Posted on 01/26/2017 3:21:12 AM PST by Nextrush
"I've should have been a cowboy, I shoulda have learned to rope and ride"-Toby Keith-Sould've Been A Cowboy (1993)
"It's time we stop, hey what's that sound everybody look what's going down"-Buffalo Springfield-For What Its Worth (1966)
It's been one year (January 26, 2016) since the FBI executed a 'felony traffic stop' against non violent protestors along Route 395 in Harney County, Oregon that led to the death of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum.
Finicum was a rancher, a cowboy, a defender of Constitutional rights and a believer in the Constitution of the United States.
He was a husband and father, including care for four foster children who were living at his ranch when the protest began.
LaVoy came to Oregon and was one of the leaders of the Oregon Standoff protest over the second time mandatory sentence jailing of Oregon ranchers Dwight and Stephen Hammond as 'terrorists' for lighting a backfire to protect their property.
Early in the protest LaVoy encountered David Fry, who had driven all the way from Ohio to join the protest. Fry recalls an exciting meeting and a hug. LaVoy's death would inspire David to continue the protest after Finicum's death and the arrest of its leadership.
Fear and paranoia were driving forces in the federal government's response, reflected in the media reports about the 'armed occupation' of the refuge. The people on the refuge were often unarmed and to the extent they were armed, they carried weapons only for self-defense.
The armed militia types that showed up were either FBI informants or in the case of one group of Idaho III Percenters who rolled into the Oregon Standoff protest site a few days after it began, were asked to leave by the unarmed leader of the protest....
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I never forgot him.
Not forgotten.
If not for unrelenting efforts on part of Federal law enforcement officers to ratchet up the stand-off into a shooting match, Finicum would still be alive, today (most likely).
It was the federal agents who brought most all of "the guns". That much came out during one of the subsequent trails.
Too bad he repeatedly told the police they would have to shoot him just minutes before they shot him, which was recorded on video by one of the passengers in his truck.
God rest his soul. He will not be forgotten.
Rest in peace, LaVoy.
So you’re saying when you’re breaking the law, have been stopped, have nearly run over a cop, and have several guns trained on you, and law enforcement is telling you to keep your hands up, you should actually keep your hands up and not take them down and make sudden movements?
Bttt
LaVoy should not have been shot in the first place, the law enforcement folks were operating in fear and paranoia about ‘armed militia’ driving them towards their actions.
If Finicum had followed orders like the others in his group he’d be alive.
What orders, the orders of the bullets, flash bangs and so on??????
A ‘felony traffic stop’ for non violent protestors with guns blazing....
We the people cannot do to people what law enforcement did to LaVoy when he ‘appeared to threaten them’ exiting the vehicle under fire.
George Orwell wrote a book called “Animal Farm” about a Soviet Communist society where ‘some are more equal than others’.
That is the mentality that supports the actions of law enforcement in this situation.
Waco
Ruby ridge
Le voy
There should be a ;criminal investigation...
Otherwise the FBI (who are keystone cops) can kill anyone on any pretext...
Keystone cops who were trying to run an operation using the Boston Bombers and got blowback... that cost lives and limbs..
They were warned 3 times by RUSSIA and 3 separate times by Saudi Arabia THAT THE BROTHERS WERE TERRORISTS SEEKING TO JOIN AL QUEDDA... but the warnings were ignored..
And oh by the way... the uncle was a CIA ASSET....
Verbal orders, as if you don’t know.
And Finicum was fleeing the police at high speed when he came upon the “felony traffic stop.”
LaVoy put his hand down towards his waist in response to being initially shot in that area, not because he was reaching for a gun. That was the pretense for the subsequent barrage of bullets that tore through his body.
A great injustice was done that day, and all LEOs involved in the cover up (and yes, there was a cover up) should be imprisoned.
Shot in the back twice, each by different men assigned to do exactly that.
It was classic hammer and anvil. They were driven into the kill zone and then killed.
So hard to believe it has been a year.... May he rest in peaceful splendor.
not forgotten in my thoughts either.
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