to arrest her for doing no wrong?
Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy was arrested in Idaho on Monday after he refused to wear a mask in court, thus preventing him from entering and making him a no-show for his own trial , officials said. Ammon Bundy was due in a Boise courtroom at 8:15 a.m. for the beginning of his trial on misdemeanor trespassing and resisting arrest charges ...
Ammon Bundy was due in a Boise courtroom at 8:15 a.m. for the beginning of his trial on misdemeanor trespassing and resisting arrest charges stemming from an August incident at the Idaho Statehouse. For nearly a year now, the Idaho Supreme Court has required masks for entry into any courthouses in the state.
In August, Bundy and two others refused to leave the statehouse after a hearing was switched to another part of the building.