Excerpted here, ‘We want the truth’
Tenney said many questions remain unanswered about her father’s death.
“We don’t want the media’s bias. We don’t want the FBI’s bias. We want the truth,” she said to the roar of bystanders and anti-government supporters on horseback.
She said her “daddy” believed he was following the law. “It was the federal government that was violating it. We agree with him. We also agree with Thomas Jefferson who once said, ‘When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.’”
Her sister, Tierra Belle Collier, said, “Do we believe that peaceful actions justify the use of deadly force? Do we believe that two hands up in surrender justifies the use of deadly force? Do we believe that following the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution justifies the use of deadly force? If we do then where is liberty?”
While hundreds of mourners arrived Friday for the memorial service, daughter Brittney Beck, 26, said her dad “died for liberty.”
“My dad was an amazing man. He died for liberty. He died for everybody’s freedoms,” said Brittney Beck, 26. “I think it’s really great that people are here to honor him and thank him for that.”
Finicum’s widow, Jeanette, spoke at the memorial service about how he “guarded our time together as a family. ... I know I will be with him again because families are forever.”
Her husband will be buried Saturday at the family’s ranch on the Arizona Strip.
Whatever comes of this cause, I’d urge not to copy a desperado manner... that’s probably the last thing on earth we need. Mormon folks say they believe in God... well how about acting like God is competent, that He means something larger than us, that you don’t have to vow to die rather than be captured in order to make a huge impact to the good (Jesus didn’t have to, hint hint hint).
Agenda 21 is in full swing out on the west coast.
And that is ultimately what he died fighting.