Posted on 02/06/2016 10:08:07 AM PST by azkathy
Excerpted KANAB — Most of the people who came to the funeral of LaVoy Finicum didn't know the Arizona rancher personally.
They came anyway, in trucks and campers and caravans, drawn either by kinship with the Finicum family or by sympathy for the cause that took him to rural Oregon.
The Arizona rancher was one of the most recognizable faces of the armed standoff in Oregon, where a group of protesters seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in early January to protest what they said was federal overreach into Western rangelands.
Finicum was shot dead by police on Jan. 26 in a confrontation that has inflamed the divide between supporters of the standoff and law enforcement officials.
Roughly 1,000 people packed into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building Friday for the funeral service, spilling over into the classrooms and hallways.
Cliven Bundy — a prominent Nevada rancher whose longstanding dispute with the Bureau of Land Management flared up into a standoff in 2014 — joined the Finicum Family.
The article continues, ""We don't want the media's bias," Tenney said at the news conference, flanked by Cliven Bundy and his son Arden. "We don't want the FBI's bias. We want truth."
She also bristled at reports that characterized her father as a militant or extremist.
"Our father … has been called many names by the world," Tenney said, her voice rising in anger. "But I'll tell you what we call him. We call him Daddy."
After the service, six men carried out Finicum's body in a plain pine box and loaded it into a hearse. Dozens of riders on horseback followed."
(Excerpt) Read more at ksl.com ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS0dWz8WsoM This is the Finicum daughters singing a tribute song they wrote.
memorials, rallies being held across the country. This one in DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENIByyPVLhk&feature=youtu.be
I just started reading LaVoy’s book this morning. Wow!
http://www.amazon.com/Only-Blood-Suffering-LAVOY-FINICUM/dp/193773594X
It is kind of eerie. The story starts on Jan 27th. (That is the day after LaVoy was killed and also his birthday.) The book was published in 2015.
Thank you, much appreciated.
You made a good point.
The Fedgov no longer serves us; it terrorizes us.
Post 54 has a rather succinct picture on this point.
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