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Waving his ever-present pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution, Bundy asked the crowd, 鈥淲here does it give the federal government our permission to manage our lands locally or our lands anywhere?鈥�

Bundy was the featured speaker at the "This West is OUR West鈥� conference in Whitefish, Montana. The billboard event that听championed听stripping federal agencies from managing public lands was attended by a handful of state lawmakers from Montana, Idaho and Washington, the 听reported.

At center stage was Ammon Bundy 鈥� a protagonist in both the 2016 armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon and the 2014 standoff at his father Cliven Bundy鈥檚 ranch near Bunkerville, Nevada.

After being acquitted of criminal charges in the Oregon case and seeing a federal judge dismiss the Nevada case, Ammon Bundy has capitalized on his fame in antigovernment and militia circles.

While there were an estimated 80 attendees lapping up his and other antigovernment speeches inside a Whitefish lodge Saturday, more than four times that many people attended a nearby 鈥淩ally for Human Rights and Public Lands鈥� in Depot Park.

鈥淲e love our public lands, our neighbors and we reject the sale of our public lands,鈥� Grete Gansauer, the Northwest Montana Field Director for the Wilderness Association, told the cheering rally, organized by human rights and public lands groups.

The 鈥淥ur West鈥� conference had heavy doses of antigovernment and blame-the-media sentiment, with Ammon Bundy claiming journalists had contributed to or were somehow responsible for the death of LaVoy Finicum.

The attendees were shown a documentary about Finicum, who was fatally shot in 2016 during the illegal occupation of the Malheur听wildlife refuge in Oregon by Bundy, Finicum and other assorted militia supporters.

Finicum鈥檚 widow, Jeanette Finicum, who鈥檚 also become a regular on the antigovernment lecture circuit, showed up for the Whitefish conference. She听also criticized the media for telling 鈥渦s how to think and believe,鈥� the 听reported.

The Finicum 鈥渄ocumentary鈥� was produced by the Center for Self-Governance, whose president Mark Herr lectured journalists covering the conference, accusing the media of 鈥渓abel-lynching鈥� Finicum and other Malheur occupiers, the news site reported.

As the media bashing continued, Alex Newman of the antigovernment propagandist John Birch Society, claiming to be a journalist himself, 鈥渓ed a prayer for the media before delivering a lecture connecting the so-called 鈥榙eep state鈥� to the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group,鈥� the Guardian reported.

Other speakers talked about conspiracies by communists, Muslims and the United Nations.

Conference organizer Laura Lee O鈥橬eil shared Bundy鈥檚 view that federal lands should be transferred to state governments, even though most states say they don鈥檛 have the financial resources for management and fire suppression.

鈥淲e are protecting our natural resources,鈥� O鈥橬eil told the crowd, according to the Missoula newspaper, and she urged those who agree with her and Bundy to 鈥渓ight a fire under our legislators here in Montana.鈥�

The newspaper also reported there were several elected political officials and candidates in attendance. Those included Montana state representatives Mark Noland and Kerry White; former Montana representatives and candidates Jerry O鈥橬eil and Dan Skattum; Idaho state representatives Judy Boyle and Dorothy Moon; Washington State Representative Matt Shea and Gale Decker, a county commissioner from Montana鈥檚 Lake County.

Shea, who formed a chapter of the anti-Muslim hate group ACT for America in Spokane, Washington, used the conference to spew more of his oft-repeated anti-Muslim rhetoric. He claimed the Muslim civil rights group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is connected with the terrorist group Hamas, the Guardian reported. Shea also claimed he is aware of a mosque owned by the Muslim Brotherhood.颅_颅

The Republican state lawmaker is a partitionist who advocates听separating central and eastern Washington into its own state (called Liberty), a move Shea hopes would听provide state sanction for听his own extreme brand of conservatism. This weekend, he听offered words of support for Ammon Bundy, demanding that management of federal public lands be transferred to the states. At the armed standoff with federal law enforcement at the Bundy ranch in Nevada, Shea appeared in support of Cliven Bundy and railed against what he called a "war on rural America."

Also speaking was Elaine Willman, described by the Montana Human Rights Network as 鈥渢he most prominent anti-Indian activist in the Pacific Northwest.鈥�

Willman has said tribal governments and American Indian sovereignty have outlived their usefulness and should be abolished.

At Saturday鈥檚 conference, she didn鈥檛 back away from that stand, describing federal Indian policy as a 鈥済reat big hippopotamus sitting on the United States.鈥� Willman said tribal sovereignty and relationships with the federal government are unconstitutional, opaque and divisive, according to media accounts.

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